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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1969-12-25, Page 7A Very Merry Christmas to All! 'eappy holiday wishes- to each and every one of you. And thanks'for your very kind patronage. McGAV1N FARM EQUIPMENT Phone Seaforth 527-0245 or Brussels 887.6365 BOB'S GULF STATION Phone 527.1830 Seaforth HEATING OIL Walden & Broadfooe Phone 527-1224 — Seaforth imiiiiimimernak.isailasommuse.mo DoUglaS IVlacDougal, fornierl of Goderich Township but now -Clinton and his Sister,Mrs.Glad McCullough of Cannington recent visited their brother Roy Mac- Dougal, now living in Sydney,Van- couver Island, B.C. During the visit they learned the story which daily papers ran several years ago telling of their brothers experiences before he retired to Vancouver. Island. This is the story - Prospector Roy MacDougall finally hit pay dirt. His wife, Marge, isn't doing badly with oil. But the story of how this came about is so weird and won - derful it- gives you hope. For they're a couple. of first-rate , people. Did you ever hear of a man named Axel Wenner-Gren? Roy and Marge hadn't when they trek- ked and pushed• their flat bot- tomed outboard through the ra- pids and falls of the Peace River, into the interior of Northern British Cblumbia, more than 20 years ago. Looked for Gold Roy had staked out a 40- square-mile trap line at a pin- point named Finlay Fcrks, and was looking for gold in the Val- ley along the Northern Trench. He met. Marge on a holiday in Prince George, about 280 miles downriver. Axel Wenner-Gren, the Swe- dish industrialist already was well along in his million-dollar manufacturing business and his vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, and other such equipment were selling around the world. Now the curtain drops to de- note the passage of two decades (and we'll do some flashbacks later). Fate being the unpredictable zany she is, here are Roy and Marge eking out a living, albeit with contentment, from their hin- terland log cabin. At the same time a business associate of the industrialist - now fabulously wealthy and retired to a lush Bahamian island - hears about the Northern Trench with its storied treasure of minerals, Indian, Teddy, dropped an axe almost thrftiugh his foot; and she held the foot together, while others wheel-barrowed him to the radio shed, where she could contact a doctor.. With . a long iron bolt she put on pressure enough to stop the blood. flow and bandage the wound, never leaving her task while the doc- tor radioed the.instructions. Warm wishes are sent your way, and so are heartiest thanks. WINTHROP GENERAL STORE J Phone 527-1247 0 • • 4 • We Extend Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our Friends & Patrons IN LBW PRICED LATE MODEL CARS CARS— •' 4-1969 Chev. Impalas, 2-door H.T. 'Ind 4- door IITs., fully equipped. —1969 Pontiac Parisiennes, 2-door and 4- door hardtops 3-1969 Pontiac Laurentian Sedans 4-1969 Chevrolet Belair Sedans 4-1969 Chev. Camaros 1969 Mercury Cougar, fully equipped -- 1968 Pontiac Parisienne 2-door H.T. All the above cars have power brakes and steering and V-8 engines 1967 Parisienne, 4-door Hard Top 2-1967 Ford Galaxie 500's; 1 2-door 11.T.; 1 4-door H.T. \— Number of 1964 to 1967 Chevs., Pontiacs, Fords, and Dodges. TRUCKS — 1966 Chev. 3/4 -Ton, 4-speed transmission 1966 Chev. One Ton stake 1965 GMC "960 Series" 327 engine; 15- foot stake body. 1964 Chev. 3-ton, 16-ft. stake, V-8 VANS — 1966 Ford. Econoline window van, heavy duty 1965 Chev. •Van 198.5 Mercury Econoline Van ZIP BRUSSELS MOTORS BRUSSELS — ONTARIO PHONE 887-6173 "The Home of Better Used Cars" OPEN' EVERY 'EVENING • ;111 tiaraorivataaaal 150"411111Bwolams geimpown the house" did you remember BURItS about Uncle Charlie's stocks, which were in the drawer? Or similar pusslernents. C LEAN E will can cost beneficiaries hun- A so-called simple self-made dreds of dollars before they get .`4,1;,•;?: ; • • • fi HURON: e4POSITQA, SEAR:MTH, an PPP". 15f,.' Visit to Brother ecalls Experiences in N:or. appy holiday wishes to each and every one of you. And thanks for Phone 527-1680 BOB & BETTY'S VARIETY May a peaceful and • cheery Yule be yours. Your loyalty is greatly appreciated. DEAR UNCERTAIN -So would I. Some would say "Ridiculous!" Others would say go right ahead. W,e art_orn between holding the line ordre-s-ging-for-her-age. routines, and letting her match classmates. Your comprom- ise haS the earmarks of good sense. Other mothers: What do you think? DEAR DORIS' - One day my husband's sister accused nip of knocking her mother down on 'the floor and -refusing her the bathroom. I said, "Its the first I knew about it." She was very angry. I'm still wondering if I de- Serve an apology from her, as ' these things are not true. Her The end of the year Is love, and the beginning. Lowe is eternal. The sound of the bells Tells us it is a new day. Our hearts chime with hope. Dorothy Cameron Smith DEAR DORIS - It seems to me our 11-year-old should still be wearing knee socks but most of her class appear to be wear- ing nylons now, I'm letting her wear nylons just for special oc- casions, but I'd like to know what other mothers think. Uncertain. HOLIDAY HAIKU AuKsf.frt,c: 44000 rishttas 40, atter We hope lots of good cheer will be coming your way during the holiday season. . . . and may we say "thank• you" for your patronage , aro' e's ROOKS ANO STATIONERY STORE The. Friendly Stea In genforth —"the friendly town" timber and untapped water power, from a British Columbian over martinis at a London party. So you know what happened after that, if you read the finan- cial,page headlines at all: The Wenner-Gren interests now are embarked on one of the most ambitious projects of Canada's century, surveying the whole fabulous 40,000-square mile area in which they plan to construct a new, industrial empire: The storehouse the trapper and h,ls wife have put up at Fin- lay Forks is what you. might call the heartbeat of the whole development. For it is here a million horse- power 'dam will be built to make the power that cuts the tinker and drills the rocks and runs the monorail that will make jack for the promoters; and, it is hoped, a' lot of other people in this country. So the MacDougall lands will be flooded. Sotheone else will take over the water-gauging, the river guiding, the small chores of post-master in an area where Marge usually is the only white woman throughout the long win: ter, and where the only summer visitors are hardy northerners from Grand Prairie, Prince George and other towns 280 or so miles away; or wealthy sports- men who must be able to afford the equivalent of a trip to Eu- rope to fish these waters. No More Trapping And the trapping. For this has been the biggest source of income of 'the couple, and many a time Marge has donned now, shoes and parka to walk the 40-mile trap line with the rug- ged Old-timer who is her hus--\ band.. They will be justly compen- sated; not only in a considerable amount of cash, for their hol- dings, but in years of 'expected productivity. • All this is signed, sealed, but not yet delivered. Which brings' us to Marge's oil. Sbon after she arrived in 'Finlay Forks, the one-time U.S. dress designer who had met, her husband when both were visiting in Prince George. began col- lecting books. Wrote for Discards They couldn't afford to buy books, so she wrote to public libraries asking for discards. You'd be surprised how much reading you can do in 20 years that way. But Marge began to look more at the drawings and paintings than at the words in some of (4e volumes. One day she asked the mys- tified trapper to bring kicker oil from the boat-house. Then she got him to burn a lamp- wick high until the chimney was' real black'. didn't tell Roy I had swiped part If hiS shaving brush', said the delightful, youthful-looking grandmother (she has a daugh- ter by a previous marriage). 'I had read -that the early painters used egg yolk. So with that and the lamp black and the engine Oil and the piece, of shaving brush 1 began to paint'. The blue-green eyes sparkl- ed'as we talked. 'But, gosh a'mightly, blue- ing makes awful blue blue'. Meanwhile, 20-mile-away neighbOurs, also in love with the beautiful mountain and river country which had been found by a young shcoolmaster when he took parties of Upper Canada boys on summer camply.trips, were the Nicholas Ignat4e.,fs. f After the death o th4lhaster, who had become Wardbn of Hart House, Mrs. Ignatieff took their ,teenage son.back, two years ago, to spend the summer in the re- mote cabin his- father •had built And Helen Ignatieff took pro- per oils and canvasses along. ..When She saw the ability Marge was displaying and knew that already the new pioneering adventurers such as pilots, en- gineers and others of their ilk were buying pictures, she left of action. the painting equiprrient and sent along more when she got home. my answer can't get to you Ergot As more people came through the column in time north. , the strong, fresh lines Christmas, and you gave me of the Indian portraits and fi- gures painted by a worhan who knows and, understands these Canadians perhaps better than any other, were sold as rapidly as she could do them. So the sale of the oils and the skins of martins, mink, wea- sel fishers trapped and untanned by the MacDougalls, brought them to Toronto, and on to Roy's birthplace, Goderich, for a visit. ,It is probably Marge will go directly to Vancouver Island, where they will live in the future, after this jaunt. Mrs. MacDougall does not lack for subjects among the In- dians. None has forgotten the time, a few years ago, when the Closing of a Hudson's Bay post at Fort Graham .163 miles norther - sent 50 Or 60 of their people, starving and freezing, drifting down to Finlay Forks on homemade rafts. It is now legend how the white woman, almost single-handed, bathed and fed and clothed these pitiful people from her own Meagre stores, until they were eithatiated. Then" She called on the government and, the Red cross, atid continued to attraini. Ster ), aid With donated stores, And there watt the time the Is she too young, or not? mother , is forgetful and care- less about her personal habits,' but I was always kind to hei; while we =lived there. • Due to all these lies, a break has been caused in our 'marriage and I still have two children at home. Please advise. - Unfairly Accused. DEAR ACCUSED - Senility does strange things. Doubtless your mother-in-law built up a story to get attention. Both your husband and his sfter are in- clined to believe her. An apology is most unlikely, even though you deserve it. Your job now is to concentrate on patching thi'ngs up with your husband - who probably knows very little about mental deter tor-. ation that can happen with • extreme age. A family counsellor could straighten out your thinking and help you to talk again with Our hUsband along ,tlfe;se Haps. „DEAR DORIS - I heat'a person can make oui a will without a lawyer. as long as they have wit- nesses. Would this be legal? • Will-ing. DEAR WILL-,ING - Legal - hut often a bad headache for those left to sort it out. • To name a few details which can make or mar a will: Where you sign it, the witnesses you pick, where they sigri-,„liow many you picls; the things you bet-meth and those you forgot to mention. When you said ''everything in No Smoke, No Odour I what's theirs. Squander a few dollars for the clear-headed guidance of a' lawyer and yout heir will bless you. CONFIDENTIAL TO JNWANTED 'CHILDREN - You ;Wt. change an unfriendly boy Into a mature father merely by want. This is a decision which aelongs to two people; otherzise won't do it either. Better see you the name of a counselling service in your area, where trained social workers -help people like you to sort out their thinking and take the right kind TO NOT SURE - Sorry but giving him Children he doesn't the babes' become victIms,What Just moving to a big city I'm sending a start in life! and loved. a family counsellor. no address for a private reply. These messages of mine have to be written three or four weeks ahead, and I could get a letter to you much faster than that. Next time - remember! Picturing Nativity The Christmas crib or pre- sepio is an especially treas- ured part of the Portuguese holiday celebration, Every home and' church seems to have one, and some of those in the churches are master- pieces of art. Especially famous is the presepiq in Estrella. Church, LisbOn, This Nativity scene depicts the people of Beth- lehem, in terra cotta figures. Unique among the crowd are* the figures of an elephant and a bagpiper. 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