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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1975-10-30, Page 11a } ( Spooks arrive for Hallowe'en party at gaol Plans have been finalized for the courtyard Hallowe'en arty .at the Huron Historic Gaol. , Activities will com- mence at 7 p.m. in_the outdoor courtyards. There will be games, contests, food arid entertainment. a The evening of family activity will feature a ,special presentation of the film "Hold, That Ghost" starring Abbott and Costello showings at 7: 30 and 9 p.m. The first floor of the gaol will be converted into a, haunted house tour with witches and other spooks in attendance. Refreshments will be ava . •'le-vhich in- clude good old fashioned apple cider an • 'td.: cooked over a campfire. Tickets will be sold for 33 e t : or 3-$1 for the above events. In addition a number -of free activities will be provided. They include apple -bobbing, games and entertainment in the courtyards during the first showing'of the film. Costume judging ,will take place at the end of the first show and prizes will be awarded • for a number of categories. r. It is hoped that the youngsters attending will bring their jack-o-landerns for judging. The ,decorated pum- pkins will shed a little more light on the spooky at- mosphere as well. In the•event of rain, the film and contests will be moved to the auditorium of the Goderich Arena, with one showing of the film to take place at 7: 30 p.m: The Gaol Board hopes to provide an evening of Hallowe'en. fun for family entertainment 'at minimum cost to all! Any proceeds will be directed to the refur- bishing projects at the historic site. 111 pRIZE ,sNAp1ANCOA,IM N/R + CNA 4 ERS A S S O L`t\t`O��s N(WSPAPERS COO -44 A 1~28 YEAR •— 44 Open 9 to 9 six days a week TIJIiRSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1975 SINGLE COPY 25; all opens to Miles of red' tape and months of controversy and court proceedings'are history and Goderich's first indoor shopping complex is open for business. Suncoast Shopping Mall was formally opened Wednesday morning to a waiting crowd, and 14 businesses were either operating or beginning to operate in the Goderio;h__ business community. Township mall not i\dead issue 'Goderich' - Township has received an application from a London law firm for the. renewal of a building permit to build a shopping mall on Highway , 8 just , outside Goderich. Reeve Gerry Ginn told the Signal -Star Tuesday evening in a telephone interview that representatives of Rockledge Properties Ltd. will be meeting ' Wednesday, November 5 with Goderich Township Council concerning • renewal of the permit now expiring after one year. Gary Davidson, Huron County Planning' Director, will be at the meeting which has been scheduled to discuss the township's secondary Reeve Ginn said council will at that time review the entire matter of the proposed shopping . mall in Goderich Township, and added -that if council was satisfied with the No nonsense this year bid for -renewal of the permit, members could extend it without further delay. Preliminary work has been. completed at. the Rockledge site with sewers installed last fall. • "A mall in Goderich Township is not a dead issue," Reeve Ginn said. "As far as I'm concerned, the proposal has never been dropped." A week of hair pulling. by store managers, a week of hustle and' bustle by' con- tractors, electricians and plumbers and a week of stocking the new stores by employees and the Wed- nesday morning grand opening deadline has been met. Cleaners worked furiously in the, aisles of the stores polishing floors and windows as last minute decorations were added. Asphalt workers were applying the final coat of paving to the parking lot,.. 'getting ready for the surge of Goderich 'and area shoppers expected for the opening. The business managers ..in the 95 µO00. square foot mall have decided to• adopt some -changes from the normal 'store hours to which Goderich sh.oppers have been ac- customed. The mall. will be operated six days a week froth nine in the morning until nine at .. night and possibly until, 9: 30. The managers are un- decided about the regular closing time but have decided that they will be open until at least nine inthe evening. The two anchor stores in the mall, A&P and the Metropolitan Store, are claiming innovations in their new facilities that are ahead, of any store in their chain in, the entire country. •_, A&P manager Jack Hinton said that his new branch is the most modern of any A&P store in Canada and regards the changes the store has made ' since leaving their West Street location as a real treat for Goderich and area food buyers. "We,have about four times more operating space here, than in the old store and offer about. 1,000 more items in' stock here than, we could there," he said. _ Mr. Hinton said that his staff has increased from about 50 people to about '110 and that he has heard that an estimated. $10,000 a week in Police force doubled for town's .protection The Goderich Police Force will be double its normal size on October 31 due to aj-major Third pharmacist at Rieck's Drugs Franklin Dan Taylor has joined Larry. Rieck and, 'Archie Barber at Rieck Pharmacy on The Square. Mr..Taylor is from Toronto where he attended the University of Toronto, graduating in the class of '74 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy. Single and an ayid fan of snowshoeing and cross country skiing, Mr, . Taylor had camped in the 'Goderich area before accepting the appointment at Rieck's. He is now residing in Goderich, step the department is taking to .assure protection of town and taxpayers' property from vandalism on Hallowe'en night. The ten man force will swell to 21 men on,Hallowe'en night after Chief Pat King swears in 11 special con- stables to servo as policemen for a night. The -all special constables, handpicked from a list of volunteers at the chief's, disposal, were carefully` screened by Chief King prior to , their acceptance for the job. The chief 'screened the volunteers' records and general charpacter . , before making his selection and then had the 11 men rescreened by the Ontario Police Com- mission. . The volunteers will be sworn in by provincial court judge F. G: Carter prior to Hallowe'en 'night and the men will be . given an intense briefing on what is required• of them. Chief King intends to pair the men up with a regular full-time officer to combine the extra manpower with police . experience. He is hopeful the men' will not be called' on to carry, out police duties but will merely serve as an added deterrent for would-be vandals. "I hope the special at- tractions • planned. by 'the community for Hallowe'en will attract the normal large spectator crowd to allow us to deal more efficiently with any throws an article at a police vandalism," said the chief. , 'officer the charge will . be The chief is advocating a changed to assault on an firmer stand by the police this officer which, along with year with• a new outlook on 'carr''ing anoffensive egg throwing and other `weapon, is a criminal charge. similar acts. "We will just take the• ar- ticle off the person and charge him," said the chief. "It will •be up to the courts to deal with the matter and of course the person will be able to pick the article up at the station the next day." The department is not adopting a wait and see at- titude this year. He ` said .that anyone suspected of carrying..e,ggs or produce of any 'nature will,. be,; searched and if the suspicion is founded, the article will be - looked on as an offensive weapon and the person ---charged accordingly. He added, that if anyone Elderly needn't worry Chief King said that if a crowd begins •to form anywhere in town the police will disperse it immediately. If „.someone is spotted in a crowd throwing something the police intend to go into the crowd to apprehend the person. He pointed out that if someone was caught throwing something 'a separate charge of ' wilful damage could be added to carrying an offensive weapon if the person was carrying any eggs.-- Lions ggs.° Lions club negotiating now to: provide delivery service Goderich Lion Roger Turcotte challeged Lions Club members at last week's meeting to show a "humanitarian effort" in Goderich by volunteering to deliver old age pension cheques to seniti'r. citizens unable to pick them up on their own during. the postal stike. Lions Club members were unanimously agreed that Mr., Turcotte's suggestion was worthy of pursuit. ' Lions Club representatives are now 'negotiating- with DRMCQ announces Mr, Bruce A. Sully, President . and , Chief Executive Officer, of The Dominion Road Machinery Group of Companies, an- nounces 'the appointment of four senior executives to the newly formed Corporate Group Policy Committee. The DRMCO Group Policy Committee is responsible for setting policy for the management and growth of each of the group companies, forming a worldwide manufacturing, mareting and distribution network. Mr. E. C. Hill, age 48, is appointed Corporate Group Vice -President, Manufac- turing. Mr. Hill will continue also in the position of Vice- President and, General Manager for Dominion Road Machinery Co. Limited, the company's main manufac- turing" facility in Goderich, which position he has held since 1967, ,,He is also Director of DRMCO (Ontario Distributorship)' and DR - MCorp (U.S,A Subsidiary;. government authori.ies concerning the necessary procedures to institute this service for the elderly in Goderich. "Elderly people needing this kind of assistance shouldn't worry," said Lions Club , secretary Harold Knisley this week,. "The Lions are still working out the details but we may have the service available next week." ' Mr. -Knisley also.reported the Lions campaign for funds for the Canadian National Institute for the . Blind (was "over the top with more to 'come". During last . week's meeting, Wally Kennedy, director of London District CNtB&, spoke to the Goderich Lions and showed slides of Camp George. Members are preparing for the annual hockey game with the Kinsmen Club of Goderich. ' ' The first meeting to discuss initial preparations for the Young Canada PeeWee hockey tournament has'been held with co-chairmen Bill Stanbury and Ben Graham in charge. waiting crowd grocery expenses by Goderich families will be returning 'to Ggderich from out of .town A&P stores that offered services not found on West Street. "We were so crammed. there w "simply couldn't keep the shelves stocked and 'couldn't begin to offer the. variety,,we have here," .said the manager. "But even with our crowded spaces we were ,the busiest A&P store per square foot in Canada in our' West Street store. The Metropolitan Store, a newcomer to the Goderich business community, is impressed with economy of the town and is confident they have a solid future here, Robert Fra'"zer, president in .charge of store operations, said that his company surveyed 'market needs here and have stocked and equipped their new store according to the findings of the survey. "We have looked at our merchandising system and have tried to stock our store with what we feel. is in demand in Goderich along with what has been proven as average shopping needs," said Mr. Frazer. The Met executive said that the staff of the new store has been instructed to poll their customer's needs and requests to enable the store manager to stock his store to meet public demands ef- ficiently, The Met store employs about 70 full and part-time people and according to Mr. "Frazer is average in its size when , compared to ,the company's 95 other outlets.. He said that the new mall( when filled with businesses and operating at its peak» should serve to save Goderich shoppers many miles of travel to outside areas. Pictures from mall opening on Page 14 Student tribute to. Oliver The students , of Colborne Township Public School paid tribu •e to the late Oliver Cook recently' wh n they placed severalbooks in the s ool library iri memory of their fellow student. Oliver, 11', was killed on August 7 when he was struck by a car while crossing highway 21 north of Goderich. The students expressed their sym- pathyto Oliver's family at the time of his funeral when the student's council purchased a floral tribute. At that time the parents of the boy's classmates purchased, a floral arrangement as did the parents of the children who rode the a s •-ne school bus as Oliver. "The student's council, Oliver's classmates' and several' families from his neighborhood pooled some money to buy flowers and realized they had a few dollars left over," explained Colborne Principal John Kane. • "The extra money was used to pur- chase,library books that were'placed?in the school libraryin memory of Oliver Cook. and inscribed with his name and the date of their placement," he added. School .librarian Bonnie Lockwood purchased five new books, all of them reference books dealing with Arts and Crafts, Canadian Indian Crafts, Christmas, and two books of English grammar. " Principal John Kane said later that the whole project typifies the strong' union that exists in rural communities '"bet - . neighbors. He.: said that about 45 families had taken part in the project and that,- the neighborhood stretched - from Saltford to Dunlop. _ "I guess the same sort of thing exists to a certain extent in large municipal centres but I don't think there is the same strong community spirit in the cities;",saidMr. Kane. • fry :�}}'�¢$[ l: •.. PAr" -. A.. C f Colborne school librarian Bonnie Lockwood (left) places ,the books bought in Oliver Cook's.memory on the shelf as two 'parents of the students classmates.look on. , The parents, Anita Swartman (centre) and Audrey Linner were part, of 45 families that took part in the memorial project. (staff -photo) G. senior executive a Mr. Hill's earlier career within the company was in manufdcturing and sales. He is currently an Executive Committee Member of the Canadian Manufacturing Assodiation and was Chaff an of the- Canadian Expo t Association during 1973 nd 1974. M. J. C. Freeman, age 51, BRUCE A. SULLEY E.C. HILL n J.C. FREEMAN J.S. l'IcICEOWN is appointed the Corporate Group Vice -President, Finance. Mr. Freeman joined the c'oinpany in 1950, prior to which he followed a banking career with the Royal Bank of Canada, Since joining DRMCQ, Mr. Freeman has held in- creasingly responsible positions starting as Office E.G.SQUIR ES Manager and - promoting to-- his present position as Vice - President of Finance and Secretary -Treasurer. of that company. He is•. also Secretary - Treasurer of DRMSaIesAnd Secretary •of DRMCorp,', S.A., and a Director of all three Companies, He is a director of The Rosny Cor- poration Limited. Mr. J, S. ,McKeown, age 56, is appojn,te.d Corporate Group Vice -President, Corporate Development. Mr. McKeown has been a director of the company since 1968 and has been _involved mainly int' the areas of forward planning and government associated .programs for research and development and in-, ternational marketing, He served as auditpr and consultant to the' company from 1946 • to 1962 while a partner of Arthur A. Crawley and Co., Montreal. He served '1 •pointrnents oncthe council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Quebec during 1960 and 1961. Mr. McKeown is also a director of DRMCO, DRM- Sales, DRMCorp and ' The Rosny Corporation Limited. Mr. E. G. Squires, age 41, is appointed Corporate' Group Vice -President, - ' Industrial Relations • and Administration. Mr. Squires joined DRMCO's main manufacturing facility at Goderich, Ontario, April 074, and will continue also in his present position of Vice - President of that Company. Immediately before joining DRMCO in 1974, he worked for seven years with the Brinco Group of Companies. During that period of rapid Brinco growth he held the following . positions: Site, Manager of the.,,$9.85,000,600 dollar Churchill Falls Hydro Development; General Manager of Twin Falls Power Corporation; Board of Directors,, Twin Falls Power Corporation;, -and Chairman of the Churchill Falls Environmental Control Committee. The DRMCO Group Of Companies are wholly Canadian owhed and their business activities centre around the manufacture, development and distribution of the highly successful Champion Motor Grader. The main manufacturing facility • is located in Goderich, It employs ap- proximately 1,000 people and produces in excess of 1200 •Graders annually. The company, is introducing a completely new grader series on its••production line in January 1976; a product of its own 'Research and Development Department. 'A subsidiary, Gearco, has developed and is supplying a (continued on page 14). wr W