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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1957-09-05, Page 7IMRSDAYD . 5th, 1W`i Tourist Inquiries NiThen tide season's diguree are tabulated, at the Toiwist information Booth, it is exiled- eel xpoeel they Will stow more in- quiries nquiries by tourists this year thenlast year. The bOOth at- tendant, ttenant, Miss Bea Bradford, says e number of inquiries dulling July was very good and, While therewere t many n cr as in August, that month's figures may be ahead of laet year, too. An exceptionally heavy run -- the best some years --wan experienced over civicholiday week -end. Provided the wea- ther is favorable, it is believed that Labor Day week -end will he heavy, too. There were .in dieations that patronage Of the two Mels in the Goderich area was very good. It is like- ly that the Tourist Information oath will close for the season on Saturday. BUSINESS DIRECTORY CHIROPRACTIC HERBERT B. SUCH, D.C. Doctor of Chiropratic Office Hours: Mon., Thurs.-9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tues., Fri. -9 a.m. to 8 p.m. 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wed. & Sat. -9 to 11.30 a.m Vitamin Therapy Oi ce—Corner of South St. and Britannia Road. Phone 341. , A. M. HARPER Chartered Accountant Office House 343J 343W 33 Hamilton St. Goderich Stiles Ambulance Roomy — Comfortable Anywhere — Anytime PHONE 399 77 Montreal St., Goderich HAROLD JACKSON LICENSED AUCTIONEER HURON AND PERTH Phone 474 . SEAFORTH P.O. Box 461 FRANK REID LIFE UNDERWRITER Life, annuities, bssiness insurance. Mutual Life of Canada Phone 346 Church St. (Signal -Star Staff) Claiming they will be able to reduce oper'nt ug costs on the Tor- onto oronto to Goderieh run by 131,500 per annum bjr curtailing passenger =oleo, the C.N.R. i,di$eautituotag the early morning train oat and the late night tr3a:n into Goderich effective from October 27th. Only the one train will operate from that date on—the noon train into Goderich whleli gees out in the afternoon at 4 pen. (D.tS.T.). The annoencement was made at a meeting in the Clinton Town Hall last Thursday evening attended by four railway representatives and delegations trona, the various muni- cipalities alcng the lite. About 40, in all, . were present. Repre- sentingeGoderich were Mayor J. H. Graham, Reeve E. C. Fisher, Deputy Reeve J. M. Donnelly and Councillor C. M. Robertson. Even before the meeting was field, • the railway officials had secured. the necessary permission from the Board of Transport Com- missicuers to take the two trains in question off the Toronto-Gode- rich run but they planned to break the news gently at a meeting where explanations and protests could be aired on both sides. Represent:ng the railway were: F. F. Carlin, C.N.R. Supt.; Ivan Craig, Supt., Canadian National Express; A. Breau, special repre- sentative of (the passenger depart- ment; John Noel, regional public relations officers. Appointed chairman of the meet - :ug was Dr. E. A. McMaster, of Seaforth. Unprofitable Operation Mr. Carlin, of the C.N.R., was first speaker and said the meeting arose over a systemwide policy of examining unprofitable oper- ations to determine whether some action,t ,. should be take "to attract additional traffic and make the operation profitable or, failing that olr}ective' to ascertain whether the service was really essential or if it could be abandoned without un- due hardship to the public. Mr. Carlin said two careful ex- aminations had been made of the Goderich subdivision over the past Alexander & Chapman GENERAL INSURANCE FIRE AUTOMOBILE CASUALTY Get Insured—Stay Insured— Rest Assured. A. J. ALEXANDER C. F. CHAPMAN Bank of Comn rce Building, Goderich Phones 268 W and 18 W. ,rt h''n. ODER= SI TAR QUICK CANADIAN QUIZ Of the prairie pr•'f?iiieceri4. 1, Welch n tate foUr Atlentic pre- 4. Fiat voyage through Viet- bay the •gre teet pet ►hla ` rest l *e ** 2, _ fr ti0.133 Which,of the three+zaurteI)0nrt go ar lid stiyiIhewM PraDvila061 2. The 'total nUer Of (i" anaiians (Nees fou living, It w here Stet. wider 15 Years at age jeW 2 Mile lice, 4 mil.lia"D, 5 prrill' len? 3..Abeut tweethirde a au Canadians, tare VOW urban !dwellers. 'Wet leas been the principal factor an eliitting poppolatidn from rural to urban.1ocatrties? R. 4. Witty yyars ego Noeteegi'an ee- plorer Retail AntUndsen eamplet- vd what famous Ceriediata Sea 5, i ereenal inceme tastes account for what proportion an£ the fed. ere], govereiu Out's total tax revenues? ANSW RS: 5. Use than one- quarter. 3. The growth of the imenufacturing industry. 1. Of the Atlantic provinces, !Nova Scotia; f several years when it was found been shown where the survive _— that rail passenger service on the early morning train out and late night train in were not instilled by the volume of patroin'age. Total passenger revenue over a 12 month period for tlhp , train leaving Goderich at 5.40 ('E.&.T.) and arriving here at 111.10 (E...T.) amounted to $1,1Q5,,, or a Shade less than •$100 ,per month, Mr. Carlin said. He added that the Goderich-Toronto operation costs about $361,000 per annum and that these costs would be re- duced by $37,500 per annum by cutting off the two trains that will be cut off, effective October 27, Mr. Carlin explained that a spec- ial committee had studied the pro- position of a Railber (a light weight self-propelled modern pas- senger car service) as a means to bring more passengers back to us- ing the railway in this, area. He claimed that such a service would entail an initial capital expendi- ture of $500,000. Then,he said that the population alccig the EDWARD W. ELLIOTT LICENSED AUCTIONEER Correspondence promptly • an- swered. Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date by calling Phone 1621J Clinton. Charge moderate and satis- ( faction guaranteed. se. F. T. Armstrong OPTOMETRIST Phone 1100 for appointment SQUARE GODERICH CEMETERY MEMORIALS Te Pryde & Son EXETER Local Representative -.-- ALEX SMITH GODERICH 146 Elgin Ave. Phone 158 Meet the Prime .M nister...of 2017! uWe think so, anyway. Whatever his future, our job is to provide him with the best we can. That taktc money. That's why we're saving regularly, and that's why we've opened an accO,Tant for Jimmy at THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE" 7$S BRANCHES ACROSS CANADA IEAIV Te SERVE Yo9 GODERICH BRANCH: P. A. WierR.S, manager. Goderieh-Stratford route, number suiting the municipalities concern- ing about 12,000 persons, could not ed in the matter. be expected to bring enough rev- o —o enue to pay depreciation on the equipment apart from the costs of operating that type of service. Truck ,,Express Service Mr. Craig, of Canadian Naticnal Express, admitted that the express on the trains to be cut off pro- dueec4 au annual revenue of $4'l,000. • Therefore, he said= the C.N.R., when the aforementioned trains were discontinued, would iasbitute a C.N.R. operated express truck service that would serve the requirements along the Goderich- Stratford line in even improved schedules over the existing railway trains. He said that express at Toronto for, points along the line to. Goderich -could not allbe _pro- cessed in the late afternocn in time to get away on the train that arrives atGoderich late at night. With the express truck service, however, he said that situation would be improved with the arrival of the express truck at Goderich in the early morning. Mr. Enos Boshart, of Seaforth, gave examples of poor mail service with respect to serving.. business needs and asked why the railway let the mail ccntract go about a year ago. Mr. 'Carlin, of the C:N.R., said it was the Dominion Govern- ment which was responsible for removing the mail off the train to Goderich andnot the C.N.R. Mr. Noel, of the C:N.R., said that the fact that the C.N.R:, is not carry- ing mail to Goderich now, had nothing to do with the present decision to cut off two trains which have beeen losing propositions. Mayor W.T. J. Miller, of Clinton, complained .of the exasperatingly slow service on the early morning brain out of Goderich and late night train in. "•It looks„ like we are sitting at the side of a dying concern," said one of the municipal representa- tives from Mitchell. "The service that the railway has been giving has been the downfall of the pat- ronage of trains in. this part of the country. Bit by bit the service has been taken away," he said. In response to a protest that cutting off the two trains in ques- tion would prevent makaig'certain connections for trains leaving Tor- onto for Montreal and -Western Canada, Mr. Craig, of the C.N.R., i of 44). said, "I don't see why the railway Others placing were as follows: 3rd, E. Engel and J. C. Cunning- ham, of Waterloo, three wins and a plus of 20; 4th, J. Dorsch and L. Moser, of Waterloo, three wins and a plus of 119; 5th, H. Zimmer- man and D. Purdy, of Tavistock, with three wins and a plus of 18; 6th, E. Pridham and George Mac- Ewa•n, 4three wins and a plus of 16. question. le net essential. The ose r4 thio Meeting le thlAeo the facts Were you at p anunneuous false rumors that acme-, pany such a decisive might be done away with," he said. Sirs it right then, that this meet- ing Is just about six months or a year too late In an effortto prevent curtailment of railway service?" asked Dr. McMaster Mr. Noel theca eaid that the finali' decision had been made. "This looks like a dictatorship to me on the part of a railway that Le owned by the Canadian people," said Mayor Robinson. of Mitchell. It was moved by Deputy Reeve Donnelly and seconded by Mayor Gralta i, both of Goderich, that the following resolution be placed on the record acid that ies of it be sent to Elston Car a iff, M.P., and .lion. Mr. Monteith, M.P. The resolution was to the effect that the meeting was opposed to the manner in which the railway first made its final decision and then handed it down without first con - ,.* 1 Car -Sus Collision Results In Fine Crash On Square Results In Fine An accident, in which a car parked on the Square was struck by an auto that did not stop, re- sulted in a (fiile of $50 and costs, or two weeks in jail, for Carman Mocai, of Londegboro. Appearing in magistrate's court here, he pleaded guilty to a charge that he was the owner of a vehicle driven carelessly. Crown Attorney 11. Glenn -Hays said that police were unable to say whether Mr. Moon was also the driver or not. The vehicle owned by Mr. Moan was proceeding arowd the Square when it struck a Car parked on the inner circle, said the crown at- ey. The accident occurred at t 11.10 a.m. The parked car was owned by an employee of the Bank -of Mon- treal, the court was told. The clash brought the owner anel other persons to the scene, but, instead df remaining, the Moon car pulled away and proceeded down West street. Apparently one or more persons had noted the license num- ber and police later apprehended Mr. Moog. Asked about the extent of the damage to the parked( car, the crown attorney saki this inform- ation had been left out of the police report. 0 Sale And Sonley Win Purity Trophy a For Driver, 19 Samuel Makovnik, 'Ili, of Wind- sor, driver of a car which was in collision with a bust near Goderich on August 1, was convieted of care- less driving when he a . $ eared be- fore Magistrate D. E. Ho , es here. Makosnik, who ple ded not guilty, was fined $20 and costs or one week in jail. Bus driver Reymond B. Moor, 23, oi< Chatham, suffered a fractur- ed wrist in the crash, which oc curred on an open stretch of high- way about two and one-half 'miles south of Goderich. (Following the impact, the Chatham Coach Lines bus, carrying nine passengers, went into the ditch and carne to rest against a small tree. The bus and the car were dam- aged to the extent of about $700 each, it was estimated by police. "I saw a car approaching me slowly from the north," the bus driver told the court. It was learn- ed later that this particular car was driven by Roderick Johnston, of Goderich, and Alvin McGee was a passenger in it. Mr. Moor said he saw the Makov- nik car pull out from behind the lead car and hit the left front corner of the bus. Mr. McGee testified that the car driven b Mr. Johnston was "better than two- thirds" off the highway when the other two vehicles collided. Mr. Johnston said he was pulling off to wait for the bus to pass, and that he intended to turn left after it had passed, and then return to Goderich. Makovnik claimed that he saw the Johnston car pull off the road and decided that Mr. Johnston in- tended to make a right turn. Then, said Makovnik "As I got back of 0 Ned Sale and 0. Sonley chalked up four wins and a plus of 24 for an aggregate of 77 to win the Purity Flour trophy in a tourna- ment at the Goderich Lawn Bowl- ing Club on Wednesday of last week. There were 28 entries in the event. Placing second were Ken Hunter and Albert Kitton• with four wins and a plus of 23 for an aggregate should continue to, lose the amount of money it is losing in a year just to accommodate a few •people who can't make a connection with some particular train out of Toronto." Unofficial Vote There was a vote of 11 in favor and nine against a motion 'pre- sented to the meeting to the effect that if trains had to be taken off that the afternoon trains be re- moved rather than the early morn- ing and late night tra;sis. The rest did not vote. Mr. Fred Peel, a Seaforth manu- facturer, said he could see no reason why the railway should run a train if it did not pay its way. Mr. Noel, of the C.N.R., said there was no discrimination against this area in cutting off the trains but that the decision was merely besed on a system wide survey. Reeve John Kernighan, of Col- borne Tpwnship, claimed the rail- ways should take a cue from the trucldng business ---that trucks car- ried some business at a loss in order to get other business from the same sources that paid and re- sulted in ai overall profit. Mr. Peter MacEwan, of Goderich, president of Huron Zone, Mid - Western Ontario Development As- sociation, said taking off the trains would definitely affect the indus- trial expansital potentialities of this area. Mayor J. H. Graham, of Goderich, protested that cutting off the two trains would mean a mean could not make a business trip to Tor- onto and return in the same day. In expressing his protest of the curtailment in railway service, ,Deputy Reeve J. M. Donnelly, of Goderich, said the outlying rural areas are having a difficult time competing with the metropolitan areas. "By cuttingeoff these trains white satin gown with net over - you reduce our potential just that skirts, inserted with lace. She had• much more."' Deputy Reeve Don- matching 'jacket Of dace with Helly expressed doubt that the lily -point sleeves and a fingertip passenger picture on the railways veil caught to a band of white ilh this area had changed materially feathers. She `can -led a bouquet in the past few years. "If you re- of red rosebuds on a white Bible, duce our rotential you reduce your The matrcri of honor, Mrs. Ted WRITES ABOUT GODERICH WHILE ON 7,000 MILE TRIP In a letter to The Signal -Star from Nokomis, Saskatchewan, Colin A. MacLean, of Woodstock; Ont., says'he is 011-2 7,000 mile bus trip through Western Canada ani the United States. "Outside of the MacEwans, Frank Clark and Buchtnans, our relatives are passing," he writes. "I am writing this from the a4lice of the plant of the Nokomis Times since the .publisher and I were pals in France in 1914-19 and still are. I enjoy reading in The Signal - Star the column 'Out ct_i a Limb' and also the items of 45 years ago. For instance, a year or two ago it was recorded that Thomas MacLean was hired as town con- stable for $350 and was to get a great eoat or something like that. Those boys really get paid today." 0 0 —0 • COOKE--ADAMS Bernnice Audrey Adams and Thomas Edward Cooke exchanged wedding vows in a, ceremony per- formed by Rev. S. A. Moote in Victoria Street United Church at 7 p.m. an August 23. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Adams and the groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cooke, all of Goderich. The bride wore a ballerina -length own; you 11 suffer with us for it. The railway is taking a very narrow view of the situution," he said. "The railveay is just playing into thee hands of the lens companies," said 'Councillor C. M. lbobert.on, of Goderich. "The railway is not catering to the public's demands. A lot of people are travelling --1 and they are travelling by bus be- eauue of poor railway service," he said. "You have been 'told of the rail- rvdy inaeagemeat's decision," said -_.- Mr. Noel of the C.N.R. "It has Riehl, of Goderich wore a bailer-. Ina -length gown of pink net ovet satin with a lacebolero and carried a bouquet of pale blue carnations. Ted Riehl was best man. The reception was held at Tiger Dunlop Inn. Receiving the guests, the bride's mother wore a mauve and white nylon dress with white accessories and a corsage of mauve carnations. Por travelling, the bride •eliosee a tan sheath dress with black acces- sories. The couple will reside in Goderich. him, he started PUIPAng out toward the left. , I waved . my car over, trying to avoid hitting him and that's when the amide hap- peIIed," Makovnik'' story was corrobor- ated by two passengers, I1,06el4 Mayne and Jacques 'Lafreniere, both of Windsor. But Mr. John- ston and Mr. McGee denied that the car driven by Mr. Johnston was turning back onto the highway. Magistrate Holmes said he be- lieved the bus driver would have noticed if the Johnston car was turning back onto the road. The bus driver noticed nothing un- usual, however. In registering a conviction again- st the Windsor youth, the magis- trate said he "hadn't any right to go high -balling through," hoping that the Johnston car would stay on the r ht and that the bus would staon its course. 0 0 0 PERSONAL Mrs. Verne Smith, Mrs. Harold Larder, of Victoria Street United Church, and Miss Marilyn Smith, and Miss Barbara Durnin, of North Street United Church, attended the W.M.S. school for leaders held at Alma College, St. Thomas, last week. Mr. and Mrs. Alan Dwyer, Ricky aid Colleen, of Detroit, have been holidaying -with the lady's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Proctor, at eer Lodge Park,- Bayfield. Mrs. John Gallagher is visiting tives in Detroit. . and Mrs. Ross Mills and son, of London, enjoyed the week -end with the lady's brother, Stanley Ryan, and Mrs. Ryan and other relatives. Employer: "We can pay you $70 a week novt and $75 a week in six months." Applicant: "Thank you. 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