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Art Bell of GoderichTownship "carries a bushel of apples in his Orchard on
Concession four. Mr. Bell, along with other Huron County Apple Growers, is
facing a bumper crop this year that has depressed prices. A labor shortage has
made It very difficult to get the,erop picked..(News-Record photo)
e Great Storm.....
(continued from
monetary loss . reach . over nine
million dollars.
The,number of lives lost - never really
k,awly as it is not known the exact-.ode>�ic ;Mated, ,`..`,$25x40 reward will be
num'"` er 1= ioar ; °r' ., .:,-, t itITd'' 'dr' th ' lei vtrr'y' Of 'bodies." This=',.' .
in those days passengers went by seems a shame, that Ipeoplp need a
freighter. monetary boost to motivate them.
One such case was Donald MacDonald "Nellie, the ship, is breaking up"
who had taken passage aboard the written upon a cabin` door presumably
Wexford. His body; has* not been by the captain of Light Ship No. 82
recovered. Capt. Malcolm MacDonald ' signified the end of the vessel and the
offered via poster a $100 reward to man's last thoughts - his family.
anyone Who , could find this body. The These lines best sum up the Great
reward was never claimed. . Storm of November 9, .1913. It is virtually
The Wexford sounded' her whistle off impossible to cover every aspect of this
Goderich Sunday afternoon and the event even now, some 62 years later.
Goderich fog horn did not reply as it was, To the sailors of yesterday, today and ,s1
inoperative. Perhaps .the ship and -or tomorrow, we salute you.
crew could have been saved.
As I mentioned in a previous chapter,
page.i B
recover, but to rob. Watches, rings,'
wallets, money, pins were removed and
on November 25 a press release from
identification of crew men was' not easy.
As an example, a news release
November 17, 1913 regarding bodies
believed off of the "Carr'bthers" washed
ashore at Point Clark gave the following
description; "Man, 22, dark complexion,
weight about 175 lbs."
Disasters bring out the worst and the
best of people. An unknown hero,
believed to be an engineer gave his
heavy winter coat to the lady' steward
aboard his vessel, presumably, to keep
her Warm, her body was found washed
up with the coat, the engineer without.
Cargo of all discrition washed up
along ' the shores and area people
gathered it up for their own use. About
the middle of the month the local
sherrif's department had to go on "a door
to door search to recover the material,
This is due to the fact there is no free
salvage on the Great Lakes.
At the same limy other individuals
searched the shore line for bodies - notto
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GODE RICH SIGNAML-STAR, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER -6, 197.PA g 7B
labor bring losses
By Bev Clark
Wx.,+
Apple growers in the county
had problems this year
getting .their bumper fruit
crop picked.
- Louis Cardiff of Brussels,
who rents his orchard from
Stuart Middleton, RR i
Clinton; plans on applying to
the government next 'year to
see if he can get some pickers
from the West Indies who
want to come to Canada -for a
while and pick tobacco and,
apples.
"These people want to
,work," he said.
I. went to an employment
office to see if I could get
some pickers. They 'sent,'me
some fellow who was on
drugs. In one hour he fellhoff
the ladder three times. You
just get trash from the em-
ploymept office," said Mr.
Cardiff.
"You know, if some of these
kids had to go., through the
depression, things might be Mr. Bell used to sell his
apples by having the buyers
pick their own. "We don't do
that any more, we pick them
and then sell them at the
door. People would -pick my
apples and then try and steal
my plums.
""They'd try and sneak off
If the government offered
them some incentive, like
giving themthalf their cheque
and let • them work, I feel
some of these people could
get ahead at least $100 a
month," Mrs. Burgess said.
The Burgesses managed' to
get help by posting a sign in
their Clinton store, asking for
apple pickers. On weekends
qiey got about 30 high school
students, who were willing to
work and make some extra
money. The Burgesses rnet
them at the store and drove
them to the orchards. , ,
What apples the Burgesses
don't market through their
store, ' they send to a ° St.
Jacob's apple juice plant.
Art Bell of , Goderich
Township tries toforget all
about labour. He doesn't even
like to talk about it. 'People
who come and pick their own
are not much better," he
added.
different. Things are just tod,
easy for them.' People aren't
hungry enough," he added
when asked whether he had
any summer students picking
for him,
"The best pickers are the
60 -year-olds, not the kids',"
Mr. Cardiff explained. .
Besides the labour
problem, tl,e' price of apples
hasn't gone up, which is good
for the consumer, but it's a
different story for the apPle
larmei~. ,,.:. ._ _... .
disgusting, -the pride. "
of the product doesn't go up,
but the cost of spray is up 20
percent from last year. I've
got a''faMilk to raise as well,"
said Mr. Cardiff.
Mrs. Burgess, who along
with her husband. own Del
Mac Orchards near Bayfield
said: "We gave up oh »the
employmrnt office. They sent
us a fella i who wanted to get
back to nature. He'ha'dlis BA,.
in geography, but he wanted
to spend his summer cork
municating with nature. Well,
he picked two bushels in,three
hours and then sat under a
tree and wrote a poem." •
"So many people are on
welfare and unemployment.
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SHOPPERS SQ'U'ARE
NOTICE OF STREET CLOSING
PART,OF CAMBRIDGE. STREET
TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the Corporation of the
Town of Goderich, in the County of Huron, intend to pass a
by=law at its meeting at 7:30 o'clock on November 17th, 1975,
for the purpose of stopping up and conveying that•:part of
Cambridge Street lying' between Lots 19, 20 and 21, and Lots
16, 17 and 18, Registered Plan 24 for the Town of Goderich,
and that part of Cambridge Street lying between Lots 1,2,3),
26,27 and 28 (Cambridge Street), Registered Plan 3, for the
said Town of -Goderich, the boundaries of said parclls being
more particularly described as follows:
COMMENCING at the Northeast angle of Lot 19, registered
Plan 24 for the Town of Goderich;
THENCE Southerly along the Easterly litnits of Lots 19, 20
and 21, Plan 24, for the Town of Goderich, and Lots 1,2 and 3,
(Cambridge Street), Plan 3, for the Town of Goderich, to the
Southeast angle of Lot 3, (Cambridge Street)., Registered
Plan 3, for the Town of Goderich;
THENCE Easterly along the extension Easterly of the South
limit of said Lot 3, to the Southwest angle of Lot 26 (Cam-
bridge Street) registered Plan .3, for the said Town of
Goderich;
',"HENCE Northerly' along the Westerly limits of Lots 26, 27
and 28, (Cambridge Street),. Registered Plan 3 and the
Westerly limits of L,ots.18, 17 and 16, Registered Plan 24) for
the said Town of Goderich; to the Northwest angle of Lot 16,
Plan 24, for the said Town of Goderich;
THENCE Westerly along the production Westerly of the
North limit of said Lot 16, to the Northeast angle of Lot 19,
Plan 24, for the, Town of Goderich, being the point of com-
mencement of the parcel herein described;
A Rlan of this proposal will be made available for in-
spection to any person calling at my office in the Town of
Goderich.
AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that Council will at such
meeting hear any person who claims 'that his land will be.
prejudicially affected by such by-law and who applies to be
heard. '
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IN THE EVENT that no objections are received, it is the
intention of the Council to close Cambridge Street as in-
dicated and to convey to 'the owners, Guenther -Tuckey
Limited, Em+rhdrson Overhblt Estate, and Rexford Duck-
worth; for compensation, that part of Cambridge Street that
abuts their property.
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DATED at Goderich, Ontario, this 20th day of October,
1975.
Harold Walls,
Clerk of the Corporation of
the Town of Goderich
`mss
without paying for the apples
too. It's a terrible way to be,
but you just can't trust
people any more.
"Some people think they
have the God given right to do
anything they please," he
said.
Fred McClymont, and son
Ivan, who own McClymont
Orchards in Varna say they
don't have too many
problems.
He lets .people come and
pick their own. What is left
over his family will pick.
"There may be some that
go to waste, but then again a
lot of people are too busy to
pick, right now so I imagine
they will come later," he
said.
The McClyrnont's orchard
is about 35 years old, and
they've been running , the
orchard as a pick your own
operation for a long time.
Top grade apples are going
for about $4 a bushel, $2.50 for
a bushel of culls and 50 cents
for a bushel of cider apples.,
"Fruit farming is all
right," said ,one fruit farmer,
"but you know, we just might
be further ahead, if we
weren't so honest about the
way we pay our help."
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