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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1979-08-22, Page 4 (2)Page 4 Times -Advocate, August 22, 1979 ... • Ionics ttttobtished 1873 Advocate htublohed i Nd 1 Imes - dvocate SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C.W.N.A., O.W.N.A. CLASS 'A' and ABC Published by J. W. Eedy Publications Limited LORNE EEDY, PUBLISHER Editor — Bill Batten Assistant Editor — Ross Haugh Advertising Manager — Jim Beckett Composition Manager — Harry DeVries Business Manager — Dick Jongkind Phone 235-1331 • Amalgam°ted 1924 Published Each Wednesday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Second Class Mott Registration Number 0386 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada 511.00 Per year; USA 530.00 Getting away with, m urder What is happening to justice in this country'' When a couple of people can plead guilty to. charges of kidnapping, con- spiracy, forcible detention and extortion and end up with two years less a day (eligible for parole in eight months) in a provincial institution something is wrong. And when a man can plead guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter for shooting his wife in the head and end up with six years in federal prison (eligible for parole after two years). something is drastically wrong. Both of these sentences were hand- ed down in Canada within the last week and a half. The first one. ,as you've probably guessed. was handed down by Chief Sessions Court Judge Yves Mayrand in Montreal to kidnappers Jacques and . Louise Cossette-Trudel. The second one, the manslaughter, sentence. was handed down by Ontario Supreme Court Judge .A.H. Hollingworth to 44 -year-old Leslie Bur- ningham of London, Ont. • Even at the best. of times such sentences could not be described as be- ing anything but extremely lenient. In times like these however. when society is anxious about the increase in violent acts of all kinds. such decisions by learn- ed 'judges are incomprehensible. In an- nouncing the sentences we have referred to, both judges went to great lengths to justify their. decisions. In both cases we not only found their arguments uncon- vincing, but found they served_ to un- derline the ludicrousness of the sentences rendered. • Judge Mayrand dealt at length with the Cossette-Trudels exile in Cuba and then Paris. France. .suggesting that the eight years abroad is comparable to four years in prison. Recalling the kidnap- ping of British diplomat James Cross who was held for 6.0 days. the judge said he had been -chosen because he would be the most useful for -,the kidnapper's ends, but that in chooing a diplomat, the crime took on an international nature. The international community. the judge said. must know that diplomats tri - residence in Canada are adequately protected and that the kidnappers of diplomats are adequately punished. Hence the- harsh penalty of two years less -a day. One must really wonder where in the world Judge Mayrand was during the terrorism of the October crisis back in 1970 when the Trudeau government imposed the War Measures Act. thus By SYD FLETCHER A!l that heat last month. steaming humid days in July. reminded me of the • hottest_ , t- • ! ver hai the time and 1 applied for a job in the town's one big industry. a place that made bushel baskets for apples My job was in the kiln, where the uncured baskets were dried All 1 had to do was pick off the upside-down baskets as the hooks of a conveyor line carried them by. stack them and pile them on a waiting truck. . it all seemediSe'Simple. Then my muscles started to ache. There seemed to be no a end to the baskets. Surely there were two men loading them -at the other end. And the heat. Great gusts of hot air came out of the dark tunnel bathing me in perspirhtion. The times that the whistle blew for a break seemed few and far between, hitt when the break came i could step out into the 90 de ,a -',a eSh air and feel a depriving every man. woman and child in this nation of basic rights. Equally unbelievable was the six- year sentence handed down to a 44 -year- old London man as the penalty' for shooting his 25 -year-old wife through the head. Evidence at the trial also "inferred". to use the judge's words. the accused, had suffered abuse from her husband prior to her death., Evidence in fact revealed that the victim had gone to some length to conceal bruiseson her body in the weeks prior to her death. There was also evidence that she had been forced to make obscene phone calls by her husband. Originally charged with first-degree murder, Burningham was -allowed to plead' guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter because he was under the influence of prescribed drugs at the time of the shooting. A London fire captain, Burningham had been on sick leave from the fire department. When they in- vestigated the slaying, police found 14 guns in Burningham's residence and the death weapon was found in the luggage of Burningham's mother as she left the house. It had been wiped clean of finger- prints. The unfortunate victim, so the court learned, was Chik Amy Wee Wai Choo, a native of Malaysia, whom Bur- ningham'+lad married shortly after meeting her on a trip West. A presentence'.report indicated Bur- ningham had been married before and had trouble relating to women. In sentencing Burningham, Judge Hollingworth said the man had a propensity for violence that he may have inherited from his father who was described as being a "holy terror around the house browbeating the children". In handing down the six-year sentence. the judge noted. "We must show the community that this type of behaviour is not only frowned upon but will be stanped out... I must deter the ac- cused from this type of behaviour: s. must also dete-sothers from this typeof behaviour," 0 h yeah? Drug offenders in this - country have -gotten more than six years = and not that many years ago either. The news report on the Bur- ningham case, carried by The London Free Press, noted that as the case con- cluded, Burningham's family was mak- ing arrangements to get the seized guns back from the police. So much for Canadian justice. Listowel Banner Perspectives tremendous relief at its coolness. Several days went by and 1 became more accustomed to the work even lost a little weight and got into shape so the work didn't really bother me One day. the line stopped gave a few shudders and jerks. then stopped again. i hit the emergency switch. it was obvious that some of the baskets down -in the tunnel had- fallen off and were jamming the line up. i decided to go in and' fix the problem The foreman, when assigning me the job, had said. "Don't _go in there by yourself." but had not given any reason. Now i was one of throe seventeen-year olds who thought he knew just about as much as most of his elders if not a little more. Sol went into the tunnel. it was four feet high. The bushel baskets hung on their hooks like so many rounded sides of beef. The furter i went down - the funnel the hotter it got and after i turned the first bend if was quite dark with only pin -points of light from the distant bulbs showing. Soon it was so hot and dry i could feel perspiration pop out op my skin and then dry instantly ..s 1 found the pile-up of baskets and straightened out. That was when i made my second mistake. Instead of turnir g back i decided to go on to the other end of the line. Rushing on. i suddenly realized that what had seemed impossible was happening. it was getting even hotter. I was approaching the heat source itself, a hugh pipe belching raw invisible .fire right from theetytain.hotkvs themselves. Just edging past it. almo¢t smelling my hair burning.to my horror the fellow at the other end started the line of baskets moving right at me. Hot metal brushed my arm. startling me. Suddenly I was afraid, with the horrible certainty that I was not allle to get my breath' withtitit scorching my lungs. i began running, was bruised and scratched from hitting the rough baskets. i stumbled out into daylight and ran into my foreman, —literally. Never has a breath of fresh air felt so good, though it was a trifle blue as he very clearly told rate of a fellow whohad fainted in the kiln not so tong ago and would have roasted if he had not had somebody to pull him out. i could well believe it. ".111' lawn's cooing .XO poorly this year. even crab grass would he 'welcome." BATT'N AROUND with the editor A trip down north By ROSS HAUGH This column while pinch hitting for editor Bill Batten now on holidays gives us a chance to relay a few impressions of a recent holiday. The highlight of the vacation was a trip on the Polar Bear Express from Cochrane to Moosonee and then on by boat to Moose Factory. We had heard by w ay of the grapevine that the 186 mile train jaunt was monotonous and dull. In our opinion. it's the exact opposite. Sure, one sees a lot of scrub trees, a cou- ple of ravers and a few shacks but many, beautiful scenes flyby. The. top speed of the train is about 45 miles per hour which allows for good viewing of the countryside. - • For the first 30 miles out of Cochrane, the train passes through the northern rim of the Great Clay" Belt, a fertile agricultural region. About 11 miles out. one gets the first glimpse of the Abitibi River which . parallels the train's route. At Gardner at the 18.6 point mark was the first of two Ontario Paper Company logging operations. The second is 27, miles down the line. • Approximately 35.000 cords of wood. mostly -black Spruce are cut annually and shipped to Thorold, Ontario. A sur- plus of 25,000 cords surplus is stored .in piles in the mill yard for contingencies. At mile 43 and island Falls we saw the third of a chain of eight microwave towers built by Ontario Northland to serve people in the north. Only six of these towers can be seen from the train. The towers bring colour television. radio, long distance telephone. teletype. fringe radios and most communications from Cochrane north. The Abitibi River Island Falls power development produces 48.000 BHP to serve the Abitibi mills at Iroquois Falls: To the east is the power dam. Around the 50 mile mark we saw a 30,000 acre area whichwas destroyed by fire in -June of 1976. It took fire crews almost two weeks to get this tree -top type tire under control despite extra fire fighting equipment from Western On- tario and the U.S. At 69.2 miles is Fraserdale where road service in this northern region ter- minates. Three miles east of Fraserdale is the Abitibi Canyon Generating Sta- tion This station was the first one of a chain of huge power developments operated by Ontario Hydro in the )loose River Basin. ' Other power stations making up this chain are Otter Rapids on the Abitibi River. Little Long, Harmon and Kipling on the Mattagami River. Power from these automated plants is collected at Pinard Transformer Station, one mile east. transformed into 500.000 volts and sent south on Ontario's first extra -high soltage circuit. The Otter Rapids Generating Station is located at 93.5 miles. This station is one of four fully -automated power plants operated by means of very iligh frequency and microwave signals emitted from a 300 foot high tower radio *antenna at Pinard Transformer Station. The Hudson Bay Lowlands are at mile 94. This area has been described as the world's largest bog and the great muskeg. Roughly 800 miles in length and 100 to 250 miles in width, this area was once covered by the waters of James Bay. • Vegetation in this area consists of spruce. poplar and tamarack trees. %Mile the trees may be up to 200 years Sugar and Spice Dispensed by Smiley Natural phenomena' As a small-town boy who was always pretty closely associated with the coun- try. and nature, it is a constant source of bewilderment to me to observe the reac- tions of my two grandboys to natural phenomena. They practically ignore them. • When they come to our place. with a Targe backyard practically polluted by birds and squirrels, their great interest in life is the lawn sprinkler, at any hour of the day or night. • Oh. they might look vaguely toward a tree when I say, "Listen to that big bird." They migh chase. a robin or throw a rock t squir uL.ui{hose things..are b catty hor fiig to` ahem. Mucc''hh more fu to turn on the sprinkler. preferably w n Gr tlad,isn't looking. give him a good cold shot: in- the hack while he's trying to read the paper, and spend the next hour alternately running through the sprinkler and running around with their wet feel on Gran's favorite rug. Taake theme tea.`;: _, �. -.where a )tore has tfopicsh, a huge old parrot, gerbils rabbits, white mice. and you'd think i ey'd be fascinated. One cursory glance and they're off and running, smashing shopping carts into each other, knocking over carefully - arranged displays and playing Super- man by_leaping over little.old ladies sit- ting on benches. Took them over to see their great - Grandad last weekend. He has a lovely place in the country. About two acres, with a hundred places to hide and climb and explore. Know where they spent their time? Fighting to see who got to drive the dormant snow -mobile in the backyard, Second choice was "racing" an old car with its front wheels propped up on two big blocks of wood. Between the two vehicles, they must have covered most of North America. Took them down to the dock for a fish. They had no more interest in fish or fishing that 1 have in refinishing fur- niture. But they were intrigued about how long it would take to drown if i drove the car off the end of the dock. Out driving with them. I point to cows, -horses. sailboats and ail sorts of things they .should bt interested -in. Scarcely a look. They want,to know how fast were going, why we aren't going faster, and why 1 don't turn the aircon- ditioning iQ: attpi4-coat" so it will It y,4 their hal around. Street -smart City Boys. Oh. yes, then there are the Boat PeQ- pie Somehow, 1 was inveigled into go- ing out fishing with a couple of young colleagues. One of them has a dandy cruiser with a cabin, stove, the works.' Seemed Tike a good idea. Have a beer or f twet, iIich a mess of bass. do a i'ttle yar- Hing. - For three weeks the weather had been hot and humid. What a treat to get away out on the Bay. far from the- heat and stench of town. Cool breeze, great fishing, good companionship. That's the way it is in the beer ads. anyway. We drove to -the marina in a cloud= burst. Sky deared. Spirits were high. So were the waves. Found the guaranteed bass fishing spot. Water calmed. Baited up. They put me on the side of the boat where the bass weren't, while they haul- ed in half -pound monsters of the deep. Sky•clouded., Another doud-burst. More wind. More rain. No fishing. Visibility decreased, along with the food and the beer. • old, only' long the rivers where drainage is good are there forests of well developed spruce and poplar. Coral Rapids at 96.3 miles is the site of a potential power development and diamonds have also been discovered here. About 30 miles down the line at Onakawana are extensive lignite deposits which may be of future com- mercial use in the production of low cost energy. Excellent fishing is reported in the Onakawana, Otakwahegan and Kwataboahegan rivers. Along`t'hb way are four upside-down bridges. These bridges are unique in that the supportive steel girders, usually found, below the bridge are on top of the structure to leave the underside free and open to let ice flow downstream. ` - The Moose River at mile 142 is a half mile wide and used by canoeists travell- ing to Moosonee and Moose Factory. Moose River boasts a population of 50 to 60 families. They work as trappers, hunters or employed by Ontario Northland Railway as sectionmen. The Moose River bridge represents an engineering triumph to the men who built Ontario Northland. This 1,800 foot long steel trestle is the longest struc- ture on the entire Ontario Northland rail line. The train moves very slowly over this bridge., Large gypsum deposits are found near the Cheepash River at 162 miles. Another 14 miles and the Polar Express arrives in Moosonee. When we arrived in Moosonee we were greeted with a drizzle of rain. Please turn to page 5 J Health w• Views Youth is a feeling... not an age How old are you? Not in years, but in spirit? - The late comedian, Ed Wynn, in his later years had a formula for staying young: He said that_ instead of worryingabout his actual age and feeling old, he picked so important event in his life and figured his age from th point in his particular case, the- event was. his m riage. Therefore, he quoted his age 20 to 30 years younger .., and felt the same. Youth is a feeling, not an age! .There are youthful oldsters and old youngsters. So chronological age in itself means nothing. Whether you are 8 or 80, if you want to stay youthful, your doctor of chiropractic makes the following suggestions: 1. Keep busy. Too much leisure causes the mind. to stagnate and the body_to deteriorate. - 2. Have hobbies. Select activities that give you a complete diversion from your regular work. 3. Maintain friendships. Everyone has a need for the companionship and respect of friends. 4. Set goals and have 'ambitions. You are never too old nor too young to plan. 5. Eat regular, well-balanced meals. Do not overeat. Likewise, avoid crash or fad diets. 6. Allow yourself "think" time. Don't put yourself on so tight a schedule that you do not have time for yourself. 7. Keep physically fit. Establish a regular program of moderate exercise. 8. Maintain good posture. Keep your chest out, stomach in, back straight and chin up. 9. Get regular health examinations. Practice preventive care. Life is precious and well worth preserving. Retain that spirit of youth, by maintaining good health. ••• These health views are published by members of the Ontario Chiropractic Association in the interest of better public health. ;l '40 Mem 55 Years Ago The Students from Exeter High School who will attend normal school this year are; Almer Christie, Carrie Davis, Gertie Francis, Mary Horney, Ruth Lamport and Mildred Rowe. 'E A new sign has been erected at the Central Park by thtj �ceter Horticultural Societ . In addition to the name of the park on one side it says -"Tarry a Time" and on the other side "Rest a while". William Lawson and George Hind left Monday for Toronto to attend Dental College. No land in sight. Blown off the shoal where the fish. Anchor wouldn't hold. Soaked to the heels. Circled the buoy marking the shoal eighteen times while novice steered erratically and skipper pretended he could chart a course. Nothing in sight except rain. Clung to rear seat with white knuckles and kept up spirits of crew with stories of flying Formation through the clouds, and the time we came.back from Horse 'Island deer, hunting in_kj, v be rough. -a telt; land ten foot waves. Did quick fugures in head; estimating how far to swim if we hit rock, lake freighter or other. cruiser stupid enough to be otliin such. • Skipper finally figuror'course, broke out emergency_ medic supplies. blind toter:,, ' it... )p and headed for what was either the north or the south shore of the Bay. Obviously, we made it. i had caught one four -inch rock bass and one helluva _cold. ft'we�lad bass fiflets for breakfast, the sun lhone•>pgp,;psy old lady had to forget about �:coll tinge_111y ,,i�nsurance= and f promptly called our nit itltdr4ind told him to put me down for '25 a month for the real Boat People, those poor sods who have escaped from Viet Nam and drowned and starved and thirsted while we go tearing about in our air-conditioned c4, our cruisers with all the amenities, and whine about infla- tion. City Boys and Boat People. Enjoyed both of them thoroughly. 30 Years Ago The Brenner Garage, one of the landmarks of Grand Bend, has been purchased by Mr. Jotui Manore. . A new town of 300 homes complete with churches, school and market area is under construction at 7entralia Airport. Charles L. Jinks, who has carried the mails to and from the Hensel] Post Office to the CNR station for the past 15 years, has resigned. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Christie, Russeldale, were guests of honour at a celebration to mark their 35th' wedding anniversary, September 1. 20 Years Ago Mrs. Andrew Johnston, Deborah and Ian returned Sunday after a two month visit in Mymegan Holland. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Turnbull of Grand Bend held open house for relatives, friends and neighbors Tuesday evening on the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary. South Huron Hospital is having difficulty meeting demands for ac- commodation. This week 45 of the 50 beds are occupied, the five empty being in the children's ward. Zurich may start off the - next decade as an in- corporated village. Barring serious difficulties, the change may become ef- fective January 1. 1960. 15 Years Ago Workmen are putting the finishing touches on the Usborne Township Central School this week and the new eight -room school will be ready for operation. . Tuesday. Students will be transported by Exeter Coach Lines. The post office on the Main Street at Grand Bend closed its doors to the public Monday night and services' commenced from the modern new facilities on Hidden Lane, Tuesday morning. Kids in the Exeter area have been waiting all summer for the new swim pool 10 be finished, but memories of the delay were soon forgotten when the facilities were opened, Sunday. Jean Henderson was presented with a -gift and assured the prayers of the congregation of St. Paul's Anglican Church prior to her departure Monday, for Kitkatla Mission on Dolphin Island off the B.C. coast. The readers write Dear Sir. later in life gave me a dif- f would like to thank Mary ferent perspective. I studied acting and won Alderson for writing the many awards in high school article ori our skydiving club and in college - then i t it • slur d Bend. I'hnve seer., --aside.. _ . "-My MIX a tfclei written on the training is extensive. subject but none that have As'for missing thepathos in been so well written. the dog scene - well. I think The facts presented in the we've hit it now - your review story area true and accurate was accurate at that point in. picture of our club. Usually the stories get the facts performance. the sed but Njrs. ?n._ I've joved. •g �w �l-.r :,--:- dope buta-fhire. 0,4,, 461,.m4 -(007 -6n - has -Again thank you for the rayed the people and the very accurate article. reception we've received. • 1) • Wes Marshall {x -:rix ^Dear Mary Aldersow Thank you very much for >?.. The-thoughtfullq terview and the excellent. r' Af' Owl and The Pussy Cat. I did:' want to mention one point on the interview for your young readers - I don't feel Lb° » ,"'neer is luck 4/7.-1. that "The harder you wort* the luckier youget' and that g9in4Jnto acting fora living Gloria Gifford Dear Sir • i wish to congratulate yen on the fine article concerning our town police. i found the :3tor-yery informative:it put a nurilber,44,4beAifficulties the police fact',` ?kWclear perspective. it seems tis me, this. type.. of reporting -}provides a 'vital service to our community, Jay Campbell