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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1988-01-20, Page 4Page 4—Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, January 20, 1988 P.O. Box 400, Lucknow NOG 2H0 528-2822 Established 1873 VC FIIFICQ CIQCU V ATIDN PAID Thomas Thompson -Advertising Manager Subscription rates in advance: Rob Bundy -Editor Pat Livingston -General Manager 51700 Outside Canada $6090 51490 Outside Canada $589° Senior Citizen Second class mailing reg. no. b847 Advertising is accepted on the condition that in the event of a typographical error, the portion of the advertising space occupied by the erroneous item together with a reasonable allowance for signature, will not be charged for, but the balance of the advertisment will be paid at the applicable rates. It's your choice Today is Weedless Wednesday, a day for all smokers to take a break from slowly killing themselves. Today, a few people will quit smoking. Many won't. The reasons to stop smoking, or rather. to never start, are well known by everyone. It's a fact that 35,000 people in Canada die each year as a direct result of cigarette -smoking. Another couple of thou- sand die as a result of side stream or secondhand smoke. Smokers are certainly in the minority these days, which in itself is a very good sign as it is a sign of the changing times. Fewer women smoke today than ever before. Even more importantly is the fact that fewer young adults see smoking as a sure way to grow up fast. There are literally millions of DIE -hard smokers in this country who will never quit, no matter how many Weedless Wednesdays come and go. Some try and try again to quit to no avail while others never muster the will power to even try. But the fact that less and less people are starting to smoke these days could bring about a smoke-free society to this country in the not - too -distant future, and that's a fact that even confirmed smokers have to say is a very positive thing. The Federal Minister of Health, Jake Epp, recently introduced Bill C-51 into Parliament. This Bill would see advertising of tobacco pro- ducts banned in Canada if it becomes law. The thing that Mr. Epp has failed to realise though, is the fact that people don't start smoking because of the ads they see. They start at a time in their life when they don't have the painfull information about what smoking does to a body. Soon they are hooked and they'll buy cigarettes even if they never see on ad. While a smoke-free society is a great idea, Bill C-51 is not the way to bring it about. AH this does is invade our human rights to have the choice. It is not the government passing anti-smoking laws that will stop people from smoking, it is the will from within all of us that says it's stupid. • Stupid and deadly. No one should smoke. but everyone living in this free country should have the choice. R.B. I have a confession to make this week. And I'll take this opportunity to make it right here in public. I can't spell. Now you may think this is a strange thing for a newspaper editor to admit. You may even think it's stupid for him to ac- tually admit it, but the fact remains, I have a real tough time with some words. And I'd like to think I'm not alone. I ex- plain the problem I have by telling people I have dislexia...which, by the way, I'm sure I've spelt wrong. It's a disease or condition of the mind that doesn't allow the inflictee to see words quite correctly, or to mix up letters, or in extreme cases to see them backwards...or is that sdrawkcab? For example, to me the word 'their' looks the same if spelt `thier'. 'Friend' could be 'freind' as far as I'm concerned. I can remember way back to Grade Three when my teacher, Mrs. Miles, used to say, "Robbie Bundy...remember, it's 'i' before `e' except after 'c'." My dad, who's a science teacher, used to laugh when I told him, according to Mrs. Miles, he was spelling science wrong. Shouldn't it be sceince? It appears to me that the English language is riddled with words in which an `e' comes before the `i' when there's no 'c' to be seen and in which an 'i' comes before the `e' immediately following the 'c'...see? As if any further proof is needed, con- sider this sentence: The eight heifers stood atop an ancient glacier in Beirut drinking caffeine and leisurly watched as a foreign scientist weighed their weird neighbour. To me, that looks wrong. Are there any teachers out there who can help me out with my problem? It's starting to become quite embarrassing. Kids are pointing at me and saying, "There's that guy who can't spell deification ! " While I may not be able to spell too well, ON THE SIDE I do have some answers to some very dif- ficult questions which may interest readers of the Sentinel. Let me explain. Have you heard the old expression "he's sleeping like a baby"? What exactly does that mean? Does a baby sleep that much differently than the rest of us? Yes, they do. If someone is sleeping like a baby, they are sleeping two-thirds of the time and waking up every four hours, usually hungry. By comparison, if you sleep like a gorilla, you'd sleep 14 hours out of 24 and if you sleep like a short -tailed shrew, you would doze a mere two hours each day. Here's another one. How quick is quick as a wink? According to the book 'The Physiology of the Eye' by Hugh Dause, the duration of the average wink ranges from .28 to .1 se- cond. And now you know. I'm going to give you a couple of tough questions. See if you can come up with answers for them and next week in this space we'll try to figure them out. If you think you've come up with the perfect answer, drop by the office and share them with me. Ready.... How far away are two hoots and a holler? How much wood can a woodchuck chuck? flow big is Hell's half acre? And finally, which came first - the chicken or the egg? Think about them. There is an answer for each one and I'd be interested to see what you come up with. Have a good weik:..or is that wiek? 70 years ago January 20, 1918 Worst storm in many years = As the winter proceeds, it becomes more and more evident that the weather man is not at all concerned over the fuel shortage. From early Saturday morning until late Sunday night, this part of Ontario was in the grip of one of the severest storms to pass over the province in many years. All who experienced it agree it was the worst ever. Zero temperatures with a slight wind makes a cold day here, but on Saturday it was down to 12 below zero with the wind blowing a hurricane. A few days previous to the gale, eight to ten inches of snow had fallen causing the blocking of railways and county roads. The main street of Lucknow looked for all the world like a scene from the Arctic. A ridge of snow varying up to ten feet in height formed along the south side of the road and residents were busy most of Monday just clearing their walks. A fine medicine this - Tanlac, a patent medicine at present greatly advertised in Canada as a new panacea for the cure of all ailments of the stomach, kidneys and liver has been analyzed and found to con - .a` SENTINEL EMOIRS, tain 16.4 per cent alcohol. Now that prohibition 'is the law regar- ding alcoholic beverages, will the authorities permit the sale of this medicine as a subsitute for the genuine thirst quenchers. The Journal American Medical Associa- tion pronounces Tanlhc as a peice of un- mitigated quackery. It is claimed that seven million bottles have been sold over the past two years. it sells for one dollar per bottle of which one third goes to the retailer. 50 years ago January 20, 1938 Hockey and Robbie Burns - Next Tues- day night should provide a full round of entertainment with one of the best hockey games of the season billed for the night followed by that long running annual event, the Bobby Burns Ball. The Mitchell team, the league leaders at this point, were given a run for the money by Lucknow in Mitchell the last time the two teams met and loco re confident it'll be the best home gamni the season, win, lose or draw. It is the last scheduled home game of the season and will have an important bearing on Lucknow's playoff hopes. The game starts at 8:00 sharp with the big dance to follow so don't delay. Bobby Burns night, marked by the ever popular Fire Comppant Orchestra, is an annual event in Lucknow. Curling Club re -organizes - Inactive since the winter Qf 1930, Lucknow is to again have a curling club following Mon- day's enthusiastic organizational meeting. With a little work and effort it appears the marked interest will again be revived in the game in which Lucknow in the past years was widely known and won its share of Western Ontario laurels. With a view to encourage the game, the Community Hall Committee has granted the club free use of the ice for the balance of the season, so long as the curling doesn't interfere with skating, hockey or any other revenue producing events. 10 years ago January 18, 1978 Council ,holds employees to 3 percent - Lucknow Village Council held the village employees in public works and the Clerk - Treasurer to a 3 percent increase in salary at their inaguaral meeting held last week. Public Works employee Gary Austin said he would accept the Proposal but that he was not satisfied. Council agreed to re- negotiate the salaries with the Public Works Department in six months. Clerk -Treasurer Alf Herbert applied to Council for an increase of 6 percent in his salary according to guidelines set by the Anti -Inflation Board. The increase would have amounted to $955. Herbert said ttie in- crease would not affect the mill rate and that the inflation ratelast year had been almost 9 percent making his request reasonable. Councilor Ab Murray stated that since Council had just held the Public Works' employees to a 3 percent increase, it would be unfair to raise the clerk's salary by 8 percent. Herbert accepted the offer of 3 percent but added;, like Austin, that he was dissatisfied and would request a re- negotiation in six months as well.