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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-09-26, Page 6Page 6—I,aelmow Sentinel) Wednesday September 26, 1979 P The Now, clean up. . LUCKNOW, LUCKNOW SEN.TINEL.pminor hockey "The Sepoy Town" On the Huron -Bruce Boundary CNA MEMBER NEWER 4 Established 1873 Published Wednesday Business and Editorial Office Telephone 528-2822 Mailing Address P.O. Box 400, Lucknow, NOG 2H0 Second class mail registration number -0847 A SIGNAL PUOLICATION, SHARON J. DIETZ - Editor ANTHONY N. JOHNSTONE - Advertising and General Manager PAT LIVINGSTON - Office Manager MERLE ELLIOTT - Typesetter MARY McMURRAY - Ad Composition Subscription rate, $11 per year in advance Senior Citizens rate, $9 per year In advance U.S.A. and. Foreign, $21.50 •per year lin advance Sr. Cit. U.S.A. and Foreign, $19.50 per year in advance The people who. run 'minor hockey in Ontario,now have :a clear message: Clean up your act. It comes from the thousands of parents of young hockey ' players who want more emphasis on the fundamental skills of the game and lesson travelling and competing. And they want less body -checking especially for, children under age 12. The parents indicated their wishes in a survey conducted for the Ontario govern- ment by the Ontario Hockey Council. Many young people have given up playing hockey because it's too rough. The celebrat- ed Bobby Hull, Lang critical of hockey violence and a hero to many a young player, talked last spring of sending his 17 -year-old son to Europe to improve his game:. Cleaning up hockey has to start with the National Hockey League. As long _as youngsters see the pros clearing the bench The Reverend Douglas MacLeod was not an early - riser. H -e seemed to prefer working in, his study at night and sleeping later into the morning:. By the time, he had appeared at the breakfast table, Mary would be well into the daily chores - the floors sweptor scrubbed and sometimes a full basket sof. washing. hanging on the clothes line. Mary would dutifully drop. 1 . everything she was doing and cater to her father's, needs. Thickoatmeal porridge, coffee, toast and homemade . ,preserves. Douglas was a helpless individual and. Mary shuddered to think how he would take care of himself when she was gone. Tomorrow she would leave him to his fate - there was no alternative. Soon the tight corset would not longer hide agrowing shiny abdomen, so she and her unborn child would leave.Redtrees,"perhaps forever. Mary planned her departure carefully. First she would have to reach the railway station at Pantown. There was a wagon passing through Redtrees every morning about six o'clock, delivering cans to Pantown Creamery. She would walk the mile or so to the village and ask the driver for a ride - .rather an undignified request and one which might arouse suspicion, but the only way to reach the railway station. She would. travel Tight, taking just a change of clothing and a few personal belongings packed into an old carpet bag which had once belonged to her mother. The money she would take was her very own, earned by her dressmaking and saved . from the meagre appr- eciations of the parishioners. There would be enough for her rail ticket and a few dollars left over 'for lodgings. Sufficient for about three weeks survival in the strange world beyond Redtrees. It was a world of which Mary had little or no experience - a place much colder and less understanding than that which she had known among the rolling hills. It would be a journey of no return, and Mary told herself that she •-must' leave no clue as to her destination, orher father would find her again, and in spite of the consequences to his own livelihood, make. -her return home. The obvious destination would be Toronto, so she would take the opposite direction - north. Where to? Did it make any difference? Anywhere north - Sudbury perhaps, or North Bay. It was dark when Mary left the Manse. She was dressed to face the cold morning air and her outer garment was a hooded coat. A scarf was wrapped around her neck and across her nose and mouth. There was still not too much snow on the ground as she made her way past the church and on to the concession road. For a moment she paused, looked back at the church and the only home she had known. It would be three or more hours before her' father would awaken to find her gone. He would read the long letter she had left for hint, describing everything except the name of the father of her child. Shewould not .cause .Angus: or the MacCrirnmon family any disgrace.. It took almost half an hour to reach the village. The moon was still in the sky but hereand there, the yellow fight of oil lamps shone in the barns where the early risers were already at the chores. At a few minutes to six she saw the lights of the approaching. wagon and stood in the middle of the road to stop the driver. "Ho!" ` the man shouted to the team. "Steady, now steady!'.': Mary asked the man to take her to Pantown and he readily agreed. It was usually a .lonely journey in the morning and the driver was ,glad of the company. He did, of course, begin fishing forher identity,- a natural trend of the people of the rural areas. I "Ain't you Ian MacQueen's daughter? You sure look like her. Figured I'd seen you someplace before." ' -Mary knew the man was lying. Nobody would recognize her bundledup the way she .was, and with a scarf wrapped around her. face. She felt justified in playing lie for lie, and told the man she was from Toronto and was only a visitor to Redtrees. "You wouldn't be that niece of Morag Buchanan, would you .know? I seed in the paper she were 'avin a visitor for. Christmas - school teacher so she were, and I think it said she were from Toronto." Mary side-stepped this •one too, and said she had been visiting with the family of Patrick Maloney. The driver must have been a staunch Orangeman and this terminated his enquiry. He just mumbled something in a 'low voice about the Irish, and a look .of positive loathing came on his face when he spoke about them being Catholic. Mary realized that she would have to be very careful to keep her identity secret. A young woman travelling alone would be easy to trace. If luck was with her, she might be able to get somebody to buy the ticket for her at the Pantown Railway Station, and escape from the area unobserved. Lying was foreign to Mary's way of life and she. had never before resorted to deception. If,she was to succeed in her plans to escape, it would require ingenuity, even though her schemes did not conform to her Christian ethics. Hospital treatment for respiratory disease costs over 400 million dollars per year. LUNGS ARE FOR LIFE WEEK OCTOBER 1-7 Contact Your Lung Association "The Christmas Seal People" for a List -fight, some of them will be tempted to do it in their neighbourhood rinks. But the minor leagues - the Ontario Minor Hockey Association and the Metro Toronto Hockey League - can change the rules to discourage body -checking, outlaw fighting and reward good skating, passing and shooting. It's what parents and most hockey -playing youngsters really' want. And it'll turn out better players. -The Toronto Star Traffic deaths up In 1978, there were 51 traffic fatalities recorded during the 78 hour Labour Day Weekend. This year, the Canada Safety Council fears the figure will rise to some- where between 56 and 61. The weekend begins 6 p.m. Friday, August 31st, and ends midnight, September 3rd. Worst . Labour Day weekend ever, for traffic fatalities, was the' year 1966, when there were 102 deaths. This year, the Canada Safety Council has noted a distressing upward trend in the statistics ~ a trend that has • not yet been explained. More Canadians are expected to do their travelling at home this year, and there may be a larger than usual influx of American visitors due to gasoline shortages reported in the 'U.S.A. It all adds up to an expectation of more than usually congested roads with an abundance of drivers unfam- iliar with their immediate surroundings. In an effort to minimize the traffic toll, the Canada Safety Council is asking all drivers to pay special attention to correct over -taking. procedure in view of the increased risk of meeting someone coming the other way on undivided highways. In fact, a driver might ask the question "Do . I really NEED to pass?" When passing, check traffic ahead and behind.; signal intentions; move to passing lane, accelerate; alert the driver being passed; signal again and move to right lane when well clear; resume normal speed.' Care is essential, 'because passing at the wrong time can lead to head-on crashes. And they are often the most 'damaging. NOTICE IF YOUR LUCKNOW SENTINEL LABEL READS September 65432.109 YOUR SUBSCRIPTION IS DUE The Lucknow Sentinel.