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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-10-25, Page 4PAGE 4 —GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1979 Goderich` The County Town Newspaper of Huron • Founded In 1698 and published every Thursday at Goderich, Ontario. Member of the CCNA and OWNA. Advertising rates on request. Subscriptions payable In advance '16.00 in Canada, •35.00 to U.S.A., •35.00 to all other countries, single copies 35'. Display advertising rates available on request. Please ask .for Rate Card No. 9 effective Sept. 1. 1979. Second class mall Registration Number 0716. Advertising Is accepted on the condition that in the event of typographical error, the advertising space octupled by the erroneous Item. together with reasonable allowance for signature, will not be charged for but the balance of the advertisement will ho paid for at the applicable rate. In the event of a typographical error advertising goods or services at a wrong price, goods or service may not bo sold. Advertising Is merely an eller 90 soil. and !tiny bo withdrawn of any time. The Slgnai.Sfar is not responsible for the loss or damage of unsolicited manuscripts or photos. Published by Signal -Star Publishing Ltd. ROBERT G. SHRIER — president and publisher SHIRLEY J. KELLER — editor .DONALD M. HUBICK - advertising manager Mailing Address: P.O. BOX 220, Industrial Park, Goderich Second class mail registration number — 0716 Business and Editorial Office TELEPHONE 524-8331 area code 519 Not tapped out at all Councillor Stan Profit has a way about him. He has a way of calling a spade and spade .... and leading the polls at election time. Profit's latest wise quotation at the council table is that Goderich taxpayers are "tapped out". Profit was referring to a suggestion that m ore funds will be eventually required for The Livery Stable theatre project. The councillor was simply giving notice to project workers that as far as he is concerned, the municipal treasury isn't to be considered a prime source of- finances for the project, even though there is considerable com- munity interest in it. There are a good many citizens who will agree with Profit and applaud him for his forthright comment. These are the doom and gloom ers, who see the future not as a bright space of time stret- ching out ahead like a golden opportunity, but as a dark, forboding abyss that is ready to swallow up silly, unwary optimists. It is true that municipal funds are limited and that council can't disperse money at will, without care for the budget or the pocketbooks of tax- payers. But Goderich isn't really"tapped out". Far from it. In fact, Goderich is one of the richest towns in the province. This community has a stronger industrial. base than most towns its size, it has a thriving business core, it has a growing residential district with several new homes going up despite the building slowdown in many other areas, it is surrounded by some of the finest farmland anywhere in the world; and it is located in the heart of a booming tourists trip. Tapped out? Not on your life. Councillor Profit and the people who agree with that type of thinking, need a change of attitude. They need to view things more positively, especially now that there's so much happening to shake one's faith in the country's future. Nothing at all is to be gained by shrugging the shoulders and spreading one's arms in defeat. Goderich people and Canadians from coast to coast need to tighten their belts to be sure. But they need to get up off their butts and go to work. They need to be innovative and. resourceful. They need to dig in their heels and .set their sights on anew course of action, aimed aat•progress and success. Tapped out? Not as long as people can think and dream, can plan and work. Tapped°out? Not as long as pepple will strive for the unattainable and expect to achieveit.-SJK ood nutrition cheaper How much do you know about nutrition? How nutritious are your meals? Your snacks? Is good nutrition expensive? You guessed it. This week is Nutrition Week. From October 21 through 27, you should bethinking more about nutrition than usual. It makes good sense. You are what you eat. That seems to be a truism• that many Canadians forget on a day to day basis. In this day of hurry up and go, go, go, more and more people are sacrificing good nutrition ••for convenience. It doesn't take more time to make a sandwich from whole grain bread than from white bread, but it takes a little more effort to get the .,. vegetables ready for a nourishing salad than to pop a frozen pizza in the oven. The name of the game today is convenience. If it can be prepackaged and heated infive minutes,. it's • a winner in most busy homes. Nutrition is a secondary factor.. Let the dead r ain at peace A story this week in the daily newspapers dredges up more unflattering information from the personal life of Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of a former president of the United States who has been dead for many years. A story last week in the same daily papers reviewed the late Elvis Presley's nightmarish problems and told a grim story of the day on which he. died. While Eleanor Roosevelt and Elvis Presley were from two different worlds, they were both noted personalities who are lovingly remembered by people everywhere. It is sickening for their loyal friends to see their names and their privacy dragged through mudagain and again. Why not allow the dead to rest in peace? -SJK • Actually, good nutrition is generally cheaper than convenience. But some say it is mu•ch more dull, . It only take a second to rinse a juicy,'vitamin- packed apple for lunch, but how manprefer an apple fritter from the bakery? Cost -wise, the fresh apple is probably less money, particularly if you have purchased.•.the apples in quantity, but the' apple fritter is more delectable"and just as easy to grab when you are in a hurry. Nutritionally speaking, there's no comparison. The fresh apple has it over the fritter. Canada's Food Rules used to be standard equipment for the health, notebooks of elementary school students 30 years ago. Do you remember thqse rules? Plenty of whole grain cereals„ fresh 'fruits and vegetables including one serving of a raw leafy vegetable each day, meat or fish. eggs orcheese two or three times a week, eight glasses of water a day and at least two glasses of milk a day for adults as well as children. Those were sensible, nutritious eating suggestions that are just as sensible and nutritious today as they were 30 years ago. Start the day with fresh fruit or juice, whole wheat tox;st, honey and a glass of milk. If you've got time and like hot cereal, make it a habit to eat good old-fashioned oatmeal or wheatlets every other day or so. For lunch, have a howl of soup made with milk, a sandwich of whole grain bread, butter and meat, fish or eggs, some fresh vegetables on the side, an apple or some other fresh fruit and glass of milk. Dinner could tft lean meat, fish or eggs, baked potato, a vegetable cooked for the minimum time to retain most of the vitamins, a fresh salad, a fruit, milk or whole grain dessert and a beverage of your choice. Nothing fancy. Nothing expensive. Just good nutrition served up with the assurance that glowing good health will be your reward. • Everybody likes to splurge now and again on foods high in sugar and fats and low in nutrition. But for those day to day meals and snacks, be smart. Think nutrition first, economy 'second, convenince third. You really are what you eat. -SJK Last fling. Dear Editor: The Goderich Branch of the Arthritis .Society would like to thank the people of Goderich and the rural area for their support in our recent campaign. • We especially wish to ' thank those who worked so hard as captains and canvassers: the various service clubs; the ad- vertising department of the Signal -Star in 'their assistance with the sponsored page and the businesswn wh-o sponsored" ,atI '''arid also Rieck Pharmacy Ltd. for their display. We very much ap- preciate your help in our program and also the coverage during Arthritis month, This all helped us in reaching our Campaign objective and. putting us past the 1978 total, Sincerely '(Mrs.) Lee McCallum Publicity Chairman Brief rebuff Dear- Editor, I certainly don't want to subject Mr. McKee ("May G,od 'Help", Oc- tober 4)' to anything too "tedious" through your By Dave Sykes EDITOR corresponndence columns, but I'd lice to pick up on four of his points. My explanations may he naive and simplistic, but despite Mr. McKee's objections; the facts speak for themselves. If we didn't have nuclear power, the electricity bill you die paying would be at least 30 per cent higher than it is now, and the environmental cost -- through burning coal, our only practical alternative -- would he heavy. Mr. McKee says we have borrowed money. True. All methods ,of generating electric power -- hydro, coal, gas or nuclear -- require capital, Goderich area for waste .which Hydro borrows. A management. He's lot of that capital comes wrong, The Canadian from "shrewd U.S. nuclear fuel waste financiers" who give management program Ontario Hydro a "triple being conducted by A" credit rating. That Atomic . Energy of doesn't look like a loss of Canada Limited, not confidence to me. Ontario Hydro, does not Mr. McKee implies I envisage disposal of a-m-----p-r-o-p a g a -rid i i rl g, wastes irrs altformations Maybe•, but in my last Mr. McKee's concerns would he greately allayed by a call, or letter, to AECL who would be only too pleased to explain their program for proving out the concept of deep disposal or radioactive wastes in hard rock formations. Hugh Macaulay` Chairman of the Board letter I asked all your readers to look at all available- information sources -- not just Hydro. I repeat that. Don't ac- cept propaganda from any side of the nuclear debate, but check out the facts. Mr, McKee thinks Hydro has its eyes on the 75 YEARS AGO Mr. E.N. Lewis, mayor of Goderich, is the Conservative candidate for West Huron in the provincial election. Mr. Lethbridge, organist of Knox church, is . organizing a choral class of mixed voices for the purpose of taking up the rudiments of vocal music and chorus work.. Guy Brothers put on an excellent show on Tuesday and their reward was a $259 house. It is seldom that -Victoria Opera House is so well filled. Quite a sensation was caused at the train depot Wednesday morning by the bursting of the hose that conveys steam to the cars for, heating pur- poses. There was it strike Of the government em- ployees working at .the north pier on Wednesday morning, caused by' the LOOKING BACK dismissal.of u foreman. It did not last long as nearly all the 'men resumed work in the afternoon.• The steamer Turret Cape is due at the harbor today having a full cargo of wheat for the Big Mill and the steamer Algonquin, with a cargo of wheat, is iluc at the Elevator today. Robert J. McGaw has purchased the north part of lot no. 115 on the corner of Waterloo and Lighthouse Streets and will build at once, the foundation being already st ar'te'd. Seven -hand euchre• is again being played but the new game of five - hundred is at present the leader for small parties. 25 YEARS AGO Start of construction of the new Huron County Court House and County Building this month sent building permit , value figures soaring to $1,000,000 above what they were at the end of October last' year. So far this year, building permit values total $1,815,280 while last year at the end of October the total value was $817,780. Goderich Recreation and Arena Committee will definitely sponsor Intermediate hockey 'in Goderich this winter. This was the decision made at a meeting of the committee held Tuesday. Goderich and district is joining hands with municipalities across Canada in a united effort to raise money for the Hurricane Relief Fund Appeal. Deeply moved by the losses suffered by thousands left homeless in the.Toronto area as a result of the floods and Hurricane Hazel, Goderich and district residents began raising financial assistance this week, DEAR READER. I I • BY SHIRLEY J.KELLER Isn't it great? Gasoline prices to consumers going up something like 24 cents in the new year? Fuel oil prices going up 14 cents? Electricity going up 16 percent? Reminds me of an old uncle 20 years ago who used to say,"Farms are costing $10,000 and better. Butter up to 80 cents a pound. Workmen getting $2 an hour. Where is it all going to end? Prices can't go much higher, that's for sure, without a' depression." Today,.the uncle is dead, prices and wages are climbing every year and still, there's been no depression. But we're still hearing the predictions. What's all this leading up to? I got a copy of the Ontario govern- ment's newest brochure , from the Ministry of Energy and Resources entitled "Energy Security For The Eighties: A Policy Foe Ontario". It's a weighty document but I waded through it one afternoon last week ' because energy is,a popular subject,in Canada these days. A couple of things really impressed me. One was- the statement in the brochure that. Canada cannot presently produce enough crude oil to meet its needs from domestic sources but the country's supplies of natural gas, coal and electricity are "secure for the foreseeable future". Right now, the brochure pointed. out, Canada imports close to 20 percent of its crude oil supplies. By 1990, just 10 short years away, it is projected that Canada will need to import about 40 percent of its requirements of crude oil unless vigorous steps are taken now to correct that future shortage. The brochure lists eight steps that should be taken to reduce that crude oil deficit in the future. Ameing them were a national plan for crude oil self- sufficiency by 1995, a new system of . natural gas supply and ,pricing, the need for a national petroleum com- pany, conservation and the institution of measures to prevent wide dif- ferences in provincial revenues. Then there were fifteen suggestions listed for the national plan for crude oil self-sufficiency by 1995. These included a national commitment to funding fora rese'ar'ch and development of'cr'ud6 oil resources; a national commitment that Membership. strength hasincreased to more than 100 for the Maitland Air Cadet Squadron with weekly parades at Sky Harbor airport. 5 YEARS AGO The long anticipated shopping 'plaza on high- way 21 south within the town of Goderich "has been approved. Suncoast Estates receiver' assurance Monday that the objections of the Goderich businessmen to their project had been withdrawn and building inspector Roy Breckenridge was in- structed by • council to issue a building permit to Suncoast , for the plaza when plans had been presented to him and found in accordance with Goderich building regulations. Reeve Deb Shewfelt has announced his in- tentions to seek the office world price would not be --used as the benchmark for pricing Canadian crude oil; and the establishment of a single national price for crude oil resulting from a blending of old, imported and new crude oil prices,with that price adjusted for transportation costs. It was interesting to note from the brochure that the Ontaario government believes the price of natural gas should not be tied to the price of crude oil and that opportunities should be sought to , lower the price of natural gas to con- sumers and to encourage them to convert to natural gas. The brochure, of course, makes it clear that the federal government should retain the essential functions of PetroCanada within a national petroleum company. The document admits that while the responsibility for crude oil supply management should rest largely with the private sector, PetroCanada supplements .the job bei g done by the private sector and tak s risks ,whehre the private sector is relu tent. T ere are pr raises in the brochure `that Ontario will do everything in its power to reduce its crude oil of Mayor for the Town of Goderich in the December 2 municipal election. The Goderich Highland Dancing Association hosted the 7th annual • Western Ontario Highland Dancing Competition here on Saturday. A total of 93 dancers , i,mpeted. Delbar Investments of Goderich Limited is .iwairing council and !.•`ming hoard approval a zoning bylaw ,•f'nclrnent which 4would ,,i•rmit the construction. a 60 unit motel Ill oo,,ed by the com- • An increase of ap- proximately 18 per Cent was awarded by the Huron County Board of Education to the 18 bus contractors transporting students for the 17,4-75 fall term at a meeting of . the hoard in Clinton Friday, requirements in the next few years. The provincial government is pledged to alternate energy methods., and renewable energy methods. 'It 'reaf- firmed its commitment to "the safe and careful use of nuclear power to ensure a secure supply of electrical energy". The last two pages of the book deal with the govern•mdht's suggestions for Zero Crude Growth, There are 15 - suggestions including further. im- provements and promotion of public transit; an expended role for elec- tricity; improved urban amenities to reduce the desire to travel; greater respect for speed limits and car pools; 'and improved' insulation and furnace efficiency. There you have it. A nutshell version of what's happening in the energy business. To put it simply, prices of gas., oil and" electricity will go up .... but at least somebody's working to make sure those resources will be available at any price for the future. Think 'about it. It's not so bad after all.