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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1961-02-09, Page 2rich Signal -Star„ Thursday, February 9th, 1961 obertft —0— The County Town Newspaper of Huron Established 1848 11,s 113tk year of publication 00, Published 46 • • by Signal -Star Publishing Limited GEO. L. ELLIS, Editor ano Publisher, Circulation --over 3,400 FOR SERVICES RENDERED , GODERI1CH MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION While attending the last meeting. of remuneration and in the process has been ender/eh Town Council we nOticed the i.tbject'to criticism, warranted and Other - :Multiplicity 'of. municipal duties which wise, most often otherwise. • tE.Lets the. councillorg during the coming ye's been accorded sOme honor, yes. 'year. We conld uot help but observe the N''b doubt he's derived some satisfaction, tOnseientiousness with which these town too, from hi's efforts. But he gets pr4- tOnneillors deal with their individual re-. ious little else unless, of course, he's rend- 'Tirponsibilities. We wondered. if there was ered such outstanding' service the munici- loot some way in. which a tangible and en- pality has named„Scalle project or building during record 'of their. service ,to their after him which is a rare honor. -follow citizens could be shown apart .fr'em We suggest that a simple little token any cash payments they receive. of appreciation — a certificate of service CHOOSE LIFE (By Rev. II. ,eevtakenr...Aterough SALTFORD COMMUNITY CLUB CARD PARTY 'HELD The Saltford Connnunity Club held a euchre and 44500" party at the TownshiP Hall in Carlow 011 Saturday aigbt• Prize win- ners were as follows: ladies' high, Mrs. Aaron Fisher; gent's high, John Clark; ladies' low, Mrs. Jim Blake; gent's low, Arn- old .Fisher. fatililY, of Dungannon,, visited over -the week -end ---with Mr. aii-d Mrs. Harold Adams and faMily and Mr. Harbourne Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hoy, Junior, and sons,' Ronnie and Garry, were week -end' visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Clacence senior, and family. - Mrs. Dave Martin has return- ed to her home 'after an ab- sence of three weeks. Mrs. Martin's brother, Mr. Thomas Young, has returned to Gode: town Agricultural School, was home for the week -end: . Visitors on tlie week -end with Mr.' and Mrs. Mel Dickson and family were Rev. and -Mrs. . Taylor, of Goderieh, and wee *bode Dickson, of -SLM.11.111,, #4,,elassified ad in the Signal - Star brings quick results. Three Ways' To Improve Your Home AT SMALL, COST In Ithiden-for some Wile. -41 1.k.9.k.-„Or,..,14,9,,,of N,N,,tom•- .Moses1 PORT ALBERT, Feb. 6.—Mr. are ,pleased to report . he is life or death. I Mr. Art ..Dickson, of Ridge - Moses, Joshua, Elijah, Chri4 the Apostles, all called' Upon men . to choose; and ' that will ever . the high duty and re. sponsi 'ility of the preacher. Betm ,,ti Baal and Jehovah, be- tween the flesh and the spirit, between the world and Christ, the choice must be made. Sometimes• I wonder how great the number is of those who were . near to the great choice of decision, but never made it. •When the spirit .of conviction stirred their con- science, and, all was ready, save the act of their will and choice, They sent that blessed spirit away, saying "When I have a more convenient season, .I will call for thee." Where can you show me pat when Joshua called upen the people' to choose whom they would serve, and Elijah called npon the people to choose be- tween Baal and God, a,nd,Moses called upon them to choose life rather than death-, or the Chris- tian„prophets and apostles in P.SALEntrIgAlig,Ap.4.tO,Men, and Christ and Eternal Life, ever said, Tomorrow? No; it is never Tomorrow, but alwaYs Today. Choose ye THIS day! If it is a matter of life and ,death. then the choice muSt not be delayed. Choose todayrbecause this may be the only day for your choice. Alt appeals, all instructions, all examples, 411 feelings, are in vain unless you yourself choose. ``Thou art the man!" Therefore, and, like the prophet of _old,, choose life, and choose it now. -I call heaven and earth to record thiS,day ageinst you, that I have set before you life and aath, blessing and cUrsing; therefore, choose life."—Dewt. 30-19 The voice of the prophet ages ago, and the voice of the preach- er today, calling upon men to choose life rather than death! So today I fling out this„ great text. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you that I have set before you life and death, blessing and. cursing, therefore, choose life. The human race started on this present course when the two ways.' the WAS/ of life and the way of death, the way of obedience, and the way of in.• 'Then we noticed an editorial in The — could.serve a useful purpose in thts On= dulgence, were set before it in the Garden of Eden. Wherever we follow man in his history, we between two goals and two des- tinies. Alceter grimes-Advoeate which summed the hellion. In a sense, it's a small thing "'''iti'attt''ttep-n.ieely-and-wi.th-witiehew•e,agceee-eahct..theAse,.*Jn,ay .who. „might not it reads as follows: appreciate it, Yet we -I suspect that in It's often occurred to us.that the man, the inajoLity of eases it would become .a This is .an always discernible or woman, who serves on municipal council, highly-pRzed momento for the recipient 'note in the teaching and in the ----40-WQ(.11:,14,WAL, or- in.:--el,eqed---posts .has little -and his family, through the years. 1. aehino of _otIr Lorli: what •to War- for hiS'efrorts after he's retired. Tlie use bf Snell certificates" --*Pril.d 'WhaL.;.separatien.§ • Hes done his -best to serve his fellow be an inexpensive, yet appreciated wav of what differenees-ehr,the-later-.-c, • teitizens, has put in countless hours of time expressing the community's thanks y and- effort for which he has received no se rviee rendered. - Salvation in Christ presupposes the fact that man is in a state ., , -,, that the cross is just an idle out of which he needs to be delivered. Let no one imagine forums. Most people seem to be content gesture on .the part of God, or tw let other people do their discussing for tchharti s ti t ownasthneot c oescse s staoryhaf No er them, and when TV prog:riams, made avail- suffered these things. No; the able information about many of- the sub- eross uplifts itself before man, jects .the forums used to discuss, there INTEREST IN FARM FORUMS IS WANING (The II,uron Expositor) . Once an outstanding. attraction in rural areas, Farm Forums seein to have !run' their course. While as many as twelVe or fifteen. forums met each week in the 'atea covered by The ExpOsitor, now The province -wide organization that ..eo-ordinates the activities of the forums is 'Conducting a survey in an effort to de- termine What has contributed to the (Twin - It is difficult to understand why inter- est in the forums should wane. The topic's that the groups discussed were not 'only interesting, but provided background in- formation concerning day-to-day prob- L1'.,,„way of helpful. information. and enceur- age ;; productive discussion, they also arose a tendency to abandon the foyums. Someone has suggested another diffi-' eulty. As the forums increased in number, more and more emphasis was placed owthe soeial gathering, the ear4s,%the lunch. In the grocess, the discussion topic was shov- ed into the background and to a great extent .the main purpose. of the gather- ing ,was• forgotten. As 'a result, people became tired of .supporting each week what in, praetise haebecome just another There, is little point in attempting to guess nature _of _the diffi_cult ies faeing 'the forums. That Will be revealed, wheb. the investigation, 11 OW in hand, is com- plete. Out of it, perhaps, will' come in- formation that will make possible a revised' -given area were encouraged to come to- program of a kind that will revitalize the gether • at- regular intervals for. a soeial forum -activities: It is to be hoped so, ,get-together. , for the forums — properly. carried on Perhaps television has had ,something make a major eontribution to the com- _to. with the _lessened interest in ho .munities ite-whit,h they exist. ' * UNDERMINIMG FINANCIAL HEALTH A young 1111111 011 e TV file other evening w as r e 1114, t in g probably with ae- curacy, that Canada will have 0 'health. service shortly. B "health servii,e'' is .but .a service - that would pay for doetors, Every party is for this. lipparently.. At point in the TV diseussion, however, was thare any _„suggestion that somebody Was going to have to pay for these health -services. That presumably is a mere de- tail that the politician§ would just as soon the taxpayers _didn't think about until it's too late- for thought. It has been said that Canada, a young .country with hopes for the futare, has a farger and broader -welfare program than any otlp.r country in tbis world. What has not been said is that the cost of: this' welfare• program in the • aggregate is a DOWN MEMORY'S LANE 50 Years Ago -1911 • Three Goderich citizens, W. D. Tye, Peter MacFarlane, -and John WhitelaW, died as the re- sult of a wreck between Paris and Drurribo on the Grand Trunk Railway. The engineer, fireman and a passenger were also .kill- ed. Mail.Clerk JOhn May, an- other Goderich rna-fi;- was sev- erely injurecL At Auburn, Andrew Millian squith----who had rented._ _his farm to George Sanderson. „ At the annual meeting of the Goderich Township Rifle Associ- ation the following officers -were elected:- H. L. _Montgornery, cap- tain; T. R. Rundle, secretary; 0, Ginn, lieutenant; I. Salkeld, treasurer. H. Newcombe and T. R. •Rundle were the holders of the cups. Dr. Whitely was again chosen president of the Canadian Na- tional Harness Horse Associa- 15 Years Ago -1946 Because •Goderich Township is bounded on three sides by water (including two rivers) it was chosen foran experiment in the pontrol of ,warble fly. • At the atTherrie the 400 guests were welcomed by Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Scott, Mrs. G. E. Payne and Jim Donnelly. Dorothy Bradley and Harold Warren won the spotlight dance. About $30 in cash and a small uantity 'of cigarettes were sto en rom the Venus restaur- ant -when -entry-was-gained-by. forcing a- side door. The fire brigade was called to the home of oCecil McBride, Elgin avenue, when overheated stovepipes caused a .chimneY to smoke badly. • 10' Years Ago -1951 Mr. and Mrs. Loftus 'Welsh were given a surprise party to honor their golden wedding an - 'Louis Ruddy, Anburn, made an. anniversary cake for the ec- casion. A .successful "ladies' night" was held by the Junior Chamber -*ELECT= 'DOOR '4HiMES Add Grace `tour Norway DEVON WARB• PLAQUES will modernize a wall — Memorials Finest Stone and Thiperienced Workmanship Frank Mcllwain DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVE JA 4-7861 or 200 Gibbons St. — JA 4-2465 ammaraisuimummumarmr NEW th-1:ECTRIC CLOCKS— Plus many other ideas for your HOME IMPROVEMENT, -are "on our shelves. SHORE APPLIANCES 52 The Square, Goderich JA 4-9241 411111111111116 DANCE!! LARRY KENT Qf CIKNX TEEN R,CORD HOP FRIDAY, 'FEBRUARY s10 at BLUE WATER LOUNGE DOOR PRIZES — SPOT PRIZES, etc. 9.30 to 12.30 — Admission 60c total reyeime of -the federal government, • c arleton Worsell, son of Mr,. 4. pl us payments from provincial and and Mrs. C. W. Worsen, and .•„a-1-04. ,commerce in the British Ex- CANDIES All Laura Secord candies are specially. wrapped for St. Valentine's Day. SATURDAY NIGHT, FEBRUARY 11 0:,11,theo.,,,uunside hpi,aphy,ci4nplg9,:4es. From 9 p.m. to Mid.night ADIVITSSION 75c BLUE WATER LOUNGE -;tiident at Stratford Normal change Hotel. Door prizes .were icipal go"verninents. There -is 00 suggec'ition won 'hy Dr. Bert Such' and -Mrs: 0. School, had been elected as pre - is safe to prediet that it will ensl- aliont that School. - . -Y won a $50 bill while Mr. and doubro the original predictions. of those IMenabers of the G oderich In- were . the. Mrs. Gerald "Ticker"• Moro prlze winners in the who, IN- in adVoeate it. tormecliate hockey team were: Sotneone has said that•the trouhles„, in ney, Bud - Sturdy; centre, C At a card party sponsored by lleltrium are .. due to the decline in the Carpenter; wings, It Stoddaril',• Nv eaJth,of that country due to the discon- tinuance of funds froin the Congo.: Would Canadians riot if the governments at the 1 hat they couldn't' pa y the welfare bill Every polit leal party is in part respon- sible for the present situation, and• that is merely another way of saying that the Canadian people have brought, the sitnation on themselves. — The Printed Word • HIS SIMPLE EXPLANATION, Qii:le some time ago a man wrote the following letter in reply to an appeal for funk from a r.well-known institution and as it WIlA then. Said the man : '!For tfl; following rea- sons I am iinal?le to send you a larger che- que. have been held np, held down, sand -bagged, walked npon, sat ppm, flat- tened nut, squeezea by the Jneeme 'Tax, ,. the §nper Tax, the Tobaeco Ta,x, the Beer " Tax, tfle Spirits Tax, the ko-tor Tax, and Py every society, organization and elub, that the inventive 'mind of man ean think of to extract what I may or may not have ;in. my possession, for the Red Cross, the . Black °MSS, the Ivory Cross and the Double Cross.. ' "The Government has .governed my business till I don't know who • runs it. am inspeete, suspected, examined and mauled so that I don't know who Lam, where I am, or why T am here at all. "All that I know is that I aM sup- posed to he an ineAaustible supply of money for".everY need, desire or hope of the hnman raee, And because I Will not go out and beg, borrow .br steal money to give away I am cussed, discussefl„hoycott,ed, talked to, talked about, lied to, lied about, held up, hung up, rung up, robbed and ,darned near ruined. , , .** "the only reason am clinging to life ,at- all is to see what the heck is going to happen next." • D. McKay:, sobs, Nick Burnsidd, 1). Nairn, George Allison. Mr. D. R. Challenger won high • !honors at bridge and Mrs. Amos Harry Sturdy, Auburn, was in-i-A-nelrew. and Mrs. K. Stowe at Guelph attending a young peo- "500." Mrs. John Cameron.had ple's meeting. , the high mire' at canasta. Holmesville HOLMESVILLE, Feb. 6.—Miss Eleanor Yeo, nurke-in-training at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montrea4 is at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Year for a ten-day ,visit. The sympathy Of the com- munity is extended to Mrs. 'artahneirr YAelor o n md e a jtehw eokheorf Goderich. Miss Mary Helen Yeo, of the Young Adult rou and Bb charge:: assistea the ;minister, Ilminumminimmir MONEY PROBLEMS? CAMPBELL'S DRUG .STORE 168 THE SQUARE.. – GODERICH – JA 4-75 32 1"Itev. E. J. Roulston, at the ser - I vice in Holmesville United i•Church on Sunday. I Several of the young people 'from this district were in Lon- don on Sunday night attending a special Young People's service I there. I Mr. Edward McCullough' has been accepted on the staff of the Royal Bank of .Canada and,, has started work in the Clinton branch. FOR SALE — USED ONE SEASON ONLY — ONE ONLY, PROPANE or.NATURAI. GAS FURNACE. Including 100 feet of duct work. 175;000 to 200,000. B.T.U. Also 2 Pro. pane or Natural Gas Space Heaiers 35,000 le 56/060 B.T.U. Apply BLUE WATER LOUNGE There wbre approximately farms at Juyie 1, _1960. In Canada there was a total of 3,162,006 at the same date. should join a credit union ; Ws no fun Watching bills pile up—but it can happen to anyone. When you're a credit union member, the problem can be whittled down fast. A credit union "caii help you get out of debt— and help you start saving, too1 FOR MORE INFORMATION •ABOUT CREDIT UNIONS, PHONE: GODERICH COMMUNITY CRED.IT UN:ION '27 SOUTH- STREiT 47931 Right off the boat The Volkswagens arriving in Cancida tAese days are quite a bit difierent from earlier arrivals. For ane thing` they've got a new engine thet delivers 10% mOre acceleration and passing power. And a new heavy-dutY transmitsion (that will stand up to almost any abuse), with new gear ratios selected to deliver every ounce of the extra engirip power to the Ovine wheels. (You get bettez_per- The first gear is synchronized. Now you can slip into first on the move, just as easily as you engage the other three. There have been many other improvements too. Among the mostt,recent; a better heater, and fully adjustable seats. yi;Ye're constantly seeking ways. to make the Volkswagen mote efficient. And when we find them, we build them in. So f4 we haven't dicovered how we can improve the basic design of our vehidles. That's why.the latest arrivals look just like the ones that came over last year, the yegr before, and the yeat before that. Try as we might, we can't upset the.logic of putting the driver up front and the engine at the rear. It provides better traCtion in mud and snow, and the load rides cradled between the wheels. , look at the vans. Big, double side doors, and q rear door make them easier to load than any yae ever built. • Volkswagens still deliver the goods for, less. Less loacling and unloading 'time. And less runningi,cost. Your dealer has the facts to prove it„ Come and drive one of the new Volkswagens this Week: VOLKSWAGEN CANADA LTD. These are your nearest Volkswagen dealers. They are part of a networkpf 331 efficient VW service tennis right across Canada. 'aircraft of Taus -Canada Air Lutes planned turbine fleet on the ramp,at Montreal Intern -ABERHART5 'GARAGE BOX 486, 39 ST. ANDREW'S PHONE JA 4-8261 - Trade between* nation's is a two-way street. West Ger- many is -one of Canada's best customers. And every Volks- wagen sold in this country helps Canada to sell Germe/nr - more Canadian goods.