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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-05-09, Page 11 . addition approved utlust The. Alexandra Marine and General Hospital has just received word from the Ministry. of Health in Toronto that they,,have approved of' the project to proceed to construc- ttidn for the expansion of the Emergency and .Radiology epartments. ,1°L ----",-The Hospital and the Ministry of Health have been working, together on the plans' for the past few years and the Board of the Hospital is pleased to get the go ahead. The Board is proceeding with working drawings im- mediately,, K.G. Dunn, Chairman of the Board, has stated that the number of emergency visits has increased from 3855 in 1969 to 9697 in 1973. Mr. Dunn also said there is a possibility that a new Boiler -Plant might be 'included if sufficient funds are available. Council okay. s .loan for track Only Councillor Elsa Hayden - However, when it became clear voted in opposition to Goderich the raceway officials were con- Tovfin Council loaning funds to sidering a building, the matter ,the Goderich Trotting and was brought back to the council r Agriculture Association for table for deliberation and construction of a building clarification. ' w, which may be used for dispen- Reeve Deb Shewfelt pointed sing alcoholic beverages at the out this request of the Trotting ° race track. -Council reached a Association' was not different decision on the matter last from other years when the Thursday evening. organization had borrovled Before the vote, however, funds for improvements at the Mre. Haydon made it clear to raceway. • He said ..the the representatives of the Association had an excellent raceway that she was not op- record for repaying loaner -posed to the consumption of "That is a real recreation • alcoholic beverages - indoors or centre down there becauee we outdoors,, at the race track or have an active race.association, elsewhere. soccer. association, baseball .-..--,.the lady :told the 'meeting association"eesaid Shewfelt. her only concern was "you're, going to spend, that knowlingly using municipal - money down there anyway. If funds to construct a building is nice to have someone• who is which could become a 'bar' at willing to do the work":' ,.,. sonie future date. "I think, we should loan them "It just doesn't sit right with• the money", said Councillor me", she admitted.' "4 am , Leroy Harrison. "They ',have 'uneasy about using the town's always • paid it back other money°for creating an outdoor yeafs". • drinking place".. Councillor Frank Walkom, Councillor Dave Gower, said he wags "opposed to using asked why the Association taxpayers' money" to create a could not borrow funds from a, drinking spot at the race'trad bank or other company whose However he was remindedthat business it was to make invest- liquor licenses are obtained at ments. • He learned from Ken Goderich Memorial Arena Crawford' of the Association which is also town property that the group. has "no "There will be several uses borrowing power" since it only ,for this building", pointed out manages . the raceway . and • •Ken . Crawford who said the raceway • funds under the premises would probably be Dungannon Agricultural s used by all' groups with . ac - Society charter. fivities at"' the Agricultural Councillor Gower,' expressing , Parks sortie opposition to the plan, • "I 'will probably vote for it", reminded the Association the offered Councillor Eileen town would ,have to either Palmer. "It.is an added attrac- borrow funds or raise through tion in •our town": taxation the money required to Deputy -reeve Stan Profit, build the shelter to be located who made the motion that the between the arena and the money be. loaned, to_ the present grandstand. o , •Association for the'project, ac - "Has thetown authorized a used council of behaving "like bar on town property?" asked a bunch of 'old ladies at the -Gower, who indicated he was • quilting party". He said 'he not in favor of such approval. saw the loan as just one more He was told the idea had • step in the raceway's bid for in- been'approved in principle, the creased public. support, and ad- tnatter being left with a special "led that it would be up to the committee of council to work Ontario Liquor Board -whether out the details for what was or not a license.will be granted originally ' eepected, to be an for the building. outdoor beer garden not in- The vote passed easily - eight volving a permanent building. to one• Coastguard cutter 'coming for summer --.A 96 foot radar -equipped Canadian Coastguard .cutter will, be stationed in Goderich Proposal on display A • preview viewing of The Square paint -up proposal will be held next 'Wednesday, May 15 in North Street United Church at a dinner meeting for the business community and in- vited guests. Following this formal un- veiling of the decorating and color ,scheme, the proposal will be on public display 6n The Square,. Police week During Police Week, May 12 ,to 18, the Goderich Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police "bill hold open house everyday etween 1:00 p.m. and 7:00- 1 p.m. Open house will include tours of the station, a &splay of safety posters made by area public school students and a possible filmstrip, "The OPP in Action." ', A uniformed officer will be available ".to explain police work and conduct tours. extral he tifies move My r.illlothe.rs greal are Six area publi'School students this week on prizes ina Mother's Day poster contest. Senior winners are in the back row and .juniors are in front. They are (from telt, back row) - Kathy Milburn, Grade 7 at Colborne 'school, third, Marjorie O'Neill, Grade 6 at Kingsbridge school, second;. Vera . Van Dupen,• Grade 7° at Colborne school, first: (front row, left to tl iiAixecl reactions on teenage drinking `U this year to aid in 'search and - rescue operations -on -.Lake Huron. . The cutter Rapid is due to arrive, here May 17 or 18, Capt.. H.G. Gould said during, a talk about search and rescue at the regular meeting of the Goderich Sailing, Club May 2. - Capt. Bould, a coastguard of- fiter, heads the, Rescue Coor- dination Centre at Trenton. The coastguard cutter was formerly 'stationed in ' Nova Scotia, .It was through the ef- forts of Capt. Gould that it was assigned to Lake Huron. Although the cutter's home port will be Goderich, it will dock occasionally in Kincar- dine. It will be responsible for patrolling' the area between Sarnia arid. Tobermory. A smaller 77 foot coastguard vessel will patrol Georgiajn Bay. ' Capt, Bould invited the public to visit the Rapid when it is in port and get to know the skipper and crew. He said the Rapid's crew will also be responsible for 'main- taining a weather reportposted dry-•) blackboard Beside the cut- ter*, -locking area. Thi•. Rapid is "part of the nationiAt de network of search and red ue operations cool. - di t d far the coastguard right) Lisa Rayne, Grade 3 at St. Joseph's -School, first: Lonny. Doherty, kindergarten at .St. Joseph's School, third; Jackie .Dalton, Grade 4 at St. Joseph's school, second. Posters were judged by the Goderich Art Club. The contest was sponsored by .Goderich Pre -Life. (staff photo) r, y,. In 1954, Textral Fibers Ltd., 'obtaining the site and the loan of Elmira, started operations 'began last September. with a staff of four. The com- The company, liked the site pany now has 89 efnployees, (it,s not far from Elmira) and president F.G. -Burgess said the availability of labor. during a telephone, interview Mr. Burgess- said that the Monday. Textral plant in Elmira cannot The company's growth work to° full capacity because created 'a need for expansion, there is what he termed -'a resulting in a new industry for critical shortage of qualified Goderich, people", The Signal -Star last week ° Although no, definite date reported that the company pur- has been set for construction of chased a five acre site at the the new plant, to be located on Goderich Industrial Park. Highway 21 next to the Signal - It will, build a 24,000 square Star •building, it will start soon, fopt plant on the site,. which . ' ceuld `employ 1,30 persons when . • ri in full operation, ' 00 Mr. Burgess said most em11, - ployees will be hired from the supervisory and technical„„, Goderich a -yea. Only a per - few nex f We. sonnel will be transferred from - the Elmira operation. Text Wednesday, May 15 - Heading the Goderich plant afternoon and evening the will be Robert Tease. Red Cross” will welcome blood „ The plant's • operations will " donors to the small gymnasium,,. involve manufacturing needing at GDCI. controlled temperature and In the afternoon only, the rl humidity, Mr. Burgess said. Kinettes will be providing a' • These conditions are babysitting service' for blood required . for .converting °syn- donors who must bring their thetic fibres into yarn forthe children to the clinic with kni•ttin'g -and weaving industry. them. ' Final products are underwear, •Perlens who have to go out -polyester double knit material, in the evening to previpus stretch' hosiery and outerwear. engagements .should keep in Mr. Burgess said establish- mind•, this afternoon clinic - ment of the 'new industry here with free babysitting service- was helped by John Mitchell which will' permit them to give with the London office of the • their ;Life-savingdonation•early Ontario Development Cor- in the dav, poration and Spence Commings Blood is urgently needed big` with the . Huron County the Red Cross again this year. Development Office. - The need • is; going up every In a.seliarate interview, Mr: year, • according" - to local 'Cummings said that work—On ,organizeee- Be sure to• attend dlnit mond say problem er-rated;Chief King ore concerne BY BILL DIMMICK reduce the'amount of drinking hut would not stop it com- Goderich is buzzing as talk of • ple'tely, she said. , a scandal is on the lips•of-the "It was just getting too easy population. Are teenagers for them," she maintained. abusing alcohol° at Goderich Something had to be done to Memorial' arena when ., the keep the underaged drinkers, building is open for public from escaping notice• roller skating? "I don't fault the staff down Mary Donnelly, a member of there (the arena)," she said. • the Goderich Recreation and • Everybody, the arena staff, Community Centre Board, police, parents and teenagers, maintains that yo%tngster.s--corn- should get involved and bining roller skating and booze become aware of what is hap - present a serious problem, pening, she suggested. " She made her allegations at Mrs. Donnelly admitted she the board's regular monthly has never been to the arena to watch roller skating. ' She relied on observations 'of parents and teenagers for her information -- •Arena, manager Bill • Lumby Was the only adult interviewed who is directly involved in roller skating., It is part of his job. ' Does he have a problem with drinking roller skaters? "No problem at all," he said. Mr. Lumby_was upset if not irate about the 'story • in -last week's Signal -,Star. Although some teenagers drink before skating, ' the majority of youngsters go to the arena for wholesomeerecreation, he main- tained. There ,are "the odd couple of persons the odd night" that cause trouble, but the arena „ staff ejects them froni'• the premises. "Considering the amount of kids we have coming here we don't hale any real, problem. When you get that many kids you're bound to get a few bad apples," Mr. Lumby said. As for Mrs. Donnelly's allegations there "wasn't a of it. shred of evidence, die main- "Fram what I've heard lot tained. He felt the newspaper of parents have been talky g to story shouldn't have appeared. their, kids about it," she said. "It was rotten for Mrs. Don-. Discussion between parents nelly to bring it up when the and youngsters (coupled with press was there," he said. better' supervision would Recreation director Mike meeting April 30. - The Signal -Star, last weeks' p i ntefi a story �about her -com ments, Reactions to the story have been varied. Some persons are concerned about the alleged problem.. Others complain „ about the e front page postion• and the size of the headline the story received. ,And some suggest no ' probleti'n exists, This past week the fS hal- Star talked to person;,. volved with the arena, tI O°recreation board and undoera'ged drinkers. Mrs. Donnelly ,had reasons for publicizing drinking roller skaters during -an op n' meeting of the recreation boar"d. Some persons have suggested, since the meeting, that. family involvement in the problem 'prompted her to discuss it. Mrs. Donnelly denied the suggestion. She said a complaint by a concerned parent was her reasonfor airing the problem. Although Mrs. Donnelly couldn'tdefine what she meant by .the problem, she was anxious to make people aware Dymond Sided with Mr. Lumby. There is no serious problem. , Mr. Dymond said, it was the same old story; When 400 youngsters get together there is hound to be a few Who 'cause trouble. No changes are planned in arena policies regarding roller skating, he said. Police Chief Pat King took a moderate stand. He said the majority of voungste.rs ,roller. skate and have a good time without booze. It isomostly the same ones who get into other trouble ;that -drink at the arena. It would be almost im- possible for the pol ice • to com pietely stop ' underaged teenagers from drinking at th,e 'arena. Most• teenagers • recognize local officers. Unle•raged drinker, can quickly hide any liquor -°before officers spot it. 'The only way local police can prevent 'yctunsters from bringing liquor into the arena is by using spot Checks. . Unfortunately, . Chief King said, many innocent youngsters would he checked too. When Youngsters are caught drinking, their parents 'are of- ten indifferent.. Parents are pert. of the problem, thief King said. 1" The chief suggested` that the hest way to solve the problem would be for the teenagers to police themselves. It would prevent' the majority from being victimized. by •a few trouble makers. Don . K.Aconnell is a teenager who often skates at the arena. He works as- a cruiser. Cruisers skate free in ex- change for their services. They patrol the rink and help prevent trouble. Don said afew skaters drink but the ' majority don't. Those who do, usually drink before arriving at the arena: He termed it " bit of a ark manager problem," as someone possibly could get hurt .,when * the .drinkers play. silly games, Don has not seen anyone hurt vet,, The interviews with Don and the others made conclusions obvious. The majority of th'e youngsters have not been drinking when they skate. The arena is not "a skid row. Some youngsters do drink just prior to or during skating. Stopping the practice is impossible. Whether, it ' is a `problem or*t not seems' to be a rrrat°Cett'f opinion. �ys small. n theatre - can survive The Park Theatre has recen- tly changed hands and the horizon for movie buffs in Goderich is suddenly brighter. April 1,was -the date Famous Players took over the local operation and since then current, popular and well -rated shows have, been . running for viewers from Goderich as well as Huron, Bruce' and parts -Of Perth Counties. The previous owners booked shows for The Park that, accor- ding to 'resident manager John Lyndon, were old and Often poor viewing. A current show for a smaller town is one that was in Toronto or London around six months ago. For two years Mr. Lyndon waited "fer good shows to- he sent ' to him but they never arrived. "When a show arrived I would phone the distributor and explain to them that it just wouldn't .sell and I would plead with them to send me something a little „more popular' .h said. "I reel that I have been in this business long enough to know what type of audience to expect and on this merit I can judge how a particular movie will draw audiences", he ad- ded. The' only way Mr Lyndon could explain the failure of The Park to view recent films was poor management -in t he upper echelons. "Comparisons . were always made to Toronto before a film was sent to me", he said. "How anyone can compare the reaction of a city of 2,000,000 to a town of 7,000 ,is beyond me but they constantly did it". "If a etlick sold in Toronto they might have sent it to me a year later, 'Tf it didn't sell they wouldn't even try it in Goderich", he claimed.' The most recent example of the selling power of good movies in a small town was when American„ Graffiti was hooked at •The Park. In 10 days Mr. Lyndon estimates that over 9,000 people saw it in the Goderich movie house. "The market for good movies is definitely here," said Mr. Lyndon, "If the next few bookings are successful then the townspeople will no longer have to drive t� London to see a good movie because I will, be hooking them here." o" "I would eventually like' to get to 'the point '.where I can have two complete showings a night",'said Mr. Lyndon. "In. this way I can give service to people who want to come to an early show and I can still draw the customer Who can't make it by eight o'clock." • A little support from the Goderich residents now wilt showetourists this summer that just because the pdhuiation is small, entertainment does not have to he second rate.