The Goderich Signal-Star, 1970-07-30, Page 4y v
4 OODERiCkl SIGNAL-STAIt., THURSDAY, JULY 30,1970
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We received this week a copy of an.
,. article published in the department of
civil service newspaper TOPICAL. The
article was written by Editor Marion
-LaVigne and dealt with her efforts to
conduct an experiment on travelling in
Ontario on $5 per day. Her destination
was-Goderich and her story is, apparently, -
a chronicle of what not to do when
arriving in this town. •
She tells of arriving in late June and,
finding thtN:..„ tourist office dosed;
information gleaned from the 'town
promotion office led her to believe there
. was only.one tourist guest home in tovynq
andtwo useable hotels - the Park and the
Miss LaVigne's attempts at finding
suitable accommodation, and ftiA" 1 at a
price.she .could afford were frustrating to
her, to say the least. The reception she
was given when she did' finally gain
accommodation was cool, to the point of
.having to pay in advance.
She feels her dress at the time — blue
jeans and a striped shell top,. might have
contributed' to the poor reception she
received, but basically the lack of
friendship 'shown to her and the lack of
courtesy, added to the inaccurate
information she .already had received, left
her with a.. very poor impression of
Goderich.
The summer ", "season" starts in
Goderich on Juy 1. In other centres it
starts May 24 "or' --near that date. it has
been suggested the season be started
earlier here. The pros and cons of that
argument would have *to be considered by
'the people who would stand to make - or
lose — money by it: But certainly the
visitors to this town should be entitled to
accurate .information, whatever time of
year they arrive, And courtesy costs .
noth ing.
The girl was told there was' only one
tourist home in Goderfch.. We know of
five at least with other places handling
visitors in , a variety of accommodations .
from perfectly snug little cabins to regular
"tnotel and hotel units.
The girl was told of the two hotels but
nothing of their rates. She saw no sign of
friendship in town and that isn't the real
Goderich.
. T# e «i -r tissue thea n doth_. o._.
rect Ty :this -1 -situation, try'o!r e��Fi u re
something should be done u about
•up -dating the information given to
tourists; whatever theirs appearance may.
be - they still, are people — and an effort
should be made - by whatever office is
responsible to list all .- ,forms of
accommodation, right down to emergency
level. And courtesy, once again, costs
nothing.
It ,seems incongruous that the town
would spend several thousands of dollars
in order to attract tourists to Goderich
and,., yet do very littlefor the tourists
when /hey arrive.
We aren't sure what tourist bracket the
town is aiming at, but"the trailer home
tourists were kicked out, -which takes care
of _ several levels of society and now a
young tourist, who just happens to have
several thousand readers to tell her
experiences to, also has been kicked out.
She `moved on to Southampton. Where
are the other tourists going to 'move on
to? ...
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BY HARRY JAY
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It is the appropriate time to
confess that we have been guilty
of a lack of propriety in the last
-.. few colurhns. By this, we mean
that instead of quietly stating
what we wanted to say in the
clearestpossible manner, .we
have resorted to satirical and
perhaps offensive remarks. This
was contrary to, one of our
accepted 1 mottoes that one
catches more flies with honey
than vinegar. And yet it's
difficult to silence that . little
voice in us which tells us that
many Goderich people have such
a hard head which needs a
helluva extra good kick before it
starts to grind its_gears.
Qp the other hand, there are
those authors who are able to be
extremely honest and yet remain
inoffensive with their radical
statements. Such a, man is James
Kavanaugh, author of 'A Modern
. Priest Looks at His Outdated
Church,' and now as an ex -priest
and married mai; author'of 'The
Birth of God.' It is in this latest
book that Kavanaugh attempts
to answer why there is such a
great religious 'unrest in ' our
Society. Is it ,because men have
realized that their religious
position need not be a static
one? Millions have turned from
' the churches and ,have
disinherited their religious
institution becaute they refuse
to" continue blind imitation. Or
is it because then desire freedom
from the religious institution
and its - power Which has
permeated all levels of authority,
social, political and parental? Or
is it 'beeause in the attempt to
DETERMINE man's goodness
by °their traditional categories,
the churches have detracted.
from man's own strength and
put limits on his personal
responsibility? Perhaps the
unrest` results" from modern
man's, realization that he is 'a
citizen of the global village and
therefore, finding his brother
everywhere, he does not want to
be impeded from sharing by the
prejudice of the various religious
traditions?, ' -
Consider Kavanaugh's own
reasons for writing `The Birth of
God': "I write to the man who is
prepared to be responsible for
his own • actions and the
condition of his world'. I write in
the hope that parents who have
lived honestly and successfully
within the religious institution,
who have raised their families by
its codes and doctrines, will
" better understand that their
children are not rejecting them
when they reject the church. I
write to offer some leadership
for the young whose faithwill
„never beTsatisfied by the narrow
goals of the church."
There are men in Goderieh
who desire and are ready to be
free by accepting ultimate
responsibility for their own
behaviour. These same men
-realize intellectually, , bait not
emotionally, that if one decides
• to think and act for himself, he
must be willing to bear suffering.
. First, he must .rely on hirliself
rather than on the rules and
regulations with their origin in
mythological divine authority:
Secondly, he must suffer
misunderstanding and
intolerance from , his relatives
and friends because he desires to
be loved for what he ' is, and
therefore in . his naive honesty,
he also considers it better to be
hated for what one is, than to be
loved for what one is not. He
also must suffer uncertainty and
be content 'with knowing only
parts of the answers. Finally, he
mast suffer in his realization
that he has a responsibility to do
something about the plight of
helpless men; and there is so
little that he can (lei. and so little
that he is allowed to do. Amen.
Alleluiah.
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FLOWER IN. A BABY, BOTTLE
Words o
Wisdom
He who takes but .never gives, may last for Years, but never lives!
Speaking without thinking is shooting without aiming.
Letter to the Editor
Over the weekend it was my
turn to be "on duty" at the
Youth Centre.
• I was particularly pleased to
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CLEAN-UP!
;see the clean-up operation at the
end of the day, also in front of
the building where the sidewalk,
boulevard and even the curbside
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'AN ECHO OF KASSERINE'
It was a review of the new movie "Patton" which ..brought to mind
the bloody nose°which Arnercian troops sustained at.Jasserine, for it
was General George Patton who was selected to re-establish the
situation as commander of the U.S. II Corps after this disaster.
The date was February 1943. The occasion, the $first .encounter
between American troops and the Germans in„North Africa. The II
Corps consisted` of the' lst—Armnored..and the 1st Infantry Divisions.
They formed the southern portion of the Allied Line which ran ,
along the boundary between Algeria and Tunisia. The 8th Army was
still in the east, though it was preparing to demolish the MViarethLine.
to -which Marshal 'Rommel had withdrawn from Trlpolitania, and it' ,
was here that he joined up with General von Arnim., •
American Intelligence predicted a German'attack against Fondouk,
gn the north of the American line, which was established. on a
mountain range with but one pass: the Faid, sonde 35 miles south of
Fondouk. The „Germans decided upon a surprise attack; a quick
thrust in and out, through the Faid Pass., General Omar Bradley
describes the result: (*1) "Rommel's Tiger tanks surged through the
gateway at Faid Pass ... and with them went . . the chances of
blocking the attack.” The German tanks then pushed on a further 50
miles to the Kasserine Pass where "an inept regimental commander
had ranged his trg9J,s across the gateway in the valley floor as if to
halt --a- herd of-attle.—'ire-critical mountafn.s`�hoiilders_on each,side'nf ►K,__
the pass were left undefended and the German swept through."
"The American defeat at Kasserine had already raised disquieting
doubts in Algiers as to ,the competency of the American Command,
the adequacy of training and the worthiness of our weapons.".
(*,2) "The 'cost was 19„2 killed, 2,624 wounde,cand 2,459 prisoners
or. missing." I first had information of this horrendous affair from an
account in an . evening paper, read between Washington and New
York; a report which was quickly suppressed and did not appear in _
any subsequent issues.
Soon after that, the Commanding General at Fort Knot and his wife
invited a number of us to dinner. A party of perhaps 15, of which
three were British officers. All went merry as a marriage bell, until
the matter of the Kasserine Pass was broached by someone. Then out.
of the clear sky, the wife of the C.G, asked: "Whatever was the'
Eighth Army doing to allow such a thing?"
T #�avQ sever-seen.a..brickdrop so silently! •
[ *1. A •Soldier's'•Story-by-Gent-Omar-Bradley
*2. Crusade in Europe by tent. Dwight D. Eisenhower.] '
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MAN BITES DOG.
- The driver hada heart attack. The bus went off the road. It had once
again "assumed control," which is what happens" in .99 ,per cent of
recorded highway accidents. However, a _22 year .old Punjabi
''immigrant - a Mister Singh "regained control" and brought the
•" bus to a. halt before any damage had been done.
• No seat belts - no inflatable cushions — no'sensors. Just a man.
Mr. Nader kindly note. It is the human element which both fails and
saves. learn to drive! You'll be so much safer. And so will all of us! ,
ACCUTRON BY BULOVA.
Asked why the two clocks in Dublin railway station told different
times, and Irishman 'explained: "And what would we be wanting two
clocks for if they both told the same time?" Naw- -Bulova has gone
one better. They provide two times on ode watch face. The
Accutron Mark II tells the time "where your mind is" •and also
"where your body 'ts." '
of the road were swept clean.
• If only our localmerchants
followed this example!
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Elsa Haydon.
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Remember When ? ?
60 YEARS AGO
The sum of $350 will be given
in prizes at a big celebration at
Grand Bend August 4.
A terrific hailstorm such as
the oldest inhabitant had never
'seen in this . district, visited
Colborne Township yesterday
=afternoon_ and left havoc in its
path_ Standing fields of grain
were hammered to the ground or
cut right off a few inches above'"
the ground; wheat in the stook
was threshed out and the grains
spilled out jn the field; heels,
ducks and turkeys running about
were killed; -and_ innumberable
panes of glass in houses and
barns were broken. The
devastation commenced about
2:30 o'clock and continued for
about 20 , minutes. Reeve
Kernighan was out in the field
cutting with a binder and was
very badly hurt by the hail. His
head was s cut and his body
bruised: Ezra Fisher had fqur
horses on an 8 -foot binder and
when the hail came they ran into
the bush, smashing the binder to
pieces. Wm. Oke's, Luther
Allin's, Arthur Straughan's and
other teams ran away -and did
note tot less damage. Amos
Fisher had 59 panes of glass
broken, Hugh Hill had 40 panes.
broken and Paul Maedel had 22.
broken panes in the house and
40 in the stable.
Miss Mamie Foster has been
engaged as teacher in SS N2. 8
Colborne.
25 YEARS AGO a.
The first Sunday band concert
of the season attracted a large
crowds to Court House Park on
Sunday evening, when the Boys'
Band . under the direction of
Bandmaster Woods presented a
program of sacred and other
music. .
,► .-....;.:. Hundreds of cheques °t` o°r the
federal family allowance have
come through the Goderich post
office for families in the town
ti t6 ictz-vi a:nt num
could: not be determined.
Outstanding among those in the
county who are receiving the'
family .. allowance is the . Smith
r�r.. �� v. V,.
`wr>'sln th
miles south of Zurich. Mr, aha
Mrs. Adelbert Smith. have 16
children, 13 of whotn qualify` for
the allowance. '
l`lemjarniil ltathwell, former
reeve of (Ir erith . township, is
Subscription Rated .$B a Year — To $7.50 (in advance)
clan 'mail registration fiuirlber ' 0716
back in ` the Township Council,.
having been elected ffby
acclamation to fill the seat made
vacant by the death of
Councillor Leslie Cox. Mr.
Rathwell's name was the only"
one put forward at the
nomination n' seting' held at.
Clinton July 17. The other
membersof the township
council are Reeve George Ginn
and Councillors Robert Smith,
James R. Stirling and Gordon
Orr.
10 YEARS AGO
John Glousher, Bayfield road,
vrho received head injuries in :a
car -tractor collision south of his
home, a week ago Monday, is
reported improving.
A blaze in an oil heater at the
residenceof ' Mrs. _ Pearl
Straughan, ,. 186 St." David's
Street, gave the firemen a run
about 12:30 noon on Monday.
It was not allowed to spread,.
and there was no damage to the
house. -
While at work at Goderich
Manufacturing Co. last Thursday
afternoon, Charles Ruffen met
with a serious accident. A flying
piece of wood penetrated the
small bowel. -- V. ; . L.
McGeough was called and after
giving emergency care had Mr.
Ruffell,, taken to hospital. Dr. N.
C. ' Jackson later operated on the
patient, 'who is reported doing
well
Bev Bowra, -son of .,Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Bowra, 186
Wellington Street, Goderich, has
been selected by the Brantford
Board • of , Education, where he
has, been teaching for the past
two years, to "teach in Europe
-Mr the Departmenz of National
Defence, He is sailing from
Montreal aboard the Arkadia to
Soest, Germany, for a term of
'two years.
ONE YEAR AGO
CFB • Clinton.. may "very
department bases slated to close
as the government 'tries to cap
defence spending, Huron* MP
Robert ))McKinley said�{this week.
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ft... Y.4 ' 1t i s rytT 4 rY . t •:1C by 'u', .. tl Y.
commemorating the men who
lost t'heit, lives 6.0 the Great
i,,stkes%during the storm of 1018
will , be, unvieled , Sunday at
Coburgand Lighthou Streets
n Oodeiieh, The is one
of . a series being erected
throughout the province by the
Department of Public Records
and Arkchives acting on the
advice of the Archaeological and
Historia_ Sites Board of Ontario.
The - plaque will be unveiled by
Harold Turner, 'president, of the
Huron County Historical
Society.
Mrs., Mary Johnston, Ill
Newgate Street, celebrated her
95th birthday Monday. July ,,28.
Open house was held during the
afternoon and evening. Many.,
relatives friends and neighbors
called to wish her Many happy
returns. Mrs. Johnston, formerly
Mary Mcllwain, was born and
lived . for many years in a ---log.
cabin south of Goderich now
known as the Mcllwain
Homestead.
THE GENTLE ART OF BUGGING.
One clever Dick -has invented a transmitter which can -be fed to a dog
so that you. cannot kick your own dog without the Society ,for
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals being on you within the hour. The
natural acid in the dog's stomach feedsthe,batteries, mak}rig thy dog
a permanent •stool pigeon. • .
In the London, England area you can test whether your telephone is
bugged by dialing 175 followed by the last four digits of your own
number. An, automatic exchange says: "Start testing now." Put the
phone down and wait for it t4" ring. If it does, • alf is ,well. 'If' it
doesn't, you better act as though you were bugged. . •
In Soho you can buy voice-activatedtape recorders; microphones in
fountain pens; in cigarette packages, cufflinks etc., or you can have
your ,brolly handle fitted with a mike. Better mass production
methods will make it possible for husbands to exercise constant
supervision on their wives; for hairdressers to set up blackmailing
rings with the' information obtained ,through bugs placed in the
dryers, or for the. second-hand car salesman to hear exactly what you
are 'prepared to pay. Snooping. on snoopers will lead to the same
farcical situation which persists in the Intelligence Services where 86
per cent of the time is spent checking on rivals. And Wall started
with Mr. Dulles who said it was easier to place a bug in a bedroom
than a lady spy.
SPACE TRAVEL.
Mars never gets nearer the Earth than 50 million miles, or 100 times
the distance to the Moon. Pluto never gets closer. than 3,500 million
miles. At present rocket speeds it would take 140 years for the round
trip. But when we talk about the distance to stars such as Sirius, the
brightest star in the sky, it is 52,000,000,000,000 miles away. If we
are ever to reach any of these 'we shall have to increase our speed. in
space, perhaps developing rockets which throw out charged particles
of matter. But bodies get more and more massive as they, go faster
and faster until eventually they cannot be accelerated anyfurther. If
we could attain the speed of Light — 186,000 miles per second —
which is the maximum attainable, it wduld take only a few years to
the nearest star, but such possibilities wilt not be. fulfilled in any
likely future.
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