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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-05-04, Page 4PAGE 4—GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1978 -Goderich SIGNAL -STAR The County Town Newspaper of Huron Founded In 1049 and published every Thursday at Dodorish. Ontario. Member of the CWNA "ttnd OWNA. Advertising rates on request. Subscriptions payable In odvence •12.00 In Canada, '17.00 to U.S.A.. '20.00 to all other countries. single copies 30 cents. Display adorer. timing rates available on request. Please ash for Rate Cord No. 0 effective Oct. 1, 1977. Second class mall Registration Number 0716. Advertising Is accepted on the condition that. In the event of typographical error, the advertising space occupied by the erroneous Item, together with reosonable allowance for signature, will not be chorgod for but the balance of the advertisement will bo paid for at the applicable rote. In the event of a typographical error advertising goods or services at o wrong price, goods or service may n.st be sold. Advertising Is merely an offer to sell. and may be wlthdrownot any time. The Signal -Star Is not responsible 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 Two committees but..... Goderich Town Council is moving back to the two committee system. this month. It is to be hoped it works better than it did the last time it was tried. Deputy -Reeve Eileen Palmer outlined a few of the problems encountered previously with the system as it existed. The simultaneous meetings of the ad- ministrative and public works committees just didn't work. The poor town clerk needed roller skates to get back and forth between the two sessions and even at that, he was hard pressed to keep abreast of all the recommendations at the two meetings. Furthermore, there was always the councillor who felt he or she was missing something that was happening at the other meeting. It was easy then to claim ignorance when a specific matter .was brought to the council table from the one committee meeting a councillor hadn't attended. The regular council, meeting Six reasons It isn't just the Liberal party that believes that OHIP premiums are an ob- solete, unfair way of collecting the funds to administer the health care program in the province of Ontario. In a brief prepared by Donald M. Caske of The Canadian Council on Social Development for the Ontario Legislature's Standing Committee on Social Development, the following statement summed up the 28 -page presentation: "Health care is a basic necessity of life and it should be accessible to all regardless of the income or status of the client. We are convinced that the regressive OHIP premium -tax is neither fair nor efficient. This premium should be abolished as a financing device and replaced by a progressive tax, one that is fair and ef- ficient - 'the personal income tax'." There were six reasons listed. In the first place, health care paid for through income tax would ease the burden for health care from those who can least afford it, and place it on the shoulders of those who have money and can more easily pay. Secondly, the differences between self-employed and group plans would be eliminated. Thirdly, income tax is seen as less costly and easier to administer than the present OHIP premium. In the fourth place, adjustments following the committee sessions then was used to bring everybody up to date. That's why the two committee system might just work with the meetings on two separate nights. However, to be most ef- fective, all council members will have to attend all meetings for background in- formation and all council members will have to be prepared to discuss their major concerns in open council- session when the recommendations from the committee sessions are brought to council. Regular council meetings must not become "rubber stamping" get togethers. Eliminating the cumbersome eight - committee system with a mish-mash of o meetings - some on a regular basis - is a progressive step. But past experience will tell council to beware of needless repetition and lack of necessary discussion in regular council meetings. It's afine line on which depends the success or failure of the plan.—SJK to income level for the tax would take place automatically in accordance with current income, and fifth, the "visible link" bet- ween health care financing and the utlization of facilities could be made more dramatic by havirnr each taxpayer con- sider health care, costs "in reration to the total income. Finally, income tax is subject to the direct scrutiny, of the : Legislature where the merits of each rate increase can be elaborated in full. There well may be justification for the proposal to switch to payment of health care costs through the personal income tax Certainly there are many people •'wht3' believe strongly that school taxes should be paid through personal income tax and not property tax.,It may even be that this is the •most equitable way to pass such basic expenses along to the people of this province. But undoubtedly it would take ome adjustments in the thinking of everyone.... particularly people in the upper income brackets who already feel they are being heavily penalized for their ability to make money. And the question will likely be put for- ward' S"Obn. or- ward-soon. Just where does the respon- sibility of the well-to-do end and the in- tegrity of the less fortunate begin?=SJK Food for thought This week, a Signal -Star reader brought in the followig editorial comments which were first written by Judge Phillip Gilliam of Juvenile Court in Denver, Colorado. With summer coming up, and young ' people having lots of spare time in the next few months, it is reprinted here for your en- joyment. We hear the plaintive cry of the teenager. "What can we do? Where can we go? The answer is ..'. "Go home. Go home. Hang the storm windows, paint the woodwork. Rake the leaves. Mow the lawn. Shovel the walk. Wash the car. Learn to cook. Scrub some floors. Repair a sink. Build a boat. Get a job. Help the minister, priest or rabbi, the Red Cross or Salvation Army. Visit the sick' and helpless. Assist Lhe poor. Study your lessons. And then, when you're through and not too tired, read a book. "Your parents do not owe you en- tertainment. Your city does not owe you recreational facilities. The world does not owe you a living. You owe the world something. You owe it your time and your energy and your talents, so that no one will he at war, or in poverty, or sick or lonely again. "In plain simple words ... grow up, quit being a crybaby; get out of your dream world; develop a backbone, not a wishbone, and start acting like a man or woman. "It strikes fear to the very heart of me for the future of our country when I see these young people who are completely and ut- terly indifferent to their responsibilities toward others and toward society in general. "I'm a parent. I'm tired of nursing, appealing, excusing, tolerating, denying myself needed comfort for your whim and fancy, just because your selfish ego, in- stead of common sense, domina.teS your personality, thinking and requests." Civil war here? Canadian money is pouring into the United States, particularly into Florida real estate, as investors from up north look for a safe refuge from inflation and the potential civil war threatened by the French separatists. Meanwhile, the U.S. dollar is picking up t uying power in Canada instead of- losing buying power, as it is doing almost everywhere else in the world. This.,,rimay prompt courageous U.S. in- vestors to check out bargain -priced Canadian businesses or real estate. Sometimes the biggest barrier to doing business in a foreign country is not knowing the roles of the game there. Information often ip scattered, if available at ail. In the case of Canada, though, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce has come out with a 71 -page booklet designed specifically to avoid this dilemma. Called "Doing Business in Canada," it tells about taxes, tariffs and labor legislation, government grants, incentives and international agreements, • capital write-offs, plant' sites and the kind of companies you can form. It is available free by writing on com- pany stationery to Booklet Department, G- 101 Canada Imperial Bank of Conimerce, Commerce Court, Toronto ,1V151, 1A2, Canada. Mike Pollick Sentinel Star, Orlando, Florida. Monday, April 3, 1978. With the opening of ,the trout season Saturday, hundreds of fishermen have been trying their luck in area lakes and rivers and one of the more popular spots is the Nine Mile River in Port Albert. Although the tiny BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER Now that the problem of dirty books in the Huron high schools seems to have been cleared away, maybe the problem of dirty movies can be tackled by the same energetic,group of people. I had..a brief chat this week with Bruce Lyndon from The Park Theatre on The Square. Bruce was complaining about a recent family en- tertainment movie which "fell flat". It seems, to Bruce that family type en -it was Roy Rogers or Clark tertainment just doesn't Gable, Esther Williams or make money in his theatre Gabby Hayes. I loved them despite the" protest of socnall. -rnovie goers who say there > Those were the days when just aren't enough movies which the family can attend as a group. According to Bruce, it is the "modern" movies which attract the crowds; the violent movies; the movies with the bed scenes and the filthy language and the perverted impressions of life. river has been dotted with fishermen each day the catches have been . light and rather disappointing to most anglers. (photo by Dave Sykes) DEAR READERS Most of them second rate flicks. "Whys, That was Bruce'Lyndon's simple question. + + + I don't have any answers for the preference of people. I can only say that I am an avid movie fan .... well, let's qualify that„ I used to be an avid movie fan. I used to attend every movie that appeared at the local theatre ..... bar none. It didn't matter to me whether the westerns were wild and. woolly .... lots of cowboys and Indians, lots of corn whiskey and dance hall belles, lots of shooting and roping and riding. Men were men and women were women. But the men didn't say anything more alarming than "gosh darn" and the ladies weren't ladies if they entered a saloon. nimble as Astaire? Was Those were the days when anyone ever lovelier than Cyd love stories were warm and Charise? tender. The guy always And what about the comedy married the girl at the end .... of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby he didn't cifrry her off to bed in their day? Or the situation on the first date and he didn't comedies done so expertly by badger her until she shacked Clifton Webb and David up with him in some pad overr,,,Nivin? Or the swashbuckling a pizza joint. There was lots high seas adventures, with of romance and some of it Errol Flynn and Alan Ladd? was more like hanky-panky. Or the side-splitting antics of But everybody left clothes on Ma and Pa Kettle? and if clothes were removed, it was by Every once in a long while. imagination only. The hero I go to today's movies. never got beyond the top Usually I go on the recom- button before c the camera mendation of someone else moved to another scene , 1jo knows ;in y persona l And talk, . about Oa.tti,`['day 4,cef,erences. 1~,ve seen some Night Fever and dancing. I good movies lately. I enjoyed remember Gene "Kelly and The • Sting, The Poseidon Fred Astaire and Donald Adventure, Fiddler on the O'Connor and Ginger Rogers Roof, ,The Sound of Music, and Ann Miller and Debbie The Other Side of the Reynolds. And • I remember Mountain, On A Clear Day the beautiful MGM musicals You Can See Forever, 0 God, that left :me breathless at' Against a Crooked Sky. their elegance and thrilled by But I've seen some others their songs for years and that left me embarrassed and years. Was anyone ever so ashamed to have anyone see me enter or leave the theatre. These were the movies that I took a chance on .... and got beat. I remember one western - type. movie - Soldier Blue - which was an absolutely excellent story, well written and beautifully filmed. But it had ,so much blasphemous, vulgar language in it I was red-faced from beginning to end. I remember going to see The Summer of '42 and except ,for a few real and moving love scenes was far from the "funny" everyone else found it to -,be. It's a big joke around our house. Mom only goes to see Disney movies from now on unless a reliable source assures her she will enjoy something else. + + + And that's what I told Bruce Lyndon this week. I love movies. I watch far too many of them on my' Turn to page 24 • Praises PO Dear Editor: At times we have or hear negative criticism ' of our postal services. It is only fair to metnion different ex- periences as well. Last week I mailed a letter from Goderich between 3 and 4 in the afternoon. When I called the firm in London next morning at 9:15 to inform them that a letter was on the way, I found to my surprise and delight that the letter was already in their possession! One cannot expect better results than that. With thanks I wish the Post Office "many happy returns" of such deliveries. Yours sincerely, Elsa Haydon The answer Dear Editor, On Page 4 of the April 20 issue, there is a large picture, - Do -you know where or when? I cannot say for sure, but the picture appears to me to be a group of men who was possibly searching along the shore line right after the Great Stora' of November 1913, as there appears to be an old life raft off a ship that has been washed up on the shore. There also appears to be other pieces of possible wreckage behind the group of men. There was a lot of wreckage as well as bodies washed ashore all along the beach, particularly between Kintail and Thedford district. There was . considerable wreckage and bodies came ashore right on our own beach in Goderich after the storm. The only thing that has me puzzled somewhat, is the white shirts and ties on nearly every man in the picture. There would not appear to me to be any other reason for a group of men to he on a shore line where the water comes right to the edge of the lake bank with practically no beach. This is only a guess but I cannot imagine any other reason for men to be around what appears to be wreckage off a ship that went down during the 1913 storm. A lot of people spent a lot of time after that storm just searching along the beaches and shore line for anything that might have washed ashore off one of the many doomed ships on Lake Huron. Hoping this may shed a little light on this old p;cture, Turn to page 21 • 75 YEARS AGO Geo. W. Thomson and Son of Goderich are turning out a bicycle called the "Thomson" with all , the latest im- provements including hygienic frame and Cinch coaster brake. The need of an electric fire alarm system in the town was exemplified last Friday morning when the hose wagon made a tour of town before arriving at the scene of the fire at Dan McLeod's house on Britannia Road. Monday last was the annual "baby day" at R. R. Sallows' photography studio in Goderich and fond mothers brought their latest to have their likeness recorded by,the camera. It was a great day for Babydom — also for Mr. Sallows, who handled no LOOKING BACK fewer than 71 of the little darlings. E. B. Tilt, son of Thos. Tilt of the British Exchange, has completed his. course in mining engineering at McGill and has taken his degree of B. Sc., standing third on the list. Mayor Lewis has pur- chased the old GTR station house and we understand it will be removed to Lewis' park and converted into two summer cottages. Constable Phalen has been making the round of town warning breakers of the cow bylaw and any future 'of- fenders may expect to pay costs. Tenders are being asked for a fine new brick building. Mrs. Wallwin of Seaforth intends erecting'_ it on Hamilton Street next to M. G. Cameron's office. 25 YEARS AGO Kitchener -Waterloo Little Theatre won the Dramatic Club trophy at the final night last Wednesday of the Goderich Little Theatre's sixth annual drama festival for its production of The Happy Journey. Dogs runitii)g at large' in Goderich are due for some restrictions if Town Council can find some feasible way of keeping them in check. In a move to crack down on fly-by-night transient hawkers and peddlers, Town Council last Friday night decided to up the ante on peddler's licence from $50 to $100. Goderich harbor was the busiest spot in town yester- day as close to 100 people lined the breakwater and hauled in literally hundreds ,of perch by rod and reel. The resuscitator presented to Alexandra Marine and General Hospital by Beta Sigma Phi recently is creaited with saving the life of a 4 -hour -old child on S a turda y. - doderic'h Air Cadets from No, 522 Maitland Squadron paraded in Stratford on Sunday. 5 YEARS AGO Diane Crawford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Crawford, was named Queen of G.D.C.I. at last Friday evening's annual At Horne dance. Six G.D.C.I. students have received an Opportunity for Youth grant which amounts to about $6,000. The G.D.C.I. students will be working with the mentally retarded students of Queen Elizabeth School for a period of ten weeks this summer. Only 14 votes separated the county councillors in favor of retaining the jail wall, from the county councillors who would have torn it down at last week's county council meeting. A public hearing is to be called in the near future by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment into the matter of sewage treatment facilities installed by Benmiller Estates at Benm iller. The Maple Leaf Chapter, I.O.D.E, last week presented the Goderich Alexandra Marine and General Hospital with a heart pacemaker valued at slightly over $900.