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THE GODERICII SIGNAL -STAR
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]f1QJIil01`1 COUNTY'S FOREMOST WI=LY
Bleblaslted 1.G40, /n its 2109th year Qin vuhifvatione
Published by Signal -Star Publ,is li 'rag Limited
we0acription 1Rate.—Camay a and Great Britain, $3.00 a year: to United!
States, $4:00. St ictQy an advance.,
Advertising Rates on request Telephone 71.
Authorized us second. -class mail, Pest Ornee Department, Ottawa.
Out -off -Town Representative: C.W.N.A. 2x7 Foy Bldg., 34 Front St., W. Toronto.
Over 3,000—Largest eircul6tion of any newspaper publlisbod 6n Huron County—Over 3°00
Ciplembelir of Canadian Weakly Newpaners Asseciatipn. Member of Ontario WeQCa4y Nowa ter
AsseeDatieneoWe ober of Audit Bur BurtIOU of Cireueations.
GEO. L. ELt.US, ditor and P baishor.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 3rd, 1957
NEW CANADIANS FROM HUNGARY
There are not many bright spots in the
World scenes of today, but .there is something
heart -lifting in the gratitude expressed' by the
'refugees from Hungary as they reach this land
of freedom and cast behind them the wretch-
edness and terror of Russian rule:
Canadians have a responsibility in keep-
ing alive that grateful spirit by proving to
these newcomers that freedom is something
real and tangible and worth the sacrifice they
have made in transplanting themselves from
their native land to this country. Life for
them, here may be di is eult, and to many of
them discouraging, and they will need ready
sympathy and the helping hand in their strange
new environment, and these must not be denied
them.
There is a great opportunity for Canada
in the coming of these people who can help to
build up this still new.- country. Their heroic
resistance to oppression should be a guarantee
of strength and ,stability and it will not take
mane} years to develop in Ahem -a sturdy Can-
adial isnl.
WHERE 15 THE END ?
Where is government control going to end?
Ottawa is now urging the provinces to inaug-
urate government hospital iu ranee.• -This
,sounds lovely on the surface but watch for the
'cateti in the long run. ^'kr ?.. tj cY _,sa-et
It would he well to remember that no one
today gets anything for nothing. In the end
it is the taxpayer who pays and pays and pays.
Such a scheme as proposed by Ottawa could
lead to definitely higher taxes if the plan was
not ism right. If polities ever enter ;into the
picture who could guarantee that the plan
would be run right.
Today, in Ontario, voluntary prepayment
and insurance plans cover 71 per cent of the
population. • The percentage increases with
every. passing year. Let well enough alone.
If there is any government hospital insur-
ance let it be confined to certain areas not
presently covered by, voluntary plans. These
areas include: indigent patients who are now
provided with hospital care with ,the cost shar-
ed by the Province and the municipality; un-
insurables not covered by group plans and in-
cluding a large percentage of older age groups;
-e. verage. fair--lig-peateeted or catastrophic
hospitalization coats not covered by existing
plans and representing 114 per cent of all
hospitalization.
There are some who labor under the ilia-
- cion that government hospital insurance would
be something "for free." Nothing could be
further fronj the truth. It is reliably pointed
out that government hospital insurance in.
Ontario would cost about $35 per capita at
the present time or $143 per household of feur
persons. By 1960 it would cost $50 ,per capita
or $204 per household of four persons. This,
of • course, would come out of taxes—taxes you
would be paying. The Ottawa proposal is
something .which should be given careful study
before it is hoisted on the taxpayers.
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EDITORIAL NOTES
wik.11, Mr. Business Man, you can throw
the 195,8 calendars in the w.p.b. and start all
over again with -a new lot.
"Longer, lower and 'wider" are the big
Words in the sale of automobiles these days.
Bottle day, it is suggested, the ads will change
to "shorter, more compact, mac easily Man-
oeuvred," much toc,the relief of the motorist.
CanadianS aren't 80 slow. Canadair Ltd.
haslust pulled off a big deal in the form of a
contract for military aircraft at a figure of $75
millions in the face of United States and 13rit-
ish tompetition. The fighting 'planes are fog
West 'Germany. Deliveries are to be spaced
'Over twelve months, which means a busy year
for the Canadian chin/pang.
*
Newspaper writers like short names. Per-
' haps one Liberal Prime Minister had an ad-
vttntate In possessing a four-letter name, and
the Premier of Ontario is blessed with obe of
five letters. Yet Air. -Diefenbaker at the' re -
'`..cent Conservative convention 19,s preferred to
one preo:4 writer, nOt satidied with abbreviating
the PM. leader's name to "Dief," goes the
limit and has it printed 1). If this .become.o
the faohion it will save a iet of writing and
There hao been oo Mach talk about the
"alarming" invasion of. this country by U.S.
capital it is worth %Iliac to lehra that our
1)0110110oro to the couthpre not alone in invest-
ing heavily 'in Canada. In a teeent address At
stated there, were now 800 British sUbsidiary
plants in this country. The Financial Post
comments: "It will be welcome news te Can-
adians who have given any serious' thOught to
the matten, not that they are opposed to Amer-
ican ce-operation in develdping this country,
but simply because they would feel more eom-
fortable with this putside help' more broadly
distributed."
THE OLD HOME TOWN ' ,>:;`4 a. 'v' c',,;9 B STANLEY
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service, but pew lies to do any-
thing .in this purely Canadian or
American matter.
No . one in Fuir(pc has tried to
make potential d 4fle Al*
camonies of European
ui lin
and deEtllnation
In faet. there r?is 1iMtie faith ex-
preFsscd among skrip n companies
in PURI. Lukiie3. Theme is a wide
gnto trtahlflie . :y, b`lweylstatistics_
Fe ling T110r We
Taall ,i�eiin hein ways
ti hey. will adrejusttthlrplautstot .
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They all expressed a natural
interest and concern about the
structure and level of toll rates,
They world like to have them
firmed °np-6'0011.
10 There is ;us tnueb Eu lean
interest in Canadian ecot omiC"
developments ani prospects
there-lsgyIIn. those of `the U�$.:1 ny
l `ur ?jre ,' in feet, feel that f ow
factors, ppeztiaxaately, are mere
favorable in Canada,
OBITUARY
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,unnma 4n,DICATC.l,o, u'tliLta [MUM
amok).
,you have headaches? If not, you are
indeed fortunate, for a great many people are
so afflicted. According to the published re-
sults of a survey, business executives are the
chief sufferers from this cause -77 per cent.
haire headaches. Other occupational groups
are said to be afflicted in the fellowing per-
centages: Professional people 70, housewives
69, elerlfs 68, salesmen 58, martn.al laborers 55,
farmers 50. We are not told by whom or-hoW
this survey' was conducted, and we hav'e our
doubts of its accuracy. Anyway, the person
who ha4 ene of those real. blinding headaches
is not interested in, how many other people have
them—he is coneerned only with thesone he
(or she) has and how he (or elle) can get ,tid
of it.
hile entries for the Christnn0 lighting
contest were not ao numerous as was expected,
the James realize that the announcement of
the contest was not made a5 early ao it might
have been. Next year, however both house.
lholdero and merchants will realize it io cont.
inc up and will prepare foie it in advance.
The Christraao non is a busy one and events,
for it,have to be planned reasonably well in
Toronto the 'MK trade commissioner to Canada advanee.
ATSZAbleWilt
1 Down Memorys
Lane'.
'45 Years Ago
On New Year's Day, the local
option by-law, whereby bar -rooms
would be closed, - was defeated.
The supporters of the by-law fell
19 votes short of the required
threZf£ths ° majority. In 1909,
when the question was first sub-
mitted, the local option forces had
been only eight votes behind.
The by-larov authorizing a grant
of $15,000 for "the proposed.. new
hospital building was defeated with
an adverse majority of 41 votes..
By a 2 -to -1 ratio, voters favored
the proposal to buy electric power
from the Hydro Electric Power
Commission of Ontario. of The Huron Signal. •
.Atter another warm fight in Col- During 1946, Goderich Elevator
borne Township, J. .N. Kernighan & Transit • Co. handled 21,000,000
was elected reeve with a majority bushels of grain, compared with
of 53 over Richard Jewell. 25,000,000 in the banner year of
Daniel McIver, ror 15 years cap- 1945.
-tain of the government tug "Sir The Goderich District Collegiate
Jot h," •died at his - home on St. Institute Board was to .he organiz-
Patrick street. Pallbearers- were ed, replacing the local board.
Capt. Murdoch MacDonald, Capt. Rt. Rev. A. L. Fleming, Bishop of
John NladDonald, Capt. Dan. Mac- the Arctic, was seriously ill in a
Kay, Capt.- William Robinson, Capt. Toronto hospital. - •
Malcolm MacDonald and Jahn Me- The hockey season opened here
.....M_ ._... - -.., when Seafarth Interme,diartes de-- Great Lakes areas they still lack
_ _.. •r_. _ _ _ . _ _ _ feactod.-Goti 3mnxct�`33���.�-crna[�-
25 Years Ago exhibition .game. awrene 'Seaway itself, the condi-,
3tY1 �hy.,r►� ^ t
overdraft of $ 2,OOU, Mayor .+-�,r�irw�►
Lee said he hoped this would be -" a
out down to $30,000 by the end of
1932. He urged renewed efforts -
to collect More thah $41,000 in
tax arrears. . -
Douglas 'Campbell, organist\ of
North Street United Church, re-
ssingne t� t a .similar position`'
es:- --_
Town Council decided that fire-
men should not answer calls in Col..
borne -Township until such time
as Colborne appeared willing to
make a formal agreement with
Inas rush, a !Galeria matron fwrote
her husband's name in both "to"
and "from" spaces an a parcel she
intended to send out-of-town. A
few hours after she mailed it, she
lined up at the post office again tO
collect incoming mail. .She wa4ed
in line for 45 minutes,' only tb te:
eeive her own pareel back.
`Workmen completed an addition
to the hangar at Sky Harbor. The
addition. was to be used chiefly
for starage of parachutes and other
10 Years -Ago
'T• he Signal -Star prepared to
enter its centennial year. It was
in February, 1048, that Thomas
McQueen published the fir4 issue
Antrouncemeut has been maw by Gordon R. Ball;, .president of the
tardg of Montreal, of the aplPointment of G. Au:Now HART • (ieft)6 -
as .general .manager ,of the bank, sueeeediug ,ART'i Ulf
who beeauxe ekeeutive,vice-president, as of January 1.•
EUROPEAN REA,CTIOti
St
The effeot the. St, Lawrence Sea-
way project will have in the .waY
of interesting more European coun-
tries in using '0..fral Lakes ports
is revealed in an article in the
Finaneial Post. It is written .11)3r
Dr. N. R. Danielian, pre,sident of
the Great Lakes---St-Lawrence As -
Touring -Europe to surVer' e
Continent's Seaway plans he re-
ports the -following general'observ-
ations:
1 Perhaps the most important dis-
cove.ry is that, although Europ-
ean shipp.ing ,companies have bail
a professional interest in Seaway
development, the general public
and the' business community in
each European country knowlittle
about the Great Lakes and loss
about the St. Lawrence project.
In &act, the economic -geography
of North America and particularly
the Middle West is ,comparatively
Information is lacking.about the
Great Lakes in the U.S. embassies
too, and' in the Chambers of Com-
merce of the various cities, and in,
the business and periodical public-
ations.
2 Altpugl3 shipping lines have
shown interest and have had
representatives travelling in the
, tions of navigation ,to be expected
t. in. the Jiver, the port facilities,
the cdrapetitive rate structures.
3 Most of theaforeign 'lines, that
are going into the -Lakes, which
are als-o in, the North Atlantic tfade
route, are Aloing $o as a hedge to
protect their East Coast trade.
Profits Count \
Lakes if itis profitable, but will
their ships out if th.l' expected
traffic does not materialize.
4 With ctelw exceptions, .they are
all members of ocean: shiPliing
conferences which are _devices to
rut ocean shipping 'Tates, 'With
rate's so, fixed,..9te only. competition
5 The North Atlintistand Mediter-
ranean " route *ill ,have more
than adequate Service.. NO firm
plans were- discovered for estab-
lishment of services to Affirica,
Sohth Ainerica,,and Asia, although
some are thinking'-ol it.
6 Many, shipping men, expressed
concern about the adequacy and
location of port facilities in, differ,
'ent Great Lakes 'ports: The lack
of a connnon meeting ground for
planning was conspicuous,
of the power of vailways and
truck;ing lines to give them stiff
in, firm corilimtm nts'on future
John Stich,- 'father of
Herbert B.,Sticli, Goderich, died
in ItOyal Victoria II0spital, Barrie,
Christmas DO, Mr. Such, whO waS ,
WaS (well known to Many Gode*
rich, residents a$,, reStilt Ar1,97
ViKits here.
in World War -I, he served Wi.th-
peditionary 'force. When VirOrld
the ncAr and remained in it
Until 1946.. Survivors, besides hi.s
son, are his widow and one dough.,
ter, ,„Mrs. Livingstone, ci and- .
bury. Another daughter, Sonia
Parish,.predeceased him in 1950
X01110S'' church at Crown „on
Friday-, was' followed by interment
in the adjoining cemetery.
•
Victor.iCanxiebell, who died Mon-
day in Dearborn,' Mich., was a Igo-
ther of Mrs, W. 3, Mills, of Gode-
bold today at the MatWatl4ne
funeral home, Dearhotak f011ow,ed
by -interment in Dearborn ceme-
tery.
Duncan 'Campbell, of Morris Town-
ship, he had been. 4 resident of
Dearborn, for the past...33 yearS.
lie was. a zacruba of. the- Presby--
terian Chursh and of Mocha
Temple ,Shrine, London.
Besides his widow,. the.,,former
Elsie Maine, he is survived by 0I10
brOtherejObn 'Campbell, of Wind-
sor, and two sisters, Mrs.,Lawrenee
Vidor,' of London, and Mrs. Mills.
Nearly_orte-tenth, of the .provinee
PORTER'S HILL
PORTER'S HILL, Dec. 31i—Mrs.'
Les Cox and Dorothy spent Christ-
mas holidays at their home on,
the 7th concession.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Harris spent
Christmas in London with gr. and
Mrs. Jim Durnin and Milton
Woods.
Mr. and Mrs. Murray Pollock and
chikire,n from Saskatchewan are
mother, Mrs. Picot, and other
The January meeting -of the W.A.
will be 'held at the home of Mrs.
Austin Harris.
Mrs. Johrt,IVIceowan returned to
her home before 'Christmas but,
still is not abIe to get about yet.
We wish iher a speedy recovery.
QUICK CANADIAN QUIZ,
1. What waterfall in -Quebec prov-
ince is 100' feet higher than
Niagara Falls?
2.1n 1939 the' average payment in
ales"and excise taxes on new
Canadian iaittontobtle was $65 -
yowl today's 'average pay -
W. Excluding defense *ending,
What is. the laiigest single itein
of expense in. the leder-al govern-
ment's budget?
4. Which of the provinces has the
largea Indian population?
-About MOAK) 4Gunilians ate
ncYtV employed lin agriculture.'
How many are employed in anan-
3. Family allowance payntents. 1.
City. 4. Zritish Colturibi.
About $450,
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Tau
with rev-olutiQr?„ary-
Never before have so many buyers
been so excited about any -new
ear. And no wonder—the beautiful
new Plytnouth's a real smoothie
for ride as well as for looks. Sheer
pleaoure is all you feel behind the
with Torsion -Aire ricle.
Torsion -Aire gives you that
sports -car feeling ef perfect, eon-
trol. reel the way Pip:11611th takes
the bounce oyt of bumps, hoW it
•
ixestles down to the road to' take
curves withont lurehing sideway..
Or take braking----4here's no
the job." Even emergency stops
are tattiest perfeetty levet
IslItw Torsion -Aire ride a
, is just one. of 'Plynabuth's
many new features. But _See for
youvelf. Drive 'a new TOM -Power
Plynionth today.
Plyinouth It the lowest priced oar *Ith
4.. end new pusitt,uttort
automatic fransinloollin
THRILI..00011Vitt PLYMOUTH, 1'0001
Manufactured by Ohryoter Corporation of Cangda, Limited
'WAYS A STEP AHEAD IN OARS OP THE FORWARD LOOK
lis Mo or
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