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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-07-12, Page 1, .. .. I . . ' •°•01, ' • • *.fr .u• • , -1,4r Wayne Doak of the- Goderich Fire Department hands a driver a ducted the toll for MD Friday and Saturday, raising over $2,000 for the Muscular-DyStrophy Association sticker after she donated to the GFD's fire fighter's charity. (photo by Dave Sykes) voluntary toll on Victoria Street, Saturday. Members of the GFD con - Old Lane won't• die • - BY DAVE SYKES 7: - - - - 7-.M Old-Lantaster is putting up a good fight. ' • The World War II vintage aircraft has so far • , . refused all attempts to be removed from Sky Harbour Airport. - - - After w-eeks of -trim -ming '''' an acceptable weight the Canadian War- • . ' plane Heritage Fouridation•attempted to have • her lifted by a Ca-nadian Armed Forces ' .chinook helicopter. .. . But she bareiY_budge-d. - Foundation president, Dennis Bradley, said work is still being doneon the Lancaster by ....--- . members of the, heritage groun_and he hopes ' that something- will..be resolved this summer. "There, simply wasn't enough weight taken off it to transport it by helicopter," Bradley explained. "The weight is too much to transport it by air." So the foundation hopes to finalize plans, before the end of the summer, to have the plane BY JEFF SEDDQN transported to Mount•Hope overland. ' . Hopes that plentiful S,upplies• of gas- and at- . • The grail -P. -had. to _abandon plans of tran- tractive exchange rates for American money sporting the Lanc by elf since it became im- would bring tourists across the borderin droves' possible to farther trim the plane of excess this suit -trier have yet -to -materialize., . ' ' weight. In. fact indications are that fewer Americans Bradley said the foundation would get the are coming north this summer than last. plane out this summer but there was still -a --- While it is still very early to draw any con - problem of 'timing and manpower'. elusions about what type of year the tourist - • industry in this area is going to have there has The show goes • the July 4 holiday 'in the tes is a good been no great influx of tourists and generally yacations, Rumours of gas shortages and the 5',:t.- e ' , barometer fo'r the summer. But ,a decline' in American visitors this summer may be made up by an' increa•se-i-n the, • . • on.... -espite ire d number of Canadians staying home for their i cost of American. money appears to have en - After a fire damaged ventilation equipment,,,. couraged. many Canadians •to take ,their in the snack bar and cut off hydro ' to . the vacation. inCanada. projection room at the , Mustang Drive In Thus far it appear§ as though the tcital, ----.-.-- -FI-ida-Viirglit -The- 'STOW -Went --15-ii-Ciii-S-a-trif da y. - -171.Trn ber---of - to u rts-ts - travetting--th-tough th night. - • Goderich areahas' increased. Americans have Bruce Lyndon, manager of the Mustang, said yet to flock to the area but increased Canadian patrons of the outdoor theatre missed the last 15 traffic has resulted in some tourist attractions minutes of the first film and all the second flick ' doing more business thanlast year. • ' Friday night when the fire broke out. He said The Goderich tourist information booth has fire men were called to the drive in about 11:00 been busier this year. Inquiries at the booth are p.m. and spent two hours putting the fire out , up dramatically. While that, indicates more and ensuring the snack bar was out of danger. people are in the area it, does not indicate those Lyndon said the fire broke out in the Yen- people stayed in the area any length of time, or tilation system over the grill and deep fryer. He more important, spent mOney•in the area. . ' said the snack bar and projIn 1978 inquiries at the boothby July 2 ection room, all in .the same building, filled with smoke. He said numbered 2,1.54 and during the same perio-d this hydro had to be cut off to the building , year the inquiries numher 3,291. Employees at-the-boothask people to register preventing staff from attempting to show the rest of the movie. the number of ' people in their party and their home and the results of those questions sholks He said estimates of dam.ages in the f ire were e ' $5,000 but that the figure could change once a thnumber ofAmericans down considerably. . d- f , -- --contractor has viewed the -situation and quoted Norecorowhere people came from are available from 1978 but em,ployees at the.booth' f)rices for repairs, He said. he hoped to get the damage corrected by this weekend adding that estimate the number of American tourists to be Was now unlikely. down 20 percent. .../' Saturday night the mess in the -Shack bar was Thus far the number of Americans totals_122 cleaned up, the area damaged by fire par- of the 3,291 total. Along with the United States titioned off and business back to normal. 19 other countries have been home to tourists Lyndon said the fire did !waking to decrease his visiting Goderich. gate claiming he had a good Saturday night. He Staff at the Miran Historic Oiaf have also said popcorn, potatoe chips, candy and soft noticed a decline in the number of Americans. drinks was all that was available at the snack Harry Bosnell, curator of the jail, said Monday bar. that the number of visitors to the jail was down .. • i • • Weekend toll nets over *2,000 • Members of the Goderich Fire Department operated a successful toll on Victoria Street on the weekend in aid of Muscular Dystrophy. It is the first time the GFD has attempted a voluntary toll which they ran from 4 to 8 p:m• Friday evening and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday. • Through their efforts they were able to donate over $2,000 to the Muscular Dystrophy fund, the largest amount they have donated through their yearly fund-raising projects. Fire fighters hayed always supported the MD and members of The GFD would like 'to thank' everyone who made their first toll such a -success. Champion employees settle. Office and hourly employees at Champion Road Machinery Ltd., of GOderich, ratified two one year cdatracts Sunday •calling for eight • percent increases both years. • The contract affects about 8.00 hourly em- ployees and 90 salaried einployees, all_meni- bers of the Association of Machinery and Aerospace Workers, Local 1863. The settlement for office staff is retroactive to June 27, 1979 while the settlemenrwith hourly employees is effective August 13, 1979. The new pact brings the wage for tap rated hourly employees,to $10.49 an hour with a minimum starting rate of $6.24 an hour. Office employees that are members of the union now have a ceiling of $414.06 a week with a starting wage of $174.31 a week. • Under the new agreement the„gymage wage of hourly employees will be nine dollars an hour while the average wage of office employees belonging to the union will be $295 a week. Negotiations on the two -contracts -Wok place over an eight week period and the final vote by employees was on Sunday, July 8. Of those voting for the pact close to 90 percent were in favor of -acceptance. Along with the eight percent increase some changes were made to the employee benefits. Sowerby honored for bravery BY DAVE SYKES A Goderich area man who -pulled his neigh- bour from a burning house last year has been awarded a medatof bravery. _ Government House, Ottawa announced last Friday that Donald Sowerby, R.R.4, Goderich was one of 13 people awarded medals of bravery for acts of heroism. Sowerby learned of the honor in -a letter from Governor-General Edward Shreyer, last Wednesday. The medals...se:1.g to be presented by the Governor-General -sometime in the fall'in Ottawa,hut a final date has not been set. Tip medalyyas awarded to Sowerby after he pulai his. neighbour, Bert McCabe, from his burning house July 6, 1978. Don and his son, • Brian turned in the alarm to the Goderich Fire Department around 7.30 p.m. after they -had taken McCabe to safety. The house was gutted. • McCabe was lying in the middle of the floor of the front room on the ground floor of the house when Sowerby entered. Don removed him from the flaming house and turned in the alarm. Although pleased withunder dif- ferent ----friezial,Sowerby wishes "it had been bravery circumstances. • "I was pleased to get the medal but you don't do it for something like this," he said. "It.was a . night- *won't forget but I don't want to do it. again." McCabe, suffered burns • to the upper • part of his bocry—aii-d-smoke inhalation, was rushed to hospital in London by ambulance. He died there 10 days later. ' • .4.4: 14, Sti 7 eit"4174)444 4.1'4%4'0' f 132.YEA R-28 urisff • GODER ICH SI9NAL-STAR, THURSDAY, JULY 12 ere not Americ n between 800 • and 1,000 from last year. Bosnell slid- that wIth'-grOup tours included, most of .which'•were school children, the total *--number of visitors to the jail was about 4,200. He added-that-trased on the register guests at the jail, are' asked to sign the number of Americans visiting- the historic site is .down between 15 and 20 percent. The curator put part of the_ blame for the decline on the July 4 American holiday falling on a Wednesday. That holiday, comparable to • Canada Day, is celebrated on July'4 rather than,. the closest weekend to that'date. Bosnell refutes the suggestion that visitbrs to • Goderich tour the county Pioneer Museum first and take in the jail as an added attraction. He points out that while Huron county's pioneer museum is the best of its kind every county has a museum. Hepoints,outi-hat the jail is the only attraction of its type IP NoiliAmerica. "They're coming to see this,' he says matter fTh.tly________ _ Museum recordscompare cloielito. the jail. --The total 'number of visitors is greater at the' museum. but it is open year round. While Museum records do not indicate large number of American visitors they do show people hailing from 11 states. Many of those are from 'border states like Michigan and ()filo but -some are from as far away' as Florida, Georgia, • Texas and ..Ca.lifornia. The Goderich marina is' having a.good year to date. Marina staff say the number of boats in for gas and overnight docking is up from. last , year and that gas sales are up. Thus far, in 1979 the marina averages a dozen baats a day on.the weekends, and three boats a day on weekdays, The boaters are taking advantage of the devalued Canadian dollar, the larger Canadian gallon and the supply of gas. Marina staff,say, when all calculations are done thei Americans are able to buy. a gallon of gas for about 84 cents, Consider -a -131y, cheaper than they 'can- bify it at home. The American boaters indicate they -have been travelling the lakes on the Canadian Side tp, take adyantage of the gas sup Registrations are up...at Point Farms Provincial Park this year tiat again the in- crease is not due to American tourists. Park - staff say the increase is largely due to Committee to look at sharing services Goderich township council agreed Monday night tO at least talk to town officials about • installing sanitary and • storm sewers on " -14•T township land south of Gaderich. ° • Township council appointed a. two man • committee ,to Sit down with town represen- tatiVeS to discuss costs and needs to extend town services to township land. • Goderich township reeve Grant Stirling and former reeve Gerry' Ginn were named to the committee and charged with the task of seeing if town services can be extended. Goderich officials were blunt with township council at the council meeting telling them the 1 town was •willing,16 incorporatefownship land into town operated services at the township's expense. • • Goderich deputy -reeve Bob Allen, chairman of the town's works and engineering com- mittee, told 'council the township would have to be prepared to pay all costs to extend services to township land. • Reeve Eileen Palmer explained to township council that the pollution control plant in Goderich Was already operating at full capacity.' i 1 4 The pollution control plant was built in 1967 and designed to handle the town's needs for a 20 year period. But that planning felt short and the town is in the process of determining What expansion of the plant is required. ...._., • . Township councillors were ,hesitant to get involved l'n the development because they felt the town was trying to get the township to foot the bill for the service expansion and then annex,the land. • The town, for its part, has avoided com- menting on annex tion claiming it has no in- tention of taking th area Under its wing. .. 4 35 CENTS PER COPY • • • Canadian campers. •.•thing it ap_pears the tourist industry, an integral - • Despite the fact, that hopes that Americans part of the economy of Goderich, WiTreTijoy would head north to take advantage of a good • another good year 1E1.979. • The Bitu,Bom, Boom 'clown,. trio delighted a latge audience of children with their antics at th GDC I auditoriuM, Friday. Akop Otuoithian, hih , wife, Maria and son, Jan are fortner Member of the famed Moscow °relitd together have over 4g years experience. They are currently on a tour of Canada under a Canada Council, grant for InternatiOnal Year of the child.(photo by Dave Sykes) • .