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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1972-03-16, Page 18Times-Advocate, March 16, 1972, See It TODAY The All New AUSTIN MARINA Compare it with any of the foreign or domestic compacts PRICED LOW AA: $ 2 395 MOGT OF UG.XT2L.E.755 FOND OF PEOPLE WHO AGREE WITH US" AND FOOD THAT poEsm'T Ail of us agree that fair dealing is the most important factor when we shop. That's why wise folk rely on Ron Dale. TOYOTA SALES 04aSERVICE RADIO EQUIPPED 24 ii/&,TOWING 235-1710 • EXETER A PARTNER IN UNITED & FEDERATED APPEALS USED CARS 1969 SPITFIRE III, yellow with black top, Michelin tires, radio. K40368 ADD TO CHILDREN'S WARD — The Exeter Kinette club recently donated articles to the children's ward at South Huron Hospital. Above, Mrs. Jean Wilson, nursing administrator and Mrs. Kate Smith, children's ward charge nurse accept the gifts from Kinette president Joanne McKnight and Gail Spencer. 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We're often asked that question about the columnist featured each week in the T-A and this week we are grateful, to Town & Country Publications for allowing us to use the following story which will give readers more insight into the man, By SHIRLEY WHITTINGTON Once a week, an Ontario high school teacher hunches over his typewriter and stabs out a salty little column about things like mortgages, kids, taxes and the cruel Canadian winter. Bill Smiley, who seasons 150 weekly newspapers across Canada with his personal blend of sugar and spice, tells it like it is. He comments on home life. "It is something to be borne, like varicose veins or ingrown toenails." He talks about family hang- ups. "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 and terror and bewilderment to the relics of the Frightful Forties," To readers of his column, Bill comes across as a wise, irreverent and witty man. It's an honest projection, He writes the way he talks. Sitting in his favourite chair an uncomfortable straight backed job — he'll curl one hand around a drink and run the other through his thinning white 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 acquain- tances from eight to 80 ask him for advice. This is why ex- students invite him to their weddings, 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 popular syndicated columnist." Bill was born in Perth, Ont,, and was studying at Victoria College when World War Two began. He joined the RCAF, became a Typhoon pilot and took part in many dangerous missions, like hitch hiking 380 miles on 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 parachute bumping on my bum," The high times were abruptly interrupted in 1944 when he was shot down over Holland and imprisoned 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. They had only been married a few months, subsisting on love and very little money, when biology threw a spanner into the works. Ivy (Susie to her friends) became pregnant and Bill developed T.B. After a year of geparation — he in a sanitorium, she at home in Wiarton — they both resumed their college careers, burning the midnight oil with a baby son as well as a stack of text books. Bill had his eye on post-graduate studies in English with a view to teaching, but tragedy intervened. Ivy's brother in law, the editor of the Wiarton 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, weeklies were 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 Telegram Syndicate offered to market Bill's column, everybody was delighted. No more sticky tongues from licking envelopes and stamps!, Although he was established as an editor and columnist, the urge to teach lingered in Bill, Off he went to Q.C.E. Ivy managed the paper, juggling interviews, news reports and the management of a home and family with cheerful efficiency, 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 in Smiley's format, but his loyal readers weren't fooled, As far as they're concerned Bill Smiley is irreplaceable, Proof of his readers' affection 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. When he said that, in his opinion cable TV was exploitation, he was visited by two officials from a large cable network, who suggested that perhaps he was only kidding 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 dancing under the stars in British Columbia. A column commenting on the BAHAI religion inspired a spirited if ungrammatical, reply from an irate Westerner. 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 Axe," or "the Boss," is in reality an intelligent and attractive lady who gets fan mail of her own. She's as in- terested in writing and reading as he is, and plays a mean game of chess. If occasionally 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 blinding smile, is currently a student at; Erindale College, where she is earning professorial raves for her writing 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 on the boats and the time he broke a finger Indian wrestling in Mexico. Bill'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. 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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 in Canadian writing, a subject in which he is intensely interested, His ambitions are stated in this snippet from an old column: "When I'm 85, I want to be known in the Nursing Home as 'that old devil Smiley, who pinches your bottom every time you pass his wheel chair." In the meantime, every Tuesday night Bill returns to his century-old brick house and dumps the day's crop of un- marked 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 per- colates his weekly ration of wry comment. Then he starts rapping with the folks in Collingwood and Seaforth and High River and about a hundred other very important places in Canada. 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