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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1993-10-27, Page 4Page 4 - Lucknow- Sentinel. Wednesday, October 27. 1993 Published weekly by Stgndl Star Pubttsntng Ltd at 619 Campbe!I Street Lir:know Ont PO Box 400. Lucknow, Ontario NOG 2H0 528-2822 Fax (519) 528 3529 Established 1873 Thomas Thompson Advertising Manager Pat Livingston General Manager/Editor ' Phyllis Matthews Helm Front Office Subscription rates advance: • Local Regular S21'309 within 40 mi radius G S r. incl Local Senior S1 76° within 40 mi radius G S T incl Out 01 Arra i40 rnilesi - Raies available upon request Foreign . USA $9669 Publications mail registration no 0847 held at Lucknow Ont Changes of address orders for subscriptions. and undeliverable copies (return postage guaranteed) are to be sent to Lucknow Sentinel at the above address Advertising is accepted•on the condition that in the event of a typographical error. the portion of the advertising space occupied by the crron•eous item together with a reasonable allowance for signature will not be charged for but the balance of the'advertlsemenf will be, paid at the applicable rates Protesting kids mimic adults Were high school students who demonstrated for two days outside Peel Regionalheadquarters really worried about contracting bacterial meningitis, the potentially fatal disease which claimed the lives of two Peel teenagers and sent three others to hospital in early October? Or were the majority of them•"just out there to haye a good time because it's a great way to yell Fid scream and be out of school" as suggested - by Peel's medical officer of health Dr. Peter Cole? .. The kids certainly staged what appeared to- be angry protests. They hoisted the placards 'and chanted the slogans. They milled around -by the hundreds and made lots of folks squirm in 'their seats. But they didn't sway Dr. Cole from his belief that'mass vaccination would only increase the anxiety level in the schools. And they didn't change his mind concerning the. medical advisability of mass vaccination even if the Region would agree to finance the inoculation of 250,000stadents,at $35 per head. Already More' than 5,000 students at the three high schools where confirmed cases occurred had been vaccinated through the auspices, of the public purse. Such precaution was more than adequate in the situation, according to Dr.. Cole. The best protection, the MOH explained, is to avoid the saliva of ,an infected person. No 'sharing of water bottles, .he told his incredulous audience. No drinking from the same pop can. No borrowing.lipstick. No passing cigarettes from one to another. Definitely no kissing. It was devastating news for today's gregarious adolescents. Private consultations and treatment by a personal physician is always possible for those who insist upon it, Dr. Coles reminded them. But remember. QHIP won't pay., The bill for service is your own. Reason is seldom present when protesters gather. And reason took a holiday.on the days Peel's youth denounced the system that wouldnot acgiesce to their, demands, They cried "Foul". Reporters' cameras. clicked. The kids were only imitating the very best moves of thousands of adult protesters they have watched on national television through the years. They have learned at the feet of the masters that organized protest is not only acceptable in this nation, it's the standard by which grownups seem to measure devotion to Queen and country. Why, public protest is downright Canadian.. Isn't it the best way to get things done? - SJK Sentinel Memoirs Wawariosh road now a sink -hole ,,Fields--of---cl-reams Beac-hville . J to the , major leagues - by Marsha Boulton OXFORD COUNTY, ONT. 1838 -- What historic sporting event took place in a field on Queen Victoria's birthday, - six months after the Mackenzie Rebellion in Toronto? Although American Abner Doubleday is often credited with "inventing" baseball in 1839, the fact is that on June 4, 1838 Canadians ' played their first recorded game on a smooth pasture behind Enoch Burdick's shops at Beachville, near the southwestern Ontario town of Ingersoll. • Organized baseball in Canada had its origins in English games such as rounders and cricket, which also feature a pitcher, catcher, fielders and batters running to bases. The history of the game iS imprecise. Drawings found in Egyptian tombs appear to indicate that a few in- nings may have been 'enjoyed by the likes of King Tut, and medieval games utilizing balls and sticks often coincided with spring fertility rites. When the Beachville club of Oxford County met the neighboring township team from Zorra, the rules and the implements of -the game were slightly different from those we know today: Four bases, called "byes" marked the infield area and 11 players formed a team. The batter was know as a "knocker," while the bat was referred to as' a "club". Early bats were fashioned out of cedar, blocked with an axe and finished with a drawing knife. Wagon spokes and barrel staves were also used. The relatively small baseballs were made out of double and twisted woolen yarn covered with calfskin and stitched with waxed thread. Hits and runs were numerous, since batters were allowed to wait for their choice of pitches. No gloves were worn and the real fun •turn to. page 6 70 years ago Oct. 25, 1923 An incident of the road - A Ford touring car belonging to Mr. Harvey Damm of Walkerton, and driven by Leonard Voigt, of town, carne to grief on the county highway near Dunkeld. It seems that a fresh load of gravel had been deposited on the road and Mr. Voigt, who came onto it sudden- ly in .the dark struck it in a manner that sent his car flopping completely over in the fashion of a hand- spring, and after crushing the top and wrecking the windshield, the chariot landed on its wheels again on the road. Leonard, who was alone in the car at the time, escaped with nothing more serious than a badly cut forger and a slight shaking up. As it was es- timated that $50 would be required to repair the damage and put. the bus in proper trim on the high- way again, The Walkertonian peeled a half a hundred from his wad and passed it over as a thankoffering that it wasn't his funeral expenses ii was paying for. 50 years ago Oct. 28, 1943 awanosh road now a sink -hole - Sink -holes are not uncommon in this district, but the suddenness with which one developed on the ninth concession of West Wawanosh has caused a flurry of excitement and is creating a repair problem to again make the road fit for traffic. In the meantime a temporary road of rails over swampy ground, skirts the sink -hole. The trouble developed on the county road just east of the farm- of James Purdon, West Wawanosh Township road superintendent. For a distance of several rods the bottom literally dropped out of the road and as it sank, banks on the roadside were heaved up about four feet. The cavity became a small lake, and a twenty-one foot rod that was plunged into the hole failed to reach solid ground. One explanation of the occurrence is that a subter- ranean passage may exist, leading to Mud Lake about a quarter of a mile distant. The County has bought a clay knoll with which they hope to till the maw, when a foundation is es- tablished. • Meanwhile the sink -hole is the centre of interest for many spectators. Record overseas greetings - Sponsored by the Canadian Legion, recordings of greetings from loved ones are being prepared for special broadcasts to the boys overseas. Several wives and mothers were chosen by the Wingham Legion to make these recordings. Included in the number were Mrs. Tom Wilson (nee Laurin Miller) of St. Helen's, Mrs. Horace Aitchison, Mrs. Robert Hetherington and Mrs. W. A. McKibbon. Harvesters return - Wesley Ritchie of Zion returned home from the West about ten days ago and on Saturday Frank Miller and Wm. McIntyre arrived back. Frank was at the home of his brother, Sam Miller, of Fielding, Sask., and reports that Aaron Fitzell, who is now 82, is as spry as a man of forty. He was former Pipe Band drummer in Lucknow. The first place that Wesley Ritchie worked was right at the United States border, where the crops were threshing out less than 10 bushels to the acre. Only 25 miles distant, where he later worked, 50 bushels to the acre were threshed. 25 years ago Oct. 30, 1968 Farmer chased by crazed fox - Another suspected rabies case made its appe"brance in Ashfield when Allan Ritchie of the 12th con- cession in the Zion community was chased by a crazed fox as he was going to the barn. Allan, with nothing in hand to defend himself, ran for the house. He then proceeded to his car to go to Lucknow and • get a gun from his father. On returning he found the fox in a pig pen where he shot the animal. Friends lift 1500 glads - ,True friends are sometimes hard to find but Ralph Pagan of Lucknow has made many of them since moving to Lucknow several years ago. Ralph recently underwent major surgery for the amputation of his left leg. , -Ralph has always been an ardent horticulturist and some of his friends in the field turned out last week to lift about 1500 gladiolus bulbs from Ralph's garden. On hand was Mrs. Alex Andrew, Mrs. Wilfred Anderson, Misses Ada and Hazel Webster, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Purves, Sid Plowright and Bob Fisher. OLD BOYS REUNION 1948, taken in front of the old Silverwoods building on the corner of Campbell and Stauffer streets. Left to right, back row: Fred Anderson, BIH (Binky) Webster, Elmer Webster, Jim Webster, Cliff Webster, Ai Irwin, Leonard Webster, Bob Reid, Nelson Webster. Front row: Watson Webster, Wellington Webster, Bill Ranter, Mel Webster, Cecil Webster, Leonard Irwin, Rob Button, Emmerson Irwin. Absent Clair Irwin, Jack Webster. (courtesy Mel Webster, Goderich) The gross side of the World Series Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! The World Series is over and once again, as the low person on the totem pole during major sports events, I can regain joint custody of the TV remote control. Now don't get me wrong. I like baseball - when it gets down to. the nitty gritty - as in the World Series. However, I do enjoy watching other programs. A couple of things really grabbed my attention during this series. The most revolting was all the spitting that goes on. It's a little difficult enjoying a snack in front of the bube tube when the camera person insists on zooming in on players engrossed in emit- ting foul, foreign material from their mouths! During Thursday ' night's game, one of the Phillies, 'RAMBLINGS by Pal Livingston Schilling I think, was sitting in his dugout deep in thought. I'm stare he didn't realize the camera was on him. For a lengthy period of time millions of TV -viewers were privy to watching him spit and spit and spit and spit and spit and spit and spit! Count them - seven times! You'd think the camera person would have the sense to remove the camera from this guy's face after the first ejection. No. He/she zooms in closer and closer to give us a real good view of the performance. Just what you need while trying to enjoy a snack! Walking around those dugouts or behind home plate cannot be likened to tip toeing through the tulips! Although these guys are op- ponents 'for the coveted World Series, they appear to be 'civil to ' each other. I have often wondered what they are talking about during short stoppages in play. Again, during Thursday night's game, I noticed on several occasions a Jay ' and Phillie exchanging pleasantries. Well, I assume it was pleasantries. Maybe it wasn't. Maybe they were exchanging pointed digs, while maintaining what appears to be a friendly smile on their faces. So you see, there are many things to be learned from a ball game - how to'spit and be a good sport!