The Wingham Advance-Times, 1973-03-15, Page 18C1
—Crossroads—March 15, 1973—
CROSSROADS
TONGUE
IN CHEEK
IN JOHN ROBERTSON
Watch Them Grow
357-2320
For Sale
IMPROVED Milker Inflations for
--. Viking and Gascoigne units now
at Crest Hardware, Mount For-
est. Sauders service. Rothsay,
323-1846, George Dodds, Wing-
er ham, 357-3321. 8-15-22
STAMPS for collectors. All dif-
ferent. In '$1.00 and $2.00 lots.
Huron Stamps, Box 210, Wing -
ham. 8-15
POLES, as new-, pressure treat-
ed. 10' - 20' - 80c per foot; 30' - 90c
per foot. A. Showalter, 357-3569.
1-8-15
REGISTERED toy Pomeranian.
puppies, now ready for new
homes. Inquiries invited. JAY-.
WHY KENNELS, Wingham.;
Phone 357-1306. 1-8-15-
ANTIQUES—Grandfather's wal-
nut rocker with caned seat and
back, excellent condition; nurs-
ery rocker with caned seat, good
condition; Windsor -back chair,
walnut frame 20" x 2534"; World
War I bayonet with leather case;
water -tight wooden washtub;
cast-iron glue pot with porce-
lain -lined inner pot; framed tilt
mirror with smallshelf,.:' suitable
for sideboard or dresser; sever
feet of wooden eavestrough; steel
tomahawk with. nail. • puller,
hammer and wooden handle;
dark wood 'mantle clock ' with.
Ilona' heads; barrel -type butter
cin. with mounted rotary rack;
variety of bottles; .glassware,
crocks and china. Call 523-9242..
• Real 'Estate •.k
For. Sale
2 STOREY FAMILY ROME
4 Bedrooms
For
Immediate Sale
'Quaint Red Brick Barn
Included
Located in a Small Village
Convenient to Major Centres
Good-sized Lot; Low Taxes
Immediate Possession
Phone Atwood, 356-2224
Auction Sale
THREE SESSIONS •
AUCTION SALES '
Avery. extensive offering of valu-
able furnishings and antiquities
representing the entire contents
of a prominent Blyth, Ontario
home together with some very
impressive additions from Listo-
wel and West Wawanosh, being
sold on instructions from the
owners and The Public Trustee
through the facilities of :
ESTATE MARKETING
SERVICES
Auction Centre
20 Water St., Witigham
IN ' THREE SEPARATE SES-
SIONS ON THE FOLLOWING
' DATES:
SESSiON NO. 2
SAT., MARCH 17 — 11 A.M.
(Lots 400 thru & green coded )
SESSION NO. 3
SAT., MARCH 24 10:30 A.M.
(Lots 800 thru & yellow coded)
AUCTIONEER
Jack Alexander
PREVIEWS— You will be privi-
ledged to preview the entire of-
fering as follows:
Sessions 2 and 3— Thursday and
Friday, March 15th . and 16th— 1
to 5:30 p.m.; Saturday, March
17th— 9 a.m. till sale time.
Session 3— Thursday and Friday,
March 22nd and 23rd— 1 to 5:30
p.m.; Saturday. Mardi 24th -
8:30 a.m. till sale time.
Due to the diversity an the quan-
tity of this exceptional offering, it
is not possible to provide you with
a comprehensive listing. The
special preview periods will be
worthy of your attendance before
each sale date.
Please direct any enquiry to:
J. A. Currie
Auction Administrator
ESTATE MARKETING
SERVICES
Wingham, Ont. 357-1011
"Our reputation is our
At, `reeorrim ndation." °
Whether or not you are in'r
pressed with the calibre of play in
the new
World Hockey Associa
tion, you haue to admit that it has
succeeded adnlirably in perhaps
its most essenti:►1 function And
this is to pry the y keif Nationa
League servitude from the necks
of all professional hockey
players.
Prior to the emergence of the
WHA, a player Was enslaved for
his entire hockey -playing life to
whichever team signed him to his
first pro contract. It started with
a "like it or lump it" salary offer.
The "lump it" part meant that if
you didn't like what they offered,
you could always quit. So you
signed. Then you found out you
could be traded, sold or demoted
to another league on a moment's
notice, and end up having your
family uprooted as many as three
times in one season.
If you complained, the general
manager . would place a fatherly
hand on your shoulder and say :
"Son, it's all part of being a pro
hockey player. You have to either
go where you're told.... or hang
'em up."
That's the way it used to be. No
more. Now it's the player who is
in the catbird seat. 1• Ie can firmly
lift his GM's paternal hand from
his shoulder' and say: "Look,
Bub. I have an offer from the
Winnipeg Jets for double what
you've been paying me. Match
it... or I'll see you around."
Not surprisingly, close to 100
players either on the fringe or al-
ready in the NHL, exercised this
alternative to join the WHA. And
just about every player who
chose to stay in the NHL, used a
,real or implied threat to jOin the
WHA, to • get a better contract.
Salaries soared. The New York
'Ranger payroll doubled as Brad
Park .and the- GAG line of Rod
Gilbert, -Vic Hadfield and Jean
Ratelle were all given whopping
long-term contracts at $200,000
per year—to remain loyal to the
NHL.
Olay, 'so the world's highest-
, priced siaveshad been freed. But
as yolfbegin to rejoice about the
emancipation of the /professional
athlete, you are stopped short
!Oen you pick up a paper 'and
read ;a story out of Edmonton
to h fg the parents ''of two
teenage boys had to go all the
way to the Alberta Supreme
Court to secure releases for their
sons from local junior teams.
This'isn't professional hockey,
it's amateur. These aren't men,
they're boysheld in bondage on
their signature in a game they're
still supposed to' be playing for
fun. '
suuemit take a costly trip to the
e court for a father to
emancipate his boy ' from this
kind of yoke?
Apparently it does.
Anyone who thinks that all the
commercialism and slave -trad-
ing went out of junior hockey the
day the NHL stopped directly
sponsoring teams is hopelessly
naive. The Ontario Hockey Asso- J
ciation's Junior A league and the
Quebec Junior Hockey League
both stage annual drafts from
both provinces, and buy, sell and
trade them from city to city like
the pros. 'And if this means
changing schools or quitting
school, well, that's the price the
kid has to pay. Sure he gets paid,
but only from $60 a week to may-
be $100.
In most cases, a young man
wdt ld- be better off turning pro-
fessional at age 18. He plays up-
wards of 100 games a year in
junior, travels almost as much,
and his life is regimented even
More by hockey operators who
are making a living exploiting his
talent.
He is "owned" outright even in
Help Wanted
APPLE FARM WORKER
Apple orchard and nursery farm
requires employee for general
work from April 1 to November
30. General farm or mechanical
experience required. Apply by
telephone, letter or in person to:
Chudleigh's,
RR 3, Milton,
1-416-878-2725.
8-15
Miscellaneous
DOG GROOMING
CLIPPING --STRIPPING
Call John Visser, 227 John Rosa
St., Listowel, 291-4817 after 6 p.m.
25-1-8
CHAIR CANING
Your old or antique rocking
chair, side chair, armchair,
bench, stool or any caned furni-
ture re -caned like new. Old up-
holstered chairs, can be laid out,
drilled and caned. Call 523.9242
for rates and estimates. 25-1-8
his td can either play for
the junior team that owns him or
lump it. Or maybe go to the
supreme court.
If we are to really emancipate
the slaves of hockey, it is time
parents clamored for a revision
of the entire amateur structure,
as governed by the Canadian
Amateur Hockey Association.
No player, from the • time he
signs his first card in bantam,
should be obligated to play for
any team for more than one year.
There should be a 30 -day trial
period at the start of each season
during which a boy and his father
can assess a team and its coach,'
and decide whether that team is
right for the boy. If it isn't he
should be able to obtain a release
simply by asking for it.
At the end of each season, all
players within CAHA jurisdic-
tion, from Junior 'A' down to the
lowliest tyke league, should be
free agents. The only restrictions
should be geographical. A boy
should be given the choice of
playing for, several teams in his
area, but the packing of kid
teams by importing young
players from one area to another,
should be stopped.
Indoor rinks in every city, town
and hamlet should not be the ex-
clusive property of the chosen
few. Up to at least the age of 13,
teams should be formed simply
by dividing the number of boys
Most of the major disaster* ;nf
life I can accept with a certain
equanimity.
It's. the little things in life, the
almost daily irritants, that keep,'
me in such a flaming rage that
can almost hear my great-uncle;,
Mountain Jack Thomson, .the
wildest -tempered man in the en-
tire Ottawa Valley about ninety
years ago, whisper, "That's my
boy. One of the old stock. Give
'em hell, William."
I have ridden, or flown, into the
valley of death, and come alit:
with nothing twitching except my
who want to play into equal,
groups, with everyone getting;.
equal ice time.
What's more important? That
your boy is better thanmy boy?
Or that they both get an equal
chance to play?
Amateur coaches at the kid
level who are unwilling to sub-
scribe to the theory that "play-
ing" is fun and winning is just a
bonus, should be set straight by
concerned parents.
The WHA and the Allan Eagle -
sons of this •world have eman-
cipated the professional hockey,
slave. Who is going to emanci-
pate the children, our own chil-
dren, who are enslaved in a simi-
lar system? Or do you feel there's
nothing wrong with a system that
forces parents of teenagers to go
to the supreme court to pry them.
loose from amateur teams which
hold them in bondage?
Safe Driving Week
toll low in 19 2
Safe Driving Week 1972 ended
at midnight, December 7th.
Based on a survey conducted by.
the Canadian Press,, the traffic
death toll for the week was 53.
This is the lowest total since 1968
when a record low of 49 deaths
was recorded. This year's total of
53 deaths was about half the
average weekly fatality rate of
105 for the remaining weeks of
December and less than half the
vierelcly avera e for traffic deaths
ir1F vciiiler�;; bal;eH? bleatwn"
figures. Last year's campaign re-
corded 68 traffic deaths.
' With traffic fatalities running
approximately 13 per cent higher
than in 1971, Safe Driving Week
1972's record is even more re-
markable and proves once again
that if motorists used the same
caution all year round as they
obviously do during Safe Driving
Week a significant reduction in
traffic deaths could be achieved.
Bruce J. Legge, QC, president
of the Canada Safety Council, in a
post -campaign statement, said,
"The Council ' extends a sincere
TRAFFIC FATALITIES IN CANADA
thank you to all those drivers
across Canada who participated
in the campaign by driving more;
carefully than usual. The Council
urges drivers to continue to
operate their vehicles with the
same' caution every week of the
year. .
"The Council is most grateful
to the media—press, radio and
TV, all levels• of, government,
business and industry, safety or-.
ganizations, and the many indivi "
dlyafs.d'O.who', pzometed } andbs
served Safe Driving Week," said .
Mr. Legge.
Newfoundland, Nova Scotia,
New Brunswick and British Co-
lumbia recorded an increase in
fatalities this year for the week of
December 1st to .7th, while
Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Sas-
katchewan and Alberta had
fewer deaths over the same
period. Prince Edward Island
was the only province to remain
free of traffic fatalities through-
out the entire week. Annual in-
creases in car and driver popula-
tions run at approximately 5 per
sphincter muscles,.
I have landed an aircraft with: a
fused bomb dangling from ; one:
wing, cliinbeddout to faee the are
truck and the ambulance, lance, and.
managed a quiet, "You're
making a l'ot of AO* ' With those
sirens, shape. Hard on the Ilei*
ves, you know," before fainting:,
When I Was khot down and
crashed In a plowed field In
Holland, my firit thought was,
"Dammit, I won't be ale to keep!
that date with Tita tonight, Tita
was in Antwerp, several hundred
miles away. A logical and calm
conclusion.
When I was beaten up for an at-
tempted escape, I ,didn't rail
against anyone, including the
beaters. I lay there quietly in the
boxcar, hands and feet wired
together, licked my wounds and
said to myself, "Serves youTight,
you nit, for trying to be a hero.
You weren't cut out."
When our 4rain rode through
the German night and right into a
major bombing raid on Leipzig, I
looked down on my grovelling,
screaming, praying, calling -for -
mother fellow prisoners, and
thought coolly, "There, but' for
the grace of God and the fact that'
I can't get out of this luggage
rack (where I was resting) would •
be I." Sedate, poised: Paralyzed.
That was in war -time,; of
course, and a man had to keep a
stiff upper, not to mention, nether
lip.
But life since has brought the
same sort of thing. Hell bath no.,
fury like a woman sebrned,
somebody said. Oh, yes, ° it hath.
Try this. .
Tell your wife you'll be home
•
Where to -:find
mineralsfor
good nutrition
CALCIUM' :Milk, cheese, egg
yolk, cauliflower, peas, oysters,
celery, spinach and cabbage.
PHOSPHORUS— Tomatoes,
cabbage, spinach, peas, beans,
meats, milk products.
..IRON—Spinach, potatoes, car-
rots,, lima_ a ,. xhotg„wheat,
liver, string bepn$tveggg,.yolks,
beet tops, red meats and peas:
IODINE --Sea ',foods and fish,
iodized salt, vegetables and fruits
grown where soil and water con-
tain ,iodine.
COPPER—Oysters, beef liver,
mushrooms, split peas.
MANGANESE—Whole wheat,
split peas, chard, navy . beans,
chocolate, bananas.
POTASSIUM, Sulpher, Sodium
and Chlorine --All these minerals
are found in common foods and in
most cases you will receive
enough for your nutrition from
the foods containing other min -
cent. erals.
DURING SAFE DRIVING WEEK 1972 •
Province
Fri.
Dec. 1
Sat. Sun. Mon.;
Dec. 2 Dec. 3 Dec. 4
Tues.' Wed. Thurs. 1972 1971
Dec. 5 Dec. 6 Dec. 7 Total Total
Nfld.
P.E.I.
N.S.
N.B.
Que.
Ont.
Man.
Sask.
Alta.
B.C.
O 0
O 0
2 2
O 0
2 1
3 1
1 0
O 1
O 0
5 2
2 0 0
O 0 0 0
1 0 1 0
o 0 0 2
o 0 0 1
4 0 0 2
o 0 0 0
o 0 0 0
O 0 2 0
o 1 1 5
0
0
'o
2
2
0
2
0
3
3 2
0 0
7 2
2 1
6 17
12 17
1 3
1 5
4' 9
17 12
CANADA
13 7 7
4 1.1 10 53 68
' Based on Canadian Press figures
JESS SHANE'S DURHAM rink edged out Wingham ladies in a CllffhBinger last -rock finish
in competition here last week at Wingham Curling Club to take second place in the Harley
Crawford Trophy bonspiel which was taken by Teeswater. Leff t Might are Skip Jess
Shane, Mary Louise Val lett, Orma Padfield and Sharon Holliday. (Staff Photo)
fear drinnerat six, Arrive home at 3
a.m. with a couple of cronies
you'veinvited for a late snack.
"Nal; she won't mind. Come on
what're you, scared of your
wife?"'
A.womanscorned:m red' to
a woman waiting,islike .?►� a Boy
Scout troop compared to a panzer
division . ,
We'll all agree then,that I've
faced the worst without flinching,
without becoming hysterical with
fear or :rage,
What f can't with is the
daily degradations, The in its to
intelligence. The utter stupidity
of bureaucrats and the malicious
hecklingof ,itianiirnate objects,
I'm afraid f lose every vestige of.
m
coolth, sang-froid, poise,: reason.
Item;. As though it knew exactly
what I' was writing about, my
typewriter just. broke a ribbon.
And 1 just broke MY tYPewli.
After using the name of the Lord,
Y.
vim.
tis my bare
Its. f ►
as ink up tit my
wrists, and a *lode, snide
remark from my 'wife in the next'
rooM that she'd already hadbor
heir .curled,, 'thank You.
Item. They're cUtting down
tri. The .stupid barmier
May they 'roast .in eternal
theme `why ore :� cutter
trees? .o diet theycan widen the
roads for more stinking, rotten
cars, the - mind*
Item. They (M ng
less bureaucracy) are re-nuln-
berm. all the addresses lin town.
We were 003 and now we're 613 or
031 ,or something, f don't even
know where '1' 'live <any more.
Of all the allnling, ridiculous,
useless, idiotic, moronic, : expen-
sive.. Steady, old Man. Remem-
ber the blood pressure.
if*
WINDING UP THIRD in the first draw in the Ladies' Curling Bonspiel at Wingham Curl-
ing Club last week were four Palmerston enthusiasts, Skip Elsie Henderson, Marilyn
Finlayson, Fran Fotheringham and Gueida Darroch. An excellent Program Of curling was
enjoyed with rinks from as far as Durham taking part. (Staff Photo)
Servile Dfrect�ry
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CATTLE & HORSES
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Lic. 271C70
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$15 for dead horses.
$10 for dead cows over 500
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Linwood
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REMOVAL, CLINTON
We are now paying $5-$15
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cows and horses over 500
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— Farms, Livestock,
ImpNmenb, Homes,
Household Canbnb
Jack Alexander .
AUCTIONEER
WINGHAM, ONT.
357-1442
LIVESTOCK
FOR SALE
Calves - Calves - Calves
Good Quality Holstein or Beef
Calves, 1 to 3 weeks old. Rea-
sonable Prices, We Deliver.
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Duo to the- increase of meat prices we
are again able to give you top prices for
your fresh, dead, or disabled cows and
horses.
As a service to you we will pick up
your calves and pigs free. Our trucks
are radio equipped for the fastest ser-
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