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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal Star, 1976-04-22, Page 4p ^At g 4 4 I)E:R11011S • NAI„. -STAR. ThiLIRSI)AY, APRIL 32,'1976 Buy Canadian ` Buy Canadian. The crisp slogan has Cavg.ht,the eye' many, many times in regent years. Buy Canadian.. The crystal clear meaning in that two word Sentence wells up pride in the average citizen. Buy Canadian. Sound advice. Sensible statement;' But all the pride and the sense can disappear as the average shopper goes Olt looking+for •mercha,ndise. With Canadian -remade - goods often coming up more eekpenstve. ;'rriitialLy< '.imported ROMs are less expensive substitutes which•str.etch the budget and assist the , purchaser fo save - if not in the long run, then 'surely for now, All this doesn't usually matter much... People working in Goderich will admit that if Canadian jobs care to be ,provided, Canadi'an'' goods must be sold. PO, the same time, few of- these same. folks working -in Goderich: are willing to paynore"for Canadian -Made goods. ' They have jobs artd money' to spend. .They won't consciously spend more.. to „"Buy Canadian'' simply becausethey.fail to see the relationship between paying Si. m.ore no•.�. aro having ,a job -tornbr+ow. .,,,Rumors circulating in the area recently to • the effect that Textra Fibres may be closing down are false, according to plant. manager Boo Tease. But the textile industry is one industry which is . having extreme difficulty' these days because of rn- ported yarns and fabrics which .come into the country at far less, cost than the same materials . can be produced in Canada. - There. are many reasons why m • Bi ported textiles are Tess money, The big '„ concern of the textile industry •is•that it needs 60 to 65 percent of the domestic. market to survive :.. In other .words to keep' people working in Canada's .- 'textilelmills. Presently, ;imports .have the bulk of the market with Canadian - made yarns and fabrics accounting -for only about 40 percent of the sales.., That's simply not enough: and textile plants are going belly up;. at an alar - Ming mate because of It.. Fortunately for Te al workers focally., company officials .foresee ono layoffs qr any severe cutback in pro uction. Textral 41s modifying its.• Industrial Park operation jwst'enough to produce a slightly different,•yarn specialty, yarn for bright shaped lustre fabrics:. :The 53 employees_here will ii•bti'ce no great alteration in their work patterns but the cornpany is confident • this movewill solidify jobs and keep .'-extra) in the black, certainly for the time being. Still. Teitrat is concerned. With the textile .industry „in the precarious oos,tidn it is because of low-cost im-. Dorts:and' import quotas. which are too. high, the future doesn'.t"hold the bright promise it once did. The soft. and depressed domestic market leaves 1 eztrai in a quaridry .and -looking desperately for ways to avold the disaster which has befallen other: Canadian textile mills. - it behooves every Goderich and area • citizen'to•thinkCan-adian, be Canadian • and buy Canadi„an. The job. you save may be your own. --SJ K es an Spring is.the season for bikes. . and :ther.e.are plenty of bikes around these bright sunny days: Bikes carrying the young and the not so young, This is a good time then to remind • cydlists and motorists and .even. pedestrians that ,since all must share -- the-t•oaciw- :s.,..'ail mu.sperare. tro • make it • as safe as possible for everybody. There will always be the clowns in life . •. but'for the most part, people are safety. minded and need only to.be reminded from time to tirne that. some precautions are necessary. Cyclists' a.re:reminded that bicycles must have certain accessories to make • themsafe-according to-,the:la.w. rn addition.to:a bicycle that is in good condition ;that is good steering; good. brakes, good tires, safe helg:ht: etc. • bikes must have a horn or a bell to warn traffic of ., their, . ,approach Bicycles ridden at night need a white or amber light on the front, a red light or reflector on the rear; white refl:eetive-tripe• on't'he front forks and' red reflective tape on the rear fender. %T Landing sti:ip by Dave Sykes AR READERS Maybe a person gets a little my home if he was ever: to. '`Dr. Frank Mills, the... be degrading and •-nostalgiL in the spring: When become, chrani.cally_ill.._That medical. officer_ of• health for.-' dernoralizin:g,'•too.:It can' he' • the trees are•budding and the seethed to be a real fear for . Huron;•- recently referred to frightening and : fearsome if The reflective tape•on the pedals is also effective although not mandatory. Motorists are reminded to watch for cyclists and to share the. roads' with `them. Cars and. trucks .do not have. ;a • first claim on the highways.. Bikes are Considered vehicles and have aright to,' a portion,of the roads. Motorists•will. be•. • may nof-.be as steady•and•sure of'their, cycle as they will' be in a.few years. Pedestrians must also' be'. on .'the r,4lookout fo:r'careless cyclists in order to avoid collisions: Bicycles should, not be ridden oh the side"vvalks, but when they are pedestrians m• t keep a watchful •"' eye lest they. be,.struck and-inlu_r.ed.. .A special word to parents, please. Make absolutely.certainyour child has a safe bicycle.A rundown bike ca,n be almost as•dangerous to.operate as a poorly rnaintaineO.car. Give your child' every. opportunity to ride in Mechanical safety._ Add his .owl• . • common sense and good safety habits and he will get home happy and, safe • every time. - SJK" ' - flowers ,are peeking through . him •, .,...the thing :he feared the presence of too many there is no place togo.• the ground after a cold, hard inorethan death. ' patients in our active •By the timea man ora winter one is tempted to get a My husband's mother is treatment ' . hospitals, . those' woman,'reaches 65. ' years of little sentir`nerttal about.aife. presently an old age .pen- who have been in care for.,, age, he or she has contrihuted So this week, -allow Me' this signer: ;She's enjoying life as periods considerably. in ex- a lifetime to Canada: Oh, 'it time 'to talk • about a subject, she • never enjoyed it before, cess of •the provincial they not have beeh an OU -R EDITOR • Great chance Dear Editor: • On the occasion of the recent Education Week I accepted the. general in- vitatien , to, parents and at- tended biasses at the GDCI,:, foliowi'ng my -daughter's time -table for half a day which, 'touch to iny- regret," was all the time I could 'spare •at that point i am very glad that I went. Whilst i�t'Was not new?; to that the, GDCI is a school of high standard work, I thoroughly enjoyed ,and appreciated . the additional impression ora 'very -secure and at the' same time relaxed atmosphere;: in which those I saw seemed to...be entirely at ` ease and yet attentive:` Clearly the students I saw were taught in a manner of making them think, reason and follow through. Itis a delightful experience to watch an excellent teacher in action, in complete:and relaxed control of the subject as well as of the students. The display at the Suncoast Mall was equally impressive - good work well" presented, with an astonishing quality of professional competence... The students 'have every reasgn to be proud of the results of their work. • • Whenever. I am facing statements that much in our contemporary society is depressing-, slipping. beyond our control and'falling apart. around the.edges, I.'always feel that an individual and a community •can fight.'i't• oti a very personal -basis by si:mpl' refusing to lower standards. It is my impression. that the GDCI isjn"that category. Yours sincerely, • Elsa Heydon .: t at is o ten avoided ...that's Her only regret is. that her , Average. Hospitals across the illustrous tenure. . .but un old age husband wasn't :spared to see ' province including those 'in doubtedly it .• Was the usual . h 'beenId• effort a jbb done a ftirnily' • especiall'y aware ofiyovng c-ycl,s#s �rh-o_ I've �t Bad ���ake Publishers of weekly community newspapers across. the province were very interested when they cattle upon a recent story.in the ,dailies.. `Da-telined Ottawa and credited to Canadian .Press wire service,. the story carried .an in- terview • with the newly -elected' .president of' the Ontario Weekly' Newspaper Association, Gerry Barkerr. of Bradford: 0 The story o•pened with. the :words., ",Weekly newspapers, 'changing with the times, are growing at twice the rate of dailies in Ontario. to the last ten: • *years„ readership •. of • Ontario's 300 dailies has>in:creased 240. per cent-- The reporter, the .typist; and. the proofreader 'who handled that: story sure fixed us,'but. good. It wasn't the dailies that grew by 2110 per cent, it was the weeklies and the whole point of ,the story was lost in . that one, little error. H wever, the. balance of the news. release did carry* some interesting .' information° about comrnunity .newspapers.""Weekly journalism isn't the old-fashioned, black armband, green eyeshade sort of , thing "anymore, -said Barker, "Corn- •.puterized• systems.` are replacing. pastepots and growing revenues per'mhit publishers to hire -better • educated staff to produce a more sophisticated product." in a . resent survey, conducted by. Clyde McDonald Inc., an in- t','II., known and totally ,in- dependent public, analysis firm; it wasn learned that in the'counties. of Huro and Perth more than 88 per -cent of homes' receive , a local communitynewspaper, compared with slightly over over. 50 per cents, for the dailies, a concentration of- audience ,which " is simply not . mat led by any other medium. Most of the remaining 12` per -cent are quite probably borrowing the local paper from- their neighbors. Wingham Advance -Times "always .believed 'that these wonderful ''times wit Huron, 'have , to Y one of life's greatest blessings. her: • ' repeatedly. that the;, average•. raised, a community im; • Lo—o pore fe. pletise• • iS to be : perm>ttea- -711 : --Having raised- 2 chrldr'en---length of stay -;hn—hospit-a-1-_..-ptosed. • privilege to grow old through the depression years should not exceed 7 5 clays or These people have earned a- Deal Editor, • • especially if in growing old 'a my mother-in-law knows thereabouts,, Dr, ` 'Mills • little peaceof mind if nothing . Subject: Voltage. ' person is also .blessed with what hard times are,. She correctly points our thatelse. a 'Reduction Test .goo a reason b} d he lth an a d has to pinch herself these I more. than •50 percent of the From where sit, I b• elieve a• y , sufficient 'money upon which days to actually believe that . •patients in' Huron's haspiTais---'the• greatest peace . of mind -- •--(nt-ar io 'to }iye:If .that was old age; she has, money:= money'to buy " remain for periods of up °to.15 the world .can offer is ' the problems • few -people would dread it. . groceries,. a neww dress, from days and some much longer. knowledge that when the time supplying Hydro. may 'have In 4,- • -1 time to time a�1 it of bright_._.._ 'Thar sxate,•n,nt-hr,wpver, comes, ydu will .ha'e an c,.nt,4t,onLe.rs It' ci6 ll for the kitchen a'' d t the question alternative a choice., • ctiu•ntering Some people .thin . s ot'° 'via paper or e ie en; oes 'no answer " citizens "hate • pit made;. .treat for "the kids ate Christ- of what .to do. with, the long For many old; people now, Everybody caters to senior mag. • stay patients • if' they are there is no choice.: Once they citizens - specialrates on. Sometimes she worries that forced out of the hospitals. As : are forced to' leave their .everything from'travelling to, it • will all end - that the far as we . can ascertain the homes due to illness, they are clothes. One ve',ry dear frielid .government will 'suddenly :.nursing homes in the co.unty nearly. destitute. Hospitals_ of urine says she can't wait to realize it can'tafford this are filled to capacity, and are expensive and full: be old So she can have a full extravagance.. Although• we there' is a long waiting list at' ` nursing homes. are few and social calender at.a cost cut to' ket r assuring her that old age Huronview. -Th either the •far between; county facilities the bone, and a cheque.at the security is a way of life now, family physician , or 'the •have long waiting lists; other. end of each month to hoot. gra ndma. always keeps a hospital administrator are alternatives area. less ' than • little back, "just•in case".. willing to order an elderly adequate.' They 'usually .end Of Of course, • that friend is But even before she patient out' into the cold if up taking ''whatever: is • ilblhththlik quite' sniffed. by the "good'" pension after •she was accept responsibility, 'it or not. ' • Which.life" hich. she believes 'is. widowed and left alone with a . -"The 'average_ age of It is to be hoped that, in the poured out on the _elderly at few paltry dollars to help her residents in Huron is higher next ,few years,. enough. will . • her expense. She works hard. span .the years until she was than in . the larger urban be written :and said to con - and pays quite a chunk of her. ' old enough to collect=, the centres Society has changed vince the .community, the income into the'federal pension - grandma was. with,the passing years and government and the people coffers each week. She gets fiec•ely independent. • She, • the elderly -have, in many who.wil'l one day be the senior downright snarky, when she' -too, fought hard to maintain •ways, become, victims of that • citizens, that something must. thinks that some person - her' own home and at' -the change. Glee- are the days, be done now to.ensurc that albeit elderly - 'with a com- ' same., time "set something when 'farriltA lived ., in healthy orsickly,•rich or.poo fortable nestegg should be aside" . to' take care. of her spae-ious home's where' the - can live out their'. days with feeding off her energies should she become too frail to elderly could be 'looked after .digni.ty,. knowing there is a the old n facIlit which Will avaae weer ey ` being facetious. She is really qualified for age. there is o Y That friend's outlook isn't a care for herself. She couldn't • by their children. Many suitable place for them when whole. lot different than the bear 'the thought of° her housewives are working s'o they can no.longer live alone. vievis of many people. Most .children taking care of her. there is no one in the house to • Canadians areg to ,: il.lih 71r -I- .for a feeble or bed - ensure a decent and dignified , Now that my children care are ridden parent, • -life to senior citizens across getting older and nearing the "We do have some alter - the nation ., .',hut few are so agewhen they will be leaving native' services'. The Vic - generous they wish to seethe home andmaking places for torian Order of Nurses and elderly living like kings and themselves in this world, •I the Home Care Nursing ' queens While the • young • am beginning .to understand program are both •valuable . people in • the country are how 'my parents .felt: In the aids in the reduction of t:axedto death. middle .years. now, I see hospital ,pop.ulations, but. ++ n friends, relatives, 'and these .:programs . have, to News this•month that senior' acquaintances meeting with. ' operate 'on the assumption citizens will' get a 'cost,of ',all sorts of disaster - stroke, that a patient who is sent living .•increase on thir.•• heart attack, cancer, other home from the hospital will, .Cheques. pension "' be' disabling disease. • And I not be alone in his or her • greeted in different ways by think,what if it were I. What • residence.. different people.: • Old age. if, I . were living alone and• ':Few of us are denying the • pensioners - some of them - sick? . urgent needs to control and • will think it is.merely•a drop The thought of •going tolive even reduce, health 'care; in the bucket which already with one of the children white costs, but the problem posed has' a gaping hole•in the a fairly healthy specimen is by The' long stay patient: bottom. Taxpayers - some of distasteful enough, but the' points very clearly. to an. them - will view the. few idea of burdening them as a equally urgent need to additional hl cents as' just alit patient is,rnore`than.l Provide decent and reliable another handout to a fierce :pan fatlio:m. NO way would' I facilities for those members portion of the p•gpulation, of our' .society "who can no many" of them not really want that. Iwould of loner care for themselves. needing it in the f}rstplace.• hope that "some alternative ' It is wonderful to live in a My father. didn't live tot. would beopen tome. country which provides day collect the old age pensgon. +'+ care ' centres, beautiful the t;-oberitij SIGNAL- TAR The County Town: Newspaper of Huron ,-o— Founded in 1010 and published every Thursday at (;oderleh, Ontario. Member of the CWNA and OWNA,' Advertisitrg rates on,request. Suhscriptions'paya'ble in advance 811,00 in Canada, 112.50 in ail countries other than Canada. single copies 25 cents. Display advertising, rates avallabJe'nn request. Please ask for Ralf: Card No. 6 effective (1Ct, 1; 1975, Second class•.niail Registration • Number 0716. Advertising Iri accepted on the condition that, In the event of typographical error, the adyertising space occupied by the erroneous item, together with reasonable allowance for. signature. will not be chafged for but the balance of the advertisement will be paid for at the applicable rate, In the event of a 'typographical error advertising goods or servicl's--ata wrong price, goods or service may not be sold: Advertising is merely an offer to sell, and may be with- • drawn at any time. The Signal Star It not responsible for the•,loss or damage of 'unsolicited manuscripts or photos. ° •e Pifblished by Signal -Star 'i,tblishatg Ltd, ROBERT' G. SHRlEP--president' ani! publisher SIIIRLEY J..KELLER—editor • JEFF SEDDON—:editorial staff [)AVE SYKES•--editorial staff EDWARD J. BYRSKI---advertising manager • dualities and Editorial Office *TELEPHONE 524-8331' area Cade 515 Mailing Address: P.O. BOX 220, Goderich Second 011ie mail registr Eton' number•- 171 1'• That's why I was so In He died as he had• lived h a terested in Barry Wenger's schools, publicly financed .poor man as far as earthly swimming pools, . tax - But editorial from last week's possessions were concerned,supported recreation 13ut one thing he told` me over W Ingham+ Advance Times. programs,. public libraries, Entitled Where are they to million dollar sorts. ries, and over in the months et ;ick P he died was this: If I' get sick go?". the editorial has this to, plexes, low-cost senior cern- and become a burden hto the day � 't housing •irrd social m citizens'a - family, please 'p home where I won t upset indecision which has c g y g , your, life. 11 the" .future -of hospitals .in when we cannot " give I remember' telling: him, 'Hur'on County. for. many adeocuate care to those who Over and over, that: we'd weeks, has brought into focus have no one at home to look "cross that bridge when we l' a particular problem which after thelxl when they become oatne' to it", lout he would'has Concerned `hospital of- hili, •ihedanie .quite agitated, in= •finials for years. We do not Old agc can he'beatl iful for •sisting that l promise him not have adequate facilities for those with the health anctf the ,: to try to take care of him in long -stay rtntir•rut•.�°. money to•enjo�y ii.. But "it can put rile in a . '''The controversy and centres -but 'there is louded something sad) missin J: . power tq-' all vrith.out •en - blackouts during high peak load periods., They have decided to make” some tests by reducing our .supply "voltage 5 percent for, the period of one.hour at 9:110 . a,m E.S.T. on Tuesday., May,' 4, 1976. Should any problems arise as a result of this test, please phone .the Public Utilities Office in Goderich -im mediately. • • If the tests .prove favourable by reducing voltage in critical ,periods in the winter months, blackouts may he avoided. We would like to thank you for your co-o.p•eration. Yours truly, David A. Rolston.. • of :� '�l fi • Manager Goderich PUC Sect belt .ode' The following poem was written by a member pf the C.P.A. Mr. Alf Hanna .of Guelph. It points out why we must remain free. Ode to Brother Bill Election time is coming soon; Now yob dear old man, Jimmy wants to tie us in; Now tell us if he can? Do seat belts help . off'. thinking.Sir?'S ' t Ate we to understand, 'That speed and drunkenness can't kill, While tied:in with the band? Sister Bess has told us (continued on page 5) Ctvic - Gorner Announcements of a civic nature are printed free of charge in this space in the hope.that increased public awareness and par'ticiRi tion will he the result. f i" + -I- 'i Thursday, April 22, Goderich Recreation and-Corn- munity Centre Board, Rec Office, 7 p.r'i•l. Thursday, April 22; Colborne Township public Meeting on secondary plan, Carlow Hall, 8 p:m; Sunday, April 25, 12:01 a.m., Daylight Saving Time. Thursday; April 29, Arbor Day throughout the Town. Thursd-ay,April 29, Horton County Council April session, court house, 10 a.m. Thursday, • : April 29, : Housing Action CoMmittee, Candlelight ftestaurant, 12 noon.. 1A,prii '6 -April '30, special spring clean-up garbage' pickupsTame -ame as normal garbage routes. ry