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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1972-02-10, Page 3sr$:* -Tee% • IA scanning the Exeter Times Advocate we note that the enlarged Ausable River Conservation Authority - soon to be known as the Ausabie - Hayfield Conservation Author- ity - agreed unanimously Wednesday afternoon to purchase one of the -Kongskilde Ltd. buildings in Exeter for a new • office and workshop, - - - For the third straight year, Exeter will be the site of the Western Ontario campout of the Natibeal Campers and Hikers Association. The camPout is sponsored jointly by the Twit Toters and Trail Trotters of Sarnia and the Londonites. Dates for this year's campout are June 16, 17 and 18. Tribute was paid the secretary of the Mitchell Agri- cultural Society,' according to the Mitchell Advocate, to K. J. Heaney and'his wife at "the annual-meeting,wednesday evening. The presentations were a token of appreciation ef' a0 years as secretary of the organization. - - - The Mitchell Lions Club entertained five charter Members' at their regular meeting. The charter members were Manny Walters, Dick Thorne Sr.,. T. W. Heath, A. W., (Bud) Blowes and Dr. W. E. Pridham. - - Mrs. Anne Burchill, retiring clerk-treasurer for Hibbert Township, was guest speaker at the Dublin Women's Institute meeting. . The Milverton Sun reports -that Mr. Don Gallivan of Mississauga, succeedst Mr. Gary Rich, as manager of the Bank of Nova Scotia. Mr. Rich has been transferred to the branch at Penetang. - - ,Miss Louise SanderS, Stratford, formerly of Milverton, is preparing her recipes to send to the 25th Annual Carrot Carnival at Holtville, California. The 77-year-old Miss Sanders has won the carrot recipe contest in 1969 and 1970. According to the Brussels Post we note that Brussels Fall Fair report showed a successful year. Murray Hoover was named president. - - - Plans to alleviate a pollution problem in Brussels were advanced a step Monday evening when members of council met with• representatives of the Ontario Water Resources Commission. - - --Susan Langlois and Fern Elliott will represent Bruieels in the Legion Public Speaking Contest being held in the Legion Hall, Goderich, February 12th. - Bruno Braecker was elected president of Family Paradise Camping and Snow- mobile Club at a recent organization meeting. Harry Johnson is vice-president. A happy event took plape pn Friday evening, according to the Blyth Standard, in the Memorial Hall, Blyth, when Mr. and Mrs. 'Albert Nesbitt marked their 50th wedding anniversary. s- - - Damage amounting to $2,500 was • caused to a Londesboro house, according .to the Blyth Fire Chief Irvin BOwes, and said the fire is beligyed to have been alerted by a lighted match. or cigarett butt discarded in a garbage container in an upstairs apartment. - - The Blyth AgriCultural Society has returned Murray Scott to office of president. He will be starting his third term as head of the society. A repdrt 'in the Lucknow Sentinel indicates that Thomas H. Alton, Brtice County treasurer for the past 25 years,..is retiring June 30th. of this year. A native of Lucknow, arid-•s. . a former school teacher, Mr. Alton become county' treasurer July 1, 1947. - -Wm. J. Fisher. has been transferred' • from ,Chapleati to -the main branch of the Bank of Montreal in Peterborough. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Fisher, Lucknow. - - - Bruce County.CoUncil expects to be ready -to call tenders in March for, a proposed addition 'to Brucelea, Haven Home for, the aged in Wale ' Brucelea Haven Home. for , the aged in Walkerton. The total addition ande furnishings are expected to cost $637;000 according to estimates received recently from the county's consulting engineers, Hanscomb Roy and Associates. • The Wingham• AdvanceeTimes reports that the youngest competitor in the Talent • Hunt •show Thursday night was Carol Wheeler of R.R. 5, Brussels, who presented Highland derides and the Sailors' Hornpipe, was chosen one of the four winners. She received her prize from Lloyd Casemore, preSident of the Lions Club. She will appear in the grand final in April to compete, for major prizes of cash and an opportunity to appear on television. The Kincardine News relates that during 1971 the Georg- ian Bay Regional Development Council, Rent $68,000 -on three spheres of activity, retiring council president James Steireespn,,,,Bracebridge, told the 1972 semi-annual meeting Of the council in Barrie. The amounts were $40;120 -ore industrial work, $16,320 for tourist promotion and $11,560 for agricultural endeavors. The • GoderichSignal-Star reports that Goderich Town Council has been revamped. The old every-town-touncillor aecommittee-chairman system is gone. Ih its place is a streamlined two-committee plan with an, administrator to oversee the entire organization. t Monday at midnight,' according ,to the. Gl-intooNewse--__. Record, the former Canadian Forces Base,' Clinton, a, officially became the property of Radoma Investinent and Development. Ltd, of-Galt'. - A report. froni•Ce.tawa PUts the sale, -price of the base at $458,000. Included in the sale agreementworked out with CroWn Assets Disposal_ COrpor- ation was the stipulation that Conestoga college of Applied Arts and Science is 'to receive the former 'AirMarshal Hugh Campbell school. More• than 150 entries have been • received thus far in the name the base contest. No closing date for the'. contest' has been announced yet-. The. person , who suggests the ,winning name will win the former base f commander's home at the-base, a large home valued at close to $20,000. • 8ca,nning the Weeklies By Lee Hee Egmondville UCW Continues Africa Study pill Smiley Bting$ Humoir To a few months, subsisting on Wye ' and very little money, when biolegy threiv a spanner into, the works. Ivy (Susie to her friends) became pregnant and Bill de- veloped 1.13. After a year of separation - he Ina sanatorium/ she at home in. Wiarton they . both resumed their college car- eers, burning the midnight oil with a baby son as well. as a stack of text books. Bill had his eye on pest-graduate studies in English with a view to teaching, but tragedy intervened. Ivy'Sr brother in law, the editor of the Wiartoe Echo was drowned and there- was nobody to take over the paper. Bill stepped. into the breach and for years he lived "the happy harried life of a small town newspaper editor, rushing to get ads out, covering council • meetings and Women's Institute meetings." In addition, he wrote a personal column, free from editorial and reporting restric- tions. The little column caught on. Soon other editors were picking it up and some of them paid him as much as 50 cents a week for it. 'Before long over eighty weekliewere reprinting Smiley's Sugar' and Spice, and the proofreading, mailing and billing became a family industry for Bill, Ivy and the youngsters, Hugh and Kim. When the Tele- gram Syndicate offered to market Bill's column, everybody was lighted. No ' more sticky tongues licking envelopes and s amps! Although he was established as an editor and columnist, the urge to teach lingered in Bill. Off he went to 0.C. E. Ivy managed the paper, juggling interviews, news reports and the management ' of a home and family with cheer- ful efficiency.. s'A He began his teaching career in Midland, where he is now head of the English Department of MSS. Lately he has joined the Argyle syndicate. The Telegram tried to retaliate by featuring another well known columnist inSiniley's format, but his loyal readers weren't fooled. As far as they're concerned, Bill Smily is irre- placeable. Proof of .his readerS' affec- tion and involvement arrives in his mailbox almost every day. When he mentioned a few Years ago that his daughter Kim was dangerously ill with, hepatitis, a, flood of• letters arrived, with' prayers. for her recovery. Whets he said that s in his opinion cable' TV was explotation, he was visited by two officials from a largecable network, who sugges- ted that perhaps he was only kid- ding and would like to retract or modify his statement in a. later column. He wasn't. He didn't., Last year he wistfully remarked that he'd like to get -away from it all and enjoy a summer vacation with his wife - perhaps in the form of an auto trip across Canada. Invitations flowed in, offering everything 'from deep sea fishing in the Maritimes to dancine..u.nder the stars in British Columbia. A column commenting on theIlAHAI religion inspired a spirited if ungramnsattcal, reply . from an irate sveeterner. • For a writer like Bill, a colourful family 'is a definite asset. His wife, to whom he has referred variously as "the Old' Lady," "the Battle SieS" or "the %,lit,oss,"_ is in, reality an intelligent and attractive lady Who geti fan mail of her own. 1$9.14•. ggeggi.,4f SAFORTK, 0NT FEB. 10f, 1972,3 • , There is no cure-all for the • common cold. But outgrowing colds may be one way to hold 'but against sniffles and sore throats. One intensive study, con- ducted by the Child Research Council of the University of Colorado, showed that the pre- * school child had the .greatest number of colds. As age in- creased; colds declined. Subjects in the study, — 116 Boys and 111 girls -- were volunteered by their parents be- fOre their were born. ' Their illness records were kept for decades, in some cases as many as 34 years. The results? Severe infec" tions Wer...,:nost common in the very earls years. But they decreased gradually after age two in boys and age five in girls. Mild infections peaked ▪ in preschool' and early school years, slowly declined until mid- adolescence, then dropped off abruptly. During the year, most ,colds occurred between October and May. ColdS were scar ee during June, July, and August. The study suggested that anti- biotic therapy did' not alter .the number or the kind of infection. Also, the passage of time had not' influenced. the incidence of respirattel infection since 1910. R esults of She study were pub- t. lished in a recent issue of the American Journal of Diseases • .• of Children, a professions pub- , Outgrowing Common Cold Iication of the American Medical 'Association. Outgrowing colds can be a long scratchy wait. And millions of adults are still laid low by res- piratory infections every year. To find out more about hows-your respiratory system works, check with your,, local tuberculosis and respiratory dis- ease association. And when your :system isn't working right, see your doctor. The 4-H Trail Blazers met at Malcolm's home on Wednes- day when Margaret Franken read the minutes of the previous meet- ing and the treasuren!s, report. The new executive elected includes: President - Jim Brig- ham; Vice President - Cathy Malcolm; Secretary - Ken Frid- om;-Treasurer - Margaret Franken; Press Reporter - Wanda Malcolm. The busbies s continued with discussion of future activities. A second hay ride is planned in view of the success of the first. It will be held at Bob Watkins' home, 4H Trail Blazers Meet Correspondent Mrs.Ethel Thiel -Mrs. Stanley. _Hawkens . was elected Regent of the Jean Blew- ett Chapter, IODE at the annual meeting held in the Masonic rooms. Other officers, Honor- ary Regent, Mrs. W. C. Thorne; Vice-Regent; Mrs. W. H. Card- well; Secretary, Mrs. Edward Hocking; Assistant Secretary, Mrs. R. H. Clarke; Treasurer, Mrs. Thomas Murtha; Assistant Mrs. S, D. Smyth; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Elmer Wolfe; Treak. of Flower Fund, Mrs. Elmer Wolfe; Education Secre- tary, 'Mrs. Witter Ferguson; Assistaet, Misalielen Davidson;. Echoes Secretary, Mrs.' Claude Horne; Standard BeaPer, Mrs. . Willard Soeder, Pianists, Mrs. W. C. Thorne aed Mrs. E. J. Hingst. Couticillors, Mrs. Carl Faust, Mrs. R. E, Parkinson; Mrs. Roy Stadlebauer, Mrs. Mel-, burn Greenwood, Mrs.. William Borth, Mrs. Harry Wright, Mie. Malcolm Norris, Mrs. A. G. Mc- Dougal and Mrs. Amos Thiel. Services at Home" and Abroad, • Mrs. F. G. Keeler and Mrs. Moss Wilson; Empire and'World Affairs, Mrs. Harvey McLagan; Scrap Book, Mrs. C, F. Moses, Press and Publicity, Mrs. Amos Thiel; White Elephant, Mrs. Ross ,Wilson, Mrs., FranklynCamerori, jh's Mrs. Thomas Murtha; Citizen- ship and Imitigration, Mrs. Don ' Gaffney; Finance Committee, Mrs. Mid Fisher; ' 'Mrs. Harvey Ische and Mrs. Thomas'Murtha. The -Chapter has fifty-nine members and total' assets for the year .1971 were $1463.95. Educational, Community and Welfare are the 'main projects, MISSIONARY LEAGUE The women of the Lutheran Women's Missionary League of Grate Lutheran Church, Mitchell with-President, Mrs. Louis Pelta presiding, opened their meeting with a verse, Follow Thou Me and Prayer. The mite box offer-a. ing amounted to $34,08. The Leadership Training Schpol for Monkton, Logan and Miahell will be 'held in Mit- chell with a date to be set later. During the meeting the ladies decided to entertain their hus- bands to a "Valentine Game Party" Friday evening. Two quilts and an afghan were completed and lunch was served by Mrs. Paul Woetfie, Mrs. Fred AhreYie, SAM Floy Capling and Mrs. Fred Dipple. Euchre. •' This new WIG allows hair to circUlate freely. Your own'. hair can be brought through the wig for froiting. effects. THE NEW LIGHT and LACY No Cap Wig donated by .Marie Muir. High lady in ,bridge was Glad Thompson. There was no business to discuss at this meeting and courtesy remarks were given by Jean Lunn. The nexte meeting will 'be at the home of Janet Ford on Thurs- day evening. Hostesses will be Jean Lunn' arid Ella Munro, You are invited to attend a light and Lacy Wig Demonstration Tuesday Night, Feb. 15th, Only Good only, February 15th Special Show Price $29.95 Brian's Hairstyling 5274700 Seaforth Mrs. T. E. Hancock continued . with the study book" on Africa - "The People and the Way They Live" •-• at the regular meeting of the U.C.W. of Egmondville United Church. It is noted at the present time' through the various news media, that Africa is.: verymuch in the news," she said. "Biafra .is coming back into its own and in many ways there is a stir among the . people Of that vast Country as they are becoming aware of their News of Mitchell Chapter Elects New Executive possibilities for the future. Life is changing there and as their people are assisted by financial contributions and b y other, means from other countries they become more able and more capable of helping themselves. The main emphasis is now centred on edu- cating the women e teaching them how to" better care for their homes and families, through demonstrations given, on proper fold and .nutrition, cleanliness, home economics and better agri- cultural practises." "Around Home and Across Canada" • was the theme of pic- tures 'shown by Mrs, Cliff Broad- foot., Mrs. Alex Chesney, assis- ted by Mrs. Kenneth Carnochan s and Mrs. J. A. Lunn, led in the 'devotional period. The president, Mrs. Leonard Strong, announced that the World Day of prayer is to be held in the Egmondville Church March 3rd. The Ps.ssbye„ tar. is to be held in Centennial United Church, Stratford FebruatY 9th, when Dr. H. 'Christie, !Toronto is to 'be guest speaker. The annual bazaar date-. was set for -fate October. Rev. M. E. /Umber eif,North- Side-United Church is to be the speaker at the March meeting. 0. • She's 0 laterp494 to .044% and re.Otng as he is, 44,04.Y$ a mean Mile of chess, Itennaes Weeny she does something wacky, like setting the Mantle piece afire' at Christmas, it's all grist for Bill's mill. Daughter Kim, a beautiful redhead with a blindieg smile, is currently a student at Erindale College, where she is earning professorial raves for her writ- ing ability. Smiley's readers know all about her. They have been following her exploits through Bill's column, from her first music festival to her summer hitch-hiking adventures. Hugh, Bill's handsome son, was also at university, and Smiley afficianados remember columns • about his piano recital, his summer working 'en the boats and, the time he broke a finger Indian wresting in Mexico. sasill's attitude to his'kids is a typical blend of sugar and spice. "Those selfish brats? Let them look after themselves. - I'm going to enjoy life without worrying about a pair of rotten ingrates." As he says this, he writes out a healthy cheque to help with college expenses. Is writing the column ever a chore? Yes, says Bill. "It has to be in the mail every Tuesday night, and every minute writing it is hard work. I hate it except When it's finished. Then I either feel the glow of knowirg it came off, or a small work of misery ,starts 'eating away at me and I can't eradicate it until the next column." Will he ever write the Great 'Canadian Novel? "There are quite a few of them, around al- ready," he says, "by fellows like Callaghan, Richler, Hugh Garner and Jack Ludwig. As long as I'm teaching, I won't have time to start anything so ambitiobs." Because there are never enough hours in 'the day, Hill often has to turn down invitations to speak, 'or to conduct writing seminars. The few speaking engagements he has undertaken have proven to be memorable occasions -for his listeners. To a high school graduating class he said, "Tonight I'm -supposed to speak to you about good reading habits . . . The choice of speaker was a hilarious piece of mis-. casting." In 1971, he opened a speech 'to the top efficialssof the Royal Canadian Legion this way: "You must wonder what a . . piddling little one-time flight- loot is doing addressing such an august' body. And I. wondered the same." He has served on the panel, of judges for the Stephen, Leacock Award' for several years, a role he enjoyed because it kept him. abreast ._of developments Canadian writing a subjeet, in which he, is intensely interested. His ambitions are stated in this snippet froM an old column: "When I'm 85,-1 want to be known in the Nursing Home as that old devil Smiley, who pinches your. bottom every time yob pass his wheel chair." In the meantime, every Tues- day 'night Bill returns to his cen- tery-old brick house -and dumps the day's crop of unmarked essays or exams on the kitchen table. He settles himself at his typewriter with a drink, (anything ' wet - Coke,, coffee, beer, tea,) and a smoke ("I'll smoke till I croak!") and percolates his weekly ration Of wry -t-urryrn-ent.-- Then he starts rapping with the folks in Collingwood and Seaforth and- High .R11/6, and about a hundred.. others very'important places in Canada. .(Fer a number of years Expositor readers have enjoyed the weekly toltiniti "Segal' and' Spice" by Bill Smiley. Through those years we have. been asked on many occasions "who is this BIB SuBler4 and what is he like". Here is the answer. The ElmVale Lance has investigated Bill Smiley, has analyzed him and has come up with some ' ' interesting con- clusions which appeared recently in Town and ,Country under the. title "Syndleated Canadian" Shirley Whittington tells of her studies:" , • Once a week, an Ontarie high school teacher'hunehes over . his typewriter and stabs out a silty little column about things like mortgages, kids, taxes and the cruel Canadian winter . BIB 1 Smiley, who seasons 150 weekly newspapers across Canada with his personal blend of sugar and spice, tells it like it is. • lie comments on home life. "It is something to be borne; like varicose veins or ingrown toe- 1 nails." He talks about family hang-lips. "Momma's tolerance- thins with the same rapidity as ' Dad's hair." About his job, he says, "Show me a teacher in June, and I'll show you a character with a crumpled shirt, a wrinkled brow and a desperate look in his eye." He has this, to say about the • puzzling business of living: "The Sixties produced the millions of kids who are now a mystery arid, terror and bewilderment to the ' relics of the Frightful Forties." To readers of his column, Bill comes across as a wise, irre- verent and witty man. It's an honest projection. He writes the way he talks. Sitting In hisfavou- rite chair an uncomfortable straight baelied lob - he'll curl one hand around a drink and run the other through his thinflinIF whiti hair. He listens, while conversation flows around him, then delivers a wry and usually definitive comment, in a voice as comfortable as a rusty porch swing. This wiry unsentimental wisdom is the reason acquaint- ances from eight to 60 ask him for advice. T his is -.Why ex-. students invite hien -to their wed-- dings, and why every female he meets falls a little bit in love with him. And this is why a clipping from a Saskatchewan newspaper describes him as "by far our most syndicated colum- nist." Bill was born in Perth, Ont., and was studying at Victoria- College when WorlirWar Two began. He joined the RCAF, became a Typhoon pilot and took part in many dangerous missions, like hitch hiking 380 miles oh a forty hour pass to see a girl. He regards this escapade with the same puckish spirit as the time he had to circle an airfield for a Couple of hours with a live bomb hanging from his wingtip. The chaps down beloW wouldn't let him land until they had cleared away all the men and machines. "I landed", he says, "like a mouse' in kid gloves walking on eggs. Then I ran like a bat out of hell, in flying boots, with a parchute bumping on my bum." The high times were abruptly interrupted in -1944 when he was shot Own over Holland and im- prisoned by the Germans. He came home with a knee disabled by an S.S.boot, and with plans to complete his Honour English course at U. of T. There he met his dark-eyed wife, and he's been announcing ever 'since that she is the root of all his troubles. 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