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.THE • LUCKNQW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
WEDNESDAY, • JUNE.. 30th,, 19655: .
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LUCKNOW.
ISTRICT C
Lucknow Phone. 528-2125
Reuni�n
Salkeld
HeId At dri
•Ga a chi.
The annual Salkeld reunion was,
held .at Goderich Summer :'School'
on Sunday,; June &th.. Over -60
members of the ."Clan" were pre-
• sentfrom Cleveland, Stratford
and London as well as from ' the
* Goderich • area.
The , president, Douglas Black-
er of Goderich, presided for the
business '" meeting. T. `'J Salkeld,:
Lucknow, secretary treasurer, pre-:
sented his reports. Mrs. W. •• Hors'
ton' Talmay, editor of the "Spec
tator,"' gave the news of the, fam-
ily: Edward . Jenkins of. Clinton.
gave a _short ' resume of . life on
the first Salkeld ° homestead on
the Bayfield road in 1853-1854 '•
' Mrs. Mary Rowed.. gave the
nominating committee ..•report. - Of-
' ficers for. 1965-1966 will include:
president,, Brent Nelson, 'Goder-
ich; vice-president, Amos Andrew,
- Goderich; secretary treasurer, T.
J. Salkeld, Lucknow; editor of
the Spectator,-: Mrs. W • : Horton.
Taimay.. The sports committee
• includes Elizabeth. Nelson, 'Doug-
las .Blacker, , .Jr.,. Brent Nelsen.
and .Douglas Blacker, Sr..
Lucknow Is Top
Village, Pays
$15.. 643. To County
Bruce County will receive $849,
579 this year in' the county ; rate
from' its• 31 municipalities.
Walkerton will pay the greatest
amount, $66,890. Other towns'
shares will be "Kincardine,. $43,-
501; Fort. Elgin, $33,874; South-
ampton, $32,749; Chesley, $27;502,
and Wiarton, $24,763. :
Lucknow pays the most of any
village, $15,643; Teeswater, $14,-
448; Mildmay, $11,452;, Paisley,
$10,665; Tara, $9,217; Ripley, $6,-
566; Lions Head, $6,263; Tiverton,'.
$4,056, and Hepworth, $3,137.
Paying $58,719,'Brant leads.the
townships. •.Following `are Huron;
$50,218; Amabelt' $49,837; Carrick,-
• $47,612; Kincardine, '$41,739; 'Bruce
439)581,. Greenock, $38,144; Eld=
erslie, $37,169; ,Culross, $31,864
Saugeen,. $30,551; ' Arran, $30,354;
Kinloss, : $26,539; Eastnor, $21,381; -
Albemarle, $16,932; St.. Edmunds,
$5,092,. and Lindsay, '$3,560,,
The county rate is due Decem-
ber .'20 and payment before that
time results in a rebate of a
half per each month, •
SUGAR
AND SPICE
by Bill Smiley
There is something deeply dis-'
turbing about the., attitude'. to-'
ward life: oto the modern. North
American woman
Men haven't really changed
mueh, basically, since Julius
Caesar and; his boys crossed. the
Rubicon. They still like to make
war and make.` love; they' still.
drink more than is goods 'I for
them; they still. ; -like playing`
games better - than improving
their 'property; . they still., have
some romance - 'and illusion : , in
their semis; they still fac-
ing loathe
fa _
ing .
up •to family problem in lit-
tle "talks" with their mates
Take a modern politician, drape
him in a -toga, , and he'd be right
at .home' in thea senate of ancient
Rorie. Take a modern general,
hang: a suit of armour and a hel-
met on him, stick him on a horse,
and you . :wouldn't know him.
from a Crusader 'of the middle'
ages:
But take. • a modern woman out
of . her kitchen, away from'her.
wall-to-wall broadloom and dump
her in 'a •tha'tched-roof cottage with
outside ' facilities • and • no deter-
gents, and what would you have?
A. screaming meemie; that's
what you'd have. Even' if Mr. and
Mrs. Will Shakespeare lived in.•.
the' thatched cottage, next. door.
• This comment is written more
in sorrow thanin anger. I don't
put all the blame on the creatures
themselves. I think their greedy.
materialism, relentless reality,
and total lack of appreciation ,of
the finer things ` in life. , like
'their husbands — area result of
the stresses of the age. Too much
warmed-over psychology.
warmed-over • psychology. . T o o'
much hard -sell advertising: '
models. •But they don't do enough
They : crave security. More and
push their
f : it."So the •
,more oy
,
•men harder and•harder . to : build
bigger
L a bigger and b
t✓, gg r ggestate,
and ` more and more, ' insurance,
in order that they can join the'
hordes of lonely widows. in"•Flor-
ida, sitting
at a chapparound telling'' :each
other what
.grandpoor
h;..
Herman was before he worked.
himself to death 30 years ago.
''The all wants. `to a (loved and
�y b,
cherished. And they spend all.
their time complaining lainin about their
p g
health, their'children their. eir hus-
bands,
h
and air the things other
women have that • they don't.
Who's going to love and cherish
a walkie-talkie'' with a ', built-in:
whine?
:They. all want to ; be beautiful-
And : they all go :around . with lips`
pressed:. • tight- mouth ' • tuurned.
down, and ,a big scowl. When was
the' last ,time. you , heard your :wife
singing, Jack?' • '
There'S :only one :solution of
course . for .the .girls, and it
would net be a popular one. The •
.answer isback to the .' scrub -
board' and the ' sewing machine,.
the :vegetable, garden and the pre-
serving kettle. •
I : 'would . not have • you think
these .few observations are offer-
ed in• an unkindly spirit. They are
merely. the, result of overhearing
a., conversation today . between 'my
Old Battleaxe• and ' her sidekick • a-
cross the` street. .
For half an hour, •they vied
with each other . in relating, with
chapter . and • verse,.'what useless •
articles ,Bill and John (incident-
ally, two of the sweetest `guys ill
town) turned out to be.
They all :want to look like ;Paris
important Blind
physical work. and they, eat 'too: ,
Able To Tell Time
much. So 'they ,get fat.. There's.:a,
stress right ° there ' ' ,
They all want' their children to
be handsome and brilliant. So
they spend' thousands of dollars
straightening the kids' eyes and
teeth " and pushing them at school
and nagging them about music
lessons and comparing them 'un=
favourably with kids . who are
handsome and; brilliant. Their
'own kids, naturally, repaid by
getting fat and pimply, needing
braces and - glasses, growing
neurotic, and failing their- exams.
Another stress,
They all want their husbands
to be a combination of Richard
/Burton, J. P. Morgan, and Cas -
(par • Milquetoast. That's a ' little
rough to come by these days, so
they take ' it out on the poor .Ad-
am theYg
got out •
of
the
a
grob-b g.
Frustration and guilt. Two more
stresses.
When your watch is in repair,
• .you're" like • a ' fish out of water.
You look at your wrist a hundred
times a day. You grumble and
get the time somewhere else. But
not being able to tell the time
is a real frustration for newly
blind persons.
He realizes he • can't see when --
ever
ren=ever'. he wants to know the time.,
Instead . of an asset the ' habit of
,reading your own time is a i e -
minder " of the helplessnes and
a - source of bitterness The. Can-
adian National Institute for the
Blind is aware of this and early
in ,the re:adjustment of the new-
ly blind, arranges for the , client,
to get a Braille watch.
The watch . resembles the reg-
ular time piece and may be worn.
on 'the '• wrist in the'..,usual way,
The crystal of the watch springs
• a
'C ONGRATULATiONS;
dictorianr:Catherine Glass of Dur-
ham, congratulates- ' fellow 'award
winners at K -W . Hospital School
,of nursing graduation. They in-
clude , (left to right) Susan. Bo-
berts, ' Sarnia; William Munro,.
Hanover; Kenneth Macdonald,
•
Fergus; and: 1964 graduate 'Mal-
colm MacDonald, who with Ken-
neth has received women's aux-
iliary
bursaries for university stu-
dies in . nursing administration in
Windsor. Mac MacDonald is . ,a
native of'. Kinloss Township.
open permitting its owner `to feel
'the Bands: in relation to . raised
dots that indicate the, figures. The
hand, area extra strong and take
the : 'delicate '•touch'.• of enquiring
fingers quite. easily. • •
Most blind persons become ex-
pert time: tellers. They •can tell'
the' time '.right to the minute and
often .go ;.about showing- off their
skill .:
Braille ' time -telling is introduc-
ed
. g t
ed by the Home Teacher, a blind.
person herself, who issentto the
home of the ::client ` to • teach the
skills needed . • to overcome the
handicap.: She begins with a
Braille ille alarm clock because it
ax
•
•
is large and an easy way to . in=
• troduce the 'dots and hands. The
clock; is particularly' useful with
I women since ladles': watches are
very small. Older men like to
use :the Braille pocket watch:.:
.. Once •the ability to tell time is
restored the blind person :knows'
he is on the way to an •indepen-
dent' life. 'He learns to walk with
the white cane and. if he's cap-
able of employment is . located on
a job through the C.N.I.B. Em-
• • loyment . Department.
Each ear more 'than 2,000
Canadians 'become. blind and be-
gin the long • climb' back with
the
1'..
help of: C.N.I.B.
Or ouciiG�' ,little :ttme,t
Today young Bill likes to tinker but tomorrow
he will be deciding on his; career. Whatever
profession or vocation he may settle on, 'there
will be no financial problem.. A life insurance
program with Sun• Life not only guarantees the
funds for till's education but proVides an income
for the whole family if Dad should die pre-,
I'm asociated with Sun Life of
Canada, the Company -with the policy
that's right for you and your family.'
•Why not call me today? w
•
•
WililAM J. 'KINAHAN:
R R, 2 Liickn
ow
Phone Wingham 55 7-1 98 7
N ASSURANCE ANCE COMPANY 0F CANADA
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