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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-04-25, Page 14 Tanya Palmer •R Debbie Turner Mary Von Rooy r• Susan Freeman.' Students make decision today 'This year the students at • GDGI, will' have ,a shorter • ballot for school .queen but by no means an, easier• job to -select 'the winner. For a variety- of reasons, the field this, year has been cut from seven girls to five lovelies who have all been active , in school committees and athletics. Whey are all senior students and are equally at- , tractive in beauty and charac- ter. Students voted. this week for the girl who will ascend the throne tomorrow night. The most activenominee from an athletic standpoint is Tanya Palmer Tanya is an 18 year old Grade 13 student, She is tie daughter .of Walter,and Eileen Palmer of Warren - Street. ' Over the past year Tanya has played on the basketball --and volleyball team .and even took •a •swing at badminton. She also is active in track an& field. and Mrs. John Van Rooy of RR 'After 'gr'aduation Tanya 3 Goderich.' hopes to ` take ,a, physical 'Throughout the year Mary. , education or recreation course. had the difficult job of keeping ..but she has not yet decided . the student council records in whether___ thatwill be_ at the order, as secretary for the body. College or University level. The only fourth year student She also worked on the school newspaper and with the School nominated this year is Debbie Spirit' Committee. She was a Turner. Debbie is -a 17year old regular in the school choir. ' Susan hopes t\o go to tyniver- sity in the future but she, has not decided.mexactly what she wants to study... •Joanne Walters has been a .. school newspaper writer and hopes to pursue a career in. journalism. Joanne is an 18: year old Grade 13 'student, the daughter" of Gordon and Win- nie Walters of Bruce Streef.in-- Goderich. Besides • working on the school paper and the year hook, Joanne has served on the Spirit Committee. She was .a houseleader . and also sang in the choir. Joanne is expecting to beac- cepted at Ryerson,,next year in a Journalism Course. Mary,.,Van Rooy is the only nominee that has been in this position before. She was one of the students' choices last year as well. She is a Grade' 13 student, the"daughter of Mr. Grade 12 student. She is the ";"`dAVtghter of Howard and Millie Turner of RR 3 Goderich. Debbie is also an active par- ''' icipant in sports,' She played on the basketball and volleyball team this year and was a member of the School Spirit Committee. Next year Debbie will be out in the working force, starting as a bank teller. queen. One of this year's student 4., representatives, Susan Jane, Smith,' student council' Freeman, is also one of the social convener, and Randy, students' choices for queen. Keller, public relations director Susan is a Grade 13 student, for the dance, will be respnn- the 19 year old daughter of sible for the voting procedure. Stanley and Marjorie Freeman and will know :who the winner of RR 2, Goderich. ' is long before it is announce& In her capacity as° Vice- Tight :security does not allow President of .the Student Coun- • for sneak previews at this cil, Susan is one of the year's winner so the students spokesmen for the studentand, (Own will have to wait bodV'. She is a member of .the along with the five, nominees. basketball team, the band and All the wheels are in motion the choir. She also worked on" for the crowing of the queen as the school newspaper, the year- the belle of this year's spring book and, served tin the Spirit ball at GDCI. Committee. Mary is interested •in the medical profession and has already been accepted at St. Joseph's Hospital in London for nurses training. Although the voting and tabulation takes place the day before the dance, the girls will have „to wait until midnight' Friday to find out who is the 27 YEAR-- 17 Mail carriers back Wednesda local by BiLL DIMM(CK While the national mail ser- vices shutdown has been un- .popular with the public in Goderich., observations of the local post office suggest it has been unpopular there too, to both management and union people. . A person who might have walked through the 'silent post office early this week could have heard footsteps' echoing off the walls. A stark contract to the usual bustle that would norrna'lly assail .his 'ears: Only a few employees work during a postal strike. Management personnel. They answer -enquiries on the telephone and empty the mailbox outside for "security' reasons". Typical. of the 'management. personneld"uririg this latest walkout was local Postmaster Mel:Fartisworth as he sat at his desk with 'a.' gloomy mask covering his usually friendly. face. It was Tuesday morning. Snow 'dlifted down outside. "In my opinion they were against the walkout," he said, referring to local postal workers. He termed the atmosphere at the Goderich Post Office last week "as pretty qti et" When national' walkouts Were begin, .ning in Quebec and ,Ontario centres. Management and union staff didn't discuss the mattermuch,, As Mr. 'Farnsworth said, "There 'wasn't much to discuss". on in Goderich" and added Mail service in Goderich" wae"these are your people". ' normal until Friday, 'e except an Councillor Eileen Palmer embargo the Post Office placed told Mrs. Osborn' and Mr. St. on mail to Quebec. Tts sat in' Don she was.. "impressed with bags off to one•corner, the cross-section of On Monday, inside workers, denominations and THURSDAY, APRIL 25, .1974 the people who sort letters, post cards and packages, didn't ap-. Pear for work. "There was*no walkout. They just didn't show up for work", . Mr. Farnswoi''th said. ' The public could go to then, „ post office and pick up mail but delivery had ceased. Inside workers set up a picket line.'' Letter carPiers honoured it. Thev refusedto cross. "We didn't watt to go out on strike, we were forced to',", Ron Barker, union` steward )for the local letter.carriers said during a telephone interview.. . The letter carriers . had to support the inside staff, he ex- plained. The local walkout was part of the national strike.. Wednesday mornipg the let- ter carriers returned to work. r ers 4 rr SINGLE COPY 20c Thev were able to deliver what . mail ,.was available. The. national strike was sparked by what the inside 'workers claimed was a govern- ment violation of union negotiating rights. The .postal department .created .a new class of wage earners to operate po°s;tal coding machines. The machines will eventually make until vetos support. Goderich'to Council ,last week voted' not -ti') 'proclaim a Pro -Life Week in Goderich, thereby lending support to that cause as presented by Mrs. Connie Osborn and the Ftev. Peter St. Don.. Mrs. Osborn -had asked coun- cil to endorse Pro -Life Week which is to be held May 5 to 12„, She said the weeklong event to focus on the right of the unborn child had already been sanc- tioned_by 'local ministers, doc tors and members of the hospital administration. She asked 'ehincil to add their weight 'lin 'the proclamation. "It IS something you can't ignore", Mrs. Osborn stressed: She said abortions are "going \Public opinion sought on site of Hydro plant A team of researchers from Ontario Hydro is carrying out a preliminary study of public attitudes and other related , social factors in Huron county. ••"' • It is the first step in a sequence of events that would lead to full public participation inthe selection' of a site in the county for a generating station. Ontario Hydro has.as yet not decided whether to proceed with the proposal. The study involves the gathering of data on attitudes of people in the study area towardpossible new generating station sites and associated transmission lines. The work should identify major social issues and concerns in the area, and provide information for further research into citizen in= ,volvement. This present phase consists of interviews with local of, fjcials and opinion leaders along with a telephone survey of. citizens randomly selected. The work is being carried out over a three-day period. professions" which had given their support to the event., "It .is everybody's r"espon- sibility", Mrs. Palmer said,. "Ours as well". ' Councillor Leroy Harrison disagtf'ked, He admitted that while this is a_4, tiuchy sub- je&t",_-abortion 'is legal by the law of land in certain instyin- ces. "We've all got our per- sonal opinions", said Harrison. "We are all in favor of life. Rtrt A this. is a matter to, be decided between the man, the woman and the doctor". Councillor Elsa Haydon asked .to 'abstain from the voting on this ,matter. , "By endorsing this project! we' will be takkng sides"; said Mrs. Havdon who went on to explain that while she is not opposed -to what -the group is attempting to do,'she felt strongly the matter, was• not one which should'Ibe dealt with at the council table. "It is out of our jurisdic- tion',', said Mrs. Haydon. "It is, in my opinion, out of order". When advised that she would be' expected to ' vote on the question, Mrs. Havdon told council,. Mrs. Osborn and, Mr. St. Don she would be forced to "Vote against it with -much regret". Deputy -reeve , Stan Profit supported Mrs; Haydon's theory.. "This should not be decided by this council", said. Profit. "We are all pro-life b t if we. prnelaifh a ,Pro -Life Week, we are 100 percent anti -abortion". Profit went on to state he saw no reason for a town coun- cil to "take such a monumental stand" for an group when the maffer. was "such a, personal thing". Those voting against the proclamatipnr of a Pro -Life Week in Goderich were Profit, Councillor Walkom, Mrs. Havdon, Harrison and Mayor Harry Worsell. Those in favor were Reeve. Deb' Shewfelt, Councillor ' Bill—Clifford' and • Councillor Palmer. Councillor. Dave Gower was absent for the meeting • traditional mail sorting by hand obsolete. - The new wage earners would be at 'the bottom of post office • pay scales. The union objected because : its contract preserves the right for union .officials to negotiate all wages. Inside workers also. feared they would lose their jobs or..: take pay cuts if they were for- ced to.. take jobs as coding machine'- operators. Although government officials have promised this would not hap- pen, the union sail sorters who took the new po 1 jobs would have red circles put around their names. Thev' would not • be eligible for new benefits sorters have 'obtained. - Some post office workers have suggested the coding machines will not affect: Goderich` for .a long time. "I don't think it will either," Bob Bob Mills union 'steward for local inside workers said. The walkout by local workers Because of the current maii strike by inside workers at the post office, Signal -Star .staffers had to sort papers, into delivery routes for letter carders who returned to work Wed- nesday morning John Buchanan and George Vanderbutgh check a mailing list (staff photo) was in support of •national , strike `he said. . . Local workers received word Saturday afternoon not to report to work on Monday mor- • ping. Meanwhile the normal spirit of a good relationship between management and union people h$d beepdisru:pted. But the at- mosphere surrounding their feelings was not hostile or bit- ter. Mr. Mills summed ,up the feelings of both parties when he said, "I hope .it's not a• long_ strike." Beer garden for race fans' The ''Goderich Trotting Association want tomake the new Ffida.y night race meets in town as attractive as possible•' to they horse racing fans in the area - and they are planning to spend, some rmonety to do it. Two,•projects ,are in the of- fipg. z The first, th build as canopy 'over the be .ting area to protect ., .peopte---plastng bets when the weather ,is' not too. favorable, was given tentative approval by town council. The second,' to serve beer on race nights, is posing a 'little more difficulty although coun- cil does not seem to be opposed, It was learned that an initial plan had involved building a shelter whichwould serve as a bar. But' tight regulations by the Huron County Health Unit have ruted out the feasibility, for this, season at least, of providing such a• spot. The Trotting Association did • ask for permission to set up an outdoor bar at the north end of the grandstand. This suggestion . met with,the ap- proval of the local ' Chief of Police Pat King who said that if a tarp could be thrown over the fence on the eastern side of the area to obscure the view of young chitdsen, it would be ac- ceptable to him. • The matter will receive the close attention of a special corn- mttee comprised of *council members and officials of the trotting association before any final approval is granted for a "beer garden Clacks. ahead! Clocks fall back in the fall and spring ahead in the spring.` Don't forget to turn yout clocks ahead one hour this .Sunday, April 28, at 12:01 A.M 'f_,.._.__•