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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-06-08, Page 4L *CNA Goderich _IGNAL STAR The County Town Newspaper of Huron Founded In 1040 and published every Thursday at Oodorlch, Ontario. Member of the CWNA and QWNA. Advertising rates on request. Subscriptions payable In advance '13.00,In Canada, '17.00 10 N.S.A., '80.00 to all other countries. single copies 30 cents. Display adver- tising rates available on request. Please ask for Rate Card No. 0 effective Oct. 1. 1977. Second class mall Registration Number 0710- 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 no, be Charged for but the balance of the advertisement will bo paid for at the applicable rate. In the event of a, typographical error advertising goods or services et a wrong price, goods or service may not be sold. Advertising Is merely en offer to sell, and may be withdrawn of any time. The Signal -Star is not responsible for the Toss or damage of unsolicited manuscripts or photos. Business and Editorial Office TELEPHONE 524-8331 area code 519 Published by Signal -Star Publishing Ltd. ROBERT G. SHRIER— president and. publisher SHIRLEY J. KELLER — editor EDWARD J. BYRSKI — advertising manager �r- Mailing Address: P.O. BOX 220, Industrial Park, Goderich Second class mail registration number — 0716 It was madness Anyone who was downtown last Thursday and Friday night after 9 p.m. will know what a tremendous success the Midnight Madness event really was. The streets were packed with cars and people. It was like Old Home Week, with friends and relatives showing up from all corners of the county. The merchants, too, were well patronized by customers. That was natural. Most stores featured some truly exciting bargains. Several businessmen had to close their doors a few times during the evening, just to prevent other people from entering the store until the customers inside were waited on. McGee's low gasoline prices attracted line-ups bosh nights ... and one story was that the gears in'the gas pumps had to be manually cooled to keep things flowing. One comment overheard was, "It is just like Saturday night years ago." Another Midnight Madness shopper said, "Usually I don't have time to shop in the evening. By the time I get home from work and get dinner over and the family settled, I can get to only one store before closing. This is great, being able to shop until midnight." Goderich businessmen' have noticed for sometime ,that the shopping habits of area con - summers' are changing. It seems that fewer people •9, 99,9 y GODERICH SIGNAL STAR. THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1978-,. Evening riders are shopping on Saturdays. More and more shop- pers want to get out to the stores on Thursdays and Fridays, leaving the rest of the weekend free. If the Midnight Madness success is any indication, it may be that shoppers are eager for later store hours on Thursdays and Fridays...and maybe even a noon closing (all day?) on Saturday. It's something to. think about. The greatest advantage of Midnight Madness last week, was the shot in the arm it gave to a lagging community spirit. After the impetus of last year's Sesquicentennial events, it was natural that a period otletdown would follow. It had to happen, But Midnight Madness kicked off a new season of fun and frolic just at the right time to create en- thusiasm for what's to follow ... Art Mart, the Kin Karnival, Aqua Carnival, the sidewalk sale, founders' day. This community can do things together. It can get everyone working toward a common cause. Mid- . night Madness brought folks 'to town, not only to support the business community but to visit old friends and walk the town's square and see the municipality's harbor and drive the neighbourhood streets and have a picnic in one of the parks. It is just this kind of co-operation and effort that will make the difference for Goderich in the years to come.—SJK - Heart fund research New frontiers. New hope! That is what the Ontario Heart Foundation is all about. Consider your heart. Just about the size of your fist, it beats 72 times a minute pumping ap- proximately three thousand gallons of blood a day. Busy? Perpetually! Your heart rests only a fraction of a second after each beat. Replaceable? Not really. Not, until the body's automatic rejection of a donor heart can be halted. The heart you've got has to last you a lifetime! At the present time there is an epidemic of heart and blood vessel disease in Canada, affecting one out of every four people. What can be done about it? Plenty! Right now i'n Ontario, over $5 million is being invested in cardiovascular research. Heart Fund donations make this research possible, Moreover, in Ontario, education materials on heart health are available to every adult and all school children. Free literature is being sent out every weekday from the Ontario Heart Foundation covering such subjects as strokes, heart attack, hypertension, children's heart ailments, diet and recipe books, books and leaflets on how to quit smoking and suggestions for exercise. In research, education, in informational literature, films and forums new frontiers are being opened to heart health, new hope offered along with the following guidelines: diet...avoid animal fats, too rich foods, fattening foods. An overweight body means the heart has to work extra hard. Exercise...moderatelry and daily. Not just that dash from the TV chair to the refrigerator or from the elevator to the car door. Keep in shape for your heart's sake. Smoking...cigarette smoking hastens the onset of coronary artery disease. Blood pressure...should be checked, hypertension 'is a silent killer often without any symptoms. Regular medical"checks can spot high blood pressure and effectively control it. Moderate yourlife§tyle... by Dave Sykes 13Y SHIRLEY J. KELLER A column I wrote a month or so ago about today's movies was popular with a good many people. I had plenty of comments. - pro and con about that column and this week, there is even a letter to the editor from a reader who is in complete agreement with my viewpoint that too many modern flicks are not entertaining and highly offensive. The letter writer also took the opportunity to complain about the movie Saturday Night Fever• which played at the Mustang drive-in recently. That movie was restricted to persons 18 years of age or over ... and was . attended, the letter writer said, by at least two 16 year olds. Co -incidentally, Bruce Lyndon of the Park Theatre on The Square and The Mustang Drive- r DEAR READERS In, dropped off an article from one of the trade papers he receives. The story was about Curly Posen who is president of the Motion Picture Theatres, Association of Ontario. , Posen said theatre owners don't make money on pictures any more. It is the candy bar that helps pay the bills. Says Posen: "It isn't the film rentals that are killing us. They aren't high if you do the business, but pictures are made for certain tastes. You can't sell an art film in a small town. And all those people crying for general pictures don't go to the movies. We are just weekend babysitters with general pictures. It's the adult and restricted pictures that work." Posen was asked to do a little trouble shooting recently when the Ontario Film Censor Board received com- plaints from an Ontario town concerning the restricted films being shown. He discovered, of course, that those were the only pictures that we're selling and that the people complaining didn't go to the movies. His advice was straight from the hip: "You'll get pictures you. want to see when you start attending them while they're in town." It's a buyers' market. + + + Bruce Lyndon talked quite openly this week about those restricted movies ... the ones which anyone under 18 years of age should not see, ac- cording to the board of censors. It is clear that Bruce Lyndon doesn't have an easy time of it. And from the looks of things, he's on his own when it comes to such matters, as are all theatre managers. The censors just say, "Keep the kids under 18 out." It is up to the managers to do it. Lyndon makes no hones about the fact that some people that are too young for restricted movies are admitted from time to time. It is hard to catch everyone, Lyndon ad- mits, especially girls. Boys at 16 usually look 16... but girls at 16 frequently look`' much older. "And often if you ask' them, they are carrying proof of age,'' said Lyndon. "Granted, it may not be their own. It may be borrowed. But they have it." Apparently picking out the "too young" from a carload of teens entering the drive-in can be dif- ficult... and almost as embarrassing for the spotter as for the spotted. "Some of them will bad mouth you," said Lyn- don. "You wouldn't believe the language some of them will use." The Ontario Provincial Police do make spot checks from time to time, just in case Lyndon is having difficulty. Mind you, Lyndon doesn't deliberately allow 16 years olds, into his theatres when restricted movies are playing. It is just too risky for him. He is subject to a heavy fine... or even having his business closed down if he knowingly allows theatre goers who are under age. But, asks Lyndon', what does one do to ensure that no one who is under 18 sees restricted shows? At the drive-in for instance, youngsters of 12 and 14 will show up and sit outside the drive-in property, watching the movies. There's really nothing Lyndon can do about these intruders... and he often wonders if the parents have any idea where these children are or what they are doing. •+++ That, of course, brings up another point ..> a sore Turn to page 16 LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS AGO latter will carry it on with Chas. E. Shaw has his office at the shine disposed 'of his fire irvd' place as has been oc- surance -c business to ru1iied by Mr. Shaw, next Oswald Carey and the to the post office. ,c,.cP(2--`G,2, Pay TV Dear Editor, ' There is currently a good deal of discussion regarding the possibility of establishing a Pay -TV system for Canada. Who does Pay -TV benefit? Certainly not the Canadian people. Television is now free of direct cost to the viewer. With the establishment of a Pay - TV system, the most popular types of programs would be siphoned from "free" television. Hockey, baseball, football, feature films and entertainment specials would move from the "schedules of the regular stations to the Pay -TV channel. The pattern has been established wherever Pay-TV._,_has been in- troduced. In order to receive the variety and quality of programs that are now available on "free" television, we wciuld be faced with another expense added to our already spiralling cost of living. The "Free Air" that we useiff to talk about will become "Pay Air". The establishment. of Pay -TV will be rleteimantal to the DEAR EDITOR television viewer and will threaten the operation of economically important industries across the country. It is in the best interest of the Canadian public to oppose any system that escalates the cost ' of 'living and damages in- dustries that provide important services and employment for Canadians. Yours truly, Bruce Lyndon. Objection l5ear Editor: Through your editorial nage, I would like to have the opportunity to urge Ontario citizens to write. to the Honourable ..Reuben Baetz, Minister of Energy, Queen's Park, Toronto, expressing objection to the proposed bulk power rates scheduled for -1979. The Ontario Energy Board has given notice' that objections to the proposed hydro rates should be submitted before July 10, 1978. Therefore, I urge you to take this action ' which shows your concern for the unprotected low- income consumer. Remember hydro power is a necessity of life if one considers the final prospect of "freezing to death in the dark". Sincerely, (Mrs.) Irene Mooney Thanks Dear Editor: On behalf of the London Branch of the Canadian Red Cross and the organizers of our recent Blood Donor Clinic in Goderich, I would like to thank everyone who made it a _success. A special note of ap- preciation gdes to each of .the 273 donors who registered, 73 of them for the first time. I would like to thank Joanne Walters and the Signal Star for their publicity before the event, especially in regard to our change in location and for the coverage on the day of the clinic. To everyone at North Street United Church who ' helped make our move successful, to each of the volunteers who assisted with registration, nursing and serving coffee and to the Kinsmen and Kinettes for their support - thank you. Our next clinic will be held on Wednesday, November 8 and we.hope it will be as successful. Sincerely, Judy Hiles Cancer Dear•Editor: The members of the executive of the Goderich Branch of Canadian Cancer Society wish to express their sincere thanks for your continued excellent coverage, by report and photography, of the Society's news events and annual fund- raising campaign. Your co-operation and support contribute sub-stantially - to the success of the Society's local projects and ,are greatly appreciated. Yours truly, Marion Shaw, Publicity Chairman, Goderich Branch Canadian Cancer Society Reply please Dear Editor: I would like toknow why it is, that when one applies for a position in answer to newspaper advertisements for employment, one rarely receives an answer. To me, this is an inex- cusable breach of good manners. This' has happened to me on several occasions. While the loss of these particular jobs is probably of no great concern (after all, who wishes to work for in- considerate ignorant employers?) it would be much more satisfactory to receive a rejection rather than no reply at all. So, advertisers, please do notallow job seekers to hang in suspense wondering if you acknowledged our ap- plications. A formal letter of rejection, or a phone call would he greatly appreciated by those of us who are trying to obtain a job. ` Yours truly, Anne Robertson. Books Dear Editor, ' I represent a group of people froim the area in and around Goderich. We are a group of varying ages, education, oc-' cupations and interests. Some of us are parents of children who have not yet attended Huron County Schools. Some are parents of children who are presently attending County schools or who have completed school in Huron County. All of us are concerned with the quality of education of- fered and feel it is wor- thwhile to spend time showing support for our educational system in general, for the Board that administers that system and for the teachers involved in it. Recently there has been wide publicity given to groups and councils passing 'motions sup- porting banning of three books — ThelDiviners by Margaret Laurence,Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, and The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. These decisions' have been based on certain quotations arbitrarily selected from these books by a person or persons. Copies of these motions have then been sent to County Serondary Schools, without prior consultation with the Board of Education, an There will probably be a good crowd' on the excursion to, Detroit next Wednesday by ,the elegant 'steamer Greyhound. On Tuesday evening the Greyhound will make the usual moonlight trip on the lake under the auspices of the Musical Society. Yesterday morning about 3 o'clock fire broke out in the stable at the rear of C. Consigney's laundry establishment and quickly demolished the frame building. The firemen did good work but were unable to act that we consider a gross infringement on the rights and respon- sibilities of the duly elected Board of Education. By selecting arbitrary phrases from the books in question, these persons have attempted to in- dicate not only that such books are not fit to be taught in schools but also that they are por- nographic, in bad taste, and of no literary merit. It is obvious that no intelligent and logical evaluation of the literary merit and worth of these books can be made without a complete evaluation. Such an evaluation I would necessarily have to be set in the context of •those books forming a resource for providing high school students with the necessary literary materials in order for them to obtain certain Mils to perform in our society or continue with higher education. This has obviously not been done. Tv<irn to page 16 prevent the flames spreading to the batik portion of the house on St. David Street occupied by Singer. Machine agent McDonald and here a good deal of damage was done. Last Thursday Wm. Culbert of town, paid a visit to the gypsy en- campment at Piper's and talked horse trading. An exchange of animals was made but later a dispute arose, Culbert claiming that no bargain had been made and that the horse had been hitched to his rig only to try the animal and the gypsy trader, one Ed Sheppard, claiming that the deal had been consumated. 25 YEARS,AGO The most successful year in its entire history was reported by the Goderich Elevator and Transit Company Limited at its annual meeting on Wednesday last week. During the fiscal year ending March 31, 1953, a total of 27,7,54,000 bushels of grain were handled to set up an all time record. This was' 3,000,000' bushels more than the previous record year in 1945-46. A net profit of $160,734.54, the equivalent of about $1.91 - per share was reported after depreciation and provision for income taxes. Huron County Council, which opened its June session Wednesday morning set its tax rate at ten mills today. Hoping to make an early start on the new swimming pool at Judith Gooderham Memorial Playground, the town council swimminj pool committee had its plan delayed last Friday night when three tenders for the project were opened and. all proved higher than anticipated. What is believed to be a new high in the value of building permits issued for . construction of dwellings -- $231,500 -- was reported at last Friday night's meeting of Town Council. 5 YEARS AGO Goderich Town ouncil and the Goderich Planning Board went into committee of the whole twice for more than an hour at a time when they met 'Tuesday evening to consider an application by James Dixon for a building permit to con- struct a 22 unit apartment building on Waterloo Street between Picton and Elgin Streets. .After, returning from the second committee session, it was recom- mended to the meeting and subsequently ac- cepted that the matter be referred to the Goderich Planning Board and County Planner Gary Davidson and in con- sultation with Mr. Dixon for further discussion. • While the taxes in municipalities all around Goderich are going down, local taxes will he in- creased this year by approximately 20 mills, according to Finance Chairman Dave Gower. A strike by 180 mem- bers of Local 682 of the International Chemical Workers Union against DOMTAR Sifto Salt Mine in Goderich is in its 11 th day with no hope of settlement in sight. G.D.C.I. athlete, Tim McGee, was runner-up in the midget shot put event in the all Ontario O.F.S.A.A. track and field meet held at C.N.E. Stadium on the weekend.