The Goderich Signal-Star, 1966-09-29, Page 2•
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The Goderich SignaI'$tar Thursday, September 29, 1366
Editorials..:.
Deplorable Condition In Town
Heavy, acrid smoke hung in the
Goderich atmosphere so densely
Monday night that it was impossible
to see across The Square.
It .would be difficult to imagine
a more- revolting condition in any
community unless raw sanitary sew-
age was allowed to flow in the -town
streets or garbage was piled in
Court House park and allowed to
burn.
Citizens of the town have be-
, come so inured to the air they
breathe being poisoned by smoke
from the municipal dump that they
'make only the mostfeeble protest.
They should rise in wrath and'
demand that this deplorable pollu-
tion of the only free- thing on the
face of the earth be stopped im-
mediately.
The condition of the dump exist-
ed long before the -private contrac-
tor accepted the responsibility 'for
its care. That some control is being
exercised is evident in the faetrhre
is not a continual smudge. l±
Minor Hockey
There is a,. world of difference
between a father and a Than who.
merely propagates himself.
A father cares. That's the dif-
ference.
Only 10 men cared when the
Goderich'Miror •Hockey -Association
held its first meeting of the year
Sept. 8.
Not nearly enough attended the
meeting to form an active organiza-
tion so a second meeting, is being
held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Goderich
.Memorial Arena.
Fathers will attend. The men
that merely reproduce themselves
will stay home.
The -GMHA needs ' fathers to
n rAnd YAroun.d Goderich
Predict the impression that a
prospective industrialist visiting
Goderich would have if the stench
of burning rubbish touched his
nostrils ' in every quarter of the
town. "Prettiest town in Canada, in-
deed," he would snort as he hastily
headed for clean air in someotheg
community.
Goderich has an unenviable'
record in sanitation. It °hii,s Blade
the afresh waters of Lake 'Huron a
public cesspool, and befouled the
pure air about it.
Almost a million dollars is be-
ing spent by the town to halt water.
pollution. This was forced. by the
Ontario Water Resources Commis-
sion. -.
It was a i e'ponsibility that
should have been faced with local
initiative years ago. It would have
been cheaper.
Council has once slid by the
ultimatum of the OWRC to have
the dump closed., It is time the ulti-
matum is renewed if council cannot
initiate some action on its own part.
Needs Fathers
help -as coaches and team managers.
"They don't -have to be professional
hockey players," said GMHA p resi-
dent Keri Mullen. "It's more to' beep
the kids in line, see that they don't
get hurt.»
The association also needs
fathers to provide tranportation.
It is hard to believe but the associa-
tion pays for gasoline for men who
take their -automobiles on hockey
trips.
To help costs nothing more than
the investment of ' a few winter
hours. The dividend is really big.
If you have any interest in
minor hockey, be _a, father; not just
a baby machine,
Report Named For' A "Pro
It is entirely fitting that the itis to excuse the self-serving petty
gamiest investigation in Canadian apolitical wrangling • with which . the
political. history will bear through House of Commons is now cursed.
the years to come the- name of . a
prostitute.
The judicial inquiry of Mr.
Justice Wishart Spence, into allega-
tions that the association of cabinet
ministers in the Diefenbaker gov-
ermli nt with Gerd, Munsinger pre-
sented a risk to national - security,
has been variously called"The Mun-
singer Report,' anti "Gercla In-
quiry.-
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From Mr.' Justice Spence's
findings there ��' e e can.l)e taken no other
conclusion than that security of
Canada was indeed placed in a poli-
.tion that it could •have been breach-
ed.
Possibilities of blackmail by
foreign bowers interested in Can-
ada's defence secrets loomed as the
biggest,.danger• in the view of the
--supreme court justice. The choice
would have been between public dis-
honor or selling out the country
for the sake of preserving reputa-
tion.
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The most vulnerable point re-
sultedfrom the squalid liason of the
associate minister of national de-
fence at that tinge, Pierre Sevigny,
with Mrs. Munsinger.
The Munsinger affair is only
one incident in a period of years
during which parliament. has been
continually demeaned. It has added
to swelling the stream that is erod-
ing public confidence in -parliament.
(rurinuti1�-, human nature is
wore willing to forgive the peca-
(lilios of men like.* Sevigny than
Established
1848
Babe
oute
By 0. MacLeod Ross
First and foremost, a matter
of some sentimental conse-
quence has arisen on the milk
run. Babe is up for sale! For
the past 25 years or more, Babe
has been delivering our milk, In
the course of her long servicer
she has endeared herself to
countless among us. Now, at
the age 34, after being assured
of a restful retirement, she is
offered for sale. Will some kind-
hearted animal -lover ensure
that Babe dies a natural death
and is not sold for dog food?
There is that deathless story,
which must be i''esurrected:
Someone once remarked to
Magistrate Holmes that Babe
knew her milk route, without
the guiding rein of Ted Bisset.
Holmes replied: "Babe may
know the milk route„ but she
doesn't know the traffic laws."
This has been an unusual
summer. Unusual for reasons
other than climate, for during
its course the county council
was afflicted by a new disease,
finally diagnosed as EMOH. Its
earliest indications appeared as
virulent EMO, but the subse-
quent symptoms took the form
of a gross public assault on the
character of a public servant,
amounting virtually to assassina-
tion. Rare as this disease is,,
there was no excuse for the
patient, a pseudo-representa-
time of the people of Huron
County, to shelter behind his
malady to jeopardize the
chances .of their erstwhile ser-
vant to find other employmen.
We, of Huron, cannot perhaps
prevent an authoress from
maligning us, but we do not
recognize the right df- a county
councillor to use his office to
bring the county disrepute.
No sooner had the outbreak of
Emo been quelled, than the
second link' in the chemical
chain of EMOH appeared in the
shape of MOH. When this virus
struck county council was dick-
ering over the emoluments of
their Medical Officer of Health.
Possibly, due to his absence
from their deliberations, there
Ls some excuse for council's
abysmal ignorance of the inci-
dence of MOH in Canada. As
events turned out, these shrewd,
hard -bargaining curators of the
public purse evinced no knowl-
edge of the law of supply and
demand where MOH was con-
cerned. Perhaps when and if,
cost accounting permeates local
government, the *axpayer.s will
receive a statement of what it
really cost to oust the incum-
bent (whose minority position
could be ignored because he
was not unionized) and import
a replacement from overseas.
Let us hope the electorate will
retire some of these financial
wizards when the time comes
along.
Town council too, has recently
added evidence to support the
belief that the parliamentary
system is a failure; at any rate
here. Some -of you can recall
the clays when there were such
things as: decorum; parliamen-
tary language; give and take.
Consider then, the recent un-
dignified explosion of unre-
quited spleen, by some of those,
whose position on council was
achieved merely by the absence
of competition.. Consider their
!action in organizing like a pack
of jackals to flail one of their
fellow councillors; continuing
until the "Master of the Hunt
called them off. It was not an.
gdifying spectacle, .more especi-
ally since while counci is not
necessary expected- to .perform
as a team, yet it is not expected
to perform like a pack of jack-
als.
Reverting once again to that
admirable book by Dr. James
Scott: "The ,Settlement of Huron
Opposition -leader Diefenbak-
er's irnage as a man of virtue is tar-
nished .by the Spence report. The
supreme court justice found Mr.
Diefenbaker did not act in the na-
tional interest,• but in. the interest
of party when dealing with the
Munsinger affair as prime minister.
Mr..Diefenbaker, who considers
every -comment or criticism politi-
cally motivated because of his own
commitment to the same course of
'action, called the Spence report, "a
political hatchet job." •
Mr. Justice 'Spencd's finding
that Mr. Diefenbaker did not fol-
low the, honorable Course in the
Munsinger case should be sufficient
reason for the Opposition leader's
resignation.
-The stern lesson for politicians
in the Munsinger affair is the neces--
sity to disassociate themselves froth
such tawdry intimacy and begin
placing Canada before themselves:
That is what they are paid for.
Winter's Pursuits.
Now that we are alone again,
and tourists for the mai
g .
ost part have
returned to their homes,- we must
fall ' back, to those winter pursuits
we -enjoy.
What- are they? Well just try
to remember the answers given the
summer visitors when they asked,
"What in the world do ,you do here
in the winter?"'
Lett�rs T�
Sir:
I note with interest, the repo3ri
in the, current issue. of your
paper, of• the* discussion in
council and your editorial upon
the important subject of Gar-
bage Collection.
There is no way that there
can be pretty gardens in a town
or city without having a great
deal of refuse. It is now being
suggested that inputting it out
for collection, people are tak-
ing- advantage of the collector.
I respectfuly disagree with that
view. .
• Your editorial does suggest
a practice than can be made to
work. I do think however, that
by-law in Brantford Ls not en-
tirely satisfactory. I lived for
25 years in a suburb of Mont-
real. There, as in Brantford,
separate services were provided
for household garbage and gar-
den refuse. The latter was how-
ever, Much more frequent than
In . my . opinion, two days a
twice a, year as in Brantford.
year • is ..insufficient. No one.
can predict with any certainty
the most convenient times with-
out some kind of survey or poll.
Most people cannot work to fix-
ed dates if only because sea-
sons vary and weather is ex-
tremely uncertain.
I respectfully suggest there-
fore. that bur by-law be amend-
ed to provide for collections by
the contractor or that the town
provide the service separately.
I suggest that a monthly service
between May and November or
six pick-ups a year be given.
It is not good enough to sug-
gest that people dispose of re-
fuse themselves. Incinerators
are not possible for most of
us; neither have we the means
to dispose of it any other way.
The trunk of a car will not
accommodate containers of any
size.
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more commonly if there
only two collections a year.
C. S. Evans,
were
If, therefore, the town rellay
wants to have nice looking lawns
and gardens, it must in my view,
provide such a ser e. I agree
with you that put. '- ;it off until
Spring solves nothing. The
autumn clean-up faces most of
us.
I am sure " that there are
many other ways of saving, if
!indeed, curtailment of a neces-
sary service can be called a
real saving. It seems clear to
me that the question is whether
the collection of refuse is a
necessary service, as I submit it
is, and if so. ' h.ow it hest can
he provided.
I notice that Mr. Cooke is'
reported as saying to Council
that • recently, one person put
out 17 bushels of weeds. I am
sure that that was at least a
mild exaggeration. I shudder
to think of any such quantity
of 'weeds. It is however pos-
sible that cutting and thinning 1
from a large perennial garden
F.
Goderich.
But ignored Laws
County." He gives the weight
of Jonathan Miller as 468
pounds. Running across an 'old
print of 1780, it was interesting
to compare 3rohn Love, a book-
seller, and the, subject of the
print, whose weight was only
364 pounds, though he was stat-
ed to be the fattest and heav-
iest man ever known in Eng-
land tothat date. It goes to
show how the standard of living
must have increased in 130
years, exactly 111 pounds per
year!
Someone once remarked of ties" crunch under my feet,)
1Vorth Americans: "They are and where picnics are ,held. It is
like the Great, Ape. `ley put said that householders along
things down where, they are ,said. strip, increase, their welt'
standing and then' walk away fare cheques appreciably by re- -
from them." The "someone" was trieving the_ beer and°pop bottle'"
an American `oo. We have all which are thrown along these
seen manifestations of this areas. Financial benefits apart;
strange disease; in trailer campsthis public-spirited, action does
along the bank drag -strip. (Oh reduce the amount of broken
give me a home where the glass, so much so, that the old
Hondas can roam, and can vent George III 25 -pounders, wheh
their exhausts without fear. were used as anvils for the
Where never is heard a dis- breaking of bottles, hive run out
couraging word, and the "emp- of amtlnition. °
Down Memory Lane
Maitland "Absorbs bass Fry
Sir Wilfrid Laurier never
stood higher in the esteem of his
admirers and followers than
when, calmly admitting his de-
feat in . the elections of last
week, he ,announced his inten-
tion of remaining in Parliament
and leading the Liberal party
in opposition. •
Tuesday of last week several'
thousand black bass fry were
shipped from the- Government
hatchery at Brantford to Brus-
sels and deposited in the Mait-
land River just above the dam.
With good luck this addition
should add much in time to the
pleasure of the angler.
The Spanish River Lumber
Co. is the latest. industry, to.
commence business in Gode-
rich. They opened a lumber yard
on the north side of the harbor
last week, the schooner Katah-
din bringing in a cargo of 500,-
000 feet_ of white „pine_
• 15 Years Ago -1951.
With the installation of a
floor in- the arena practically a
certainty early next summer, the.
Board sof Trade at 'a meeting on
Tuesday •night advocated 3 re-
vival of the Fall Fair in :Gode-
rich and • visualized it• as event-
ually assuming a place of con-
siderable importance in the
community and district.
Goderich visitors to Grand
Bend next year may find some-
thing new added to the grow-
ing summer resort spot which
is becoming• more like Coney
Island or Sunnyside every year.
Plans are in progress for the
building of ,.a race track on a
farm next to the village where
stock car races will be held.
10 Years Ago -1956
Twin problems, the deteriorat-
ing condition of Harbor Hill
road and the traffic situation
on West. Street, drew concerned
comment in Town Council Fri-
day night.
Vandals swept : through Point
Farm, leaving a trail of destruc-
tion behind them. The property,
owned by Bisset Bros. of Salt -
ford Heights, is• about seven
miles north of Goderich.
Goderich harbor is a frequent
port of call for three= of the
four surviving members of the
Great , Lakes fleet of "Whale -
backs," originated by a Scottish
immigrant. The sur''ivors arse
the steamers Meteor and John
Ericsson and the barges Alex-
ander Holley and No. 137.
One Year Ago -1965
Huron Liberals" have given
the noel to high schoololeacher
Maitland Edgar to carry their
banner in the November 8 gen-
eral election, and Huron Pro-
gressive Conservatives are pin- ,
ning their faith on Zurich farm
er Robert E. -McKinley to main-
tain their stronghold in the' rid-
ing. -
The Sheaffer Pen Company's
Canadian plant in Goderich will
be joining the Mammoth Tex-
tron Inc. holdings as part of a
multi-million dollar stock deal.
Clyde Everett, Sheaffer's. Presi-
dent in Canada, this week ex-
pressed `enthusiasm and optim-
ism" at the news of the take-
over.
Sky `Harbour airport has the
potential to become "the true
museum of Canada's flying
heritage" claims a 1965 govern
ment report. As a privately -.own-
ed airport, Sky Harbour was
used as one of five case, studies
in the department of transport
report dealing with local 'airport
land use.
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