The Goderich Signal-Star, 1972-10-26, Page 44 ` 1"1t RICH SIGNAL -STAR. THURSDAY,. OCT4OBER 26. 1972.
Bob Desjardins looks' happy enough here but he is ai alering never the Tess from two brown
arms • as he recovers in Alexandra Marine and General Hospital. He was thevictim of an in-
dustrial, accidentwhich occurred where he was emploYed on the construction of a new
building at 'the Sifto Salt mine. Bob fell 21 feet from &scaffold to a cement floor resulting in
two broken wrists and two broken elbows as well as severecuts to the forehead. (staff
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In addition sending acheque ,.
for Tvlenty Pounds, or roughly
$50 in Canadian funds, and a
letter (published elsewhere in
.,,this week's _Signal Star) urging
thepeople of Goderich to do. all
they could toward saving the'
former Huron County Jail from
destruction, . British architect
Ian. M. Leslie forwarded a short,.
biography ofl John Robinson,
__ .first -Viscount : of - _Goderich ..o€ m�.
Goderich and. later Earl of
Ripon.
Born at, London.' England in.'
'1782, the man from whom this •
coriamunity would later take its
name, John Robinson was
educated „ at f row and. SLJohns at C`Cmbrid e,.
In t807 he entered
Parliament as the member for ,
Ripon, a seat which he held "for
20 years. In 1809 he became the.
Under Secretary of State for
War and the Colonies and in
1812 became vice president of
the Board of Trade.
From 1823 until 1826 he was
Chancellor of the, Exchequer"
and in: 1827 was created"
Viscount Goderich. At the same
of Sti.
Colonies and Leader 'of the '
House of Lords, .
In August of 1827 he became'
Prime Minister upon the, death
of Canning. but in January of
1828 resigned the premiership to
be succeeded by the Duke of
Wellington,
In 1830 he again became
` ecretary of -State -Tor War and_
the Colonies and in 1833 was
created Earl of Rip n,
In 1834 he resigned over a
controversy about t the •Church, of,
Ireland but was made president
of the Board of Trade in 1841
and President of the Board of
Control of India in 1843.
With - Peel, -in ...1846w he
resigned following the Corn
Laws crisis thein spoke for the
last time in the House of Lords
in 1847. He died on January 28,
1859.
Politically he . was a
progressive and a member of the
Canningite group, left wing
tories who, after Canning's
death, formed a splinter group
and finally joined with the
Whigs. He was a member of the
Whig government of ,1830, which
introduced the Reform Bill, and
later joined Peel and the
progressive wing of the Tories to
reapeal the Corn Laws. He sup-
ported the abolition oo slavery
but, for some reason not recor-
ded, •opposed the introduction of
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War and the
time he was appointed ,Secretary
The three -tiered fountain at the municipal building was
dedicated last Wednesday evening during the first snow of
the' season in memory. of Sherman. Blake, ' former town
clerk, and Kenneth Hunter, former ,town. solicitor, Present
for he ,.ceremony were (left to right) CouticiHor Frank
Walkom, Council Mrs: EISa Haydon, Reeve Paul Carrell,
fountain designer Nick Hill, Councillor Stan Profit, Halley
Hunter, Mrs. Hunter, Rev: G.L. Royal, Mayor Harry Worse!!
and Deputy -reeve ' Dave Gower. staff photo :
or conn
the p�nny tin. 184(1 This 'image of him has Per, spectral hands over Vab net
As d chancellor of the • Px- nisi' l " Philip Guedalla, in has dissensions and disappearing
°is from view in the first days of
chequer he reduced the duty on" life of Palmerston, has this
Irish whiskey, largely out of unkind description of hid 1828 behind a royal pocket
sympathy for the, impoverished resignation from the premier, handerchief'`
p ship, "The transient and em His successor was elevated
° IrishWhen Austria une
tedly, repand an ofd war loan eche-
m' ..bfrrrassed phantom of the Prune from Earl -to Marquis but the
used the money to make • other 'Minister pursued its brief and title became extinct shortly af-
tax reductions, including a lachrymose course, wringing terward.
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reduction .of the duty on .
tobacco. He also made a grant `"•
of -500,000; -ponnde-- kr—WC'
building of new churches, one of
300,000 pouxids for restoring
Windsor Castle and 57,000
pounds to acquire a collection of,
pictures as foundation for ,,a
national collection.
Contemporary descrilitions
are ✓}lit very flattering. As Chan-
eel4Qr—he -- . a
"Prosperity Robinson" because
of .the optimistic view he always
took of the financial situation
and as Colonial Secretary he
was called •"Goody Goderich"
because of his want of vigour;
He is described as a diffuse
speaker and a shallow reasoner.
It is noted that his first budget
speech , ended with a sentence "
which filled 14 lines of Hansard.
Another' description Hansard.
amiable, upright, irresolute, of
respectable abilities and
business like habits. G.F.
Russell Barker who wrote his
entry in the Dictionary, of
National Biography, says he
was probably the worst Prime
Minister who every held office.
Beans threatened
For Huron County farmers, -
the weather in,the next couple of
weeks will prove to , be the
deciding factor in the game to
--get the already • fate _crops .har=
vested.
Mike Miller, Associate Ag.
Rep. ,with the. Ontario Ministry
of , Agriculture and Food said
Tuesday that "we need dry,
breezy, sunny weather for a"
couple of weeks in order to get
• the rest of the white bean crop
off and get at the grain corn".
Mr. Miller said that about 15
per cent of the bean crop - the
staple crop of Huron County - is
still in the fields and any that's
harvested now will 'be by pure
luck.
The beans that have come off
Huron's 54,000 planted acres
have "yielded good with good
'aality, but., :.with higkc
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moisture", Mr. Miller said. The
excessive moisture has meant a
penalty of 30 to 40 cents a
bushel to the , farmer. "We're
pleased... tTie. gtiality- `given;
the poor year". .
Last week's snow and the two.
inches of rain ori the weekend
didn't help the corn harvest
either, said Mr. Willer. The high
moisture content of the corn
combined with the muddy fields
have delayed the corn harvest at
least another week. Moisture in
the corn is still up around 35 per
cent. A•n--average
An average, yield is expected:
The winter wheat could also •
use some warm sunny days as
well, Mr. Miller said. "I've seen
some poor looking winter wheat
' that needs some, good weather to
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bring it up before the winter sets
in,;''. he said.
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