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WV`OMEN'S WAYS
Government departments have employ
ee9 working on strange figures - And We
doll'-
Mean The human fora!! divine. r The
,result of one government survey, for ex.-
Mnlple, , ealne up with the conclusion Char
the .averatt,e (t'4itlacFian wo uali. sl)et'lcl, t he
equivalent of an entire year of her life
talking7,0ii, tire telephone. not
ot
t he slightest bi"t amazed by t hat one. Just
imagine how lolls sotne \VUltleIl 4'1111 are
not average spend talking' over the phone!
• Authority for the aforementioned
eonelu,sion is Mrs. Lilah Lylllbtlrncr. who
, is chairinan of the women's advisory vont-
ulitte€ of the, Oirtario department of ee-
unothies and development. She unleashed
POLITICAL BAN
Premier Bennett -of British Columbia,
who is also finallee minister of his prov-
iuee, proposes that t•he .government pro-
vide 1O% of the -apital of a new charter-
ed bank, the Bank.. of British Columbia.
he -,has before the T,egislature a bill
authorizing hull to buy into ,banks already
ehartered. The idea of polite.eally con-
trolled or influenced banks has alarmed
Ottawa, and- Finauee Minister Gordon 's
moving to make such participation illegal.
some startling statistics reeently before
it ('otlfereIltae of Niagara Peninsula woln-
en.
Another jolt was the statement that
the average Canadi`aanhousewife throws 'a-
way 400 pounds of ,food each year. That's
no doubt largely due to those husbands
Who just can't go for ``lefttovers.".
°I3i.lt the t alio( (hart.t
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replicas of all as to why Canadian' women
buy too much were given as: ``Because
_everyone 'has- one; because no one has
one and she wants to be the first ... well
... just b e e a, u s e."
And then some men are accused of
being. 'odd when they declare they just
can't understand women.
K HERE FAILED
Goderieh history provides an inter.
-esti-m- -precedent- --I'pp-ere--
t''anada, foiinded in 1821 and first in what
is i w Ontario, obtaiinecf--oii-e-q«arter. of
its capital from the government,.. It lias
been deseribed as '`a- child of the Family
Cornpac't," and -catered to the upper class
of the province who, aceording to the En-
eyclopedia Canadiana, "obtained loans
which prudence should have denied."
The Family Compact being well rep-
resented in Goderich, the bank established
;
° :c branch here. For many years it was the
only chartered' bank here, and it also had
inonopply in -Upper Canada. • John Mc-
Donald was "acquit in Cxoderich, and
COMES THE'
play' have conducted business at his Neuse
until the end of 1859; when the bank ac-
quired laud on whiell .W. F. Dunning's
Cobourg street residence stands, and built
the fine old house there. Phe big bank
vault remained until a few years ago.
. McDonald probably Iived there, as
was customary, and perhaps Alexander
Ross, - bank clerk, waho married Agnes
Kydd, daughter of a former postmaster.
Ross later managed the Royal Canadian
Bank here, and then the Canadian Bank of
Commerce branch. Concurrently ) he re •-.-
'resented 'West Huron in the. Legislature
and iR_.18$3 becamnpraxineial treasurer.
In 1866 the 'Bank of Upper Canada,
stopped payments, with disastrous results
to the government and the people of Upper
Canada. Whatever the precedent may be
worth, it seems to strengthen the stand of
• the Dominion- Govermmnenii in .the 'British
' Columbia case. The province has- a large
amount of cash waiting `until required for
•hydro works, but .the place for what; ,after
all, is the people's money, is in.better hands
than what the' Calgary Herald -sees as "a
banking institution influenced by consid-
erations of political partisan_ ship.."
REVOLUTION!
'Revolution is brewing among small
businessmen,. reports a Toronto newspaper,
over `• n'tils -nee regulations" arbitrarily
imposed".en business by federal officials.
Orders issued by Ottawa. for the corrven-
u n('e of governlllent departments, complain
the rebels, ignore the inconvenience and
expense that may be inflicted an the public.
The particdular regulation that' has
11•rorig.ht the informal' group of dissidents
together is the' recent ruling -that all e•nl-
--_ yea incemtax d.e't t i:wur_.n.Ust 11c!_•,i ii�L
1 hroilgh a local bank or mailed to -Ottawa
lay certifiect• eiheclue. Although there is no..
evidence- that his' grievance gained hint
anything, Russ \\ aters, a Toronto florist -
Supplier. made a trip to Ottawa to see.'the
revenue minister when his uncertified ehc--
gite for •tax (!eduction( was returned to
lain.. by Ottawa.
"Many businessmen," says F. A. Rands
of the Canadian Federation of Retail Gro-
pers, "don't like. to leave their stores dur-
ing the day, but hank at eight depositories.
Now they •have to take time off to pay
their taxes." In answer to the govern -
TOO -OLD AT 60
When Adam Annand, a Huron county
pioneer, died in 1892, elderly neighbors. in
Colborne Township bore ,his coffin.* ,In
a newspaper...clipping preserved all these
years it is recorded that ,,three of these
men were "among the few left „of those
who st' in 'their lot with this serrtion 60t
years ago. That :is, they- were abori't
t he same age as the deceased, and ho•s_ vas,
in his .81st'year. Nothing like that. takes
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)lace novo. 1)l(1Orly men, however elca;e
'10 the deceased in kin or comradeship, in
current practice never get to take a. handle
of the coffin: -
lit a volume about funertil customs
in the US, Canada and elsewhere, the Nat-
ional Funeral .Directors' -Association of the
United States - prints statements• from
c'hnreh bodies t'•► the effect that_ d`the fam-
ily • is free to select hearers without rest-
riction." But the association goes on to
say that "there i.--. a small trend away
from ha,:ng the family se.leet friends
and ,relatives as pallbearers and tdward
,having. the funeral (1ire,•tur make these
arrangements." -
This trend evidently is more pro-
nounced in Ontario where one funeral dir-
ector says, ``Wherever possible we try Jo
get- men from 60 down - - almost never
ahov:6-'160 - depending on their health. -
There may be honorary bearers.of any -age,
"but never senior men for the actual ear-
rying.'' So while a man may be tried by a
,jury of his peers he may. nota- after a cer-
tain age, be iia rried to the grave by friends
of his bosom.
Thi, practice takes no account of the
Jnent's claim that Certification of ta.x:pay-
inent cheques was made necessary by auto-
mation of its system, it is pointed .out
that up to now a corhputer has never rea,-
I�ly eared whether or not a- cheque Was
eert ified.
The factor that sparked this small
uprising is a study of the rising cost to -
business in time and money -of govern-
ment' demands. The • survey states . that
about 400,000 firms spend a minimum of an
hour a week suppilying figures and reports
3 go4,r-1 meant --.departments,_ _and _Many.
firniu have large staffs doing nothing else.
At a conservative estimate the cost cf this
noir-prodluetive t i in e is ' in o r �; than
$42,000,000 a year. Whatever 'the. actual
figure, tale public might reflect that it is
part of the cost- of doing b-usiness and:
-!oast be paid by the customer. -
The rebels aro- fighting- a rearguard
action, but it is in a geed 'cause. -CloVern-
ments and their" offieia'Is wilI impose on
the public to the extent that they are.per-
nutted to. Anything that slows (town the
,j)roc•ess is in the public interest.
• - Harris Clip) Sheat
FOR PALLBEARER
fact that• more people are living to great
'age. thaii in pioneer days. Of 68 - person!,
who became residents of Huron's county
home last year,' eight were over 9Q, 45
between 80 and 90, and 11 between 70 and
80. Mitpy persons reach the age of 100.
It was said of old time : "As thy
clays, so shall this-. strength be," but oct-
ogenarian _ today 4tek the constitutions of
the men who hewed Asomestead clearings
in the Canada .Wet bush during' the first
half of ;last century. John Buchanan, of
the same township, as Adam Annand, car-
ried 11 bushels of wheat (660 lbs.) across
a barn floor and back. Andrew Green, it is
related, carried a 500 -pound barrel of whis-
ky from Godericli harbor to r_Garhrai':l
tavern, a mile and a half. .Anthony Allen,
proprietor of :Dunop tavern, could lift two'
ordinary -sized men by their collars, hold
them at arm's length and, if so disposed,
-back their heads together.
At state funerals, eight • men may
shoulder a coffirf their hands ,joined under-
neath. 4t private funerals in rural Scor -
land., half . that nnumber may do. The
obsequies of Scottish -born Adam Annand
bring to mind the funeral of Doctor Mac -
Lure, described in Beside the •Bonny Brier.
Bush, a best-seller more than 60 year ago.
- "Four stalwart men tame forward,
t7 -lie volunteers who would lift I,he coffin and
carry it for the first stage. The `wricht
told them he would change them after the
first ha,lf;xnile. `:�'e needna tribble your -
f. '
our -
f.' said the man from Glen Urtach; the '11
be nae ehunge in the eairrin' the day.' "
--The Printed -Word
Estab�l�ipshed r jj e
1848 V'
.arbexrx�h - '-gnat-.star 118th of
i PublicationYear
--p The County Town Newspaper of Huron --0--
Published at Goderich, Ontario emery Thursday - morning bq
Signal -Star Publishing Limited
GEO,. L. ELLIS, President- R. G: SHRIE11, Vice -President
and Publisher . and Advtg. Mgr.
S. F. Ai11 Plant Supt. .r
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Authorized as Second. Class Mail, Post Office Dept..
Ottawa and for Payment of Prtstage in Cash.
115 Years Ago
In raodarich .
Opening sentence Of Huron
Signal editorial: "After an
honest man 'has spent a quar-
ter of a .century of the best
portion of his life in shrewdly
and; anxiously 'observing the,
polit,'vca+1 affairs of the warld,
and in exerting to the utmost
-his -feeble ac14ities;_ a} d -lies--
individual' influence. to pro-
mote. and further the pro-
gress, of what he e(k J sadlers ta
be the prin,riPles of a nation,.
al .;and an upright policy, he
/can scarcely avoid the cans
Clusiion; that the. whale .system;
of civil overnment is one of
great SHA'M."
55 Yeors Ago -i-19110
Nis. A. Snazel ap'Pliied'to Tait;""
Council to erect a 'billboard,
12' x 40', at the foot of ,Harbor
Hilal near the salt works and
Lin QVher one of:. the sate seize
on ;Sa1#.'fopd. hiIL The .council
rofuse'd permiss�i�on on a 74
vote.
'Mr, Justice .Garrow, foatnerly
of Ggderieh and on the Appeal
Court of Ontario, was also nam-
ed Judge of : the Adimiralty.
Court at Toronto. This court
d aft-rwithu'ceases`-af cting_-ves--
sels.
A report was, , circulated in
Goderich that `Rev. J. C. Reid,
formerly pastor of the cMethod=
ist Chsureti at Nile, died do Nevn
York. When the Signal •phoned`
his home at Atwood, Ont., it
was learned Rev. Mr. Reid had
been in New' York taking treat -
MESSAGES FROM
THE WORD
he=-Goderich-Ministerial-Ass
By Rev. H. de Vries, First Bap-
tist Church, Goderich ,
"For he that' cometh to God
must. 'believe that He is, and
-Haat .He. is -a - reward -et of -them
who dill en seek Him "
. • Oleibrews_11.4
A gallop poll •,coeducted in
eleven nations sought to dis-
cover the number of people
who 'believed in God. The re-
sult revealed- that the number
ranged from 66% of the popu-
lation in France, to 96% 'in
Brazil. The poll reported that
in North Amel4eYa 94% of the.
people stated that they believed
in God. The poll did noit
reek to discover what kind
of aGod people ,believed
in. I personally believe thiat a
pr per eenoeptiok.of.God a;sffi
very. heart of a person's relig-
ion. We must all have, an _an-
swer to the question, "What `is
Gad like;" and one's conception
of God must 'correspond ' with
one's 'experience, of God.
To many people,, Gad is the
Unknowable One; the ,Coo ninon
Will of • Hum'anity, the Syanbol
of the Highest Social Values, as
the humanist believes. The na-
turalist believes God Ito be
Principle of 'Concretion, the
First Cause and Eternal Matter -
Others see God as a well ad-
vanced finite being, and as such
He is limited by the free
choices of other persons; and
by the restriction within His
own nature. 'Others again, de:
fine God as Perfect Good Will;
Eternal Mind,' and Karl Barth
calls God,4the Utterly Other.
I 'have listed only a few of
the ideas or decfinitiions 'of man
concerning God, and. many peo-
ple find these satisfying.. How-
ever, the Bible never seeks to
define God, or to argue for His
being and presence, ifor a God
who can be defined is no Gad
at all. The Bible simply states
that God is, and then outlines
for us His 'character. • This it
does throtrgh the mighty deeds
which He has acc'omplish.ed on
behalf 'of -man.. Examples of
these deeds are: thecreation
of. the Universe; His self -dis-
closure to limen like Abraham,
Isaac, Jacob, the Judges and the
prophets of Israel and Judah;
and His great accts of redemp-
don on (behalf of the people of
Israel. His final self -disclosure
came in the person of Jesus
Christ.
Here we discover God in all
His �ulrness..'-WaAcOVelc1h t
He''"is a pensonaa God, that is
that-'He-beoormes ,personal to
each believer. I 'find it imposs-
ible to accept such definitions
of God as First Cause, First
Principle, Conscious 'Person,
Perfect Good Will, Eternal
Mind, the . Unkn,owalble One, the
Utterly Other, and whatever
else people might •call Him.
These are too in -personal. I
believe that God is a personal
God. 'Me Gad of the Olid
Testament is also the God .of
-the New Testament, but, He is
revealad.. to, _us more •tdu'llry-- in
the, person• and .life sof Jesus
Christ. Looking at Jesus'Christ,
we •ee Gad as 'creator; uphold-
er, sustainer, the Almighty :Soot
ereign, laying, kind, merciful,
forgiving, just,. and, (best of all
as Father. These are not dei'ifi
itions, but deseniptions. This is
what God is like. • •
The Christian ifai'th declares
that man can knoiw''God, that he
can know Him in and through
the person, Jesus 'Ch'ri•st. Jesus
maid "...no man coaneth unto
the Father. but by me." This
means that. we' must , accept
Jesus Qhrist, as__.Saldour and
Lord. Man of himself cannot
know orfind God, for his sin
has separated him from 'God.
But God so laved the world; that
He sent Jesus -Christ to seek
and to save the last. We see
in the Gospels the love of Jesus
fo•r every 'last, least, and lost
child of God. This fact brings
home to us that Gad cindeed
knows and cares for each of us.
God has thus manifested the
depth of His love and .concern
for us in the life and person
of Jesus Christ.
meats :but 'he said he Was "Nat
so very dead ---at least not half
,;as• dead as people say."
35 Y.ears„Ago--1930"
11. J. Walker opened an office
in.Goderich for a general in
vestment and 'insurance (busi-
ness.. 's
.Reg. Newcouube's• team de-
-leafed Viictor Elliott's team 6-3
to win, • the 1Qiwn hac4 ey league
title 'by one po}Jut: On New-
coni,be's team were A. Colborne,
lan McKay, ,foe Taylor, Earl
tregt,`-, i11-7 t aiii* `"`•iAmz
Doak, JaMets :Johnston, Walter
Hunt, Win, .Burke and 'IZranald
Croft.
N. 1VVeKay was elected Fres),
dent of the •Goderich Homing
Pigeon Club. Vice - president
was C. Webb and secretary-trea-;
surer was J. E. Mutch.
15' Years Ago -1950
Mr. and Mres. Ernest Brecken-
ridge
reckenridge of Goderich had been tak-
ing part in ince 'carnivals at Blen-
heim, Harniston, Ingersoll, Hen-
sall and Clinton.
R. M, Menzies was elected
president of the Goderich Coin-
munity-Concert Association.
• .� as --MTs:-
D. D. Mooney, and 2nd- vice-
president, John Walls.
Dr. Geo. S. Elliott :of Clinton
was appointed 'district food and
meat inspector at a salary of
$1,800 per annum.
10 Years Ago -1955
fine 'iib epfc `em�ic con,iriud
and about 200 pwpilis were ab-
sent from Godenieh Pubic
School as aresult of dit. •
George Filsinger purchased
the Naftel Hardware store on
The Square and was completely
re -modelling it for his use,
since• his former store was too
small.
Five Goderich Lions Bantam
hockey players .escaped injury
when their car 'overturned on
the highway erraute back home
from •• -Walliaeelbuag. Walter
Westbrook 'was''drivting the car
and the players --were- avid
Leeson, Larry Jeffrey„ . Arthur
Pearche+Y; Ronnie Wibbia'lri on
and David Besse.
One Year Ago -1964
Thieves ransacked G.D.C,I. on
the weekend' and police 'believ-
ed they were looking for. the
cash proceeds Brom the "At
Home." -Tliey'lesft a trail of de-
struction througih the school.
and stole about ,60 --'in cash and
atransistor radio. •
Branch 109, RoyalCanadian
Legion held its first curling
bonspiel here wiit'h same 20
entries.
Jackie---Kennedy-•--'va*ote-',-St:
Peter's C. W. L.. ' expressing
thanks for Ithe letter .of sym-
pathy ifrom:them on the death
of her hu>doand;• President Ken-
rx edy.
DIES CURLING
.CLiNTON.-Sgt. M. C. O'Dell,
46, fn instructor in -food ser-
vices at Clinton RCAF Station,
collapsed Wednesday evening
of last week while curling and
was pronounced dead oh arriv-
al at the station hospital. •
T. PRYDE & SON
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Finest Stone and Experienced Workmanship
Frank MCIIWain REPDISTRICT REPRESENTATIVE
524-7861 or 200 Gibbons St. — 524-9465
5011
RUG 3 -PCE. BEDROOM SUITE
Dura -Seat finish which won't mar. The drawers .,have nylon glides and
dresser has full width bevelled edge mirror. The top 'and side on this
quality suite are solid and suite is fi lashed in walnut. Attractive. panel
bed head and foot.
FREE!
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This suite has a panel poster bed, chest and double dresser with 4u11
width bevelled edge mirror and finished in Winslow Walnut. ._Top and
side' ortlnta This k also a good quality suite that is
priced right down.
LODGE FURNITURE
West Street
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And He's Hollering.. .
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MANY USED -cARS...He'S Actin
Like A Pirate PRICES 11
SAYS So Slash Prices We Did..
-• Str-oto-Chief--'6--••cylinder-4our1- poor- -
sedan. Economy, yet a full-sized 4
PONTIAC.
car. PRICE SLASHED TO ,
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OLDSMOBILE
62
CORVAIR
Dynamic 88 foul -door H.T. Pow-
e,
er steering and brakes, radio,
nice Beige color .inside and out
PRICE SLASHED TO
700 4 door sedan. Automatic,
low mileagecustom radio. - Fin-
ished iris beautiful original Er-
mine White.
PRICE SLASHED.TO
611 Impala V8 four door -ILT. Power -
steering and -brakes, aOomatic,
whitewalls, radio, etc. Sha two
CHEVROLET tone green color. - n
PRICE SLASHED TO
60 -
PONTIAC
Strato-Chief 6 cyl. sedan. Standard
shift, custom radio, whitewalls, etc.
=Medium Blue finish. `
PRICE SLASHED TO
60
"CHEVROLET
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Biscayne 6 cyl. 4 door. Tinted glass,
automatic trans., very low mileage. -
Lovely white with dark green roof
$1
PRICE SLASHED TO ,
Belvedere V8 4 door sedan. Automatic,
chrome discs, fender mirrors. Two tone
PLYMOVTiblack and greY.
. 'PRICE SLASHED TO
58
PO'NTiAC PRICE SLASHED TO
Strato-Chie-f coach. Six cylinder, - custom
radio, whitewalls. Fully reconditioned.
Sharp white and gold tutone..
58 ., .
'CHEVROLET
58
METEOR
Biscayne four door sedan. -One owner,
six cylinder stick shift. Nice dark blue
finish. Great family, car and fully re-
conditioned. ,
PRICE SLASHED TO ,
Rideau 500 two door Hardtop. Automatic, cus-
tom - radio. One owner. BeautifulBeige and
Bronze. Rebuilt engine, excellent rubber.
PRICE SLASHED TO
We Did As We - Were Told
And Slashed -The Prices
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650
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ALL 'ABOVE CARS CARRY THE
Goociwill W7arrcinty
AND ARE ON DISPLAeY IN THE FRONT ROW
OF OUR USED OAR LOT
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SERVING MOTORISTS .SINCI+', 1929
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