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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-12-08, Page 4PAGE 4--GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1977 Goderich SIGNAL -STAR The County Town Newspaper of Huron Founded In 1041 end published every Thursday of 6oderlch, Ontario. Member of the CWNA and OWNA. Advertising rates an request. Subscriptions payable In advance •17.00 In Canada. 'l7.I14 to U.S.A., 'MDT to all other countries, single copies 30 cents. Display adver• thing rates available on request. Please ask for Rate Cord No. 0 effective Oct. 1. 1177. Selland class mall Registration Number 0716. Advertising Is accepted an the condition that, In the •rent of typographical error, the advertising space occupied by the erroneous Item, together with reasonable allowance for signature, will not be charged for but the balance of the advertisement will be paid for at the applicable rote. In the rant of a typographical error advertising goods or services at a wrong price, goods or service may not be sold. Advertising Is merely an offer to sell, and may be withdrawn at any time. The Signal -Star Is not roponsible for the loss or damage of unsolicited manuscripts or photos. Business and Editorial Office TELEPHONE 524-8331 area code 519 Published by Signal -Star Publishing Ltd. ROBERT G. SHRIER — president and publisher SHIRLEY J. KELLER — editor EDWARD J. BYRSKI — advertising manager Mailing Address: P.O. BOX 220, Industrial Park, Goderich Second class mail registration number — 0716 I) Bonus address A quick suggestion at the end of Monday evening's council meeting by Councillor Elsa Haydon could prove to be a bonus for some enterprising service club in Goderich. Councillor Haydon asked council if any consideration had been given during the discussions about garbage pickup to recycling some commodities such as paper. At this point, Mayor Deb Shewfelt said the price of used paper is going up in price. He recalled that in the past, the Goderich Kinsmen Club had collected paper as a money making project. The mayor mused that perhaps some service club might again take up this tried and proven program now that recycling is so ecologically beneficial, As an added bit if information, this newspaper has received a brochure en- titled "Canadian Waste Materials Exchange The wastes listed in the bulletin as suitable for exchange are organic -chemicals and solvents; oils, fats and waxes: acids; alkalis; other inorganic chemicals; metals and metal containing sludges; plastics; textiles, leather and rubber; wood and paper products; and miscellaneous items. The exchange is aimed primarily at materials not presently being recycled, but metals and papers which are presently being recycled by the secondary materials industry, do form a minor proportion of the wastes involved. The Canadian Waste Materials Exchange is free, sponsored by Fisheries and Environment Canada as part of its mission to protect the environment, cou- serve'resources and help industry. It is a straightforward service - listing wastes which are available and where and listing wastes which are wanted and by whom. The address is: Canadian Waste Materials Exchange,' -Ontario Research Foundation, Sheridan Park Research Community, Mississauga, Ontario, L5K 9Z9. Maybe the town should be on the mailing list.—SJK Up with farmers A recent Ontario Federation of Agriculture convention in Hamilton managed to attract plenty of attention to this province's farmers. And it is about time, Farming is indeed one of Ontario's foremost industries and today's farmers are better businessmen than ever before. For a long, long time farmers have been urged to unite and to speak with one loud, strong voice. This is important, of course, but perhaps even more important is the need for farmers to speak out boldly in places where they will be heard and quoted. The OFA is mastering the art of positive communication and it is paying dividends. Their con'ention in Hamilton made the news - radio, television and newspapers - with items of interest to people in all walks of life. Thanks to four Huron County .F of A supporters. The Signal -Star this week carried stories written for local farmers directly from the convention hall. Adrian Vos, Sheila Gunby, Bev Brown and Brenda McIntosh joined forces this week to get the message to Huron farmers about the new corn hoard which is proposed in the province, the new levy for farmers who will he required to financially support a farm organization of their choice, the need for Canadians to buy Canadian -produced food as well as some choice words from the re- elected president 'Peter Hannam and the Federal Minister of Agriculture, Eugene Whelan. Whelan reminded Canadian consumers .that while food did cost less 25 years ago, it wasn't any cheaper. In 1951, Whelan pointed out, an average hour's pay bought 1.2 pounds of sirloin steak. In 1976, one hour's pay bought 3.5 pounds of sirloin steak. Hannam told the 400 delegates at the convention that the net farm income will be down 19 per cent this year - and that's on top of a 13 per cent drop in farming income last year. As a result, Hannam said, farm machinery sales were down over $84 million.,.,with the end effect contributing to problems at practically every level of the economy. The OFA president got a standing ovation when he challenged the members to"grasp this opportunity to:further the development of positive programs for Ontario agriculture". it is good to see farmers analyzing problems and finding solutions. It is this kind of positive aggressiveness that made Canada one of the world's agricultural leaders and it is this kind of approach that will ensure this country's economic stability -in the difficult years to come.—SJK A little at a time What is a university" According. to the dictionary it is a - "corporate institution with power of con- ferring degrees etc. and providing in- s4ruction in higher branches of learning". That's quite different from the definition of some that a university is a place students go to he assured of a high paying, white collar job after four years. Or that a university is a broadening stop -over het - ween high school and the job market. Obviously the provision of quality education Should he the role of every university. Yet in recent years, society and maybe even some universities may have lost sight of this goal. In Ontar.i6 for in- stance, millions and millions of dollars have been extracted from the taxpayers to help build enormous and impressive plants which may very shortly experience in= sufficient funding to keep them operational. Federal and provincial grants to universities are not getting any smaller, but they are not keeping pace with. mounting costs. Ontario's total university system will receive only 5.8 per cent more in the 1978-79 fiscal year from government, and it is rumored that the increase will only be 3.5 per cent in the following year. There seems' to be little doubt that universities are looking at some tough decisions ahead. Dr. Paul Cassano, chairman of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) wants a new system for funding universities. He says taxpayers must face the fact that universities are largely a fixed cost. Dr. Cassano calls it "blatantly ridiculous" to make such a tremendous financial investment in universities and then base the operating fads on student enrollment, The chairman of OCUFA says it makes universities "huckstars around the high school and beggars around Queen's Park", The way things are now, Dr. Cassano points out, the more students a university has the more money it. receives. Such a funding approach, he says, makes it a temptation to market higher education "like toothpaste or a can of pop". in truth, Dr. Cassano's proposal for a new funding program for universities, one which will allow universities to devote all their energies to offering a top-notch education to people who want to learn, is ideal. But that may well be akin to locking the stable door after the horse has been stolen. it may 'be that a monster has created which will have to be tamed. As is so often the case, the best way to achieve this may be,.to withdraw some of the fun- ding, a little at a time. - SJK • 1 Little Lakes' trees coming down The Signal -Star received a phone call last week• from a citizen who was concerned about several trees being cut down around the scenic Little Lake area near Benmiller in Colborne Township. Doesn't the countryside mean anything anymore, he asked? Russel Kernighan, a member of Colborne Township Council and resident of the area explains that the trees were removed mainly for snow removal purposes and better visibility since people are living permanently in theimmediate area now. He said he by Joanne Walter doesn't think the removal of the trees has harmed the scenic value tootn because it was getting so that the lakes couldn't be seen for trees anyway, lot of the elm trees had died already he said and had been removed two three years ago, Mr. Kernighan said he tried to watch over some of the, cutting operations and talked the cutters into leaving some trees whl might otherwise have been cut down. DEAR READERS BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER Judge Killeen, the infant had 20 fractures and 100 bruises A couple of things in the on her body, according' to news recently just don't make Crown Attorney II Alasdair sense when examined MacDonald. She died eight together, The first is a judge's days after being taken to decision handed down in a hospital. Chatham court last week and The defense lawyer aruged the second is the notification that his clients should he sent in Huron that the child abuse to reformatory, rather than program in this county is penitentiary. He, like so being curtailed due to lac any othei;peo'pieYSeems to funds. • question the ultimate value of In the first instance, Judge a term in penitentiary. The Gordon Killeen of London interesting thing, though, is sentenced a Chatham couple that Judge Killeen handed to three years in penitentiary down the . stiffer ,penalty for the manslaughter death of apparently in, recognition of their three Month old the fact that there is a rash of daughter, The judge ruled heinous crimes involving there appeared to he .a spate children and their parents. of similar cases involving He was giving fair warning parental violence toward ..that child abuse is a serious children, and told the court crime, the sentence he gave reflects "community abhorrence to crimes that fall into an un- speakable category". In the case referred to by www Last week's news had two such heinous crimes in it. One was the story of the couple who wantedto sue the company that manufactured their baby's fOrrrwla. So the mother and father of the child put a household cleaner with a lye Kase in the baby's milk. The infant became violently ill, vomiting blood and screaming with pain from a burned throat. As far as I know, the baby is still alive. But the thought of feeding lye to a precious, helpless infant just to build a - lawsuit against a large company is foreign to most people and certainly raises the ire of the general public to such an extent that very little sympathy can be felt for the parents who would do such a heinous thing. And then there was the case of the mother who shut her children up in a basement and fed them nothing but salt brine to purify them and to drive out the demons. One five-year-old died and a and for society.,.If they couple of other children were have children themsely in serious condition , in chances are better hospital. average they will abuse This mother, I suppose, felt own kids. she was doing whatwas best for the children. But the fact remains that the life of one innocent child is wasted. His While the cases of only crime was that he was abuse in Huron Count the son of a woman whose not so blatant in the ne mind had become twisted and - the ones previously - the massive doses of sodium tioned, it is a fact chloride which dehydrated children are abused he and poisoned him were his From time to time,one punishment. that someone suspec We've all heard of other this child or that young hideous things - children being abused by paren tortured, shut away in dark perhaps would not places, flogged, burned, they were being raped and frightened to death necessarily unkind to by their own parents. And offspring. perhaps the saddest thing of Maybe the abuse is all is the truth that children more than a severe b raised in such' environments ' from .time to time who live to tell the tale, are denial of regularfood• usually so warped themselves . emptinee of a room that their lives are a constant from any action going nightmare for themselves Turn top ••• Don't waste call Dear Editor: When road conditions aro slippery and your engine is running ata fast idle because it is cold, it is difficult to stop quickly- If you have an automatic transmission in your car, select the neutral position as you approach the stop ahead and pump your brake pedal. You will find stopping will he much faster with more control, due to your engine no longer driving DEAR EDITOR your wheels. at its fast idle speed...IT WORKS. Please DO NOT call the Ontario Provincial Police for road and weather conditions.' CLIP THIS OUT AND PUT NEAR YOUR TELEPHONE.. For weather forecasts.and conditions call the weather station Goderich 524-9331; for provincial highway con- ditions call 'MTC Stratford 271-3550. ' The Ministry of Tran- sportation and Com- munications (MTC) in Stratford receives reports from all of its agencies in this area every few hours when road conditions are bad and are prepared to give you up- to-date road conditions. The Q.P.P. cannot give you these reports as it is not their function. Don't waste a call - call the above numbers, An informed . public is a safer one. R. W. Wilson, Provincial Constable, Community Services Officer Thanks Dear Editor, On behalf of the memhers of Huron District Council, Canadian Foresters, may I take this opportunity to thank you and your staff for the excellent coverage your paper gave to our Western Ontario Provinciallssembly. The write-ups covered most of the important aspects of our work, and the pictures were very clear and well illustated. It was all very m preciatcd. Thankingyo ire Yours Sinc Jessee R.T R eciirding-Sec Huron District Counn Write a letter today 75 YEARS AGO A meeting of the special committee was held on Friday evening, the Mayor and all the Councillors present. The meeting was called to receive applications for the position of night constable. It is hoped our city fathers will arrange the constable's duties so that. there will he a watch from sunset to sunrise during the winter, as from 4 a.m. to 7 a.m, is the most perilous time for robberies and fires. It was thought a year ago, in fact for a much longer period, that the town's finances needed a thorough LOOKING BACK investigation and shaking up. A government auditor was secured and his labors were completed months ago but up to the hour of going to press, no statement from him has been made public. All veterans of 1866 arc requested to meet at the Court House on Monday evening to consider questions concerning the Government land grant. 25 YEARS AGO In his November report to the Goderich Public School Board on Wednesday, Mr. Shackleton said that, with an, enrolment of 737, average attendance last month was 634.92 or 94.57 per cent. He pointed out that the enrolment had increased by 104 since the new addition to the school was opened in September 1950. Monday of this week saw more than $800 in stamps sold at the Goderich Post Office, the largest single day sale of stamps in its history. Huron stands fourth amo>lg- the counties of Ontario in the number of farms occupied, according to the 1951 figures or the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Grey County with 6,153 -occupied farms is first. Huron; County has 5,772. A, tota4 of 61 farms in Huron County sold products during 1951 whose value was $20,000 and over; the largest single group, 1,190 farms sold products whose value was between $2,500 and $3,749. 5 YEARS AGO The voters of Goderich gave Mayor Harry Worsell a wide margin of support on Monday at the polls and carried him to an easy vic- tory over present Reeve Paul Carroll who challenged him for the town's top ad- ministrative post. The race for Reeve was closer although present Councillor Deb Shewfelt came away with a comfortable 311majority over his ponent Jack Brady. The first new funera for Goderich-•built esP as a funeral home•• opened this weekend specialservice Sund newly constructed Mc FuneralHome s begun i Road of this year. Sano The annual parade was held on Sa with huge crowds of residents turning out the colorful event parade featured float many service lubrie churches, Wellasb companies as 4 bet entc •th vela ildin And eir toed hi de tion uld ultil ch tou ll me ar st 01 nisi sly our d sl re! dei a eas m bee al tc in tho ed Ye; er et et e let na th