Zurich Citizens News, 1980-11-27, Page 6Page 6 Citizens News November 27, 1980
Rink Mice win
Speaker tells many war stories
Born in Finland of Russian
parents during the First
World War, .:Major the
Reverend George
Youmatoff spoke of the
hardships endured in post-
war times, when he ad-
dressed the Goderich Rotary
Club last week.
Times were hard in
Finland and following the
Armistice, they journeyed to
France by a circuitous
route. Not being a French
Hayfield
by
Bud Sturgeon
citizen, his father had a dif-
ficult time making a living
although his mother was
workintt too.
Travelling steerage, his
parents brought him and his
sister to Canada in 1925. This
eventually proved to be a
good move. Getting permis-
sion to enter Canada in those
days was tough. It required
eight months of vetting and
three people to vouch for
you. In 1931 he became a
Canadian citizen which
opened up unlimited oppor-
tunities.
After completing his
education in 1939 (in Toronto
and Montreal), he joined the
Canadian army and went
overseas. He found that
many 'emigres' had joined
the forces because they felt
they had a debt to pay to
their adopted country, a
country which had offered
them all countless oppor-
tunities.
In 1944, he graduated from
Sandhurst as an Honour
Cadet and was 'borrowed' by
the Wa>f Office to assist in in-
terviewing prisoners. Many
of them technically German,
spoke only Russian, Ukra-
nian or Polish. They had all
been given the option of join-
ing the German army or be-
ing shot, Some had fought
against the Allies and some
against the Russians. Many
were also defectors who
found the army the only way
to get out of Russia. A fourth
category included the
mercenaries who fought on
the side paying the most.
Mr. Youmatoff told a
story of two Georgian bat-
talions who were ap-
proached at the front by the
German Army represen-
tatives willing to pay them
10% more than the Russians,
so they switched sides. It
wasn't long .until the
Russians offered to equal
the pay. so they switched
sides again. Once again the
Germans offeredthem more
money so they switched
back to the Germans. This
time they were loaded onto
trains and immediately sent
to garrison the Channel
Islands.
The Cossacks, 6000 of
them. decided to fight with
the German Army and so oc-
cupied Yugoslavia and parts
of northern Italy where they
terrorized the inhabitants.
Following the war, one of
Mr. Youmatoff's jobs was
interviewing these people
and returning them back to
Russia.
About 50,000 prisoners out
Hay Municipal Telephone System
INVITES THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO
Friday November 28, 1980
7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
at the New
BUSINESS OFFICE and. WORK CENTRE
Dedication of the building
will be held at 8:00 p.m.
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The Hay Municipal Telephone
Business Office and Work
Centre is located north
on Concession road 10
(first sideroad east of Zurich)
of the total three million
were handled by his group.
Only 118 of the 50,000 ob-
jected to being returned to
their homeland and yet the
group was severely critlsiz-
ed for 'forcing' prisoners to
go back. After the last
shipload was dispatched to
Odessa. Youmatoff was
posted home to Canada.
Many refugees (about
50,000) have recently come
to Canada from Communist
controlled countries,
Genuine refugees are
welcome but due to lax vet-
ting procedures, there are
sure to be undesirables
(some of whom have only
political purposes) coming
to Canada to infiltrate and
promote their communist
beliefs.
Youmatoff's final remarks
were "Over many years of
peace. we have become
careless, fat and complacent
and it is time for us to shake
off this lethargy and 'Stand
on Guard', lest we be taken
over from the inside."
News from the
Pathfinders
There is a new group of
young people in Bayfield this
fall called the Pathfinders.
Presently eight girls are:
enrolled and it should soon
be growing.
Following are the
Pathfinder's officers: presi-
dent, Serena Chilton; vice-
president. Donna Gerger;
social planner, Tracey
Fansher; treasurer, Chris
Westlake; secretary, Leigh
Anne Taman; scrapbook,
Mary Ellen Van Aaken and
press reporter, Laura Roy.
On the 15th of November,
. the group went to Goderich
to a Pathfinder Division
Day. There were 10 different
groups attending. Each
group presented a song and a
game in the afternoon. The
morning session was divided
into. two groups. One group
. learned dancing and songs
for an hour while the other
worked on crafts, then they
-switched.
Loogon Cup Hockey
Rink Mice record
first victory
With the fast skating,
sharp shooting perennial All-
star Larouche out of action
(suffering from an injury of
-undetermined origin), his
Old Timers fell to the up-
start Rink Mice by a 10-0
score.
For the 'Mice' it was
Wailin' Winnie leading the
scoring parade with five
goals and not falling down
once in the entire game.
Greg 'the possum' recorded
his first career shutout.
Old Timer's captain ' Blon-
die'. said in a post game in-
terview. "She hoped the
fan's favorite, that nice Mr.
Larouche would be back
soon!"
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