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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-08-17, Page 4PAGE 4—GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY. AUGIIST 17 10 78 Ciederich '� ' SINALsTAR_ The County Town Newspaper of Huron Pounded lit 1040 and published every Thursday at Cloderich. Ontario. Member of the CINNA end OWNA. Advertising rates on request. Subscriptions payable in advance •13.00 in Canada. li Oil to U.S.A.. 'MN to all other countries, tingle copies 30 cents. Display'idver- timing ra available on request. Please ask for Rate Cord No. a effective Oct. 1. TM. Second c mall Realstnition Number 071111. Advertising is accepted on the condition that, in the event of typographical error. the advertising space occupied by the erroneous item. together with reasonable allowance for signature. will not be chorged for but the balance of the advertisement will bo paid for at the applicable rate. In the event of a typographical error advertising•goods or services at a wrong price. goods or service may not be sold. Advertising h merely an offer to sell. and may be withdrawn at any time. The ,/ Signal.Star is not responsible for the loss or dantege of untoliched manuscripts or photos. Published by ROBERT G. SHRIER— president and publisher SHIRLEY .1. KELLER — editor ` EDWARD J. BYRSKI — advertising manager Address: P.O. BOX 220,Industrial Goderich Second class mail registration number — 0716 Business and Editorial Office ,TELEPHONE 524-8331 area code 519 I3e wise -immunize_ Polio. The disease that used to strike terroin the hearts of grown men and women has come to the fore uguio, this time in Oxford Coonty, Ontario. Despite the availability of SaIk vaccine world-wide to prevent all forms of the dreaded paralyzing siokoeoo, six cases of polio have been definitely diagnosed in Oxford. The reason.? Failure to im- munize. There is some indication that the pople in whom the disease first appeared in Oxford County were not immunized because of a strong religious con- viction forbidding immunization. Much bitter resentment was evidenced by others in the community against these poop}o, members of the Netherlands Reformed Church (not to be confused with the Christian Reformed Church in this area). Ugly words lashed out against these people for their beliefs, and much needless criticism was levelled at Canadians of Dutch ancestry, no matter what their life style and convictions. • Oddly enough, onnugb, tbou8b, ov-one 'has 'offered—an excuse for the thousands and thousands of people in Oxford County and the surrounding districts who have been lining up for days to buvotboirbooxtor shots. It wasn't anything so personally important as a religous belief that kept them fromkeeping up to date with their imunuuoioaboo.��but`�an it? Was it over confidence? Or forgetfulness? Or simply neglect? Strangely too, no one has dared Cusuggest that because the population has so obviously failed to keep its immunization protection ourr*ot, polio might very well have made a comeback in the body of some born -and -bred Canadian for no other reason than that he was careless. What would public reaction have been then? ' The Ontario Ministry of Health has been at- tempting toquell the panic in people across the province, without losing any of the impetus of the outbreuk to get people into immunization clinics. Dr. Brian Lynch, Hur�n County's Medical Officer of Health admits that if he'd tried two or three months ago to get the adults of this county out for immunization uboto, he would have been the Iaughing stock of Huron. But now it's different Now people have beenreminded in a very drarnatic way that polio is real, that it is still very much with us and that people still need to be protected against it. Dr. Lynch calls it a "captive population" - people interested in immunization - and he's not going to let this golden opportunity pass by. Clinics are going on all thisweek.in..Goderichand still more clinics will be held in September when the stocks of vaccine have been replenished. The people will be immunized against polib and tetanus. Those who, have. ,their shots. administered by the Huron County Health Unit will pay nothing extra - the service has been pre -paid through property taxes. There definitecrisis inHuron County at the of000mt. And what's more, a crisis because of polio can be easily averted in the future by people getting up to date - and keeping up to date - with their immunization. If you haven't over been vucoioutod against polio and tetaouo, start your series of three now. If you have been vaccinated, but haven't had a booster shot within the last five years, get that booster nov'. Don't panic. But don't be stupid either. Protect yourself and youfi)yuguius,t)poGouudtetao j.t's sirnpl.e. It's safe., It's within your budget. —SJK Aboutletters those According to a recent readership survey, letters to the editor is one of the best read regular features in this newspaper. Dufort"nuto}y, it is• not often used by majority of readers as an opportunity to get views across to the public at latge. Sometimes, letters to the editor becomes a place to take advantage of the newspaper's generosity. Writers like to use the space to ask for favors or say "tbanbo" which otbervyiee would cost money inthe regular advertising columns of the paper. Sonnedonoa, the letters to the editor column seems like a fighting ring for a public debate on everything from oomtouhby affairs to religion. ocouoi000Uy, there are complaints from readers who wonder why such letters are aUovv,ed to monopolize the -letters to the editor column. Truth of the matteis this. All letters received by this newspaper except those which are by legal interpretation libeUcino. are published. All letters. If the variety of Ietters doesn't please readers, it is because the letter writers have failed to choose topics of wider interest. The editor has no control over the subjects people write about ... or the number of times certain individuals use the letters to the editor column. If you want to open a subject for debate, get out your pen and paper today. Send a letter to the edit0r: Yon can ifbefrg published. You can count on it being read. You can count on a more interesting letters column because of youeffort. Let's hear from you. - SJK Nicebusinessfor �� ��0�� ���� Not long ago in the editorial column of this newspaper, a suggestion was put forth that citizens. of Huron County enjoy a holiday at home. The editorial even suggested a number of ways to spend that vacatjon in HuronCounty, one of them a trip to a pick -your -own farm, Pick -your -own areas on farms are becoming more and more popular, especially on farms close to urban areas. Around the province's major cities, for inntaouo..many farmers are offering pick-your- ovvo orchards and berry patches and vegetable gardens. They are finding them to be financially sound ventures that can be even further exploited if the farmer is willing to become a tourist resort Operator in some ways. The people who flock to pick -your -own farms aren't just looking for ways to save money. Many are expecting an outing in the oonntry, complete vvrtb a liberal helping of fresh air, exercise and relaxation. The most successful pick -your -own operations provide opportunities for customers to njoy these side benefits. While there are many advantages to the farmer who operates a pick -your -own area, rt is a well- . known fact that the public can and often does, turn velY'.koovvnyocttbuttbopub\inounaodoftoodume,turn a crop or an orchard into a shambles. There are several reasons for this, but perhaps the Most obvious one is that people unaccustomed to field work just don't know how to harvest fruit and vegetabies by the proper methods. •T6ot'a why farmers in dbmk6ow about pick -your - own aroao, advise anyone thinking about such an operation to make certain to separate pick'}xour_ own areas from cominerca1 areas. Here are some examples. . One farmer had most of his apples in dwarf and semi -dwarf frees. He found that the costs of picking apples from his standard trees averaged $1 plus per buobol, more than double the cost of picking from semi -dwarf and dwarf trees. So he converted the standard tree- orchard to a pick -your -own operatlon and is able to show the same level of profit there as he does from his comrnercial crop. A berry farmer with 10 acres in strawberries and a contract with a major supermarket chain picks the berries commercially first. When the.number of trays per picker per hour falis below a certain level, he closes the commercial operation and opens the fields to pick -your -own customers. He charges 50 cents a guurt, conzpare'd with a retail price of 50 cents. At 50 cents a quurt, he can net up to 5600 an acre in a good year. . .a price that is comparable to the most hicrative of crops, tobacco. Still another example shows how one farmer opened a tourist area in his orchard. He discovered that the previous owner had converted a 40 -acre orchard into an apple boutique. . .with as many as 30 different varieties of trees growing there. It was impossible to pick oomomorciul\y, since the cost of sorting the apples alone exceeded the conmercial value of the crop. Many of the varieties were ob- scure with limited commercial demand. Su6ebud plaques made to hang on each tree, describing the variety and the use of tha(particyjlar fruit; he sat' up a soft drink stand and a few picnic tabies and he opened a pick -your -own boutique and raked in the money. These aren't, of coorae, the only ways to handle pick -your -own operations, but they do provide s�me ideas from which enterprising businessmen on the farm can build t6e| ' ow money -making schemes. It's worth thinking about.. .for th customr as well as for the farmer.—SJK ° The town's garbage recent weeks, snapping photos of the kinds of garbage cans they encounter on their routes. From the above photos, it isn't difficult to see that when garbage is tossed into these containers it would very likely promptly drop out again. Obviqusly, the men are tired of cleaning up garbage that has hit the street through the bottom or the side of an andent container. So the crews are treating the worn-out' garbage cans as garbage. They get carted away along with everything else. Clerk Larry McCabe at Goderich says he gets plenty of irate calls from citizens who complain that �'- their "nearly new" garbage cans have been put onto the garbage. truck. Judging from these pictures, garbage cans must be pretty bad shape before they are removed. Check your garbage ��g1������8� garbage .... or treat yourself and the garbage collectors to ' - - barrel. garbage 8H0RLENtritifetLER- Thim week's Dear Readers,:, wilt take a tip from Joanne Walters' Tid Bits. It will be a wrap up of a• o• few --"editorial'-'` -subjects that peed to be put forth. None is im- portant enough , to deserve an entire column, but %each huo enough interest to ~te published here, First, a letter from Ron and Peggy Shaw in Bangladesh, dated July 15. Ron, a former 3igou}- Stur re.purtec' pbotog?upber, is ,unit administrator of the CADE sub -office at Barisal, about 50 miles from the Bay of Ben | Both Ron and Peggy are • healthy, although Ron has had a couple of bouts with kidney stones. The malaria which plagued Ron in Africa seems to be much better in Barisal. And they are boppy.'U0o in Barisal even offers a three-inch television for evening viewing.The Shaws enjoyed a DEAR READERS holiday in Iran in they.a.nd although found � tho prices xteep. P,eg managed to break all her previous (and once he|ievod un- touchable) records for shopping. The last paragraph in the letter advises the couple has "home leave" inFebruary l98O. CouyCillorElsa Buydon prepared a type -written three-page report on a community planning conference held in Stratford in late May. One of the speakers at the conference was Andy Brandt, mayor of 3urniu, who talked about downtown zevituUzudon.- Apparently, Brandt stated that if the funds in a municipality are U,ni/ed, a biQb|y visible part of the overall project should be used to start it off, He advised municipalities to "bring the lights down to people love|, plant trees and fiowers" and "do not add more cement and asphalt downtown but use stones and bricks". Be urged an' "in- telligent ' of possihiiities" and advised municipalities to have a thenie and an identity for the improvement area. Be color -co- ordinated schemes such as Goderich businessmen completed when the buildings on The Square were painted in har- monizing 'earth tones". Brandt's concluding sentence was 'Downtown revitalization is well worth fighting hn.^ He said oaid in his opinion, communities no longer have the luxury oftime to put off such revitalization y programs. This week there is news that the Fleck strike is tentatively settled—gond news indeed. The Fleck strike at Huron Park near Exeter is just another one of those ugly things that is putting Huron County on the Dominion map. In a recent Think Small column written 'by Jim 'Smith of the Canadian Federation of Indepen- dent Business,, there was n`cntioo-ut'tbo problems at Fleck. Smith writes (in part): In the beginning, there were the Haves and the Have'Noty. The Haves lived in comfort fr�rn the proceeds of their in- vestments, including the factories where the,,Have- Nots sweated for star-. vation wages. "The laborers figured that this was unjust and demanded an honest day's pay for an honest day's workThis even- tually led to labor win- ning the right to form unions - and unions gave labor power. "Well,, power is a dangerous thing. Power corrupts and absolute po*er, the farther it strayed from the original aim of achieving equity between workers and employers. "In Southwestern Ontario this year, the UAW struck against Fleck &fonvbaotuhng, a smallish. company which refused to conduct a compulsory dues check- off for the union. Some workers decided to continue working. The uo/mo, strenghtened by members imported from a nearby Ford plant, threw up picket lines which on occasion for- cibly -prevented or'cihlyfscv*nted workers from entering the plant. "Unbo,tunatc|y. Fleck shares space in an in- dystriu| complex with several other fir,n, and workers for these firms were also caught in the action. "There's a role for unions. even if that role is no Ionger as irnportant as in years gone by. Just as it demands rights, howevoc.organized labor should- face social responsibilities specified by law.It isn't good enough to trade the tyranny of capitalism for the tyranny of organized |ahnur.^ +ff And }inu||y, l was delighted with a piece that appeared in Keith Roulston's Village Squinc, written by the man himself. Entitled, "Good news is nip news" he was talking about the Torn tvpage 5° 75 YEARS AGO president m« the Board of Trade in Goderich, returned home Saturday night from Montreal where he at- tended the Imperial commercial congress. Mr. Saunders and Mr. Mitchell, secretof the Board of Trade, who was also a delegate to the congress, sawsome of the G.T.R. authorities and received assurances that the Compuhy would continue in the work of improving its terminal facilities here. David Sure of the Colborne House, Goderich, prize in connection with _theDungannonYuUohov". for the best yearling heavy -draught colt. John Knox, who has been -appointed turnkey at the jail in place ofdne late Robert Henderson, LOOKING BACK will enter upon his new duties next month. The milling company's storehouse has been sheeted with a fire -proof puper' known as flint pdper and is being painted. The tug Joe Milton left Sunday morning from Stokes Bay with a raft of about a million feet for the sawmill. It arrived in Goderich harbor this morning. The second installment of %3.000 has been received for the public library building. Rev. Father Stanley of St. Thomas has been appointed to St. Peter's Church, Goaor}c6, succeeding ev. Father W4m�. � 25 YEARS AGO A "no admittance" ruling was placed on the a'rom where a new swimming pool is being constructed in Judith Gooderham Memorial Playground. on Monday by the town council committee in charge after the remains of three bodies along with a marker dating back to 1840 were uriearthed from the old burial ground The remains are being removed carefully and transferred to Maitland cemetery' for rein- terment. Convicted of keeping riquor for sale contrary to the Cunadm'TemPerunee Act, Dmytro Pyoonuih, operator of the Park House Club, was sen- tenced to four months in jail by Magistrate D. B. Holmes, 0.C., in police court here Iast Thursday Goderich Recreation and Arena Com m^|ttno had 'iuy inception last week and at ameeting on Thursday night. J. R. Kinkead was` named chairman. Majority of Elston Cardiff, successful Progressive Con- servative candidate over on'per,udvecundiduteovcr A. Y. McLean, Liberal standard bearer in last week's Federal election in Huron rid oo 053'auoresult -nrah-oric|u| count and the vote of armed ser- vices. 5 YEARS AGO By a unanimous vote at last Thursday evening's meeting ofTown Council, members approved the preparation of a bylaw which will permit the changes in the Official Plan and the Romtricted Area By1ov, to facilitate the construction of a $2.000.000 shopping Mall as proposed by Suxcoaot Estates for a 16 acre site on the - easterly side of Highway %lsouth. • Negotiations between the Sifto-Salt Mine here and 180 striking un- derground n'do, nd workero, members of Local 682 of the International Chemical Workers Union, resumed last Monday in London. The meetings were convened by the Ontario Ministry of Labor after no progress was made on the Iocal level to end the ten week old strike. Building its ithe Town of Goderich are up this year from .91 at the end of July in 1972 to 164 at the, same time this year. Construction of the new Signal -Star plant and nfOoe'- building is progressing' smoothly according to job site foreman Howard Quaid. Work has been underway about one month and the walls are ��dngrapidly.