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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1973-03-22, Page 20`. eh , 4973- His .T 1=}/,' His name is Bit! Walton, a l'a an inch shy of seven feet to d pees what sport he exce That's right. , bouncy ball: Irk never been much for ba *hall, .f think itwas invented'f the Sole purpose of test driving deodorant. But:' if you follow basketball even casually you know that B 11 alto: is the all -everything ce UCLA which hasn't lost game since Bill Walton was a 1 pound infant. I've never met Bill Walton, bu I'm quite prepared to dislike hi because hefseems to be sufferin from a malady all too comma among young superstar athlete these days. And that is, he seem ,to have the idea that his ability t stuff a ball through a little roun hole barely Wive his head give him the right to look down from • Olympus And sneer at .everyo who doesn't measure up, so t speak. For example. Here's what h had to say about the UCLA fans. "Why' do they stand outside our gym for hours? Just to get into a game—and then go stark, raving mad' over us. I laugh at them, I can't believe them." Oa the drug problems of today, Walton's pet peeve is athletes wito go on television and plead with kids not to use "They have. no right going:on TV and "telling people what's right and what's wrong,". says Walton. Then he wheeled on the man who Was interviewrngf him, a World War II vintage type, and . told him : "Your generation has screwed up the world. My. gen- eration is trying to straighten it out•FI don't :think .anyone past. 35 should he ablerto become presi- dent of the;United States, Young people' are the �e' only hope Of the world." • ti Bill Walton. is 'white. l don't make an issue of .it, he does, He Sys that if he was walking. down itis street and was machine- gunnedby a group of blacks, he'd e that was, okay, because „the. s deserve it. for yourself, ;Bill. The point Ile made in the tib►'}'was-=wb benign, that college sport is blown of proportion Amen. It itely is when, a newspaper 'astean. entire page of space allow him to -:write Wan' entire eneratiion as, idiots: and . brand wp"le " who watch.hi ploy sketball as imbeciles. , f can't help: but think that if Bill alton;`Was only , six feet tall ;lead of „six feet .eleven, he'd *ably' have to. buy an ad in. at'.saine'Paper just to say .hello -. e f olks • grid speaking of saying hello, it's interesting to note that this season they've finally started to ,bioBobbY Orr in Boston. How do I' know? Brian:. MacFarlane told me as on••national television. Or ohottld f say, be told the brothers Mahovlich during a between- riod interview on Hockey Night in Canada. Now I could see how Brian would be shocked, because after working so many years in the isolation booth on Hockey Night in Canada he's used to having all the boos or otherwise . unflattering, unkind comments on the national• league bleeped out. What I. deeply resented, how- • ever, was his implication that the Boston Garden fans --notice I took care to say . Boston Garden faithful—were a bunch of miser- • 'able wretches for booing Bobby, who's playing on a bad knee and \tarrying almost the entire Al Eagleson Enterprises on his back. Just because housemen like MI MacFarlane, who are paid to 11 ls pitch a sports product and are un- fiaggin$ly behind a home team through thick and think asif their jobs depelided on it --and indeed s+" they dais no reason for them to or have the gall to even hint that fans should behave like TV studio audiences and applaud on cue. Bobby ' Orr has been richly re - ll warded by the cheers of the Bos- en- ton fans, more so than any other a Bruin in history. So if he runs into 6- a bad game or a string of bad games these fans have the right t to express their disappointment m in any fashion they see fit. g You see, a point the houseman n se often misses is that it's not the S club owners who. pay the�,players' s salaries. Those fat salaries are o bankrolled by the fans, the d owners are just middlemen tak- s ing their slice of the action. And the fans are being served diluted ne entertainment at prices that have or soared 'just about beyond the means of the average working e stiff. Now if a guy carrying a lunch bucket or working in an office puts out the equivalent of a day's pay to take his wife or his boys to a hockey game, and sees a quarter -of a -million -dollar a year superstar looking as flat as yes- terday's beer, he has the right to express his annoyance in any verbal way, he cliiooses. Because you know darn well°that the next time Orr makes a great play the same guy will be up on his ' feet crying .tears of ecstasy as he holers "Bobby, you're the greatest! " • This week, some random and rambling thoughts on a variety of topics. A friend and colleague died yesterday, and I'll miss hint. He was a free -soul, beholden to none, with a mind and a tongue that paid obeisance to no man and no theory. He was ill for a long time, but fought like a demon, and never gave an inch to encroach- ing death. Since I joined this teaching staff twelve years ago, six men teachers, all in their forties and early fifties, have died. Five of them were World War II veterans. That's a pretty high at- trition rate. There are .only six WW II veterans left on the Staff, includ- ing one lady and one vet of the German army, and we're sort of eyeing each other for signs of sudden deterioration. Guess we should make a pool, winner (last alive) take all: Don't worry, I haven't a mor- bid bone in my body. I've already had about thirty years more than a lot of my old mates, so life doesn't owe .me a thing. Spring is more' a time of birth ' than of death. And did we have evidence this week. Saturday morning, I often grab the chance to sleep in for an extra hour. Last Friday night the tem- perature went soaring up to about fifty. About four a.m., the word got around among . the black squirrels in my attic, that spring had arrived, and they went stark, staring, raving mad. All winter, they'd been pretty quiet, with only the occasional • Saturday night party compplOte with drunken fights, semi. females, bawling kids and ate, rattling around like bowling balls on concrete. But this week, they Pulled; all; the stops. I started out of a din sleep, shouting something about the Yanks invading Canada; My wife was cowering, head under the covers. '" The males were bellowing like bull moose. The females' were• chattering like—well,. females; The babies were shouting, to son, "Hey, Ma. Can we go out? We don't need a coat. We're never seen spring before. What's: it like?" And all of them running and jumping and skittering and slith- ering and scuttling right over head, until it sounded like mkt,." night at the Lumberjacks Ball:. This went on until daylight and so did my wife's demands that f do something about it.. What would you do? I wasn't going to go up into the attic and take them on single-handed. I was afraid to They sounded like Genghis Khan and his boys warming up for thie raping and razing of 'a city. There was nothing to do but batten down the hatches and hope that sortie over -zealous little black rodent did not chew through the ceiling and drop on my wife's head. That would have, as they say, torn it. At dawn the wild ululations subsided a little 'and I peeked .but of the window. There they were, goofing about in the back yard, stupidly digging in the snow for acorns, looking particularly ratty • melt caught in lakes with their coats half shed, The oldt mere soon realized with dist that itwas not spring at all, and returned, up the .big cedar, flying leap to the vines,, scrabble up to the bole 4nd4hack to the attic for a len StVege, But the little ones wexe.ffled, bewildered and belligerenlkt. They ran around in circles. 'They sank to their ears in wet snow. They chittered indignantly, , They couldn:'t find anything;' to eat,, Had I notheard them talkingso often, I'.d not have been . able to understand, But I had. And f did, I distinctly heard one baby. buck squirrel snarling; "'fiat tile: hell goes on Mere? We've leen sola a,, bill of goods, THIS is SPRING? Where are,the luscious bulbs,, the green stuff, the tender 'shouts? We've been had, brothers, Let's Toberrnory to have summer OPP detachment The. OPP -will open a summer detachment at . Tobermory. This detachment will be open from early May to mid October each year. The detachment will be lo- cated on No. 6 Highway in the Vil- lage of Tobermory and will be staffed by three officers drawn from various 'permanent •detach- ments located in No, 6 District, The three officers will be re- sponsible for the policing; of St, Edmunds 'Township and the new Underwater Park, Part of the equipment located at the detachment will be a cruiser, boat, motor 'and trailer, The officers stationed at the new detachment for 1973 will be Provincial Constables J. N. McIntosh, Mount Forest; EI: • J. n O nSPhillips, Guelph; and G. G. Woodreff e, Kitchener. All three men will be trained in the opera- eop e w o suppose that fish are all alike—that they taste alike, • look alike, and behave alike -rare much mistaken. Fish families are as, individual, and; in- teresting in their habits asany of the 1 d animals a food, sac varus has a elieate v r, of t own.One v=ariety whi^chprovides fun and fine eating at low cost is the smelt. " ' Smelt as ;nest people here- abouts know, are slender; silvery Ash which seldom 'exceed 10 inches in length. They are caught both commercially and as a sport on the ,Atlantic Coast, in the Great Lakes, and en': the Pacific Coast. In recent years, the largest catches have come from the Great Lakes where commer- cial landings now range between 10 and 15 million pounds a year. The yearly Atlantic commercial catch isaround four million pounds, plus an additional seven million pounds if a close relative, the Galin, is counted. On the Pacific Coat, the commercial catch is numbered in thousands • rather thah "millionsof pounds and lately has been insignificant. 'Atlantic Fishery Atlantic smelt range the coast ', from New Jersey north or Labra- dor, with the centre of abundance in the southern Gulf of St. Law- rence. Like the salmon to which they are distantly related, they grow in the sea but ascend coastal rivers to spawn. Early in,; the fall, these fish move from the open sea into the river estuaries where they remain during the winter and are caught. Smelt are caught with various gear. On the St. Lawrence River, in the vicinity of Quebec City, a horde of sportsmen armed with rods and lines greet the little fi h as they'push• upstream each fall. Quebec's Lower Town becomes the scene of a three-day festival in October when these avid anglers celebrate at community fish - fries. Commercial fishermen haul Atlantic smelt with nets. Gill netsare used ta'Jimited extent 'before-tfre freeze-up but trap nets• are the usual equipment. They are set under the ice in January and February. - great Lakes Fishery Arod the turn of the century, American smelt were introduced into Crystal Lake, Mich., as food for some landlocked salmon. The salmon died, but the smelt thrived. They made their way into Lake Michigan and thence into the other Great Lakes where they gradually increased in num- bers. Though at first regarded as a nuisance and a threat to the es- tablished stocks of fish, they have become an economic asset. Lille the parent stock in the ocean, these fish throng tributary rivers and streams to spawn after the ice breaks up in the spring. In April, coming up the rivers in unbelievable numbers, they are easy prey for amateur fishermen who line the banks waiting to scoop them up. Gen- erally the runs take place at night. • Despite the tremendous quanti- ties of smelt dipped up during the runs, the Great Lakes smelt population is not on the wane. In- deed, last year, -a biologist esti- mated that there were over two billion in the waters of Lake On- tario alone. Commercial fisher- men catch them out on the lakes with trawls all year'.around. Most of the catch is processed (dressed' and headed) then froken and s packaged for sale throughout �d�a fainilv esOntario. Otaiio . r "Niki 6_4 See prldel of lions, cheetah, baboons, ostrkh, elephant, camels, from the comfort and safety man- LionSdan Stockton, Ontario (519) 623.26201 ADMISSION Animal reserve. si 00 rot rat Weekdays 12 neon 4:3S p.m. reonVerliblos not port..fted— 'tome tars a ValIabld Weekends 16 man. pint. B. C. Fishery In British Columbia; the eula Choi', a small, delicate fish of th smelt family, supports one of th ,"oldest fisheries in the province, along the whele. 'coast of 'Britii Columbia. In the spring it sweep into the coastal Hirers to spawn The run is accompanied by hordes of screaming seagulls and amateur fiihermen intent, on dipping up a few good meals These fish are very rich in oil When freshly:caught and cooked, they are unsurpassed for fine flavor. . Their name, eulachon, is of Chinook origin. The coastal In- dianS\ have always placed a high valueon.them as a source of food, cooking oil, and light. When dried and fitted with a wick, the eula- chon burns for a considerable time and gives off a light com- parable to that of a candle, hence its other name, "candlefish". Another smelt caught in B.C.. waters is, the surf smelt. Unlike the eulaChon, it spawns on the sandy beaches rather than. up the rivers. New Development A relative of the smelt, now be- lieved to have great table poten- tial, is the capelin. Found in arc- tic and subaretic oceans, this small fish is especially abundant around the coast of Newfound- land during the months of June and July when it leaves tile high seas by the millions to sPawn on the beaches. During the run it is caught with cast nets, seines, and dip nets and just about every member.of a fisherman's family, down to the smallest toddler, joins in the fun. Last year, industrial develop- ment specialists with the federal Fisheries and Marine Service scouted the waters off the Atlan- tic provinces for capelin and found these fish were distributed in abundance throughout the Grand Banks during late winter and early spring and off the coast of Labrador in early winter. The potential annual catch &coin off- shore waters is now estimated at around half a million tons. Concurreqt with last year's fishing tests, the Department of Industry Trade and Commerce undertook to promote capelin to United States buyers and there was proof -a -plenty of the product's sales appeal. Depend- ing on the supply situation, further promotions are being considered. tion of the marine equipment, s. and Constable McIntosh is a fully qualified scuba diver. - With the opening of this detach - e merit, it will bring the total of e summer detachments in No. ,6 A District to two, Sauble Beach n being itligP thViPlat %%Os% ke s the Counties of Grey, Bruce, • Huron, Perth, Wellington and District. Students at the Technical - Vocational High School in Winni- peg are learning at 'least one of the prices they must pay for smoking. To win approval for a special supervised smoking area at their school dance, they de- cided to pay the $110 price tag for extra fire insurance and for re- moving temporarily smoke -de- tector devices in the area. Live traps to hold deer Fish and wildlife staff from the Ministry of Natural Resources' Dryden Division are constructing live traps designed to capture white-tailed deer. Should the trapping program be successful, each deer caught will be weighed, tagged, aged, sexed and a selected few adults will receive specially coded Significant information ob- tained from this program will in- clude weight loss during the winter months, range and animal movement, known pellet group sizes and hunting mortality to the existing herd. Loggers save heron rookery The co-operation of Weyer- haeuser (Ontario) Ltd., while un- dertaking selective logging of an area in the Sault Ste. Marie dis- trict for yellow birch and hard maple, has saved a Great Blue Heron rookery from destruction. The rookery, in Jarvis Town- ship; was discovered while marking boundaries prior to the Weyerhaeusek job. When the find was 'made, nEarby road construc- tion was stopped immediately and the Ministry of Natural Re- sOurees Was contacted. A survey by w,ildlife staff showed that the rookery covered 56teres, containing 41 nests, 50 to 80 feet above the ground in 15 mature white pine trees. It was suggested that neither the birds nor the rookery would be harmed if selective logging took place After the young herons could fly, in about anpther three weeks, and if no nesting trees were cut. Weyerhaeuser agreed to this and to have logs close to the rook- ery Skidded out of the area rather than trueked out in order to minimize disturbance to the STAMP REMOVAL The easiest way to detach a pate stamp, intact, from an unusahle envelope is with lighter fuel. A drop under the stamp loosens it as the fluid soaks demonstrate." ' And demonitrate they did, londly and shrilly, tor the next twelve hours, back in the attic, berating their elders,, ' Ctin't blame them, It must have been a ftaiiMatiC experience, out ef tbe warm womb of the attic into the bleak reality of a 11.1areh. day. Some of them (I hope) will be scarred for life, psycholo. But I can't kick', They've been fairly quiet since, aside from a lot of mumbling and muttering among the young ones, con- vinced, like all kids, that their' parents betrayed them about life. Pang run out of space. I wanted te mention, the two base- ball pitchers. who have swapped not only wives but families, Pre- sent some startling spring poetry, and disci= the abysmal stupidity of the Department of Education, but there's no room. Why do I let squirrels loom so large in My life? From recent research finding* at the University of Guelph COMefi hepe for added relief from insects that prey on man and ani. amis. A further step in method of controlling blood.sueking sects, naing gteeltracycline anti- biotic, has made bY two zoologists, Prot. A. Mtlegrave College or Biological Science. The Scientists found that 140004 ,sueking bugS died or remained swollen Lind unable te develop after feeding on laboratery ani. mals treated with the Ontibietle. manY parts of the world, in- cluding 'Canada, people, their pets and wild animals are victims of Unpleasant blood -sucking in- sects and' other arthropods. Theie parasites • may not only cause pain but some carry dis- eases. Some biologists believe that Seine of these unpleasant bugs need to have microbes inside them to help them utilize the blood they feed on. Prof. Mus- grave wonders whether,, if the microbes in the bugs could be killed, this would cause the bugs to die. In some experiments previously reported, he found that bleed.aueking after feeding through an, membrane on antibiotic blood. Bop teedi untreated blood were Vodergrad* Hai) The next step (and here pr. Musgrave acknowledges the bel .of several undergraduate Ontario Veterinar.V College students) was to see if the blood of living , malts could be supplied with suffi, Went of the right antibiotic to hogs that aueked the' blood, vIthis WAS eventually accomplished by' research by Prot. Musgrave,,and Dr. Yadava on formulation 'and distribution of the antibiotic. This latest. finding is the result, ' Pr. Tadava and Prof. OW 011/0 stress that the findings are ta, till of a preliminary nature; and „. qlat indiscriminate, uncontrolled v. use of antibiotics must be avoided in order to proteet the health and Welfare of man, his animals and their enVironment. 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