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THE GOIXE RICHSIGNAL-STAR, TffDR8PAY. JIJJA13, 157 5
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1*DEAR
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Unity
Wilfrid'u message as
abOvo, or' have drunk
deeply of his spirit of
service. They have faith
"My young friends, go and hope and optimism
out into the world for for a United Canada and
service. Make"the they have challenged 1.1,5
thought by service your to "take up the torch".
,inspiration. Problems They make several
there big ions including the
Tomorrow and the day practice and en -
after tomorrow,
o'aftmrtoonorrnw. it will be couragement of inter -
your turn to grapple with provincial visits, That is
them. Serve God and good advice but some,
your Country. Be firm in ''vioitu." arise not by
the right as God gives you arrangement but by the
to see the right. You may exigencies oyWar.
not always succeed. You On September 27tb..
may meet reverses but 1918. in an equinoctial
the following day stand gale, this writer was
and renew the conflict, responsible .for a
for Truth and Justice navigational error
obulltr|�uzpbintbeood''reck of a
(End of quotation from Naval Patrol'obip, C.D.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier's 57, on the rocky Gaspe
message to the students Coast near Cap des
of Toronto University .in Rosiers. The ship was lost
1913.) but with the experienced
"A divided Canada aid of the French
clearly risks absorption' fishermen all ten crew
into the big American members came safe
melting • pot. It is ashore. We were well
axiomatic that the unity cared for, we learned
of a country is intimately their language, we at -
linked to its identity, and
t\iobedtoituideobt8und tended their Church and
inougo, in other lands. now for 60 years, we have
Acts of good will between loved and respected all
French and English can the worthy people of our
only lead to un- neighbour province.
derstanding, respect and Cicopbao Perry, at 88,
frieudmhip"(End of the only surviving
quotation from a letter member of that rescue
prepared joiotly by party, lives now in
Messrs. Rodman & Montreal. In 1377 it was
Lemieux and published this writer's privilege to
recently in 950 English visit him and his wife and
and French Language fuoui(y, and once again
Weekly Newspapers in express thanks for
Canada)-. risking his life in the
The message from M. heavy undertow on that
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Vdbhun -arid 'B: �l�'--}ateyvlni-�tsolo`��g�-'
Lemieux represents a Old sailors
- never die.; If
combined English- shipmates Bob McKin-
French viewpoint from non, Percy 7w4. Fred
foreign |uodh. looking Welbourne, B. Monery,
hack at their beloved A. No\000, T. Troy, M.
Home Land after some McVickers, D. BYuck|iu,
yeara of^ service - aver- and relatives of Gordon
seas. W. Stokes should read
These two young men this we shall have a re -
either' listened to Sir union at Cleophas Perry's
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Dear Readers......
~ from page 4 must get behind tb
off. But jt appears hospital administration
inevitable. and staff, lending support
fff for its programs and
What ofthe future? procedures and helping
It is to be hoped now, Wherever possible to
that all persons involved stretch hospital funds
with hospital business .... over the greates.t amount
including the citizens of of service.
this community .- will And the Signal -Star will
recognize the need for try again and again to
open lines of com- .keep the community
Board members must progress. at the hospital:—
endeavor to maintain To do this,* Signal -Star
contact with every fa9et reporters will need ac -
of hospital business.
c'ofboopiu,lbuxioese. They cess to hospital board
cannot allow themselves meetings as soon as
the luxury of com- possible. They will need
placency. the cooperation
Hospital -staff must pull assistance of the ''ad -
together as a toumn, now ministration, medical
more than ever before. staff, nurses and other
They. must know what's workers to keeGoderich.
goingon in their hospital, and area people in'
horuor than ever uu aee fairs- and aware oy
that things' are running hospital binona.
smoothly and efficiently. Goderich Alexandra
Doctors must un- Marine and General '
derstand the prb1ems at
the hospital, and make a
concentrated effort to
cooperate with staffers
who are under new
regulations an
restrictions as the
hospitaUtruggleSuoriQht
itself financially.
Citizens and patients
Hospital provides vital,
life-giving i in this
community. People here,
are proud of the hospital.
They want to see it
performing at top ef-
ficiency, a lasting credit
to its ...fine heritage.
Together we can do it.
Let's give it our best.shot
_FELL o���� HIP
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CHAPEL
BIBLE
(HANK GULAG -
"Men, what must I do to
be scamd"? Acts 16:24
Believe In the Lord
"Jesus. and you will be
saved, - Acts 16:36
For you knot,/ that it was
not with perishable
-gold that you were
redeemed from thes am.
rsty way 04 114. l*od�d
dawn to you from year
but with
tins; preexaus bleed of
- Christ, a iamb without
blemish tor defact.
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JULY 16
11 e.m. Family Bible
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Honk Gelling
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Drive In Servk.. 3 mil,,
west of Clinton on Hwy..
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Hank
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mum Br:
JoYwex=�
Rupert
af▪ ter In
No Ashismmles Chewy.
home inMontreal soon
after our friend Rene
Levesque has decided
that no referendum is
neodod, that this good
land is stronger when
united, 'uud.heaouapuaan
invitation to enter Mr.
Trudeau's Cabinet as,
"Minister by Good Will
for interprovincial
tourism and trade."
There is historic
precedent for our Prime
Minister to bring a st
t into the Federal
Cabinet. In late 1867,
Joseph Howe led a stern
Maritime movement to
take Nova Scotia out of
the new Union, The thret
was real but the
redoubtable Sir Sohn A.
journeyed tHalifaxuod
persuaded Howe to enter
the Federal Cabinet at
Ottawa. Is it possible that
there are students in
Canada who do not yet
know that Sir John A.
Macdonald was Canada's
first Prime Minister and
leader of our "Fathers of
Confederation"?
The high destiny of this
Great Land is assu'red if
we know our History. We
shout to change the.
. ^Ac,t andnnomtofuu
.could not write'tcn of its
terms, or even two! The
B.N.A. Act is a Sound
basis of "gorernment.
Added to that .is OUT
Conodtution, broadening
out ''from precedent to
precedent", under
Freedom and an able
Judiciary since July 1,
l907_- ~ , ___
0ur thanks to Messrs.
Rodman and Lemieux for
inspired leadership from
their view -point in the
Swiss Alps - or some
place of high v-i.sion.
"Our loved Dom inion
8|ema,
With Peace and Hap-
piness
From shore to shore.
may our 'people be
United, Loyal, Free,
True t -h-''-.
For ever oonro.^
May God Bless our Home
Land and Her Majesty,
Elizabeth D. Queen of
Canada..
W. F. Orchard,
• School Master
1920-1965
Parkhill
could ask Mr. lames,
Skipper r» reply"why were you not
sounding yfog
Dear Editor: signal?" question
� wou��bbo to respond would be rhetorical. Mr.
to Mr.L'Samo James' James had obviously
°"AU *" yg decided that being bnuid.a
HMCS SAGUENAY's- the harbour an,d 10 feet
entry into Goderich
without using fog signals
which appeared in your
June 29 issue.
In the first case
SAGUENAY's approach
to the unfamiliar port of
Goderich was made with
extreme caution and at
an extremely | d
as befitted the prevailing
conditions. Without
personal experience, Mr.
James may have been a
little presumptuous. --in
assuming inefficiency in
the operation of
SAGUENAY's surface
warning and navigation
radars. In the virtually
calm conditions that
existed on the lake that
day, alt objects including
buoya, small boats and
even flotsam showed
clearly at considerable
range. In yuot.• having
Iaunched the ship's small
boat earlier in the day to
sail into Goderich, radwas used to close fromar
off the- broubneter,
continuous sounding of
the fog signals was un-
necessary in his
o'ncocayoryiobie case. He
used common sense and 1
only ask that it be ac-
cepted that l am per-
mitted the same
privilege. Accepted or
not, Rules 35 and 36 of the
Canadian. .Great Lakes
Regulations specifically
provides for departure
from the regulations in
special circumstances. •
The special cir-
cumstances in
SAGUENAY's case was
the fact that we were
entering Goderich under
"blind" ono. In
essence this means that
during poor visibility a
continuous flow of
navigational and "anti -
collision" information is
passed to the Command
on the Pilotage from
radar scopes and plots
com-
munication \wotz The
over five miles away to -
al track
within 25 feet of the boat anship's '- '"-ti-
to verbalposition radar----coare
ll continuously udated
to the crew in thick fog. with u bih d "" of
A team of Radar
Operators are on duty 24 accuracy.Corresponding,
��
conni orders are
hours a day at sea plot -
passed by microphoneto
ting and reporting- -all the Wheelhouse fou£
surface and air contacts. decks below. As the ships
Had Mr. James oireno urr fitted juvt
t�mo�-him-uonoorn-vvkU*
' ~ -a��It 'the �
S&GD�y«AY was in-~ '�
tinuous soundingf fog
Goderich / would have •�oul» ou�n ofy�-vita|
been happy to b him information flow at
the position of his. boat °n cegu|urinterVu\o.
our plot that afternoon.
Every precaution was In Opefl water this is not
taken to avoid any close a problem as the ship
enoounter- with other may be conned from the
vessels. Bridge below the Pilotage
With regard to sound out of direct line with the
signals, Mr. Jamey yicons, but in confinedindicated that
small waters where the im-
boats keep a sounding mediate danger of
device ~roady'" - but collision with a jetty or
nothing in the Great grounding in shoalwater
Lakes Rule of the Road cxiuty, it is essential that
supports his use of t6'e the ship be controlled
term "ready"Rule 18 from the Pilotage and the
demands that all vessels blasts of the sirens would
including sailing vessels seriously impair this
and sma boats make an function.
appropriate sound signal . Navigational safety
in reduced visibility. [ required the precaution
of- stopping fog signals
during -the final approach
and entry into Goderich.
It is necessary that a
naval vessel be fully
capable.pf entering and
harbours safely „ in all
weather conditions.
Contant .prucdco and
training is applied to
ensure that this
capability is maintained
at a very high standard.
I would like • to re-
assure Mr. James and alt
your readers that every
safety precaution was
taken durIng our... entry
into Goderich. The
decilsion not to sound fog
signals was made ad-
visedly and in the special
circumstances that
eoioted, was perfectly
legitimate being based
both on a sound
Great Lakes Regulations
and on over 2� years- nf ' ~-�--�.-
qualificationprof000iooa1u
_�roiuin�' �A-� BIRTHDAYIRTHDAY
and service - '
at sea.
In ldxaok
all the citizens of
/Gudodcb for the won-
derful welcome we
received op our arrival
and express on behalf of
my ship's company our
great pleasure and ap-
preciation for the warm
hospitality we received
during- ouc stay in your
beautiful port. We will.
carry many fond
memories of Goderich
with us oil our future
voyages.
Yours truly,
T.C. Milne,
Commander
The little port
has logged another year,
Throughout the stormy
,,winter she kept her signal
clear;
Now in the warmth of
mummer she basks on
Huron's shore,
God of the \�9vca.protect
her
For many good years
more.
The little town of
Goderich is beautiful to
see -
Green -velvet |awno,
streets bright with
~
w.~~
^.~.~^~. .
And n�unyuleafy �ee.
Her friendly�folk sin-
cerely
in'
cpce|yo@ecu welcoming
Commanding hand.
kn )cdge of the curpwnt--' x»mm»�x�n�0D5«*c -'God bless this qouindy,
lovely town
In a clean ubdn}eaeunt
land!
''
0, little towns like
Gmerich, salt of the
earth are -you,
You warm the hearts,
renew the faith of
strangers passing
through;
We'll not forget you,
Godorioh, and as we say
good-bye,
May Heavenly Hands still
chart your course
And keep you sailing
high!
-Passers-by"
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