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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1962-12-06, Page 1ry ° 'CHRISTMAS GIFT SUBSCRIPTIONS $4,0.0 PER` YEAR. IN\'CANADA WOO PEP,,,, YEAR ;TO' :U.S.A. 115th Yoar oi %ODKRICN, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1962 Past Presidents of the Catholic Women's League of St. Peter's Church are seen here as they posed for The Signal -Star cam— eraman on tile occasion of the successful tea and safe held at MacKay- Hall Saturday afternoon. Left to right are Mrs. James Sherratt, three years; Miss Helen McCarthy, three years; Mrs. Bert Baechler, first- president of the League, one year; Mrs. Charles Gibbons, three years; Mrs. Leo Walzak, two years. Favored by . excellent weather, the event was largely attended and well patronized. It was held under _the presidency of Mrs. Dan Murphy, who' --is serving her first term in that capacity. Town C•ontr�Ikc1 Sites For industries. Urged.: Goderich will,not acquire new dollars around- our harbere If industries until.- it has council- possible we should expand our controlled industrial sites to budget. Mrs. Mooney has done offer, the Rotary Club was told a great job on the parks, but I when council members and cam think Harbor Park has had its didates spoke at Tuesday's day, and should be either a trailer park or picnic park, one luncheon meeting. "So that Goderich can keep or•the other." her economy on the same level ' • Four Minutes , as in the past 10 years we need Program chairman L 1 o y d an industry," said Coun. Robert Bamforth offered the six Coun- Squire, chairman of the indus- cit members present and can - trial committee, "not' 'only to didate B. R. Robinson four min - create employment but with utes each, and most managed service costs increasing we need with less. President Murray Mac - industrial taxation to offset it Donald was in the chair, and so our mill rate will not grow welcomed Roy ' Mitchell and - out; of--proportion--and--so—our -Brent-Nelson_as neva me council will not be required to presenting each 'with a badge pass a bylaw like some munic- and framed copy of the objects ipalities, not 'allowing a new of Rotary. Oliver Strapp, of subdivision in town until a new Wiarton Rotary " 'club, was; .a -industry locates. In order to have a new industry, we may have to have-industrial=controIl- ed land as Stratford did a few years ago?' The Reason - "What is the main reason you do not have this land?" asked Rotarian R. J. Nephew. "In the past year," said Mayor Fisher, "industrial promotion has been a big thing in town, and we have spent considerable money. .on this, but .it has been in the phase of trying to get new industry to crime in, and we have realized this year the first -thing is industrial land, because the first question a prospective industry asks is "How much land, where,,_and what price?' We feel today, that the 1963 in- dustrial cornmission will have to go out and purchase suitable industrial land to persuade new industries to come in." Coun. Reg Jewell, chairman of water, light and harbor com- mittee for the past two years, expressed the' opinion the har- bor had been badly neglected in recent years. "I would not blame anyone," he said, "but there is much to be done, and much will be done, I hope. I think . our harbor is one of the greatest assets of our town and this part of Western Ontario. Thousands of 'people come to our beaches. Two years ago we loaded •25,000 grain trucks, and all these drivers leave dollars. I think we should never hesitate, to spernd a few work in council, and feel that is my contribution to being a good citizen." Coun. Robert Hays doubted that the transactions of his court of revision would interest the meeting, . but he added': "We have a very fine assessor; he has some tiemendous ,Problems . but has been doing a great job. Es- pecially in Goderich, where we are expanding, it is difficult to get a proper assessment. The county is attempting an equali- zation of assessment, but appar- ently it is -a long-term project." "Share The Wealth" B. R -Robinson; the-vni candidate 'fbr the 1963 council; recalled that .a number of years ago he had observed "that the guest. Reeve Frank Walkom wealth of Goderich was not pro - was prevented by school duties portionately shared by the work- -from- attending; ,and-Coun. Joe ing people sufficiently to de- velop a progressive and aggres- Moody was out of town. 'sive town." He had entered a "We in Rotary are in com- munity work," said the presi- dent, "and I think neglect to get to know those who accept responsible service to the muni- cipality. We are apt to criticize the work of people such as this —and perhaps it stimulates them in an awkward sort of way—but I think we should pay more attention to them and find out how we may help them." Mrs. May Mooney, re-elected as deputy reeve, congratulated the club on its aim and object's and wished it continued suc- cess. Coun. Kenneth Croft, public works chairman, reviewed its construction , a n d sanitation work during the year. - "I would like to keep on with our road program," he said. "We do have a storm sewer problem -in town and ,11 would like to outline a program. We have had more Complaints about the dump than anything under public- works, and I would like to relocate that." Coun. Bruce Erskine, a mem- ber of the same committee and chairman of the 'special commit- tee, pointed • out that he had no budget to account for: "I have enjoyed my first year incouncil," he said, "and as. a resident of the town all my life I enjoy Goderich. I like the (Signal -Star photo) Howick School w , Board Wins, Int a judgment dated Thee.'3, following a hearing before him in the week of Oct. 30, County Judge Frank Fingland upholds the decisions of township school board, township council and a board .of arbitration in the now celebrated 'Howick school case. Accprdingly, he rejects an ap- peal by Belmore Ratepayers' Association, which wished to erect a central school at Bel - more, rather than one in the centre of the township, as plan- ned by the township board. In a review preliminary to his judgment, his honor states: "I ' believe- larger schools tend to attract better teachers, lar- ger staffs tend to have more diversified talent among them- selves, and a larger staff makes for a more pliable timetable to provide for extra -curricular an- tivities. It was advanced by the appellants that very small child- ren tend to become lost in a larger school population. But I believe .that some day these little people have to learn to, take their places in society, and that when old enough to attend school they are, almost with- out exception, with proper sup, ervision by their teachers, able to cope quite adequately • for themselves." ' Danie'1 Murphy., of Donnelly, Donnelly and Murphy, Goderich, was counsel for Idowick school board and council. The Bel - more ratepayers were repres- ented by Donald Mills, of Mills and Mills, Toronto. The hearing at the beginning of November, at which a dozen witnesses testified, drew so many How - ick area citizens that the spec- tators?, seats were almost fully occupied daily. ACCLAMATIONS GIVEN construction industry as a car- penter's helper, and "after 10 years', struggle, organized labor became a reality here, and the results were astounding. The last 10 years'our revenue,, asses- sment, all aspects of our town took on an ' entirely new look," On re-entering business here, Mr. Robinson continued, he talked to many hotel and resort -operators, "found hotels closed, others 'with deplorable facili- ties." To have a bettei"sense of understanding in this field, , he said, he bought a hotel. "A year and 'a half ago," he continued, "we brought about abolition of the Canada Temp- erance Act' in Huron, and that opened out an entirely new field. Hotels reopened, liquor stores were built, restaurants had better facilities, motels were built; in short, millions of dol- lars flowed into the channels of trade in Goderich and Huron. "I believe only free men with vision and conviction can un- lock the doors that lead to men's freedom." Young Huron Liberals Elect Joe Gunn of Crediton was elected president when a meet, ing of the -Huron Young Lib- •eral Asfs9ciatiop , was held at i •• t ' �. i Odd.* \Othq'r .o -hers add ����'VNURC NVIEW ALang,„Bill � Meidona and Jinn BY KINSMEN AND KINETTES Tentative • plans have been made for a musical program in' 'connection ,with the official pre- , s'cn'tation of ' an okg?art ''to Iur- onview home, itis announced by J. R. Heifer, President of Goderich Kinsi-nc'rn ors of the instrument.' The kin' iottes also share in the gift. Night of Song • An ele'ctric organ, .in use for a time at North Street United Church, was purchased by the club and hasbeen installed in the recreation room at Huron - view. At present, plans are tp have a musical evening for the benefit of the residents of the home and arrangements are b{ ing made for the services "'of a local organist and choral group. Wednesday or Thursday 61 nekt 'week are considered. the most likely dates. A suit - 'able 'plaque will 'identify the organ ,as ,,a,gift 'fr m the 'ins - ten and Kihette. ,l Theregularinilde ing of God - rich Kinsmen, scheduled for Monday of this week,..was de- ferx''ed "in factor' joiht''Ynceet- ing with the Clinton club Tues- day evening. Christmas -Party Next official function of the club will be a Christmas party for the members and their fam- ilies especially the younger chil- dren, to be held at Harbourlite Inn, December 17, at "i A Christmas tree, Santa Claus and gifts' for the kiddies are being arranged. Other activities include a fowl bingo for Monday, Dec- ember 10, with proceeds going to, coin!Yiitnity service work. Hunter, all of God'er'ich; trea3• urer, Lyn Rae, of Goderich; secretary, Jane Phelan of Goder- ich. • The annual banquet of the Association is to. be held at St. Ggorge's; Anglican Ilir#rc1i, ,4 �' c�em\bei "20.n folio 'led\ by a' dhnce. Gusts are to , inciuie Murray Cauint MPP; Terry Wright, president, ,of they Ont ario "Young Liberals Associa- tion; David McDonald, defeat- ed Middlesex East candidate. KEYS MISSING , Three sets of car .keys were lifted from ed cars Tues- day night, heli ved- by young practical jo st rs, it is 're sort- ed by Poli Chief Fred Min - shall, the rac- shall, wllo°�' � fns t o h prac- tise of leavrn ignition keys in cars is ant in. station to trouble. The cars in question wore park- ed on.. Picton Kingston and South streets. Investigation is continuing. IN ASHFIELD TOWNSHIP Acclamations have been giv- en across the board for Ashfiela Township. These are: peeve, Donald MacKenzie; ' Deputy Reeve, Thomas Howard; Coun- cil, Gordon Boyd, Girvin heed, Howard Barger; School Arca One Board, Eldon Culbert, Rod- erick MacKenzie; School Area Two Board, Samuel Gibson, I Gordon Finlayson, Leo Court - Santa Coming On Saturday Santa Claus is :coming to Goderich on Saturday after. • noon, 'l•le will arrive at the' Fire Hail at+, , the .cgrner of Waterloo and West streets at 2:30 p.m At that time, hund- reds of free bags of candies will' be handed out to the children. Rural children as well as those from Goderich are cordially invited to attend the big ever* Chairman of the special Town Council com- mittee in chairge of the cele- bration is Broce Erskine. L. Sheardow.n Masonic W.M. Leonard Sheardown t was in- stalled as Wiirshipful Master of Maitland Masonic Lodge in a ceremony at the Lodge rooms on Wednesday evening. The installation was in charge of Rt. Wor. Bro. A. R. Scott and 'his staff Of assisting offl- cers. Others installed were: I.P.M., John A. Seaman; who . also holds the office of S.W., due to drop outs; J: W., Harry Worsell; Chaplain, Alex Butler; Treasu- rer, W. W. Ross; Secretary, C. J. Worsell; D, Of C., Frank W. Walkom; S.D., Brentwood Nel- son; J.D., Wm. J. Johnston; LG.,. George -Robertson; Organ- ist, Harry T. Barker; S.S., Roy M. Mugford; J.S., Howard Ait- ken; Tyler, James ,Robin. FLOWERS BLOOMING "Banana Belt" weather, in- volving ' unusually high temp- eratures for this time of year, have produced some venture- some blooms. Mrs. Eva Clem- ent, Picton Street, picked a dan- delion in full bloom Tuesday, and Mrs. Josephine Marriott of Waterloo Street had the plea- sure of picking some violets. Some local lilac bushes are re- ported to be showing signs of premature budding and many lawns look as though they may get another mowing before Jack Frost moves in. Mrs. K. E. Taylor New, President Mrs. A. C. Calder, a former resident of Goderich, and pre- sident of the Woman's Auxiliary to the Anglican Church of Can- ada, Diocese of Huron, since 1949, resigned from that post on Monday. The resignation was given at an executive meet ing held at St. Matthew's Parish Hall, London. She is succeeded by Mrs. K. E. Taylor of Gode- rich, vice-president of the dio- cesan ,W.A. " Prier to the meeting, Mrs. Calder was honored at a lunch- eon uncheon at the church, at which she was presented with a ' corsage and heard' words oftribute on her service and accomplishment of office from Rt. Rev. G. N. Luxton, Bishop of Huron, and Mrs. Taylor. Mrs. Calder responded by thanking the executive for their support over the years and for the happy associations and friendship extended to her.. «Mrs. Calder resigns from the diocesan post to assume duties as vice-president of the Domin- ion ' Board, to which.' she was elected in Septembpr: ' Mrs. Taylor is a member of St. George's Church, Goderich. She was appointed vice-presi- dent to the diocesan board last May and prior to that rservLd for 15 years' as corresponding secretary. While in °Western Canada, Mrs. Taylor was vice- president for Western Canada with the Dominion Board. Special guests at ,the lunch- eon were Bishop and Mrs. Lux- ton; Mrs: W. A. Townshend. Mrs. Kenneth Taylor, Mrs. Berl Allison, convener of the book of remembrance and Mrs. W. Coop er, Stratford, life' membership convener. - QUIET WEEKEND Only a domestic altercation by tenants of a local motel and a case of drunkenness marred the weekend record of Goderich Police. Intervention by police in the first instance settled the matter. The second case is slated for magistrate's court to- day. r. TIGER DUNLOP W.I. • Single o Copies Harbor,, Extra'Busy •; ue "To Fine Weather There's a bustle of activity around Goderich harbor these days with the end of the ship- ping season looming up ' this weekend, with Saturday, Decem- ber the 8th as the insurance rate deadline, and closing of the Seaway , scheduled for De- cember 13. Not for a long time has Gode- rich harbor presented such busy appearance, much of it due to dredging jobs and, water- works construction on -top of the fillinglof grain barges for winter storage and normal grain and salt shipping traffic. .. Winter Storage On Tuesday the barge C. S.' Band was . loaded with 210,000 bushels of 'oats and barley for winter storage in the harbor by Goderich Elevator . and Transit, and will be moored at the east end of the, turning basin where others of the fleet have pre- viously been moored, making a total of 864,000 bushels of grain Emergency Measures Drill Set For Friday 'An Emergency Measures re- hearsal, involving nearly 700 students and staff members cd Goderich District Collegiate In- stitute, will be held at the school Friday afternoon when the school will be cleared of occupants and rural students shipped home by bus, the, ex- ercise to be completed in one hour. . In. a statement issued to all parents of collegiate students, Principal 0. L. Day states, in part: "As you undoubtedly realize, we are making plans for the dis- position of our student's in case of emergency :. . " - Hold Rehearsal "On Friday, December 7, we will be holding a rehearsal for such a disaster and students will be expected to operate .under plan 2 ... The buses will be at the school at 3:32 p.m. and should be on their way by 3:40 p.m. Students xray` be left on the main route ... Students will be expected to' find their own transportation from Kintail and Dungannon as ,it is unlikely that ou safety period would en- 4t4 n•4t to aP r past that point. Su students would be advised to find, bil- let in the Kintail or Dungannon area if private ' transportation would not' be available in time of disaster." Three Plans The notice to parents out- lines three possibilities in case of a ,disaster. In the first in- stance students would be sent home on the' regular bus routes and town students would be ex- pected to reach home as quick- ly as possible without transpor- tation. This -plan couid only be completely effective if the warn- ing gives an hour and a half of safe travelling time. Plan two envisages students LANDMARKS IN COLBORNE CITED DURING ROLL, CALL CARLOW, — The November meeting of the Tiger "Dunlop W.I..was held in the Township Hall, with the president, Mrs. 1'. Hunter, in the chair. The -roll call: "An historical item of Coiaorne Township," "was answered by ..the -mem- bers giving history of land- marks, farm and ' home and their -origin. The. secretary read the min- utes of the last meeting, and gave a report on the 'recent Federation of Agriculture ban- quet, catered to by the branch. . Mrs. Hunter thanked all mem bers for their wonderful co- operation, in helping to organ- ize the banquet 'in her ahs ence; The discussion was on buy- ing more silverware and coffee servers and also a new table for the hall. A motion was made by Mrs. Lamb that the branch have the piano- in the hall tutrcl• and re- paired, Mrs. Lamb agreed to look after the matter. Mrs. E. Bogie, Historical Re;- Isearch Convener, gave the his- tory of the -Colborne To47n- ship Municipal Telephone Sys- tem recently purchased by the fie ll Telephone •Company. ney. Miss,; J"an Glenn gave the Current Events and told of • plane crashes and the' "story of the life and death of Mrs. El- eanor Roosevelt. ^• Mrs. Tait Clark, reported on the course "143 lbs. of meat" and stated teat sun'.mary day. for that course will be held at Blyth on December 6. Mrs, R. Jewell gave the re- port of the London Arca Con- vention which she attended re- cently, accompanied by Mrs. E. Montgomery. Mrs. R. Bucliarn'an gave a de- layed report on the County Rally held at Bluevale in Oct- ober, The guest of the afternoon was Miss Stirlin,, of the Huron County .Library. who brcught many books for the ladies to read during the winter months. Miss Stirling gave a brief .sum- mary of each book she brought with her. Donations were made to the Children's Aid Society' and the Cancer cupboard. ' -The meeting ended with a ',oci'al hour, with t^a and cakes being served by the hos'esses, Mrs. T. Lamb, Mrs. F'. Gliddon, Miss H. Tulford, and Mrs. Lot- tie Pope. 4 Bargain Buys For Christmas" Next week's issue of The Signal -Star. will be the special Christmas Shopping Issue. Be sure to get your copy and read the advertisements of the merchants carefully. By so doing, you can save yourself 'both time and money. Ad- vertisers 'a're respectfully re- quested to have their adver- tising copy ready early in order that the heavier than usual work might be accomp- lishedin time. Miss Jessie Wallace of Gode- rich, visited with Mrs. J. Oliver of Dungannon over, the week- end. being Paint home on the 'bus routes but being dropped on main routes, and students would be expected - to walk an ad- ditional distance to their homes. Students would probably have to find their ,own transportation from Kintail and Duntannon. In connectioh with the third possibility, that ok, only a half hour of warning, billets have been -secured for all students who could not reach home in 30 minutes without transporta- tion. In can ,of a short safety period, all students would, be released -and expected to reach their billets in town as quickly as possible. • Nearly Complete Mr. Day explained to The Signal-Star'that by Tuesday of this week only one family had not completed billeting arrange- ments. He .pointed out, that such a system will also work to ad vantage should bad storms block bus , travel at any time during the winter, and arrange ments of this kind have been made elsewhere for this pur- pose. ,F4,0osed with the notice to ai=eh'ts dLstatelenflaih~ M�Ci ray MacDonald, Huron County E. M. Coordinator, who has ad- dressed the students, briefing them on the exercise. Also in- clud,4;,»are forms for parents in connection with the billeting ar- rangements. Const. Creeden Gets New Post A valued member of the Goderich Police Department for the past four years, Constable F. H. Creeden will leave Gower: ich in the near future to accept an industrial position at Strat- ford. -. Constable Creeden's resigna- tion was accepted by a meet- ing of the Goderich Poi'ide Com- mission Monday, ind another meeting . has been. -called r Thr Deceni"ber 15 at which ut�pli- cations for -the post will be considered. q' Constable_ Creeden. before coming here, •u'as employed hi the railroad machine shops' at Stratford, and is °returning to his work as. a skilled machinist with a new industrial concern recently set up at Stratford. His resignation will take eil'. est Friday. Police Chief F rccl Minshall commented that Cree- den had been a very good offi- cer while in Goderich and clad performed a particularly won derful job last Thursday when arresting a man while the offi ser was badly wounded.. for floating storage for • this. company. . Only two more ships for un- loading are expected by this corr}flany, the Howard Hindu -gel for Friday from Fort Wilgus with coarse grins ,sari nilliu,t feed and e « 'Wlfdoe Ccrmi�n from Chi ago with U.S. ,corn,, probably fort Saturday, Tile,Se - will probably be the last for the season, although some. t# or - age vessels• are expected' to fie up at Goderich for the ' winter. Loads Salt The R. O. Petman, a frequent caller at the Sifto" Salt loading facility this year, was in Tues- day for a load of salt, end is expected to be one of the last few "bottoms" available before the end of the season on the, upper lakes, according to Mine Manager W. G. Muir. a Ontario Dock and Dredge Co. continues its drilling and dredging activity in the turn- ing, continuing to sgeop out ma- terial from the former location of Ship Island for trucking to. the bank of the Maitland, River north of the harbor. Equipment of the Canadian Dredge and Dock Co. continues to move about the harbor pre- - paring to jockey into position with the last length of con- crete pipe and intake fixture for the town's new lakeside waterworks system: Hope For, Calm , Borys Zaietz, inspecting 'en- gineer for James F. MacLart,g Ltd., who are supervising this • work, explained .to The Signal - Star Tuesday that the crews ;rad worked, until 3 . a.m. taking ad- vantage of calm weather to, get in the second -last pipe length. • A south-west breeze Tuesday eliminated any chance to con- tinue Tuesday, and it was hoped a calm would occurs() the tick- lish job could -be , completed within the next few days. The intake fixture is a large elbow stuped cenirrete. casting cased in a crib of heavy timbers ' about 15 feet square._ This will have to be derricked into posi- tion under water, and this can only be undertaken in the calm- est weather. - - ' ' Mr: Zaietz acknowledged they had been very fortunate to have such good weather recently, and hoped their luck would hold for a few more ' days ' and see the job completed. , Meanwhile, tugs of MacDon- ald Marine, small work boats, large and small dredges, barges and grain and salt vessels con- tinue on-tinue to move about the har- bor, taking advantage of the fine weather for as igng as- it may last, presenting a busier scene than can be remembered locally, for many years.. A ,? [ e Signal -Star Open Saturdays From now until Christmas, The Signal Star' office will be open every Saturday after- noon for the convenience of customers. Should you wish to send a Christmas gift sub- scription to The Signal -Star to frihds or relatives, drop in. Saturday afternoon for de-. tails. If it's 'personalized Christmas cards you want, come in and sea ,our gorgeous samples. But.do not postpone getting yAr Christmas 'cards any longe rf� you want the widest possible selection. The perigrinations of the 'Vikings form the theme fpr a mural on the wall of a. i 'olmesville classroom ' which accomodates Grades rand VI. The ,mural was prepared under the 'direc- tion of teacher, 'Cavi: Addison. Along with other exhibits, it attracted considerable attention at the recent '"Open Night" of the school Sante 'of the visitors are seen "broWSi g bout" the class, A chers. enjoying a refreshing cupo f cof Gracie Vi student Glen Falkiner s parents,. Mr. and Mrs. 0. l'alksner' o 'Carlow, are seen in conversation withMrs.JK. Fin- nigan;principal and teacher of the senior classes at kion Cen- tral School. The occasion was "Open Night" when most parents of 'the community attended, along with numerous pupils who had examples of Their, work on display at- their desks and ori the tiispilty ' boa rdi.` (Signal•Star photo) It's a great big world, but` You a tion' Central Public • School, )know$."v er'' is; as his index .finger intdicates ' 7Dou Slee ;ta S t ewart teacher o t Orail,4 Arjiit1 401)&10°11W held t '� c � �1�� hocll *Onesdo when most of the parents atteirlded, •