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(Excerpts front Paul's letter
of July 22, St. Lottis, Senegal)
Today is Sunday, And it's One
of the first Suadays that has
really felt like a :Sunday—fairly
free and somewhat relaxing, the
kind of day you use to store up
strength for another week
We have begun work on the
project at long last. Out 'first
few days on the job .were oc-
cupied with things like assent-
Wing .wheelba rrom a, unloading
bricks, cement and prefabricat-
ed parts. (The Senegalese Gov-
ernment has really prepared
well for us o.
Now the foundation of the
school has been dug, the foot-
ire is laid, the bricks are all
made, the prefabricated frame-
work will he ready to erect
when the sub - basement is
ready.
For the past two days our
group (there are three groups)
has been nut at the "coquillage"
pit, digging "coquillage" — a
mixture of a very hard linty
sea-shell and dirt or sand tlaid
down when the sea covered
West Africa.
At any rate I began to talk
about today, hut I find that 1
have to hack track, so we'll
try again. The day was Sun-
day — breakfast an hour later
than usual. a quick small break-
fast. French bread with butter
and apple jelly. plus a bowl of
cafe-au-last. not much, but it
has to last until noon, even on
cork days, I went back to bed
for an hour; then did my wash-
ing and played my guitar until
noon.
Youthful minister
At lunch special things began
to happen. I may have men-
tinned a Monsieur Laurent
D'ata, an official with the min-
istry of youth and sports; he is
25 years old, but he has come a
long way in the Senegalese gov-
ernment, and not without some
justification. He is intelligent,
handles himself extremely well
in "official situations", and,
most important of all, he really
believes in the importance of
Parkhill pair
win scramble
Two Parkhill golfers won the
blind scramble golf tournament
held by the Exeter Golf Club at
the Oakwood course last week.
Bill Amos and Ev Richardson
P'nsted the best-ball net score
of 58. Both shot an 80 for the
18.
_Partners for the scramble
were drawn by lot after the
rounds were played and the best
hall calculated after handicaps
were deducted.
In second place came Fred
Sanders, Exeter, and Emerson
Desjardine, Grand Bend, with
a net of 64. Sanders posted a 94
and Desjardine an 88.
Tied for third place with nets
ofa6.5 were the teams of Morley
Sanders. Exeter, with Jack
Levie, Parkhill, and Jim Rus-
sell and John Goman, both of
town. Sanders scored an 84,
Levie 81, Russell 79 and. Goman
103,
Bob Morton, Parkhill, and
George Pediard, Thedford, came
fifth with a net of 68 and scores
of 105 and 99.
The club's final tournament,
for the medal championship,
will he held next week. Rounds
will he played Labor Day or
to edneadaY. Sent. 5. The awards
hamlet will be held at Oak-
u nod Inn Wednesday night ,
PAUL WILSON
the work he is doing with young
people of all ages. He has been
to the United States as a mem-
ber of a youth delegation and
by the time you receive this
letter he will be in Helsinki,
Finland at a world youth con-
Terence, whence he will go to
Moscow for a short visit,
At any rate. he has been a
very good friend of this group
and has done a great deal for
us here in Senegal. He knows
many people and can pull many
strings and he is very efficient.
He has also the capacity to
change from the official to the
young man full of "joie de
vivre" that he is. And I have
rarely seen anyone who can
live so intensively and who
could get so much sheer pleas-
ure out of every thing he does—
whether it is a practical joke
fof which the Senegalese are
quite fond) or a song—of which
they are also quite fond, The
farewell party for him was like
nothing I've ever experienced
before, basically because the
Senegalese involved were much
more emotional and much more
open about expressing these
emotions in their farewells than
we Canadians, and it was a real
experience to be caught in the
middle of it all.
Roughest road
Yesterday we visited the larg-
est rice plantation in Senegal—
Richard Toll— situated on the
Senegal River about 75 miles
from St. Louis. The road there
was positively the roughest and
dustiest I've ever ridden on.
We were in the back of a Mer-
cedes truck with poor springs
which simply means that we
were subjected to two hours of
choking dust and jarring jolts.
Richard Toll. itself is mildly
impressive — 6,000 hectares of
irrigated land, mostly in rice
but with small experimental
plots of cotton and sugar cane
(which I tasted and enjoyed Very
much/. The headquarters of the
Plantation are right on the bank
c,f. the Senegal, and there they
load processed rice which goes
to St,- Louis or into the interior
of the. country,
The interesting thing about
this particular end of the opera-
tion is that the mechanical
threshings are left on a little
plot of land near the processing
plant and the Wolof women
come and glean rice by w.m
lapwing in large gourd bowls. It
reminded me of the story of
Ruth and Naomi.
This plantation has 50 thresh-
ing machines., 50 tractors and
a huge pump house which
diverts part of the River Sene-
gal into irrigation channels,
They have large stretches of
green fields, which are a rare
sight in the north of Senegal—
in general, an arid semi-desert,
Culture differs
There are many Moors here.
They come from Mauretania
and their culture differs in sev-
eral ways, Each race, fot in-
stance has a different style of
architecture, The F'euls build
square or oblong mud buts; the
Moors almost exclusively ob-
long huts and the Wolofs ex-
clusively square thatched huts.
And so from the architecture it
is possible to determine the kind
of people who live in a given
settlement.
The art work of the different
tribes also has its distinguish-
ing features; though I'm afraid
that in most cases, Wolof art,
as with Canadian Eskimo art,
is massed produced and often
not very well produced at that.
I don't know how much of it
I'll bring home.
The French community of St,
Louis is small, but they stick
together pretty closely. Last
week, for instance, the group
was invited out to supper at the
home of Monsieur Rene who
really pat it on for us. We stop-
ped first at a French cliJb -a
very nice open Air club—them
to dinner„ A foer-eourae sutor-
gasbord, including caviar and
smoked salmon hors-d'oeuvres,
fish a la Wolof, plus a. french
pastry dessert.
His house, I think, must be a
typical colonial establishment,
decorated very tastefully with
Africana. A balcony runs a-,
round the outside looking out
en the street, (and the streets
of St. Louis are so picturesque)
and there is an inner court.,
yard.
All during the meal, which
lasted almost three hours, they
Played American and French
music, quite a bit of it being
rock-and-roll and the twist. At
eleven o'clock they drove us
out to a nice stretch of beach
on the Senegal river, three or
four kilometers south of the
town; and there we sang until
1:30 in the moon light and drank
African tea.
My guitar has really been an
invaluable asset, and T wish I
had learned .morr of Brassce's
s011gs, for both Senegalese and
Frenchmen alike are quite tali,
en by the one or two I do know;
the others I can only hum.
The project is rolling along
quite smoothly, It is rumored
that Nainadou Dia, the presi-
dent of the council will be visit-
ing our site next Friday in the
company of the American am-
bassador. The radio coverage
has been excellent, so that in
fact, all of the St, Louis dis-
trict know inc are here and why
we are here.
Distinguished visitors
There have been many visi-
tors, some distinguished. Last
week the American Negro au-
thor, James Baldwin, who is
travelling through French West
Africa, gathering material for a.
series of articles, dropped in,
accompanied by William Petty,
the American cultural attaché
in Senegal and a good friend of
the group by now. I had a scant
few minutes to talk alone with
him. He seemed very intense
and temperamental as all art-
ists are, His visit to Cooree,
(an island just off the Dakar
point, where there is a "maison
des escalves", now used as a
minimum security prison for
miscreants) he said, made him
feel things he didn't think he
could feel, l've found out that
when it comes to matters of so-
cial segregation, most Ameri-
can negroes justifiably, have
Centralia.
Mr, and Mrs. :Harold Tripp
have returned home following a
trip to the Fast Coast where.
they toured P.KI and visited with
Mr. Tripp's. brother, Staff .Sgt,
l],weind Tripp in New Bruns-
wick and friends in Nova Sco-
tia.
Mr, and Mrs. Jack Essery,
Ronald and jean, and Mr.
Lorne Keller were Sunday visi-
tors with Mr. and Mrs. Glen
Robinson and family in Kes-
wick.
very strong sentiments, whether
or not they AM writers,
Hero in Senegal the attitude
of most Senegalese towards
"les colonialistes" is in some
cases almost benevolent. They
recognize their difficulty, but
Also they realize that their pres-
ent happy state is a result of
colonialism. But they are, for
the most part, all for it in their
desire to 'build a new Senegal,
winch may mean different
things to different people, but
which almost certainly means
that they will be less economi-
cally dependent on France,
— k bientot,
Paul.
. * ii
(The son of Mr, and Mrs, C.
L. Wilson, Edward St., Paul is
one of 25 Canadian young men
serving on the 200-member team
of "Operatioe Crossroads Afri-
ca" this summer. He's repre-
senting the Older Boys' Par-
liament on Ontario,)
Get support
for carriers
A resolution drafted earlier'
this year by the town of Clin-
ton requesting support from
other towns in Ontario for letter
carrier service in urban muni-
cipalities has brought a number
of replies.
Mayor W. J. Miller reported
that 90 .copies of the resolution
were mailed by Clerk John
Livermore to municipalities
across the province with pope-
bijou varying from ?.,000 to
7,000.
Of the 24 replies received
three councils took no action
while two were opposed.
Graventmast in the Muskoka
area and the Huron County
town of Wingliam utered the
only objections. Wingharn coun-
cil felt, that all municipalities
should follow the austerity pro-
gram announced recently by the
prime minister,
The new science of bionica
reveals that many wild creata
tires have fantastic "special-
purpose" mechanisms; a ral-
tlesnake has an infrared sense
organ which can detect tempe-
rature changes of 1/1000th of
a degree; a mosquito's hum
can cut through any noises and
convey a message to another
mosquito 1150 feet away, Bio-
nics is trying to see how these
skills could be coped by man,
says Reader's Digest
age 8 The Times«Advocate, Augvst 231 1961
Crossroads Africa.
Finds guitar an asset
afi native gatherings