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Mariners`
Bruce Smith, staff announcer for Radio
Station CBL Toronto, on his,- morning
program Monday of this week expressed to
Canada his regrets in not being able to
attend the annual Mariners Service in
Goderich's Knox Presbyterian Church,
Sunday, Feb. 23.
The Marla is' -Service commemorates the.
catastrophe which struck the Great Lakes on
the night of November 9, 1913. In, the
aftermath of the destruction 248 sailors
never, returned home again.
Seventy-one vessels were lost inthat
tragic hour,; with an estimated total tonnage
of 220,886 and an approximate value of
$10,381,000.00; total property -loss is agreed
, to have been $4,157,400.00. in the Lake
Huron area alone, 24 vessels floundered or
were severely damaged with a loss of 188
lives.
Five men, who were never identified,
were found on the Lake Huron shore at
Goderich. A Public Service was held for
these men in Knox Church and the church
was unable to contain the crowd. Through
public subscription, a memorial now stands
in the Maitland Cemetery, "A Memorial To
The Unidentified Seamen Whose Lives Were
Lost In The Great Lakes Disaster Of
November 9, 1913." D. •
During Dr. James Anderson's pastorate at
Knox Church, a "Sailors and Fishermen's
Service" was instituted in 1903. In the
spring of 1914, Dr. George_Ross, who had
officiated at the burial of 23 victims of the
storm, conducted that year's "Sailor 'and
Fishermen's Service." At his suggestion, the
name was changed to, " "The Mariner's
Service.',' I•t -has been held each spring since,
mainly on the final Sunday in February.
There remains a ghostly atmosphere
about one point in the tragedy of that night
long'ago: apparently all ships were overcome
Recreation
Board
OHkiciIL:
The bylaw establishing a recreation board
for the town received final approval on Feb.
20 when council gave the third reading to
the bill and passed it.
The Board will be known as the Goderich
Recreation and Community Centre Board
and has been, approved by the Ontario
Department of Education and tithe Ontario
Department of Agric).ilture and Food, both
departments from which. grants may be
made available. • ,
The formation of the Board was
recommended Jan. 13 by Councillor Paul
Carroll and consists of two members of
.council and (mit residents of the town who
serve by appointment.
oChairman. is Councillor Carroll, secretary
'is Ron Price and treasurer is Paul Schutz.
t Other board, members are Councillor . Deb
Shewfelt, Mrs. Martha Rathburn ,and Mike
Vrooman.
A recreation program 'is ' under
consideration by the Board and tentative
plans have been made to co -relate activities
for. special weekends- during the coming.
t. months.
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service continues tradition Ask arena cKc*unts-
be
transferred
Goderich Recreation and Community council the recommendations had been
Centre Board 'last week asked council _lo made following a meeting. with Q. H, Miller,
transfer the authority . for accounts payable of the Ontario Department of Education.'
from the arena to the town treasurer. who expressed concern over the .prese ►t
In its recommendations, to council, the system and told the board it wask.not Jegal `
board asked that the arena accounts be paid for the accounts to be cr,paid other than '
in 'the same manner as any other department through the town treasurer nor for the arena
of the town; that all employees be made manager to sign his own pay cheque, even
'town employees and become eligible for with a. co-signer. '
*benefits; that a separate account be set up Mr. Price,said,the board Was willing to go
for the, arena and that the arena manager be along with any suggestion from council that
authorized to make deposits. would enable . the arena accounts to be
Deputy Reeve -Walter Sheardown said hehandled within the requirements of the
could not agree with the recommendations. Municipal Act.
He said , the '"three-man committee under
which the arena had been operated, had Deputy Reeve Sheardown suggested the
been satisfactory in the past and earlier matter be referred back to the recreation
attempts to put the arena under the' town board fo'r investigation into the possibility of
had not proved satisfactory. the board being legally permitted to set up
Board secretary, Ron Price, 'informed , its own accounts.
• at the same time! In a comparison study, it
was discovered that all watches found on the
dead bodies had stopped at the same hour,.
25 minutes Ater one o'clock.
Last year, Mariner's Services was held in:
Fort , William, Midland, Collingwood,
Goderich, •Sarnia, Port Stanley, Hamilton
and Toronto.
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bylaw cbanges
At Knox, Goderich, the nave . of the
church was suitably decorated by men
associated with . the marine trade. A male
choir, "The Harbouraires," has taken part in
the service for the past 12 years. The Itev,,,G.
L. .Royal, Minister at Knox, conducted his
ninth Mariner's Service.
Frank Daniels, formerly a member of the
dome Opera Company, participalted for the
first time in' the Mariners' Service.
New ships' flags, presented to Knox
-Church by The Patterson Steamship
Company, The Upper Lakes Shipping
Company, The Canada Steamship .Li nes, The
Algoma Central Railroad,. were used in the
decoration of the nave.
Second cable* TV proposal
A second proposal for a cable TV service
fo the town was heard by council Thursday
nialt, this time from Rogers Cable TV
Limited, d Toronto. On February 6, a
Strathroy company proposed ° an
underground system.
Robert Perry, a solicitor for
company; made the: presentation, - He was
accompanied. by Barry Ross, vice.president. -
Mr. Perry told council ,eight channels
would be made ,available from an* overhead
service. Reception would be -from stations in
Wingham, London, Kitchener, Windsor°ad
Detroit, with possible reception from
Hamilton. •
Cost of the proposed service would' be
$4,95- per month: -with no installation charge
if residents accept the service during initial.
installation in the town.
NHL. ticket
draw winners
Winners of the Pee Wee House League
draw for" NHL tickets, were Gary Suchard,
.Quebec Street, and Ken Jones, West Street.
The draw was held Tuesday evening at
the arena and.the tickets are for two pairs of
red seats at the Toronto Maple Leaf -Boston
Bruin game for March 15.
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The Ontario•Department of Transport has
returned' the tQ,wn's proposed traffic bylaw
with three pages of recommended changes.
The department's solicitor informed
council by letter' a number of items were
contained in the bylaw that did not pertain
to traffic and should not have been included.
The matter was referred to the committee
for fire, traffic and safety for •
recommendation.
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Mr. Perry said seven FM radio stations are
also available in .the area, although he did'
not say which would be made available
through the service. '
Cables " would be strung ti from Bell
Telephone lines with some poles of the PCI(;
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being used if agreement is reached with the
local utility, Mr. Pert' said.
Reeve Barry Worsen suggested the matter
Jae held over' for twa weeks to allow
--- vacationing. Mayor Uc. 'Frank Mills .to study,,,
the proposal.
To h�Idbask�tball
championships at .GDCI
The' WOSSA senior and junior boys'
basketball championships will be held at
Goderich District Collegiate Institute this
Saturday, March 1, commencing at 12 moon.
G L T 1ntroub l e,
production
in doubt
Maurice Jenkins, president of Goderich
Little Theatre, in an announcement to the
theatre company Saturday evening, .stated
the Goderich Little. Theatre would probabl}:
be forced to close at the completion of this
Cason, and a third and final production• was
unlikely.,
The roblem, Mr. ;Jenkins, said, was not
'only financial but the -shortage of ``dedicated
talent" was making even the selrcti-on of,a-
third play difficult. .
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Six teams he entered in each division._
In the senior division, Regina Nlundi will
meet tit. Pat's in the first round. Goderich
faces 1Vatford at 1::3() and Seaforth will meet
Parkhill at.p nl..
Winners of the Regina Mlurdi-St. Pat's
game and of the Goderich-Watford game will
'Meet in' a playoff at. A:30. The final will be
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Fred Salter,_.pro._tem _town promotion officer, points out imported components that.
Dominion Road Machinery Co. Ltd. wants to have manufactured in Canada. , The •
Goderich.,; Industrial Commission was among some 200 exhibitors at the Manufacturing
Opportunities Show held in Toronto loast•week. The show, sponsored by the Ontario
Department of Trade and Development, is an international showcase of imported
components and..new-products=available for manufacture in Ontario. -Also representing
Goderich, were Bill Curry and Alex Wilkins. Mr. Salter said the. big question that was ..',
_asked by visitors, especially from outside Ontario, was "Where is Goderich?'-°'Mr.
Salter said h the show was excellent and gave Goderich ". . . good exposure to
prospective industrialists."
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held at 9 p.m. the finals will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the
• In the junior division, Seaforth will meet main gym.
Regina Mlundi at noon. With Goderk'h against The tournament will bea single
c4lencoe at 1:40 p.m. Winners of these two elimination event. Senior games will be held
tournaments will meet' in a layoff at 4:30 in the main gym, junior games in the old
p.m. Parkhill meets I)elawa at 3 p.m. and gym•
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Consider
asthmatic
conditioning
The Huron Tuberculosis and Respiratory
Disease Association is'considering asthmatic
conditioning for children aged five -to 14
years.
The conditidning would consist of all_
eight-week course with- one -hour parent
sessions consisting of lectures and film
,ti shows, and one hour sessions by the children
with a physio therapist; - • ".-
Anyone ,who, is interested is asked to
'contact Mrs. B. Davidson, progr i dir t
�TBRD\v nation, '1,12't ` e Iing i S r
o televise
budget
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In other. council news, the problem of
skunks in the Brock Street area was brought ,
up and an . investigation is to be held, to
determine the authority of the town with
respect to control.
Coun. Reg Jewell said a number of vacant
lots and empty houses seemed to be acting
-,, as a breeding ground for the animals. He said
''he area had been a problem once before-and—
last
last year , one man had trapped 11 skunks
'undertone house and another five. elsewhere.
"This is the time of year when they are
starting to come out and maybe start
breeding and something should be done
before it's too late." he said. ,
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Dep. Reeve Walter Sheardown told
4 council he and Coun. Jewell had paid a visit
to the London sewage teatment works last
week and had obtained "....a lot of good
information."
The Dep. Reeve said the object of the
visit 'had been to find out about gear
problems that might have occurred in
0 London which might be the same as
problems at the Goderich plant.
u li spo%e
on -We greerdifn erence s ze
sthting that where Goderich had 4 units,
London had 72.
He said 'the engineefs at London had
informed the members of council it was not
too late to repair gears that had proved
faulty at the local plaitp
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Live television and radio coverage of the ,
budget address- of The Honourable Charles
MacNaughton, MPP, provincial treasurer,
`will be carried on CBC and CTV-on: Tuesday,
March 4, commencing at 2:30 p.m.
A spokesman from Mr. MacNaughton's
office -said yesterday it will be a "first" for
Ontario and represents the first step in Prime
Minister Robarts' program to introduce live
coves nto the le 'stature;.,
_as, dn__
programreenaesie 4i a
view to keeping the public better informed
of events taking place in parliament.
he show must go on and it did, at the The Hollow'
'By Adrian Swanton
The Goderich Little Theatre
presented Agatha Christie's "The
Hollow" Thursday, Friday and
Saturday of the past week. This
was to have been the Drama
Festival entry, but due to illness
and cast changes the
performance had to be
postponed beyond adjudication
date.
The performance Saturday
evenirtg was not up to the usual
high standards Goderich Theatre
audiences have grown to expect,
but they died enjoy it and after
all that is what theatre is all
about.
the playwrite's "red herrings"
were missed in the actors
portrayals of. their parts.
The action of the play' takes
place in the garden room of Sir
Henry . Angkatell's house The
Hollow, about 18 miles from
London.
Agatha Christie goes to great
detail to establish the characters
and plot of her plays in the first
act. if this act is not handled
with great skill both by_ the directors and actors it can
become long, dull and
monotonous. This act could
have been paced better in the
performance Saturday evening.
"The Hollow" is a typical it was not ,until the entrance,
Agatha .. Christiie �whodu.ni ,�ansi - 1 s o thea ranace._a2f
Veronica Craye, a glamorous
cinema queen played by Lee
McCallum did the characters
become believable, the play take
li fe, , the audience lost
restlessness expecting a good
designed to keep the audience
guessing as to who killed Doctor
Christow right up to a few
Moments before the final
curtain. This, 1 believe, was
successful even though several Of
evening of theatre after all. They
were not disappointed. '
The "Pro's" of Goderich
Theatre, Mary Anne arid Mike
Gibbons, Glen Lodge, Kathy
Jenkins; and Frank Bisset, did
their usual good job with the
only fault being a lack of
inter -relationship among the
characters they were portraying.
The most exciting part of the
evening was the work of the
_comparative_ newcomers'__ to
G o d eri ch Little Theatre,
Rosanne deVries as Midge
Harvey a major and difficult role
handled well; Martha Hanly
playing the maid, cockney
accent and all, well done;
_� R be)tta Machan ac `Mrs
Christow (shedunit) another
difficult role played well.
Lee McCallum brought the
play to life and helped to keep it
that way with her frequent
appearances. Stan McGratten did
a gobd job as the gruff and
tenacious Detective Sergeant
Penny.
Special mention must be
made of Lance Reed, who came
to the cast on quite a short
notice, giving a sensitive possibly
too sensitive portrayal of
Edward Angkatell,
Stan Duke of the Clinton
Pegasus Players also came to the
.play on short notice andgave `an
outstanding and thoroughly
believable performance as
Inspector-Colquhoun.
With new talent such as this
the future should look good for
Goderich Theatre. '
la rat k,..,,.1 i5:set„the .dire'
deserves great credit. Every play
during production experiences
problems, but this one had more
than its share. Through his
efforts the show did go- Ott at a r
"The Hollow." -