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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1958-01-30, Page 3411-44.30,1 3 Huron Cpun FarmReport By D. H. Miles, ancon AO, .R.101). There is an ad'egaatecoyeerrhan of snow over most of• the county. There was considerable wind eros- ion in some areas in the southern part during- 'the' January a,pth. winds; n ds , .. -•,. . ... ' S ' Assembly yards, for hogs ip, en e �d Tuesday,. January �1n t CoQn with �8s heap., . x prices are skxQ g w,�hEg�"- port maret avaiable. g'prices are disnarte in,Patic�larlY to the smal.pro uPex. ,,,r siummi The "'G9 ahead" signal for a gas pipeline from Stratford to : Goderich '. was given at a urofi Ootiitteeenheirlileettrig= on Friday, 'The council thegrant- a ed earxni�;si n to ••4ala►atrio Natural' Gat Storag'e.-aud Pipe -M • line Company for the crossing of countyroads b - line. ThCounty Cthei e- souncil , de- cision vas prartt cal1y . ' anlm- us. o <<,...�An agreement between the county' and the company vdas signed to state the responsibil- ity esponsibil ; ity for repairing of the. roads: afterthey-have"been trenched; also for indemnity for . any damage done by the pipeline • -while-Sit-mss-being- built:- Representing uilt:{Representing theompany, a subsidiary of the Union Gas Company, Frank Gee, of Chat- ham, told County Council the company hoped to start work in' April. He said the route to be followed' would be along the line of the C.N.R.,,about a -qu , r --of- mile south ..of Nig way :No. 8. The latest in fashion's Rom Now__ York 'And 'elms,.... REASONMILE PRICES. Ilona and Tule PHONE 1!35 77 EAST ST GdDERIOH Separate agreements are be- ing { arranged With the town- ships concerned, with respect tai_ ink oda '1119; n "� ,: u d. ul itX o �.. t ,__.h e S o ti p ]< Tukersmith and ,,Goderuieh t 5 owlt 1tt.pA � y ; in, Ripon County, In Perth county, it would pass through (Lownie, Fullarton `and. Hibbert wno t shi Ps ' O • .ou,ntyHome Rat MEMBER I "4 MacEwan Lnsurance Z� s o YOUR AGENT OF PERSONAL • SERVICE 1' WEST ST: PHONE 230 AN INDEPENDENT INSURANCE AGENT NN••••••••••••••••••••••••N•••••••••••••••••• - •a , M+t-CONOITtONED ..�.� .. .` ;r. PHONE - AT THE GODERICH. 1150 - 1 • Now Paying—Anthony Perkins, In "The Lonely Man" with Jack Palance. Give.,,jY,OUR Life a Lift .. Come Out to a Movie! • • Mon., Tues. and WedAdult Entertainment. • BOB HOPE, Vera Miles and Paul.l3�ouglas Written by Gene Fowler, filmed in Technicolor-Vistavision, and • reflecting the life and times of thre former Mayor of New 0 York, dapper Jazri'es J. Walker. • -BEAU JAM " 's Thurs. Fri. and Sat. ,• • " • Rhonda Fleming, Stewart Gtahget—a-nd.,ChilLWills ._� -(• Presenting a Cinemascope frontier drama depicting some terri• - fic action in an otherwise peaceful valley. "GUN • GLORY": • • In Technicolor • Coming—"JUBAL" from Paul Weliman's novel. Adult Enter= , tainment, with Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine and Rod • k Steiger. sP••A••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••®•••••e 111004004 by $1.5 (Continued from ,!?age 1) then presumably' under Lake [Iluron. to Rinoardine, completing on County Council on Wed- nesday orlast week approved an increase -mom ,-'$6` to -17 in the rate to,be paid by residents of Huron Go nty.Ho e. Ttexrcrease in rate applies to those :residents of the Horne who are not depend- ent on charity but are paying their own way. Residents of the Homewho have no means -of their - own, •but who - ;do g. old_'age pension of $55 a month pay at the' rate of $50 a -month Or their keep; the rate -for the pensioners was increased from $40 to $50,, when the pension was increased from $46 to $55. A special committee was appoint- ed by council, Wednesday, to look for ways of reducing - the drain on the county treasury which is caus- ed by hospital • bills for indigent patients. The committee is to con- sider the wisdom of building a hospital wing at the lluron County -;-ttr house with the purpose of reducing the cost " as compared with paying regular hospital bills. Cost of maintaining indigent patients in hospitals and nursing homes in 1957, said A. H. Erskine, c o u n t'y clerk -treasurer, . w a s $112,000. • The new voice on the Popular radio program, "Neighbourly eigbbourly News"; ..heard over (BC at 10 arm., on Sunday's, -1a' 1hat of Arthur Phelps, noted broadcaster and literary critic. 11f -r. Phelps, shown above with a !handful of weekly newspakrers, is replacing Don •Fairburn, who has withdrawn froth the program for health -reasons. The radio career of Mr. Phelps dates back to 1x35. The son of a Methodist minister, he was horn at. Colunibus, Ontario, and was educated at Linds.;iy. • Collegiate and • the university of Toronto. - Fairer Assessment ,Asked` For Goderich From County An appeal, to Huron County's on-committe.e rel rPccuk.. sider the matter of Godei*h's equalized- assessment was made fly Reeve James Donnelly, of Gode- rich, at Huron County Council last Thursday. Reeve Donnelly said that Goderich believes ->it is not getting fair treatment in the pre- sent system of 'equalizing assess- ments for county purposes. The matter was referred to the county equalization committee which will deal with it when the committee. meets some time in May. - 'Knowing -the members of Ithis county council as I do,"•said Reeve Donnelly, "I am confident that whatever decision is made by this council will be a fair decision; . and a just decision, and that the town of Goderich will be pleased to abide by that decision." Goderich, said Reeve Donnelly, is being made to pay at the rate of about two mill§ a year on its town taxes, because of the "loca- tion" factor that is used in weight- ing assessments for county, 'pur- poses. Beginning in the late 1940's, he explained, when the current system of equalized assessments was -being brought into, use, the. urban places in the county were graded, on a "location" scale, for county assessment purposes. Gode= ricn' was pint- on the top rung, and asked to pay on 100 per cent of its assessment; the .four towns of Ex-- --- TO AT.TEND CONFERENCE Rt. Rev. G. N. Luxton, Bishop of Huron, willattend the Lambeth -Conference at London, England, July 3 to -August 10. The Arch- bishops and Bishops of the An- glican Communion throughout the world meet' at this conference every ten years. - COUNCIL PAYS TRIBUTE One minute of silence was `ob- served 'by Huron County Council at the close Of its January session on Friday in Memory of the late Thomas 1Pryde, MPP for Huron and a former reeve of Exeter; also' in memory of the late Harry Fear, a former reeve of Morris Towns'hip. Vacuum Cleaners AND PoIisIers REPAIRS AND 'SALES NEW AND US -ED J. ADAMS PHONE 331J • • v fiM r ; r4 ?f .y.rifi}'sn••rr,'{vfT:+r�> ��i <':�C:;;{t}??:.:';•}{}ti;.'{jc}v{:•.•;r}�+::;:f'v::tiv:•'•{:�':•;r ..o{tib{ eter, Seaforth, Clinton and Wing - ham' 'were achsssigne s 1 con as a'loca ion. factor, and asked to pay. county -levies.L-on..._0_._.per_ cent of their assessments; the three Villages of Blyth,` HensalI, a n d Brussels, and the police village of Zurich, were 'each given a factor of 20 per cent, and paid county - levies on 80 per cent of their as- sessments; other hamlets in Huron were given a location factor of 30 -per cent, and the levy was oh 70 per cent of their assessment. ..Ex1952 to 1956, Reeve Don- nell'm recalled, Goderich was given a location factor of five per cent, instead of zero, and paid on 95 per cent of its assessment; in, ' 1957 it was put back to zero again. The approximate -increase • in Goderich's assessment for county .purposes, because of the location' factor, compared with that 'of'Age' other. towns, 'is;1225,000, said Reeve Donnelly. "This hurts Goderich in two ways," he said, "because it applies not only on" the county levy, but on ..Fr9" levy for the Gode- rich High' S ° ool District." "I have been told that I would be wasting my breath to bring- this up here at .,County Council," said Reeve Donnelly, "but I feel `that we can rely on the sense .of fairness of the rural reeves.-- Weare cer- tainly not here to find fault with The county assessor. Mr. Alexander is a man of complete integrity and considerable' ability." COUNTY LIBRARY CIRCULATION INCREASED BY 5,322 IN 1957 "People are making more tise of their libraries," -said Mrs: Alice Jean Eckmier, Huron county lib• rarian, when she made her session- al report on Thursday to Mum County Council. The Huron county library -system, which pioneered in Ontario insetting+up a distribution system to serve small rural lib- raries frorrr a central county lib- ,,rary;AS'' still the largest and most active county library in the pro• vince. n Circulation of books through 33 local libraries, four deposit sta- , tions, and three`h-igb schools, total - ,ed 50,189 in 1957, an increase of 5,322 from the previous year, Mrs. Eckmier said. .Circulation through the 218 elementary 'schbel rooms served by the county system was estimated, in addition, at 309,000. Book exchanges, carried on with the county bookmobile, which visits each local -library four ..tides 'a year, flow require about 100 days - a yea``. on the road, Mrs.,.•.Eekmier° reported. Good results are being 6:45 pane ROAD SURFACE: -Mord-gravel. ,._. 'ht c ever of 'this car was travelling at an estimated 70m.p.h. when hp pulled out to overtake another car. Hse lot control while overtaking and rammed 'into to death on impact. • M1 - hefore-you_tramp down on that accelerator, remember, ••- - two thinks: (1) The faster you tt:avetthe less control, , you have, (2), This photograph. . DEPAI 1MEt t .b' 4'.RANSP >il ".'-.' NI'Ak1O f obtained she said, from the change in method that was made in the autumn of 1957, for book service to rural school areas. ' The book- mobile now goes to each school in an organized school area, instead of making,one delivery for all the schools in an area. 'The , school areas' that get book service on the new plan are Ashfield, Colborne, Goderich, Grey, East Howick, Turnberry, and Usborne. "The great increase in circula- tion from the libraries, deposit stations, and high schools shows that even though no new -outlets were opened, the general public are._.making more use of the lib- rary's services," Mrs. Eckmier said. County Council was told that at the end of 1957 the- salary of Mrs. Eckmier was increased from $3,600 to $4,300 and the -'-salary of -the assistant, It G. Eckmier, from $2,800 t� $3,000. Two member"s- of -County Council expressed 'dis- approved of these increases in view of salaries_ -pa•i l-ter-are--C`hildren's -Aid-Soeleiy,- Victoria St. United Annual Reveals 36 New Members Were Added In '57 At Victoria Street 'United Church the annual meeting was held after a congregational supper. Encour- aging reports were given by Mr. Earl Craig, general treasurer, Mr. James H. Johnston, trustee treat urer; ancf Mr. Thos. I -I, Graham, treasurer of- the :,lissionary and.J 1laintenapce fund. . "- Rev. -.S. Mnote reported "the membership had increased to 359 .by the addition of 36 new membert in 1957. adies' activities were reported by'Mrs. S. „Atgyie for the Wold- an's Association, by 'Mrs. O. Culbert for the Eurekas, by Mrs. E. Patter- son for the ,Victoria Helpers, and by :Mrs. V. Smith for the Willing Workers: Missionary.. work and contributions to the Women's Mis- sionary Society were reported by .211-s.' A. Stoll for ;the W..M. Auxil- iary, by. 1VIrs, G. Curren for the .Mission and, and by Mrs, R. 1VI The-�� The work of Christian Education included the reports from the Sun- day School with 13 joining the church by W. C. Breekow, from the C!G:LT. by Mrs. V. Smith, and from the YJP.U. with Miss Donna Horton as president. The choir Meport was presented by Mrs. Nary orris. Rev. ,Mr. Moote, who, presidert- spoke- in appreeighin of senior and 'junior cifairs led by Prank Bissett and of fine leaders in the Sunday School and through -the - week groups, the co-operation of, all women's groups and of men on the boards: Other motions, of thanks were extended to Rev. and Mrs. Moote, Mr. Earl Craig, the' treasure , and to the choir.' tiew business included the ap- peintment as congregational seere tory* .and "M. and M. treasure]; .of T. Graham, with Mrs." -."Cran- ston and Thos,_ Wilson elected to the • Missionary and .Maintenance committee. The session personnel with. -W. C."Breckow as clerk re: mains unchanged. To • complete a nine. man Board of Stewards, three were elected for the period 1.958-60, namely, F. Horton, H. MgCrostie, and David yail. " Mrs. .Edith, Argyle and Vern Smith were appointed to the par- sonage committee. Mrs. M. Morris, Mrs, D. Vail, 1Mr: F. Skelton, and L. Rodges ' were named auditors, sand" Messrs. L. Rodges and H. l k as -- epras utativea Huron U.C. Meal's Council. To the Boards of Trustees and Stewards was committed 'the task t wart* plans for iniprovement5 to the floor of the Sunday - School hall, • p . �^ Thittteen pieces in a "baker's dozen" originated when King Louis of France warned all bakers who, -gave under measure that they wott'ld be...eheaded. the circle, . "Although brines are encounter- ed ncountered at many'levels in the basin, the shallowest depesit of r ck sa It found lies just under 000 feet beneath , the surface o about 400 feet below, sea Ievel, " Tbecentre of the basin is around Midland,nd Michigan, where the top of the first .salt is more, The.e. than 5,000 feet below -the surf« e. aggregate thickness of - the „Several salt' beds at the rim runs up to 200 feet, and they may 'thicken progressive- ly towards the' centre where the group of beds reach 1,800 feet in thickness. "The salt in this basin has been determined as haying been laid down in Silurian and Devonian days. Silurian The it San period, about 300,000,00.0 years ago, is said to have been the time when life -first appeared on this earth and the Devonian over.- 250,000,000 -.Years ago when the first air breathing animals made their appearance." The colossal tonnage of salt came to be deposited in the Michigan Basin by what is known as the "barred lagoon" concept, originally suggested in 1864. One can vis- ualize a lagoon covering most of the .state of Michigan and south- western Ontario being enriched continuously or intermittently by the inflow of saline water from the seas over a bar into the lagoon to take the place of ., water evaporated during arid periods of high atmos- pheric temperature. The floor e ti sit`...o f,..Tar builds up. Finally, the inflow -ceasetrand-The-`sit-bads- secaTrie overlain. 'with younger rocks and glacial drift. Mr. Spence said a -=total-- of 10 wells were drilled at .Goderich. In the first exploratory hole salt was first encountered at a depth of 954 'feet. At 1012 feet a 25 foot thick bed was found of ' which 16 feet was high grade salt, again at 1676 feet a bed 79 feet thick of which 76 feet washigh grade was. encountered. "Mineable section of the 76 foot bed analyzed as high as any rock salt we had, ever en- countered or heard of and the whole bed worked out better than presently offered in our markets' said 4rc Spence. 500,000,000 Tons "Having «satisfied ourselves on the quality and thickness of salt lying west anlj south of the mine site, we negotiated and finalized salt leases with the Federal and Provincial government`s covering 2,700 acres under Lake Huron and the,. -..amine site," said Mr. Spence. "This area represents a parcel of over four square miles and con- tains close to 500,000,000 tons of salt in the bed to be mined,— and ined,and wee are still a long way east of the international boundary," he stated. . - "The present -market fbr salt in Canada is around 1,500,000 tons. Of the mined salt consumed, abput one half is presently being im- ported into Canada from the Un- ited States to meet our market demand," said Mr. Spence. An estimate. on the use of a million tons of dry evaporated and rock salt ..is-.28--per---cent to the chemical industry, " 28 per cent for ice control, 18 per cent for food processors; 22 per cent for other industries and on the farm and W. J. Denomme 3 ;.FLOWER• i • SH • nP• • Phone 198 Fp • • - to • •• POTTED PLANTS CUT FLOWERS • and FLOkAL DESIGNS for ALL OCCASIONS. �' • • • Agent for 24 -hr. • O• • FILM DEVELOPING • • 2tf. • • • • less than four per,. cent ix?t.. hontee. .. "There is aireadY one salt mule in Ontario"and. another is . being built in Nova Scotia," ..e stated. "When We get into ,production Goderich thereWill be 'the "Can- adian inii4es pro.duciangt.salt 4t , East- ._C m a a r. Spence _ acT Se a ' arc , � p u ��', r m ,. increase in domestic' co sump ori, particularly over the pastdecade, d d leads us to believe the Salt .industry wilt par- ticipate, in the • continued' amazing expansion of our country.: Our initial, facilities to be installed at Goderich will permit the hoisting of 350 tons per hour or :MN tens per eight hour _shift, after allowing three hours for maintenance, etc. Some time later, a second service shaft will be b.idlt..and •l ..hoisting - capacity of the production shaft will be raised to 2,520 tons per ou eight h g r shift," he said. Referring • • to the impression locally that chemical industries might move into Goderich to make use of the salt, Mr. Spence said Goderich would have all:. the salt they would ever" meed but that _other. factors entered into the pic- turesuch as the cost of electric - power here and also the cost of transportation of the end products to consuming markets: The underground development of the mine .will consist of rooms and pillars. The rooms will be 35 to 50 feet high and 60 feet wide. The pillars left, ,to support the roof will be 2Q square feet. "We plan to crush, screen to four sizes and store underground to -lessen the. problem of seasonal demands," salt! -r -:-S1 enee. -The . ti per -AM down in the mine will be about 75 - gr ees- the- year round; -fie said: Taking care of vessels sailing from Goderich with salt, the mine will be able to load a 3,000 ton vesselin four hours,, Mr. Spence said.: e ;no adverse' t . the o.ttorm.f :o#• , the, evaporator -plant. stated `and` added' tha .ether WO be no smoke or not 't on:IF .cs t ii a ka�.m e ate wt`he oig bird ee.. e r a ��' .a s and When : e job is�' �� !ted coni ducat on .alt. Will: yhe 1proul : j. of the whole set up., Our .r n oar xi'Ie is � c f � x "fie � . "OV usually mo • e4 and ‘,the'_revenue, t 'iauiticip.:lity will eceiye' r the Frovin l g it', overnme un the Ontario Assessment Act. could be a significant ',source of incomp to the Town of Goderich," conclud-,. ed M. Spencer Goderich Won.en's Nephew,i Is K4Lc.1 When -a 'jet plane icraabed-at Churchill, Manitoba, Saturday it took the lives of two airmen one of whom was Fitt. Lt. Howard:--,1.- Robertson; 32, .of Stratford a nephew of Misses • Grace and *Stratford, Robertson, 190 Quebec street, Goderich. The bodies of the two men were ` aeovered from the wreckage on Sunday night. He graduated from the aeron- autical engineering course at the University of Toronto and joined the permanent force of the• RCAIF in 1850. He is survived by his mother, his wife and three child ren. He was a frequent 'visitor to Goderich in former ears. owar . ' o . er on s uncle, the late Clarence Robertsons,. Who conTt d a -jewellery store at Goderich, was fatally injured in a car accident at London some years ago. Mr. 'Clarence Robertson'$ wife was also killed in the same mishap. - ••••••••••••N•••••••••d•••••••MN••••a••• r END -of -LINE CLEARANCE- OF Reg. to $12.95 NOW Reg. to $7.95 NOW B REDUCPIONS OF 10% - 25% ON ALL OTHER WOMEN'S DRESS PUMPS.- , ••®•••••••••••••••••••••o•••••e••••••••••••• WOMEN'S • _ Bedro�m 1 . 155. SLIPPERS, REDUCTION � • Reg. $2.99 $1• on all Women's SNOW FOR , .9 9 • SOOTS and GALOSHES • ••i••••••••••••a••m•••••••••o•e••e•••••••••• Men's Qxfords.,Red,99 U • Black and; Brown TO, e0•••••••••••e1:i•••••••••••••••om•®0•••••O•• ••0••••••••••••••••••e•••••m00c0 ••••••••••• ROSS SHOE: -SHOP QUALITY FOOTWEAR ON. THE SQUARE - - GODER.1CIt, -5 NEW WING OF ALEX `SRA ANNE and GENERAL HOSPITAL Saturday and Sun.ay, FE:BRLJA'RY 1 and 2. 12 NOON TO 6 P.M... - EVERYONE, FROM 'TOWN Af - DISTR T . CORDIALLY INVITED .,. -Enter by Mew Front Door a n .:.,,4,Napier treet A.