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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-09-13, Page 4PAGE 4 —GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1979 Goderich` SIGNAL-STAR The County Town Newspaper of Huron Pounded In 114N and published every Thursday at Goderich. Ontario. Member of the CWNA and OWN*. Advertising rotes on request. Subscriptions payable in advance •14.30 in Canada. '3840 to Y.S.A., •33.00 to oil other countries, single copies 3S'. Display advertising rates available on request. please ask for Rota Card No. 0 effective Oct. 1. H70. Second class mall Registration Number 0716- Advertising 1s accepted on the condition that In the event of typographical error, the advertising space occupied by.. She. .erconeaus- team, together with reasonable -allowance for signature. will not be charged for but the balance of the advertisement will be paid for of the applicable rate. In theevent of a typographical error advertising goods or services et a wrong price. goods or service may not be sold. Advertising Is merely an offer to sell, and may be withdrawn at any time. The Signal -Star Is not responsible for the loss 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 DONALD M. HUBICK - advertising manager Mailing 4ddress: P.O. BOX 220, Industrial Park, Goderich Second class mail registration number — 0716 This shortage is real You never miss the water until the well runs dry. That adage was never truer than it is right now• in the newspaper publishing industry. • Everybody has heard about the gas lines in the United States, but it is difficult to appreciate the problem unless it has restricted your own personal movement from one place to another. Gas lines for Canadians aren't real. Some gloomy forecasts predict a severe energy shortage in the years ahead for Canadians - gas, oil, hydro electric power. But today, in the midst of these concerns, Canadians continue to live in comfort and ease, for the most part unconcerned about these future shortages which may occur some dim and distant day 50 years from now. There are even pessimists in this country who will warn that Canadians, living in the bread basket of the world, will go hungry in the years ahead unless someone somewhere right now begins to conserve land and resources that will ensure Canada's agriculture, industry for generationsyet unborn. Still Canadianscontinue to squander prime least another year. agricultural land and toy with the farmers' This means hat for the rest of 1979 and probably 'livelihood, seemingly uncaring about what dire throughout 1980, the supply of newsprint in ,Canada shortages may be just down the road. and the United States will be less than the demand. You never can truly comprehend shortages until This will, indoubtedly drive the price of paper still they hit you where you live. higher/.. and there will be no guarantee of delivery. It has been years now that the pulp and paper Signal -Star Publishing Ltd is feeling the pinch_ _ industry in Ganada has been advising consumers -along with every other publisher in the country. In that shortages of newsprint were a possiblity. And this crucial situation, it will be necessary for SSP to there have been shortages from time to time, but ;consider ways , and means to make more they have only been temporary shortages with the ;f economical use of newsprint and conserve space industry being able to recover sufficiently in a / whenever possible in every publication. reasonable time to prevent any lasting hardships. Who would have believed that the raw. product It's a different story today. Though trees are necessary' to the weekly newspaper industry in this indeed a renewable resource and though. Canada is young, rich country would be in such short supply in one of the world's foremost producers of ptilp and this lifetime? Is it perhaps wise for• Cana dians to paper, the nation's mills just cannot keep/p to the admit that there is need for everyone to be more increasing demands for newsprint fron /Canadian realistic about what changes in lifestyle may be and United States customers. f j vital today to support mankind tomorrow? -SJK f� ,gypar .drawTown's ks big' , . The number 'of publications and printed materials making use of economical newsprint is growing by leaps and bounds in both Canada and the United States. So phenomenal is the increased consumption, for -instance, that Canada has,shipped to the USA almost one million tons of new supply newsprint, a 15 percent increase, since 1976./ United States paper mills have produced something like 400,000 new tons, or abQut42 percent more newsprint in the same period/But the US paper industry has a much smallet/base than the Canadian counterpart, leaving /the US extra production still far short of the mark. Canadian paper mills are ,at peak production right now. They planned fo ' and accommodated normal growth throughout the years, but they just weren't ready for the throughout/the demands- there were placed on them, 'Canadian mills are now gearing up to increase" their .production still more, but they will not be,4able.to keep up to the present demands or any reasonable expected growth for at Before the first frpst comes and dulls their beauty, this newspa er wants to make special mention of Goderi 1`i's parks and parkettes. If you haven't taken notice, drive around town today and see for.yourselphe gorgeous flowers, the well -kept lawns and the/new and flourishing trees. It is a sight to behold. / Few cotx(munities the size of Goderich can boast such a /tremendous parks system. Much of the credit goes to Parks Chairman John Doherty and his assistant chairman Elsa Haydon. But the real wo tC is done by Parks Foreman Peter Spain and his crr'ew, and itis to these devoted few that this vote of /thanks is directed. ' There's no doubt about it. Visitor's to Goderich notice the town's natural beauty - the Lakeshore, the mature trees, the wide streets, the unique Square. But there is lots of proof that visitors appreciate the extra touches of color put there by the town crews'. From .time to time, the Signal -Star gets letters to the editor about the lovely plantings around town. Cdtincil members too, 'receive letters and personal /comments from folks who have been in Goderich and felt compelled to express their positive feelings about the beauty of the municipal gardens. Businessmen hear glowing praise drom their customers. Perhaps you too have heard someone you know_ say how good everything looks in Goderich. Doubtless there are many, many men, women and young people in Goderich who enjoy the splashes of red, yellow, purple,„pink,. orange and_ white in dozens of surprising corners around town. There is always a danger that residents who have been in Goderich for a while will take this beauty for granted. They may forget the care and attention se gardens and planters demand every day from Planting to frost. But still, there are people who never pass a parkette or a• planter without acknowledging that Goderich is indeed The Pret- tiest Town in Canada. And they are proud. Then there are those Scrooge -like citizen's who say that spending money on municipal parks and flowerbeds and planters is an expense that should be dscontinued immediately. It is luxury, these types believe, to plant flowers and trees and fuss with planters and hanging baskets when there are potholes in the streets and sewers,that need repairs. It has been shown that only about one percent of the municipal budget: goes to parks. That's a mighty small amount when one considers the multitude of beauty and goodwill that is wrought for so many people. So here's a, big bouquet for the parks department in Goderich. If flowers are the )anguage of love, Goderich parks have some warm and winning things to say to residents and visitors alike. - SJK d ;Summer. end He disagrees DearEditor, While agreeing whole- souled with Mr. Fry that, "Too many are living only for today" (Sep- tember 6, 1979), I cannot .agree will -this statement: "The Kingdom of God cannot and will not come on earth, until the Literal; Personal, ; and Physical return of the Lord takes place." In view of the fact that., shortly before his death,- Jesus eath,-Jesus stated: "Yet a little while, and the world seeth, me no more", could Jesus have meant, when he saidhe would come again, that it would be in the flesh visible to men on earth? When he • wf s., sent to earth as the man Jesus, By Dave Muffitt DEAR EDITOR according to Hebrews, chapter 2, verse 9, he "was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death... that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man." However, in his second presence he does not come as a human "lower than angels", . but he comes as a spiri-t creature in all his glory, (Matthew 25:31) Jesus has now been made the express -image" of his Father... "when he had himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high", and therefore dwells with his Father in a light which "no man hath seen or can see" • (Iebrews 1:3; 1st. timothy gs'16).. Not only that, but the Greek word translated "coming" at Matthew 24:14 is PAROUSIA, which is translated "presence" at Philip- pians 2:14. Mr. Fry says: "First study the Scriptures". This is good advice. Sincerely yours, C. F. Barney New gun rules Dear Editor: The hunting season is only._.a....m. onth-...-a-ways so- now's the time to start planning that trip. Of course, you'll plan on taking a rifle. Maybe you're planning on get- ting a new - rifle or shotgun. Did you know that you'll need a firearms acquisition certificate-, . before you acquire a new long gun, and that includes borrowing one? OPP Superintendent Jim Villemaire, the chief provincial firearms of- ficer, says "We're ex- pecting a large number of applications to be made by people who are getting equipped for the up- coming season.'' It could take several weeks for your firearm% acquisition certificate to come through. By ap- plying now, you will have a bet.ter...chan.ce:-of..g.tting an FAC before the hunting season ap- proaches. About 30,000 firearms acquisition certificates have been issued since the new law came into effect on January 1. This'. figure is expected to increase drastically this month. R.W. Wilson. You're invited Dear Editor, Staff, students and parents, present and past, are invited to John Mahood Public School's 25th anniversary on Saturday, October 27 at the school in Elmira. Activities for the day will, include an open -house, a brief ceremony at 12:30, and an afternoon family skating party: .,Congratulatory messages and old photos would be appreciated. Further information is available by calling 669- 5153. Janet Higgs, Chairperson," Family Teacher Association. 75 YEARS AGO The coal lift is now ready for work. It is fixed in front of F.S. Holmes' coal warehouse at the dock and it is said its use will reduce the time of unloading coal boats by one-half. The loss of work to our young people by the non - opening of the apple evaporators will be seriously felt. The cause for not starting this season is .said to be the low price of evaporated fruit, not its scarcity. The township of Ash- field has entered suit against the county for an injunction and damages, the case arising out of the overflow of the nine mile river. - Yesterday afternoon, on the invitation of Contractor Pigott, citizens representing the Board of Trade and town council witnessed the LOOKING -SACK commencement of work by the steam shovel along) the.. north bank of the Maitland, giving a good idea of how railroad work is done. Nearly 'all the cement blocks required for the cloak factory are ready on the ground for its building so it will not be long before the hum of sewing machines is heard on Kingston Street. 25 YEARS AGO Ted Williams, 25 -year- old starry forward with the Goderich 'Sam is Pontiacs Intermediate "A" hockey team for the past two years, was named arena manager and recreation director at a meeting of the Goderich Recreation and Arena Council over •the weekend. • The Goderich Fire Department had a busy time of it from Tuesday evening to early Wed- nesday morning. Tuesday they were called to the farm of Joe Chisholm, one and a half .miles north of Dunlop, where• the barn was burned to the ground. Then at 2:30 a.m. Wed- nesday they were called to the newly built home of L. Doug Holland near the Pillars on Huron Road. The entire interior and contents were quite badly damaged by smoke. First shipment of rock salt into Goderich arrived at the harbor Tuesday afternoon when the Ben E. Tait came into port from Marysville. Building permits totalling $22,435 in value have been approved by town council, a number of them at the meeting of council last Friday night. Rental controls end in Goderich. , to'day, ac- cording to a by-law given third reading and passed • by town. council last Friday night. 5 YEARS AGO Over 100 employees of the Goderich branch of Sifto Salt were laid off last week as a result of the strike against the Canadian Lake Carriers Association which began August 8: The Cohnplex Corn - inittee, a group of in- terested citizens gathering to promote a recreation complex, met last Thursday nighf and gained the support of three more areas of population. Goderich and Colborne Townships and the G.D.C.I. student body were represented at the special meeting with two architects commissioned .to sketch the new proposal. New teachers at G.D.C.I. this'year include George• Sutton, Diane Salter, Jean Pierre Beaulieu, Tom Allen, Bruce Baker, Dave' Jefferson, Donna Doidge and Bill Scott. Other new teachers in Goderich and area in- clude: Joanne Hamilton ut St. Joseph's; Joan Shackleton, David Kemp and Jirii Hunter at Robertson; Gaetan Blanchette, ]Martin• illen, Sititer Loretta t, ri and Elizabeth 'elrhest at St. Mary's: ;reg Lawrence, Janet l rnchct-te,• Lois Wright, iI-rtense Happel and Ted C;rnngcr at Brookside; John Williams and Marilyn Potter at Vic- toria; Roy Gingerich, Jean • Twigg, Wendy Hoernig and Carolle Twiss at Colborne Cen- tral; and Bonnie Dtilrymple, Dave Scholl and Nancy Shelley at Ho1mesville, DEAR READER BY SHIRLEY J.KELLER We'd been married only about three weeks when we discovered that money was going. to be 'a major problem. There just wasn't enough to go around. For the first nine years of our married life, my husband managed the finances. He used the pocket -your - pay check -an d-tak e- ydur-chances- when-the-bills-come-in system. To be perfectly frank, it drove me crazy. I complained so bitterly that one day my husband announced that from that moment on, I would he in charge of the household accounts. That's the day I put the Keller family on a budget. I'm a real stickler for a budget. As far as I'm concerned, it is the thing that saved our marriage and my sanity. But I'm not what one might call a good money manager. Everybody seems to he able to squeeze more out of a dollar than I can. Maybe that's the reason I've been so interested in a column entitled Dollar Sense that comes{ across my desk every now and then. The most recent one was a real thought -provoker, and I'm going to pass some of it, along to you in the hopes that someone out there will benefit from it. This one was on saving to buy a home. It was designed especially for engaged or recently=married 'couples .... hut it could be adapted for just about anyone's needs I suspect. The route to take, according to this piece, is to draw up a five year plan. And stick to it. Here's how to go about it. Assuming husband and wife are both working, each partner` should plan to save $150 per month .after the rent and fixed expenses have been paid, probably out of pooled earnings. That's the hard part. But it is worth it, as you will see. ror some of you, it will be best for each of you to put $1,000 a year into a tax-free Registered Home Ownership Savings Plan, the remaining $800 .per year into a tax-free Registered Retirement Savings Plan and the resulting extra tax rebates into a separte savings account. If you are faithful about this, in five years each of you will have accumlated at least $14,000. That's nearly $30,000 between you ... about one-third in long-term savings and the rest as a downpayment on a house. Not bad eh? If you are now paying $300 per month in rent and each of you saves $150, you will be putting out $6,000 per year for shelter and savings. In five years your rent will be about $400, so you will then be putting out $7,200. That means that for that same amount, with no additional sacrifice, you can assume a $50,000 mortgage and $1,000 -'per year of additional homeowning costs on a house worth $70,000. It means something else too. It• means you will have solid equity .. about 30. per cent .... in the house from the day you move in. That's very im- portant. You might be tempted to b iy earlier, with a lower downpayment, but be wary of second and third Mortgages with their high interest rates. Don't buy a home with less than 25 percent down and never assume mortgage payments exceeding 25 percent of your take-home pay. For people who already own a home and who want to save for something else •... such as a -cottage or a boat or a world cruise .... a similar plan could be worked out to suit your needs. Five years doesn't seem too long,to wait if you know that at the end of that time, something good is going to happen. The five-year plan is realistic. Municipalities use five-year plans, corporations use five year plans and individuals can use five-year plans. It provides a definite goal and additional saving you care manage on the side will be like gravy. It is sticking to the plan that is crucial. But anyone who has ever been on a household budget will know that to discipline o itself where spending is concerned is the only way to get any place at all. And after a while, it gets to he a challenge. And a' bundle of fun. Believe it. i