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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1975-11-20, Page 16PAGE 4--GODERICHSIGNAL-STAR,'THIURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1975 [DITORIA1 COMME'NT It's your birthday Town administrator Harold Walls is a -worried man, He's been attempting to put together a committee of in- terested citizens to plan a celebration for the 150th anniversary of the founding of Goderich. He's had no luck and he's concerned that not one person has stepped forward to offer his or her name 'to help. In retrospect, a celebration in the summer of 1975 may very' well have. taken the edge off any enthusiasm 'to plan for the bang-up party just two years later. This ..past summer for the 125th anniversary of the Incorporation ..of Goderich, a Celebration '75 com- mittee worked hard and long to ensure something special for Goderich residents and visitors, That committee may now, feel justifiably weary and ready for someone else to take the helm for 1977. On the other hand, Goderich residents who weren't in- volved in the pYanning for -Celebration '175 may hope that because it was all • done for them this year, it will all be done for them in 1977. Citizens here, however, should be looking at the situation a little dif- ferently. They should recognize the tact it would be a full 25 years before another celebration will be indicated. ,For many residents here now, 1977 will be the last time there will be to get involved in a community -wide festival. By the year 2,000-rmany of Goderich's present .residerlts will have moved to other areas and, other jobs, grown - older, and perhaps even died. So 1977 is the big „year ... the time when all the stops should be pulled to make certain Goderich's birthday is remembered by young and old. And planning must begin soon. Leaving it to the last minute will resultin a'poorly- organized effort which isn't becoming The Prettiest Town in Canada. Call the town administrator at the town office today. Offer your services. Get involved now. Let's get the show on a the road, Goderich. It's your birthday. At long last - The citizens of Goderich must be indeed gratef,ul'._fhis week that local post office workers have returned to Their jobs. While nothing but local mail is being. handled with the exception of goveyrnment cheques and other necessary, government information, the local service was missed and will be welcomed back by everyone, especially those in business. The Signal -Star is particularly pleased about the return of local postal service. While alternative methods of, home -.delivery of the papers were 'established during the strike, they were not so economica-j and efficient as the post office service. ,Other small businesses in town who depend on the rails tor much of their communication with customers, probably have made similar discoveries. There is reason to hope that as more and more postal workers go back, to. work of their own 'volition, the nation- wide crippling strike will be broken. In this area alone, the return' of the Goderich postal workers has put pressure' on other postal workers in other localities to return to. their jobs. The town of Clinton at time of writing has one postal worker back at his post; it would be a.. reasonable hope that others will 'soon follow that example. Most Canadians. believe that the wage offer made by Postmaster - General Bryce Mackasey to. the postal workers is fair ... and the fact that many postal workers are going back to work proves that many ...post office :employees.also believe the offer is fair. There 'obviously 'isn't agreement among union members concerning the postal strike, and if is, encouraging that at long last, people are beginning to make their own decisions about what's best for them and for their country.•-. Great season ahead The Rotary Club of Goderich has provided a, marvellous opportunity for all, county ,residents this winter. Their three.concert',,season at fantastically, reasonable rates is worthy' of com- mendation. It should be noted the Rotary Club Of Goderich has the support of the Sully Foundation tomake these concerts ava i lable. Every effort has been made to keep the price of admission as low as possible so that people of all walks of life will have an equal chance to enjoy the stirring strains of .music by the masters. - Probably there's nothing on this earth so universally .understood as _music. Music is a language which is known to all people wherever they may live or work or play. Music fits every, mood, every lifestyle, every con- viction. It soothes or excites according to mankind's fancy. Sometimes people can actually be musically under -nourished, even in this technically-dvanced go-go world.,, They can have a steady diet of one or two certain kinds of music and not. really understand' they are depriving themselves of the fulfillment of total musical nutrition to enrich their 'lives. • 1 And the joy of hearing is one thing; the exhileration of seeing as well as hearing can be a new musical ex- perience that is beyond comprehension unless it is tried. The recent production of Brigadoon . at Goderich District Collegiate In- stitute was one example of this. Generally young people are associated - rightly or wrongly - with rock music. That's probably • because the majority of young people listen exclusively to rock music, sometimes refusing to be exposed to other kinds of music for any number of reasons. But during the production of Brigadoon, you'ng people found they can enjoy and appreciate other music ..4. and such 'experience often 'w,hets the appetite' for still more variety in their musical diets. The Rotary _Concert Season gives just that much more opportunity for variety in" Goderich and area. It is an ambitious undertaking and one which should be sincerely appreciated by the People here. The concerts will likely be a sell-out so interested folks are ad- vised to get their tickets early.. They go on sale this weekend from 'any Rotarian, at Campbell's on The Square °of alt Ormandy's in Suncoast Mall. f, pear Readers, It is Thursday morning and the ground is covered with that white fluffy cold stuff called snQw. To me it means frozen windshields, spinning tires and sluggish motors. To the kids, it is rapture. Oh to'be young! ' As the children went by my ' house to school this morning, they were proudly decked "gut in new winter, togs including; new boots, new hats, new mitts and the latest in fashionable, coats. Likely these clothes had been in the closet since early October when mom took advantage of the pre -WI -firer sales. It is also very likely the kids have just been waiting for the first snowfall to show off their fine duds. • , And today was the day, the first glorious day of snow to make 'into' snowballs, snowmen and snow anything, There were slushy streets for sliding. There was. crisp air for blowing into. The kid's were loving it all. You and • I know that by mid' -February, the boots will leak, the hat will have a hole, one mitt will be gone and the zipper will be jammed irthe jacket. But that's cynicism brought on by. age. And that's what prevents us from en- joying each day as it comes: To ,be young is to be en- thusiastic about life and all it hands 'out. That's a. special gift unique to children. Let's cherish it. A Co oaericFj SIGNAL -STAR —0— The County Town Newspaper of Huron Pounded In 1641 and puhlished every Thursday at Goderich, Ontario. Member of the CWNA and OWNA. Ad"i+e'tiaing rates on request. Subscriptions payable in advance 111.00 in Canada, *12.50 in all countries other than Canada, single copies 25 cents. Display advertising rates available on request. Please ask for Rate Card No. 6 effective Oct. 1, 1975. Second class mall Registration Number 0716. Advertising is accepted on the condition that, in the event of typographical error, the advertising space occupied by the erroneous item, together with reasonable allowance for signature, will not be charged for but the I�lalance of the advertisement will be paid for at the applicable rate. In the event of a typographical error advertising foods or services at a wrdng price, goods or service may hot be sold. Advertising is merely an offer to sell, and may be with- drawn at any time. The Signal -Star is dot responsible for the loss or damage of unsolicited manuscripts or photos. Business and Editorial Office TELEPHONE S24:0331 area code 519 Mailing Addrs*: " P.O. BOX 220, Goderich Second class Mail registrat'io'n number -0716 Published by Signal -Star Publishing Ltd. ROBERT G. SHRIER—president and publisher SH•iRLEY J. KELLER—editor JEFF SEDDON--editorial staff DAVE, SYKES—editorial staff R EDWARD J. BYRSKI--advertising manager +++ Signal -Star readers will no doubt have picked up the item in the Kingsbridge news about residents there ' who reported "a weird frightening' sight on Tuesday evening, November 4 at five minutes to 8„ anything morerecent on this Erie off Long Point on strange story, although I was November, 11, 1883. She was told.. that someone had heard • loaded with wheat. Seven on a radio station that the crew members went down young man had'been released with the boat. That ' storm 'by the UFO crew and was raged fortwo weeks and now being questioned by many, many boats were lost. authorities. ,. • From ' the little bit of There have been stories for research I've' done, it seems years ,about UFOs. Some ,of these bad storms hit Lake them are' absolutely in- Huron about every 30 years: triguing ... like the one that Mr. Humphries is looking into says that a'UFO and its crew this for me, •was captured by the USA and In our conversation, 'Mr. is now ' held in frozen Humphries said that winter suspension somewhere in that navigation on the Great country, heavily guarded of Lakes, has often been course. discussed. He said survival And next week, starting at suits .are the only answer for the Park Theatre, the movie sailors who could be tossed "The Outerspace Con- into the killing brink in mid- nection" which deals in. part minter and • these suits, ac - with the mysterious disap- cording .to Mr. Humphries, pearance ',of ' several . US are under development planes (claimed to be a true This, of course, raises a incident). These.planes were question of the advisibility of said to simply vanish off. the beginning a winter navigation face of the earth, no trace program before survival suits ever' found again of them. are issued to all Great Lakes. It is all fascinating ,•• and seamen. There's no doubt the sightings of weird lights about it any accident in at Kingsbridge cannot be winter navigation which dismissed too lightly, despite would find sailors in the our impulse to shrug and water for any reasop''in�'ould ' he certain death due to ma'rl's inability to survive in such frigid temperatures for more Speaking of weird things ..• than a few minutes. Even sailors adrift in a lifeboat and unexplainable coin- would be doomed unless cidences .,• what about the rescued within a few hours ... sinking Of 'the freighter and unless they were clad in Edmund Fitzgerald in, Lake survival suits. Superior during a storm It is something to think Monday, November 10, 1975. about and something to Twenty-nine crew' members talk about. were believed lost aboard her + + + and' that incident took ' place apparently just one day Headlines in The Globe and later than the `Great Storm Mail last week read ``Ugly, November 9, , 1913 .which ' broads -,with glasses need,not claimed 269 lives and cost $5,457,500. November storms are the most devastating on the lakes it seems. The lives of 28 sailors were lost November 29, 1966 when the- freighter Daniel J, Morrell went down in Lake Huron. The Fitzgerald had' con- tacted the crew of the4.A&,thur Anderson to ask that it shadow her because she was taking water -fid had lost several hold covers. The crew of the Arthur, Anderson saw her ahead in the waves and on radar. Then the Fitzgerald vanished.;There was no other message. No distress call was received. Searchers criss-crossed the eastern end of Lake Superior early last week and found only an oil slick, shattered lifeboats, rubber rafts and According to Mrs, Joe Courtney, the ' Kingsbridge correspondent, several people saw "five real bright red lights - three on top and two below -hovering out over Lake Huron". "These lights stayed in the same -formation from three to five minutes and just -faded away," Mrs. Courtney wrote. R- "The 'two bottom lights faded first, then the three top ones," Now before dismissing this as just another hoax, it is interesting to note that similar sightings were reported at Sudbury in recent days, And in Arizona, a young man is believed to have been kidnapped by an unidentified flying object (UFO). I read the story about the young fellow in Arizona in a Free Press last week. It said he'd been bathed in a blue light from a strange hovering object, and his companions were -so frightened they took off in their truck and left him -.there. W.hg'n they returned `a little later, he was gone, I haven't been able to find forget. + + + apply. for Olympics hostess jobs". The story .was of Nancy Gelfano, a 26 year-old bilingual MA student who says that because she wears glasses, she was told there was no sense in even filling out an application form for a job as a hostess at the Olympic in Montreal next year. , �, , Nancy had worked as,, a hostess at Expo 67. She claimed she has ..the o,h'er qualifications listed in the ads for hostess -es: Ca.lxadian- born, bilingual, between 20 and 25 and a nice personality. She didn't' anticipate any trouble latching onto one of the $175 a week jobs. By the way, Nancy is ,5 feet 8 inches and weighs 130 pounds. • But when she went to apply for a job, she said, "The guy took one look at ,me and said, But a ' female official who works with the ' Olympic organizing committee, said Nancy, , whom 'she 'hasn't seen, prdb'ably didn't get hired because she was a "real ugly broad". ' "They try and keep it pretty quiet around here, which is natural because of tiie feminist movement, but they really are looking for the cuties., And the glasses? They just don't go with the hats;'.' said this unidentified female official. About 30 part-time hostesses have already been hired and according to the Globe's story, they all would get a rating of about nine out of ten for looks. I suppose when hosting the. countries of the world, one wants to put forth the best .possible image. Pretty hostesses at the Olympics 'would certainly be one way to do this. Very likely these pretty faces Fare just part of the whole story though. The .girls probably are intelligent and broken flotation rings. The ,, `Sorry, dear, but you 'wear water temperature was about glasses, There's no use even 50 degrees Fahrenheit and fllWhen Nancy got uout an 1pset, he hope for survivors dimmed in further ex lamed to her that the face of this eiyidence, behind the glasses rule was And then to add to the the belief that unattractive mystery, there's this bit of women be kept out at all trivia reported to me this costs. week by William Humphries The director of hostesses of Mooretown Marine• has denied all "Asthis. phila .He tells me thata schooner Plouffe said,long as by the name of Edmund they're not too repulsive, it Fitzgerald was lost in Lake doesn't matter." one is out -going to boot, a special combination in any woman. There really aren't too many of these around - in any community;, even Montre'alk Chances • are . that Nancy Geld is one of those gals who has enough self-assurance for three ... and if her personality came through at all in the story in the Globe, "there's a real' possibility that Nancy would strike out in the: per-, sonality. department even if' she didn't wear glasses. " Says Nancy,"I may not be' the mostbeautiful thing around but . I' m no 300 - pounder, Had I gone in there without my glasses on, he wouldn't have refused me on the basis of my'.looks. I would probably have ' got the job. I'm paying so much in damn taxes for these 'billion -dollar Games and I've even'b;ought tickets for the things, and now because my vision doesn't happen to be 20-20, I can't work at'them." Shy and retiring,- modest and gentle Nancy ain't. Refreshing Dear Editor, It is .refreshing to hear the accolades offered to the students of G.D.C:I. upon their successful attempt at a major production "Brigadoon" this fall. As you' so capabl' Warrenput it Mrs. Keller, Robinson and his ' wife Eleanor and the Music Director Al Mullin were the driving forces behind the musical. It was their idea to begin with and their never- ending faith and forceful encouragement of. ' the students they worked with that made the production the success„ it was. It was something that we, as parents of one of the cast, and I as a staff member at G•D•C•I•, were proud to have an in- direct part in. Nevertheless, c hgratulations and thanks must also go to the ' com- munity as a whole and to people like yourself. People like the ones who took a small part in the .prods on or who simply came that to- see the play and who, by their attendance, their applause and their laughter offered their support acid encouragement to 'the young people who gave their best in a most difficult un- dertaking. People who, knowing the production had its rough spots and contained amateur. untried singing voices were .-h enthusiastic and reassuring to the players, and gave them the lift they needed after the long, weeks of practise and frustration. People like the editor of qur local paper who has done so much in the past to encourage and promote the activities of youth in this . town. The' (continued on page 5) Missing photo found During ' the publication of cen- tennial rupterials this past summer, the Signal -Star, had a number of photographs on loan from certain individuals around town depicting life in Goderich throughthe years. .. One of 'these photos ,was misplaced but has now been located. It is of the triangular building at the corner of Hamilton Street and St. Andrews Streets, the premises of G.M, Elliott and the L.E. Dancey law office." It also pic- tures a horse-drawp . wagon advertising The Grand Mogul. Will the owner of this photograph please identify `himself to the Signal -Star • office so that the picture may be` returned to him. ,