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A better chance
Lottery addicts take heart. Here is a
new lottery plan where you pre
guaranteed to win at least $250 once a
year, suggests the editor of The
Renfrew Mercury.
However i.t involves stopping
spending money on any other lotteries.
1; The day before -each of the Wintario,,
Provincial or Loto Canada. draw. just
deposit the value of two tickets in a
special bank account..
Wi.t.h 26 W3'nta.rio, 12 Provincial and
four Loto Canada draws the total after
a year will be $252. And to make the
winr`ings even bigger, you will be paid
interest on the money.
Of course, there isn't any chance of
winning a million dollars, but then the
chances of winning a million on the
lotteries is so small as to be worthless
anyway.
The truth about the lotteries is that
from 4p to 50 percent of the money goes
into prizes. That means that of your
$252 entered, only from $100 to $126 is
paid back in prizes..
So .that means that, after ,levelling
out the odds, ypu could make twice as.
much money by putting the ticket -
money into the.,bank.
And then at Christmas or whatever
time you decide to take the cash out,
you will have a nice total of winnings
on hand instead of cursing that you
didn't win.
Booze and business,
While some members of the liquor
fraternity appear to advocate
moderation in drinking, others
blatantly reveal the industry's true
motivation. They want Canadians to
drink more.
They've given up those subtle. visual
advertising hints that you can't enjoy
life without a drink. .They've begun
stating that alcohol is essential.
Jonnie Walker has offered whisky as
an escape from life's pressures. An ad,
showing a glass filled with ice cubes
read: "The road to success is paved
with rocks. Let us smooth ;them for
you." J
As an editorial in the "Mennonite
Brethren ' Herald", commented:
"Anyone acquainted with the incidence
of alcoholism among 'successful'
business executh/es can only read that
ad as a cynical joke."
The Martini and Rossi people said:
"How to succeed in business without
really trying." The ad described their
vermouth as "the world's most
beautiful drink" with "a taste that can
put almost anybody in the right, frame
of mind. So if you want to be a ,success
in business just remember this one
important word: Martini."
Considering the damage already
done to Canadian society by an' ever-
increasing consumption of beverage
alcohol, this kind of advertising, can
only be called irresponsible and harm-
ful.
Sugar and Spice/By Bill Smiler
Yarns of the past
I'm engaged in writing a few yarns for
Airforce, the official magazine of the RCAF
Association. Naturally, this has brought
back_a lot of memories, some a bit grim,
some pretty hilarious.
As the old mind's eye wandered back,
something- hit me like a cold douche. Not
that`I've ever taken a cold douche.
,Whey were we so keen to get killed? In
this age of dropouts, draft dodgers and ,
deserters, it seems incredible that' "
thousands of young Canadian males,,back •
in the Forties, were almost frantic to get
intopthe air force, into air crew, and into a
squadron, where the chances were. ex-
cellent they'd be dead within a couple of
months.
From the point of view of common sense,
reason, logic, it was not, any brighter than
the Children's Crusade of the Middle Ages..
Why? Certainly we had no death wish.
We had no deep urge to immate ourselves
in the breath of the war dragon. We weren't
even running to the battlements to protect
our homes,. our wives and children. Most of
us were in school, or just recently out., and
didn't have none •of them there things.
Oh, we knew we had to "Stop thet
bawstawd Hitlah ! " as Churchill oncetold
us on an airfield in Normandy. We knew
rather vaguely that we were defending
democracy and unemployment against the
monsters of -totalitarianism and full em-
ployment, although it was a bit puzzling
that totalitarian Russia was on our side.
We knew Joining up was the thing to do,
that most of our friends were doing it, that
a fellow looked pretty fine in a uniform,
that the girls were impressed and the hitch-
hiking easier.
But why the air force? And why air crew,
where the dice were loaded so heavily?
Did we avoid the army because we didn't
want to be exposed to the rude and licen-
tious soldiery and get all dirty and grimy in
action? Or the navy because we preferred a
fiery grave to a watery one?
I just don't know, but most of my friends,
and most of their friends, chose the air
force, and were dead keen on getting into
air crew.
Within a bare few years, most of them
were a lot less keen,'and many were a lot
more dead.
As I recall, it was a real downer for those
who failed the tough medical test Mr air•
crew. Once chosen, you were filled with.
,despair if you were going for pilot and had
to settle for bomb-aimer, just because you
were a little cross-eyed.
G,
Once in training, it was a shattering
experience to be "washed out" of air crew
merely because you had badly bent up one
of His Majesty's aircraft by trying to lapd
at 40 feet up, or"ha-d'wound up 300 miles off
course on a cross-country training flight. It
was devastating if you wanted to be a
fighter pilot and were shipped off to lum-
bering old bombers.
I have friends who still bear a deep scar
on the psyche because .they were made
flying -instructors and spent the rest of the
war in Canada. This despite the fact they
were chosen as instructors because they
were far better pilots than the rest of us.
This despite ,the fact that many of the
pilots they trained were dead, dead, in no
time. None of this was any consolation.
They still feel they 'missed, something
irrecoverable.
Well I know what they missed. They
missed the stupidity of senior officers who
didn't know whether they were punched or
bored. They missed long, deadly dull
periods of training, and short, intense
moments of sheer terror.
They missed being shot at, physically, by.
perfect strangers, and shot down, verbally,
by people on -their own. side.
They missed the utter blind confusion of
the amateurs in charge of the war.
Migawd, those idiots lost an entire wing of
Typhoons for a full week.
Nobody, least of all Intelligence, had a
clue where it was. I air -hitched all over
southern England and northern France
before I found the blasted thing, all on my
own. •
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Let's see, have I left anything out? Well
maybe I have. First I'll take that back
about stupid senior officers. There were
plenty of those in Canada, too, so you didn't
miss that.
Perhaps you missed the joy of climbing
out of your aircraft after an operation,
lighting a cigarette, and talking a wild blue
streak of relief and let -down.
I .guess you missed the glory of heading.
off for a week's leave in a strange country,'
loaded with lust, a month's pay in your
pocket, and the secret sweetness in your
head of knowing that nobody would be
shooting at you for seven days.
And you did, I must, admit, miss the girls.
Not all of those fumblings in the blackout
were;frustrating..
But I still say we were all crazy to
volunteer, and even vie' to be killed. Must
write attpaper on that some day.
"My girl friend would be safe — she's built like a .. .
Odds 'n' ends - by Elaine Townshend
Notable quotes
Actor Tony Randaliwon an Emmy for
his role in TV's "Odd Couple" in the
same year in which the show was can-
celled. His acceptance speech was the
shortest of the evening. Soberly he
quipped, "I'm really glad I won. Now,. if
I only had a job."
On Dinah Shore's television talk show,
David Frost admitted, "I'm proud that I
am to music. what Noel Coward is to
fighting!"
Snoopy touched. the hearts of all
writers when he complained,
"Sometimes a writer spends ' hours
searching for the right word.",.Snoopy's
right word turned out to be,"the".
Take heart, all men with receding
hairlines for "Bald in front indicates a
thinker; bald in back indicates a lover;
bald all, over indicates a thoughtful
lover."
An appliance salesman stunned a
customer, who was returning a faulty
TV set, when he explained, "Yes, it was
guaranteed for thirty-six months. But
July isn't one of them".
Are you frustrated when you dial a
number only to reach an ,answering
service? One business tycoon shouted
into the receiver, "I don't care if you are
a recording! Stop interrupting me!"
An historian observed, "The bathtub
was invented in 1850, and the phone in
1975. In 1850, you could've sat in the tub
without having the phone ring."
A philosopher contributed this gem:
"A tactless person is one who says what
everyone else is thinking."
A political satirist expounded:
"Government spending gives you an
idea why laws are called bills."
Meanwhile, another politician con-
sulted his aides, "About their charge
that I'm indecisive - do you think I
should answer it, or let it go, or answer it
in part, or what?"
A critic remarked, "Inflation is so bad
that it has hit feathers. Even the down is
up.,,
Looking on the bright side, a doctor
reassured his patient, "Congratulations!
The high price of butter, meat and eggs
cleared up your cholesterol."
Women's lib begins at an early age. A
Sunday School teacher asked one of the
little girls in her class to tell the story of
Adam and Eve. The student answered
confidently, "First. God made Adam,.,
What
think
Members
Dear Editor:
I am writing to you on
behalf of the Blyth Summer
Festival. For the first time
since our conception, three $
years •aga, we are • able to
offer memberships to these
who; we hope, ;might be in-
ceOS,teCI i ti , g:POO, 6,f sQW_„
growth. •
We would like to offer four
different • classifications for
you to consider; . a general
rnembership of $10. a sup-
porting , membership of $25.
an associate membership of
$50. and a patron • mem-
bership of $100. or more.
All those with memberships
would receive advance
mailings of our brochure,
first choice of tickets, a vote
at the annual meeting to help
choose the board df directors,
an invitation to the annual
membership night, a -
membership card and a
discount on ticket prices: We A
would also like to be able to
offer an area in the lobby for
members to display their own
brochures. Both the associate
members and the patrons
would have their names listed
in the program.
Being tpart of this com-
munity has always been a
conscious• aim of the Blyth
Summer Festival. We try to
produce the type of en- •
tertainment that will not only
make our business run
smoothly, but that which may
also be a source of pride for
the area.
We hope that what has been
conceived as a meaningful*
attempt to unite a community
and a young Canadian theatre
troupe will continue to
prosper and grow. We also -
hope that you might consider
us to be worthy of your in-
terest, and, exciting enough
• for you to be a part of.
If you have any questions
you would like answered or
inquiries to make, or, if you
have any suggestions that.,
might help us in the future
please call me at 523-9300 and
I, • or any member of our
company would be pleased to
speak with you. If you would
like t? take out a membership'
in any of the categories I
mentioned, our address is
Box 291, Blyth, Ontario , we
would be honored to hear
from you..
Thank you for. your time.
Then, he looked at Adam and thought `I
can do better, than that'. So he made
Eve."
The ushers passed the offertory plates
in church one Sunday morning. When the
plate reached a little boy in a front pew,
he shook his head no and whispered
loudly, "I gave at Sunday School".
Describing his congregation, one
minister conceded, "Some people come
to worship God; others come to sleep
and nod."
In the Pioneer Museum in Goderich,
beside a display of antique, coffins and
hearses, a tombstone bears this epitaph:
"Intime you will follow me".
Beside the tombstone leans another
sign that advises:, "Following you is not
my intent, until I know which way you
went."
A Chinese youth provided a new
translation for ' the three -monkeys'
symbol that we label "See no evil. Hear
no evil. Speak - no - '. evil.'
"It could mean.," the boy conjectured,•
"that the one with the hands over eyes is
listening, the one with hands over ears is
looking and the one with hands over
mouth is thinking."
From our early files .
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10 YEARS AGO •
August 17, 1967
The old post office, a landmark
in Clinton for more than half a
century, is to be demolished by
October 1.
At a meeting of' town council
Monday night, council said the
building would be torn down by
then in preparation for the
erection of • the radar antenna
which was presented to the town,
marking it the home of radar in
North America.'
The property surrounding the
antenna will be turned into a
Centennial Park and will be
,landscaped with flower beds and
,. park benches.
Control of one of Clinton's
oldest industries changed hands
recently. with the appointment of
William D. Heintzman, Toronto,
as president of Sherlock -Manning
Piano Co. Ltd.
Mr. Heintzman recently
purchased, along with an uncle,
George T. Heintzman, controlling
interest in the firm for an un-
d,,isclosed sum. Heintzman had
been a vice president of Heint-
zman Piano, .Hanover, until he
sold his interest in 1961.
Council's hot potato, in the
shape of the public works
department landed in the lap of
deputy reeve George Wonch
Monday night, whet') fellow
councillors voted him - into the
chairmanship of the troubled
municipal department. Wonch is
the third councillor to, the post
within a year.
In a prepared statement,to the
press Tuesday, Mr. Wonch said,
"The public works chairman,
committee and employees will do
their best at all times for the
interests of the taxpayer in the
future - only complaints of an
emergency nature will be
listened to over the phone, or any
other place. Complaints other-
wise are to be directed by mail to
the public works committee via
the Town 'Council for action."
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,25 YEARS AGO
August 21, 1952
The fund which is being raised
for the installation of an artificial
ice plant in the Clinton Lions
Arena received a boost of $2,000
from the personnel of RCAF
Station, Clinton.
The money was donated from
the Station Fund, which consists
of the profits from canteens, the
station theatre, the miniature
golf and driving ranges and other
enterprises set up for the per-
sonnel at no public expense.
According to the Clinton Lions
Club officials, the drive for their
$30,000 objective is progressing in the fact that all the men em -
quite favourably although they ployed in the laying down of
are ust over the half -way mark. granolithic walks receive $1.50
Commuters along .Queen's per day - not a bad wage for
Highway 4 will be pleased to unskilled labor.
learn that progress is being The other day a commercial
steadily made in the re -surfacing traveller went into one of our
project. The highway has livery stables and asked for a
received its first coat of blacktop, horse that could driveto Bayfield
from Kippen to more than two in 11/2 hours, as he had some
miles north of Brucefield. There business to transact and wanted
are still a couple to be applied to catch a train when he came
and a lot of landscaping to be back. The liveryman thought this
done before the project will be was dead easy, as die distance
complete. was only 1,1 miles, but gave him,
nevertheless, a good driver. He
50 YEARS AGO was more than surprised, an hour
August 18, 1927 and a half later, when the man
Consideeable fun was taken out drove in, the horse covered with
of a watermelon chase at perspiration. Demanding, an
Jowett's Grove in Bayfield on explanation, the man said he had
Wednesday of last week when asked for a horse that_ could go
Miss Vera Kalbfleisch in the keen there and back in that time, while
contest, went through a barbed the owner of the horse had un-
wire fence. She did not notice that derstood that he only wanted' to
the wire was barbed until a quite drive one way in the time
deep gash was cut in her scalp, specified. The liveryman
which necessitated medical properly charged him double
attention, several stitches being price for the hard usage the horse
necessary. Miss Kalbfleisch was had.
with the Young People's Society Mr. D. Cantelon commences
of the Lutheran Church, Zurich, the apple season next week by a
who were picnicking in Jowett's shipment of two cars to Wim
Grove. After she had received nipeg. Mrs. Fred Pritchard, a
medical attention her brother dealer of Liverpool, was here this
took her home to Zurich. week; he says the crop is a poor
Several Clintonians left by quality all over Ontario, but a
motor bus for Niagara Fa.11s last little better in the east than west.
Sunday but unfortunately engine
trouble developed near Seaforth 100 YEARS A9O
so the trip was prevented. August 23;1877
Mr. David Crawford, who has On Thursday afternoon last a
been the proprietor of the very heavy storm visited this
Graham house for the past three place, and the rain came down in
years, has sold his hotel and torrents for about half an hour.
business to Mr. Rober.t Lamont.
Mr. and Mrs. Crawford and their
family are moving to Toronto,
Mr. Lamont gets immediate
possession. We wish him every
success in his new venture.
A coat of paint. has greatly
improved the appearance of the
hand stand.
The fall wheat threshing is now
in full swing and the threshers
report a fine quality of grain and
a good yield, from thirty to thirty-
five bushels per acre. The cutting
of the spring grain is about all
done and the very favorable
weather will soon enable the
farmers to have it all in the
barns. This Jubilee year in
Canada's history will report a
very prosperous condition all
over the Dominion.
75 YEARS AGO•
August 15, 1902
A new phone will be installed in
the Sovereign Bank. This makes
100 phones in use in town.
The demand for labor is shown
'and consideration.
Sincerely,
Kate Trotter,
Administrative assistant,
Blyth Centre for the Arts
During the course of the storm
considerable hail fell, some of the
stones being an inch in cir-
cumference. Fortunately no
serious damage was done
thereby. •
The large number of gypsies
who visit Clinton would suggest
the opinion that a great many of
them must be "on the road." For
the past six or seven weeks these
ubiquitous beings have regularly
visited the town,' and, when
possible went away with better
horses than they came with,
obtained through trading. How
they manage to live and•drive the
good conveyances they do is,
perhaps, known only to them-
selves, but those who have any
dealings with them, state that
they always seem to have lots of
money.
Gold is reported to have been
found in the' vicinity of Bayfield.
It will likely be nothing more than
reported.
By advertisement it will be
seen that a new map of the
County is soon to be issued. This
is something very much needed
and we trust its publishers may
meet with a ready sale therefore.
On Monday the common school
of'this place will re -open. During
the holidays 'the services for four
new teachers have been secured
for the Common and one for the
High School, who will at once
enter upon their duties. Parents
and guardians should see to it
that their children should be on
h.V • on the day of opening, and
th, eby avoid any confusion in
the arrangement of classes.
Animals
Dear Editor:
This letter is written to
heartily commend Elaine,
Townsend for her column in.
today's paper.
Miss . Townsend has said
very well what needs to be
said in regard to the place of
animals, snakes, birds etc. in
our world. What a pity that
more epople • do not un-
derstand "the balance of
nature".
S9,7many species .of"
creatures are in danger of
extinction today, we have to
really wonder if there will be
many left by the year 2000.
We can only hope that more
people will become aware of
the need to preserve our
animal life.
Mrs. G. Graham,
Bayfield
Smile
Hear about the angry in-
chworm? He was told to
convert to the metric
systems. Imagine hearing of
a twenty-five
millimetreworm.
.Drugs popular with students
One quarter of all students
in Qntario schools have used
cannabis (marijuana or
hashish) at least once in the
past 12 months, according to
a recent study presented to
the Huron County board of
education Monday.A total of
81$ percent had used alcohol
in the same period.
The provincial study of
alcohol and drug use among
Ontario students in 1977,
which included Huron
County, said 25.1 percent of
students in grades 7 to 13 had
used cannabis in the last
year.
The study which involved
104 schools said the users of
most drugs used them in-
frequently in the previous
year.
"Tile majority of users of
glue, solvents, heroin, speed,
psychoactive drugs and illicit
drugs reported using them
only once or twice. However,
use of alcohol„ cannabis and
tobacco was much more
frequent among users," the
report `prepared by the
Addiction Research Foun-
dation said.
Alcohol was drunk at least
once a week or more by 17.9
percent of the students,
cannabis was used 10 or more
times by 11.9 percent of all
students. About 16 percent
had been drunk and 23 per-
cent had had at least five
drinks on some occasion in
the preceding month.
The study found drug use
was "significantly and
positively" related to age,'
with most frequent drug use
occuring in the 16 and 17 year
old age group.
An inverse relationship was
found between drug use and
grade average. As drug use
increased grade average
decreased. In the case of
cannabis, 12.1 percent of the
students with the:-thighest
grade average reported use,
but 40.2 percent of those with
the lowest grades reported
cannabis use.
Alcohol consumption was
also related to grade average
with frequent drinkers having
lower averages.
The report concludes that
changes in drug use since 1974
"have probably been small •
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