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PAGG1- CODgRIGH,SIGNAL-STAN, T1 VRSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1975
,._"Support what is right oppose what- is
wrong; what you think, speak
are not popular, you twill at leastbe
respected..,.99
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T wo ways to look at it
Last week's Progressive, Con- that comes to mind), it will not be
servative nomination reefing in forced on them if they are content' to
Exeter has assured this Riding of one Iiye with the results of their decision,
thing - `a'good contest- whenever the such as restricted grants and reduced
next provincial election is called. opportunities. °
Threegood men will contest the.seat in County school boards are a perfect
Huron -Middlesex sometime later this example of this kind of manipulating.
year. Jack Riddell, the present MPP, The provincial government' -and
'will undoubtedly' face the biggest - William Davis in particular - so suc-
\\ challenge inhis p6litical.career to date cessfull% strangled thea r,.m.er school
when two Goderich men - PC Jim ,system and so completeiy 'dressed up'
1-layter and NDP Paul Carroll- get out the idea ^ of consolidation with ' ad-
o• the hustings` in opposition•- ditional financial considerations and
e Exeter meeting also revealed promise's of . equality, That the
mor of -the political .double-talk to^ ratepayers who resisted did so under--
which he people of Ontario have been impossible odds. Reluctantly, they
listenin \ for too many years- Most ,came: to the realizafi'on that there
notable oall was Dennis; Timbrell's really was no choice...and that's what
blatant att mpt to twist the truth when the Tories obviously class as people
he told the en and' women at the WANTING their legislation.
Fn
' meeting that t e Ontario. Government
There is no denying that, overnment
would never 'force regional 'govern-
ment onto the pea ale. must ultimately make decisions for -the
This quote wa credited to Mr. people. It is understandable. that
Timbrell, Provincial 'anergy Minister:
leaders i n • govern ment- get the total
"The ,Liberal talk of o, r 'government perspective on things, and make-
r on the basis of what's best for
imposing regional g'over ent on the all.
people and a nuclear•enerating
station is just another exam a of. their
irresponsible scare tacti'., s. No
regional government will 'be "i nosed
on the people.; If the people don't ant
regional government then we w • i�'t
impose it."• -
That's complete rubbish...and the
people of Ontario know it. What Mr.
Timbrell should have said is, that if
affer.suitable steps have been taken to
make- the', people of Ontario;, WANT
regional government (or'anything else
But let's be 'h.onest about it. Let's
admit ,the government is in control.
Let's not 'talk -down', to the voters of
this province with such. ,political
poppycock as was heard in Exeter.,
Let's not treat voters I ike „ch,i,ldeen who
are. led to believe' all bunnies wear
waistcoats and.carry' Ea'ster 'baskets,.._
d "then grow up to find theonly
bits in this part of th - country run
d all'their lives and usually die a
eath. —SJK
Keeping your COQ".
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sca
,tragic
et in shape u
It has been said by some health
experts that,, the average 66 -year-old
Swede is in better physical condition
than -the average 30 -year-old Canadian. •
-True ornot, Canadians generally have
a long way to go' to reach physical
fitness, and groups like Participaction
are helping them get there,
On Sunday, August 24, at 7 p.m. CBC -
TV will 'telecast a special half-hour
feature to: introduce:the Participaction
program to Canadians.
In the mind 'of. Keith Mt.Kerracher,
who started. Participaction a number
of 'years ago, the. necessary exercises.
to‘achieve physical fitness were a bore.
At least, he.,decided, that was the way
most Canadians looked at them. 'Sb
Keith developed a program that was
both simple. and entertaining. 'Even
more amazing, it works. p
In a special film entitled The Shape.
of the Nation, viewers will , be
troduced 'to the • easy ' methods and
happy results of Participaction.
They get to .meet J.L. Peabody,, a
subject who is badly out of shape, 'and
the component parts of is body"-- the
heart, lungs, muscles' stomach;
-central nervous system an e\.brain, all
of them equally out of shape.
Through .Peabody'.s expe' enc.,
viewers can learn what May be' one
for their own physical well-being.
surprisingly simple, starting with
little walking; a short run, dr some^`
other form, of 'relaxed exercise.
• As David Yorston, the Toronto actor
who hosts the program/ says, 'You
simply have 'to sta.r#,.wjth..,,so.re kind of
self -disciplinary. action, such as 'I'm
going to walk:oaround the block every
day ,-and stick' to it. You'll feel better!,
:You'll work better! You'll definitely
sleep. better,!'' .
The Pc- rticipaction people are not
great believers in bulging muscles and
iron physiques: They simply opt for
being healthy. It leads, they say, to' the
good life.
The' program ' is designed not to
alarm but to educate and to entertain.
And it does, in 'a straightforward easy -
to -take approach. -
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It's another. week for odds-
' and ends • .., bits and pieces
which have turned upon my,
desk in the last few weeks that.
lire wt�rthy (,mention. „�„
One of the most interesting
itemswas clipped'in late March
' from The St. Catharines
Standard. It tells of a. young- .
looking Elizabeth Humber who.
celebrated her 104th birthday
to react quickly, escape
depends on remaining • con-
scious and_ free froi'ri .serious
injury. And properly _ fasten,ed.
seat. belts prevent., further in-
jury-during
n-
jury during the severe jolt that
occurs even at.low speeds when
a vehicle collides with water.
The doors of a submerged
vehicle, in nearly -all cases
tested, were impossible to open
March 24. `Mrs. Humber's,,, because of outside water
'husband C'ha'rles was a jeweller pressure. Thus wind-ows offer
in Goderich ".., and the caup4 the best escape route, the study
lived in'the' house on, Victoria ' concluded. -
Street in which the 'Keller The doors of a submerged
family now resides.' - vehicle,` in nearly_ all cases
The story notes that the very tested, were impossible to open
active Mrsl-Lumber lives in St,
because '-of outside water
Thi win owe off
Catharines with her daughter,'• : pressure.soffer
Fern Scheweyer. She is an avid the best escape route, the stt'idy
,• television '. watcher..,, and still concluded,
likes to shop downtown oncein Ontario statistics in 1974
' a while. In:fact, Wendy Luce of show that of 3$ people, drowned
The Standard noted that Mrs.' �' following a collision, none wore
Humber went ,down to the seat belts. .
newspaper office for an in- It all sounds very-,..c9n-
terview instead of having the vincing.,':but I‘ stip don't like
reporter go to her home. seatbelts and I'm afraid I'll he
Mrs. Humber attributes her taking My chances . about
longevity to her -parents, 'who •drowning. I'd really rather'
drive Xny car wearing a pair of from , industrial operations.
water • shoes invented `and 'l',his, combined with' the
patented loy H.W. Harradine of niilurally low calcium' content
Windsor., . . " ' of the bedrock (common in
According to my information,' lakes in the Canadian Shield),
the water shoes arc two Pon- eventually results in a bicar-
toons • similar in shape to bonate ion ,..depletion, loss of
conventional water skiffs. They -buffering Capacity and a
are equipped with flexible reduction irr the pH of the lake
stabilizing finswhich fold water,' . c
against the body of the ' pen, - ' Two ' neutralization ex-
toons when they are moved periments' have already been
forward in the water and open conducted -in the Sodbury area,
up when reversed. in 1958 at Clearwater -Lake and,
I'm told that wearing a pair more recently, •at Falconbridge
of these shoes, one can .walk on Nickel 'timited . where
water! Believe it or not! operations affect Moose''Lake.
' --I--I- . - . 'To date these processes seem to
wished I'd have the opportunity ' Folks with excess acidity •rn be restoring the ch'e'mical
to talk with her about her th . tummy will relate to this water quality of the lakes.
i'nemories of the house and of nex';.bit of news: It has been Carbonate -treated Middle'
Goderith. .. . repor d that the Ontario Lake continues to maintain a
Until early this summer, the Ministr .(the Environment is neutral pH and lower` copper
t silewalk bearing '''the Humber , sueeessfu ' „reducing excess and nickel levels than Lohi
lia,tnn led up to 'the front steps. acidity in iddle and , Lohi Lake, thus indicating that a
But myhusband replaced that Lakes in the udbury area by •cot'nbination treatment (CaCO3
Sidewalk thi .year and .the last carrying out w ` t they call a plus Ca (OH) 2) provides a more
reminder of the Htrniber family "tura$' oxperime t,. You know, stable buffer system and
has disappeared•. It was goad to toms fQr the tumm '.even the maintains the watt quality for
hear this bit of „good news about tummies of Sudbury la s. a longer period of gine.
a lady ,l c� never met but with The addition of d>lcium The microscopic .. plant
wham I have a special kinship,' ' carbonate (CaCO3) in ad .,'tion' (phytoplankton) population aS
' ' ++r+ la calcium hydrox .e well as the bacteria population
A.
A release from the Ministry rapidly increased in response
of Transportation and Com-
munications reports that the
correct use of seat belts is the
best way to avoid serious injury
or death after a vehicle collides
with another ' obstacle and
plunges into water, '
A study conducted in the
Netherlands by the institute for
..Netherlands
, Safety Research in
dicated that in more than half
of all,traffic . accidents in-
t -
water, vehicles in -
valved had collided with
another obstacle before going.
into the water.
Sime occupants must he Able,
..n
both lived into their eighties,
ad to her easy,' pleasant .life.
also admits, "I've'^never
ed or taken a.drink."
lady understands how
she is to be as well'as
she 4s -14 s really wonderful to
be like this,
Several ye
bor informed
Humber had bee
had tried to visit .rily home that
had once been her ho
no one answered the
went to my neighbor's ho
leave word that she.had cal
I was terribly' softy to hp
missed her an4 have often
sm
Th
fof°tuna
'she admits. ,;
s ago, my neigh -
e that Mrs.
• to town and
e. When.
r, 'she
e to
d.
.also injected with calcium
carbonate in .-order to deter-
mine if it would provide a more,
.stable buffer system and''
duality for ,a longer, period of
time.'
The monitoring of these two
lakes is ro part, ,of a. lake
reclamation program,.; being''
conducted by •.the Minsitry of,
the Environment. Objective is
to artificiallyre-establish a
buffer system in selected acid'
lakes in• order to "improve the
water quality and, con-
sequently, the fish population.' 4
The fish population has been
rapidly cteclining in greater
Sudbury area lakes for several
• years. It was suggested that a
decrease in lake pH was the
cause because in ms a
most case
drop in pH coincided with' the
decline. •Present data confirms
that a low pH level impairs and-
, 'or inhibits fish reproduction.
Irregular mineral balance of
the Sudbury,,lakes is believed -to
be dueto •an artificial, input of,
sulphate and hydrogen ' 'ions
(Ca(OH)2) to acidic lak'eSY,
more commonly called
"liming", has proven to be a
simple, relatively inexpensive
way to neutralize'acidic con-
ditions and re-establish a weak
buffer system, in much the
same way that antacids react �.. return in response to .the •i„n-
;on your stomach. -.creased availability of food and
Middle' and Lohi Lakes' were improved water conditions.;
treated in the fall of 1973 and Tb -i 'plus the decrease. in
Monitoring continued until reprfikluctive stress due to the
1975, The lakes upstream, 5tabilizat On in pH, will lead to
Hannah And Clearwater, were an incr;,easc in the fish
-
monitored as controls: population.
Although both .lakes were On the basis of success to
treatedwith calcium ' elate, :Environnientr Ontario is
hydroxide. Middle Lake wrzt5•
planning several further
•
.�F
to,ntreatrnent. The tiny animal
rooplankton,).'. population
initially declined in the treated
lakes, probably due to• the
lethally rapid pH change. It is
expected that numbers will
,,w1$Mn4j1
•
•
studies on Sudbury lake's
during.1975.
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The Ministry of Industry 'and
Tou:rasrn.._sa.'is...that despite a_
disturbed economy com-
pounded by higher gasoline
prices both in Canada and in,
the US., Ontario tourism could
still'' hang in this year on a
travel spending par with 1974
which topped $2 billion.
An increase, however, is
unlikely for the first ti,me in
many years. '
This forecast was made by
Industry .and Tourism Minister
Claude Bennett at a time when
world travel generally -is
plagued by inflation and.
restraints which "are more' and
more restricting extended
vacations to the wealthy and
the package tourist.
- Drawing his findings from a
survey conducted in Canada,
d
the U.S, ar'overseas by the
ministry's tourism research
branch, the minister suggested
that the number of U.S, visitors
may also hold this year, a
figure which in 1974 nudged 23
million, with . nearly one-third
remaining for one or more
nights.
But Mr. Bennett is watching'
gasoline prices both here and in
the U.S. with a. concerned eye
for, he .said,'' the recent cost
hikes --even without projected
new ones --will have a negative
psychological effect on tourism
in Canada and, therefore,
Ontario which last year ex-
ceeded its goal of 54 percent of
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Messrs.0'YCEAollins, Father'AGO and .
Son have purchasthe plant
and machinery ofthe •r- old
woollen twill at Piper's Dam,
lately run by'Mr. Dickson. The
new firm is practical men at
the business and intend
. producing-” im:proved
machinery and refitting the
premises with up: to -date im-
provements. Custom work will
be a specialty and they'are now
prepared to purchase wool. We
wish them success. •
C. A, Humber and Son have
silverplated the spade that
Sheriff Gibbons used in turning
$'
the first sod' fors the Goderich
Curling and Skating Rink, and'
it is now in full view in the show
window of that firm. The
following inscription is
engraved on the face of that
spade. "Presented to Robert
Curling and
Gibbons..hsq., Sheriff of Huron,
Hon. President of the Goderich
Skating
Association on the occasion of
his turning the first sod
breaking the grountfor the
erection of the building, July 4,
1895." '
We have received a com-
munication th the Goderich
Bovine Association, but as the
author is„unknown to us,' we
regreat that it cannot' be
published. If the correspondent
has no confidence in the editor,
Clow :can the .editor have any
confidence in the. correspon-
dent?
The bicycle parade ..cn The'''
Square Wednesday evening
was an interesting spectacle to'
Si large number of onlookers. A
procession was formed and
made. several tours of The
Square, to -the enjoyment of .the
spectators,. The leading
features of the parade were the
Seven old wheels sof the vintage
of 1880 which were Marshalled
under the leadership of Frank
Humber. Amongst the wheelers
of the ancient days who took
part were J. S. Platt, Harry
Parsons, J. Naftel„'',Greg
McLean, Jas. Thomson' and
Jack Cattle-. A'* ,number . of
evolutions and trick
movements on the big wheels
performed by Humber,
Thomson and Platt were well
appreciated. ' „
60 YEARS AGO '
The directors of the Goderich
Industrial ' and Agricultural . •
Society have. revised the prize -
dist for the Goderich Exhibit on
1915, There are. not very many
changes proposed, but in some
classes the sections have' been
brought up to date, especially
in the flowers and ladies' work.
The sections of preserving and
pickling ,have been separated
from -sections of confectionery
and baking, to lighten the work
of• the judges and insure fair-
-ness, It is hoped • that local
manufactories will assist the
••exhibition and enhance its.
meaning by making displays of
"made in Goderich” goods and
war materials - which would
prove interesting to many.
At the Model 'Theatre, a
special,tishowing for tw.o,nigt>,ts
only of the last departure of the
Lusitania will be 'made,' The
Model Theatre is the best in
town, and the only movie house
'on The Square. Admission is
still lOc for adults ,and 5,c 'for
children.
Lieut. A, P. Reid of the Bank
of Commerce has enlisted and ' '
will go to the front as a private ..
with the Army Medical Corps.
He leaves this afternoon to loin
the corps in London where they
will move on to,Flanders.
5,YEARS AG'O.
The first' month of the
summer. - program at Judith
Gooderharn Pool is over. A
break-in on Thursday night last
still hasthe staff scratching its
collective head. The only, things
taken w;re the registration
book, tickets, and a 'goody
box', containing nothing more
than''a few nuts and bolts, odds
and ,ends that might be useful
around the pool. The culprit
didn't find any funds, and one
can only' assume , it was the e
work of half-wits, or people who
had a grudge against the pool
staff. - a
Last week Marty Baechler •
came home for ,his sister's
wedding. But Marty Baeehler
..has an alias Jimmy Finch.
Jimmy Finch also has a band:
The Oriental Mod Squad, They .
arrived in town one week early
and played to a full house at the
Candlelight Tavern, better
known fas the Pizza Patio. When
the,Orintal Mod Squad was in
town, the pied piper had
nothing on theml They have '
played at such famous spots as
Caesar's. Palace in Las Vegas.
For those wlio got into the
"inner sanctum”, ,a fine brand
of entertainment served up '
showed why. It was a musical
event not to be soon forgotten in.
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