The Goderich Signal-Star, 1958-11-20, Page 24
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THURSDAY, HDV. 20tjr, 1958
EDITORIAL NOTES
Only ? ? ? 'more sFiopping HOURS until
.Ohrietmas-!
. Looks like a year fur resignations on publie
bodies. Three have indicated they will not
serve again next year on Goderieh Public
School Board. Three , members of Goderich
Town Council have' announced they `are-' not
likely to stand for re-election.
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`'Vhtu we asked a Goderich Collegiate boy
why he was getting a holiday. on Remembrance
Day' his reply was, ",I don't know." But,
eom'ments a former school teacher, ']]sere are
some of them who don't know why they are
getting other holidays in the year, too.
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The. number of strikes and rtunors of
'atrikes which have prevailed in Ontario alone
this year have been numerous. Among, those
in fields of endeavors yet to be heard from in
the matter of strikes are ministers, medical
doctors, dentists, undertakers and ,lawyers.
Wonder what it would he like10 have a month
long strike by any of those groups?
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The census of 1881 showed Barrie', county
town of Simeoe, with 4,854 population; (Iode-
rich, county town of Huron, had a population
of 4,564. ' At that stage def Canada's growth,
both Barrie and Goderich were more' populous,
than Brandon, Portage La Prairie or Calgary.
By 1891, • Goderich had dropped 725 in pope,
lation while Barrie gained a little. Barrie ;s
population today is 18,500 and at, New Year's
it will become a city. What• did Barrie have
that Goderich didn.'t?
-Three 'of 'thy �seveii "i iuilii+itialTt ea serve -l1
by the `Goderich District Collegiate Institute
have yet to he heard from as to ' whether they
:approve the issuance of debentures. for the pro-
posed addition of ;six classrooms and a g•Ym-
nasium to the Goderich Collegiate. Approval
has been given by ..the Town of Goderich and
the Township of Goderich,Tentative aR,pro\"-
'al has'i en given by 'the Townships of. gest
Wawano•sh and ITullett. •, The 'Town hips of
.Ashfield, Colborne and East \''V'awanosh are
ati11 pondering over the matter, If thi's were
Russia, 'There Ns:ould be no delay. ' C'onstruetion
.uf the ,needed huildin is for edueation would
. czo ahearl l' ro ptly. Ts if' not the Russians•w hg,
have promised to beat out the W("stern'World.
not 1iy Svarfare, but by etlnv,ati•on and eeononl-
acn. They, know- what their f.'01111t1'1' needs for
progress lqa, ;he we mi;;ht trive the matter
a little ntUre thought. It has, been found that
the AVERAGE assessment of a house in Tor-
onto IS :$4,000. ;'.0n. this basis, the „owner con-
tributes approxiriiately 25 cents a day in taxes
for editcational purposes." In Goderich the av-
erage .assessment on a house is from $2,000 to
$2,500. (Tn the basis ' of the larger figure, a
floderich home -owner contributes„ about 15
cents a day in taxes for educational purposes.
()n the same basis, a resident of the rural area
ofoumul Goderich would probably contribute
to educational° purposesin taxes about ten,
cents a day—the price of a chocolate bur.
Surely, it is worth a eent or so more a day to
have adequate educational facilities for Gode-
rich and district.,
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() the closing day of the last session' of
Huron County Council for 1958 the stage was
set for lively drama which will undoubtedly
be- presented at the first session of the County
Council in 1959. This will be consideration of
the abolition of the Canada Temperance Act in
Huron County. It results from the approval
given by 'County Council 'to a resolution from
the Seaforth Town Council. And the Seaforth
_I al�itrvion "respectfully qng.. stP.rl" that the
Huron County Council appoint a committee to
,,Sp•ek legal advice and investigate the desirabil-
ity of petitiori.ing the Dominion government
to withdraw the Canada Temperance Act and
adopt 'the - Ontario Liquor •Control 'Act, . The.
Huron County solicitor is, therefore, to he in-
structed to have this information ready for
presentation to the January session of the
Huron County Council. While this 'issue has
been.earefIill c- avoided "on many different fronts
id I-Iuron County for some years nbw, it' has
every indication of being given the full treat-
w�ineiit fTie ;Tii.in dry meeting IS' held: ii"here
are conscientious objectors on both sides of the
fence on this matter. And there are also out-
spoken parties on both sides of the fenee. But
the latter group have been in the -minority.
'However, it has been apparent—for several
months now tljat the contentious issue is•hei'ng
forced to the forefront chiefly because, a• num-
ber ef7municipalities in thi's county have lately
been discussing the matter and have passed
resolutions both pro anti eon with respect to it.
The advocates, .both' -for the C.'1',A, and the
I1.C.A inlght be well advised ttt 'iii rsh l alt
their facts n(mty an(1 .have them ready for next..
' •Tanrtarr... The deeisi(rr1 of -"the. Huronn •C-ortn•ty
Connell at thlit time will .g'o a h'ing way towards
settling for .gars to come whether. theC.T.A.- i�; to be 01 01 kh0.(1 er is to remain on in Huron
('nnllty,
DownMernory's
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-•F - -45= Yirars-Ato M• -Russell Colcloughr• was : elected
The main, topic ofconversation president at the annual meeting
in Goderich was still the violent of the•, Goderich . Township unit of
storm- of November 9 1913, in the, Federation of Agriculture.
which about 200 sailors lost theirHuron County residents boug.kt
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lives. In res onse to a proclam- 1,$3,415,200 in Victory bends during,
he fifth 'Victory Loan drive. Ths
ation issued by. Mayor Reid, about ryas $290,200 above the countyis
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1,40Q .people attended a memorial quota.
service held in Knox Presbyterian Huron County farmers were ex -
Church, petted to produce 1'15,000 hogs in
A large number of friends and j943. This "was down from- the'
relatives attended the funeral of previous year when 122,000 hogs
Murdoch MacDonald, 251 of Gode- were produced. '
rich, Who drowned when the Wex- 10 Years Ago
ford sank in the storm. He, wits Canon Colin Montgomery, bro-
a son of the late Norman Mac- ther of . Field, Marshal Viscount
Donald. Montgomery, arrived in Goderich
Bulat in 18 months • at an ap- to visit with Right Rev. A. L.
proximate cost of $6,000, the new Fleming, bisdt of the Arctic.
parsonage of North Street Method- A tfinancial'''xeport on operations
ist Church was formally opened, of the ' baseball teams sponsored
Members of the building committee by Goderich-Lions Club during the
were R. J. Megaw, H. E. 11odgens past 'Summer' sh .VV a deficit of
and Dr. ' A. T. Emmerson. The $311. ., ,
pastor was Rev. W. K. 'Hager. Nearly 100 garagemen attended
`S,I•ast street is in a disgracefully• the annual meeting of the Huron
muddy condition," complained the County•Garage Operators' Associ-,
editor of The Signal , As one of
the principal streets of the townation at the British Exchange Hotel
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it, should receive special attention
in Goderich. The president was Don Aberhart,
duf ing the open season and should J, S. Kernighan was elected pre -
never .be allowed to ,. get into the sident of Colborne Township'
Robert Craigie; who- had be
condition it is now in." branch of the Federation of Agri-,
en culture.
employed in C. C. Lee's hardware Clayton Foster, son of Mr. and
'store for a number of years, left Mrs. John Foster, of Goderich, was
to accept a position at Sherbrooke, appointed first mate of the new
Quebec. Imperial Oil ship, the Imperial'
N. H. Mixter • was elected presi-
dent of ' the • intermediate hockey
club, which organized for the corn-
ing season at a meeting held in the
board room of 0. F. Carey & Son.
Covered with ice, the Bricoldoc
arrived at Goderich with 230,000
bushels of wheat and barley. on
November 18. She 'came through
a blinding snowstorm for most of
the trip down from the head of the
lakes. It took eight hoursto chop
the ice from the hatches so she
could --be• -unleaded:---Capt. H.
Hunt said that ice four inches thick
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Was encountered on the •trip down.
'Hugh Hill was in Toronto to
attend the annual convention of
the Guernsey Breeders' Association;
of which he was president.
To help wipe out a deficit caused
by 'a rainy day, the Goderich fall
fair board decided to pay \only 70
percent of the prize' money it
originally offered for the 1933 fair.
Eight young men left `Goderich
Tuesday to spend the winter work-
ing -on the new road, being built
into Algonquin' Park. The Tdwn of
-Goderich paid their- fares, and sup-
plied extra wearing -apparel.
15- Years Ago
Tom Sillib returned, to Goderich
after spending two months in Al-.
Berta; ,mainly at Taber, his old
home, and Orion.
A 19 -year-old student pilot from
the Sky Harbor base died when
his Tiger Moth training. plane
-crashed into Lake Huron', near
Menesetung Park, during a snow
PROPOSED AUDITION TO GDCI
(GETS WEST WAWANOSH'S OK
25' Years A o Sarnia,
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ctogenarians
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Hold ' Service
"Going My Way" was the sermon
subject of Rev. A,. E. Eustace when
the annual church service of the
Octogenarian Club was' held,. at
or Streetlai Church un ay
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the proposed addition to the Gode
rich District Collegiate Institute by
West Wawanoshr•Township council
at its November meeting. Mr. R.
D. Munro, of Auburn, township
representative on the
board,. was present to explain to
the council the problems and plans
of the school board.
At the morning session of the
township council, Court of Revision
sat. There were no complaints
,against the 1958 assessment roll,.
either by written" appeals or 'per-
sonal appearances. • •
On motion by Councillors Miller
and McPhee, Council decided to
hire".Norman MacDonald to do
snowploughing on Township roads
during the 1958-1959 season M. the
rate of $6.50 per . hour. • Norman
MacDonaldls to' provide his own
truck` and_ his own help and is
guaranteed $100.00 per month
standing time for four months.
ft was moved- by Councillor
'Durnin and seconded by Councillor
Miller that. ''relief to the Henry
Smith family be discontinued as.of
November 15, 1958. Metio-n car-
ried. •
A letter from the Town of E.,-
eter was read to Council requesting
amendments to the Canada Temper-
ance Act. This letter was ordered
filed.
A discussion took place in re-
gards to the dumping of refuse,
garbage, etc., on roadsides in the
township. It was pretty generally
agreed that this is fast becoming
a vital problem,
afternoon. More -than 30 octogen-
arians attended along with about
the same number of other people.,
Rev. Mr. Eustace referred to the
Israelites trying to make a bargain
with ' God as .to -the way they should
live. Experience has shown that
the right way to go—the right way.
to live is God's way. If . sorrow
comes into a life as a result of a
death or misfortune in the family,
it is not right to rebel against this.
Life does not -always turnout as
we want it but rather in accordance
' with- God's plan. Hence the need -
to realize that the best life is God's
way of life, Rev. 1Vtr. Eustace said.. .
Mr. John Flick, president of the
Octogenarian Club, read the Scrip-
ture lesson. Hen also , extended
greetings to the. members of the
Octogenarian Club ' present. The
service included the singing,of
such favorite hymns as, "What .a..
Friend We Have in Jesus," "Blest
B"e The Ties That Bind," "I Am
squall. Thine,' Oh Lord," etc.
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G�DERIC1ITQWNSH IP
NOMINATIONS
NOMINATIONS CONDUCTED
BY THE LEGION LADIES
Nominations for offices in the
Legion Ladies' Auxiliary, elections
for which are to:be held in Decem-
ber were conducted by Comrade 0,
MacDonald.
A donation of $50- was made to
the recently organized Goderich
and District Association for Retard-
ed Children. Comrade M. McAulay
was' named the Auxiliary's repre-
sentative on the Association. To
the War Memorial Children's Hos-
pital was voted a donation of $25.
Plans were '.made for a visit to
Westminster Military Hospital near
Christmas to .distribute '• gifts to
patients. The mystery prize was
won by Comrade J. Elliott.
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(ountys Crops,
Livestock Valued
At$41,250,000
Total value of Huron County's
livestock and crops was estimated
at $41,250,000 by the county's ;agri-
'cultural representative in his re-
port to County Council.
,Livestock valuation -was placed
at $27,750,000 and crop valuation
at $,13,500,000, '
Huron is • fast becoming a dairy
county, the agricultural represent-
ative said, with a market at ,satis-
factory
factory prices for all, the, milk
ThURSDA'Y, NONT..: , 20th, 1058
produced,, '
The swine situation, he reported,
is not as favorable as a few months
ago, primarily because of an over-
production of • pigs through estab-
;lishment of large so.W. herds, - an - -- •
ACr is -feel,-blit ratio. amid
advent of open pule pig barns.
,The poultry industry continues
to thrive at about the same level
as in previous years, Mr. Miles
said, although the over-all trend
across Canada is downward.
The Junior Extension program in
Huron is one of the largest of its
type •in Ontario, the agricultural
representative reported.
A total of 447 projects were start-
ed this' year, with 89.3 per cent
completed.
Mrs. Shirley McAllister, home
economist, told council that 394
individuals took part in the winter
and summer projects. 'Projects
completed totalled 91.6 .per cent.
In Canada's early days the official
census -taker was req'j*ired ;to list
the number of swords and firearms
in, each home..
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