The Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-06-26, Page 18i4
BARN DANCE GANG- The CKNX Barn Dance Gang entertained at concerts, fall fairs,
garden parties as well as at the Saturday night Barn Dance. Pictured are Lloyd Bank,
Ward Allen, now deceased; Jack Kingston, Earl Heywood, Mel Lavigne and Bill Mankiss.
Mr. Bank now resides in the Hamilton area; Jack Kingston at St. Catharines; Earl Hey-
wood at Wingham, Mel Lavigne at Honey Harbor and Bill Mankiss at Chatham. °
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BARN DANCE BOOKLET\- The CKNX Barn Dance that became known as Canada's
largest travelling Barn. Dance travelled to communities from Tobermory to Port Dover
from Sarnia to Toronto every Saturday night, The abode photo is from a booklet which
was sold at the Barn Dance for 25 cents. The picture shows members of the cast as the cur-
tain went up and the radio broadcast began live from the stage. Leff to right, back row,
Jack Kingston, Earlt'Heywood, Ward Allen (now deceased) ; Cactus Mac (now deceased);
'Lloyd Bank, George Jordan (now deceased); Reg Bitton (now deceased); Archie Mann,
Ernie King, Ross Man (now deceased); and Don Robertson. Standing in the foreground is
the emcee Johnny Brent and soloist Pauline Swanson (now Mrs. Gord Cerson of Tees -
water):
THE SEILER TWINS- Rusty and Dusty, who were Mary
and Marion Seiler, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel
Seiler of Monkton (Mrs. Seller is now deceased) travelled
Saturday nights with the Barn Dance. With their own guitar'
accompaniment they dressed in "cow -boy outfits" and sang
duet numbers. Marion who is standing in the picture later
married violinist Al Cherney, whom she met while he was
also appearing on the Saturday night programs. They
reside at Mississauga. The girl's father still resides in
Monkton. Mary is married to Jack Gaffney and resides at
Waterdown.
Crossroads
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Nevada -- a great
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pias Valli
One of the smallest states
in population, Nevada at-
tracts a large number of tour-
ists - spending by visitors is
.the biggest factor in the
state's econorny.
More than 12 million from
out of state, or about 22' times
the state's population, visit
Nevada each year.
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"We used to ,adve�t't] • #�4#i '
• ilkever lost IuQney y
souus -- and I don't thunkany-
body ever did. We turned, 4y "` 44
per cent of the gross. We xis& did
a number of benefit shown for
organizations like the veteran; at
Westminster Hospital, chirp
groups and senior citizens," ,
During the travelling portion of
its existence, bookings for :e
CKNX Barn Dance were, wide
two years in advance. .
Feast and Famine
remember when we ap-
peared in Kitchener we caused a
traffic snarl. All the buses on the
main street were going by their
regular stops filled .with people
heading to our show. They had to
pun the buses off the side street to
take care of the crowd and then
fmd out when the show was going
to be over, so they could dotike
same thing to get the people back
home. There must have been
5,000 show up that night.
"The largest crowd we ever
played for was at the Internatlofl.
al Plowing Match at Port Albert
in 1948. Forty thousand people
packed 0) the
goverrnar e? eral, 1 Ord ilex-
ander. , f 'I'uk se .fes Dur
stage.
' on *not r eas of ,
very atO*y Wit- we
formed in LOWS d oily .three
Wille rwed up. a one:
group,a�,edon stere webud
the other sit in the f rout rew
clap thek band* o we.could hear
the appiaUSe, fpr our live broad-
cast,""
The station was proud of the
ily ffaBasrmn Danee's reputation as a
shhow
"In the beguaung people would
come to the station and watch the -
studio production through the
windowa-,fpr free, When Ave first
started to travel the admittance
fee was 25 cents pet► adult and
children free. We then started
charging 10 rents .#`or Children.
The price then moved up to 50
and 25 cents, then 75 and 25 cents
and finally One dollar for adults.
and 50 cents for children."
"In the early days it wasn't
unusual to see mother and dad
and kids dancing in the same
square dance set."
Johnny maintains it was the
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CHESS TIME
World Open
in N.Y. July 2-6
By ROSS
Seven to eight hundred
chess players will gather at
the Hotel Roosevelt in New
York City July 2-6 to compete
for a $20,000 prize fund in the
Continental Chess Associa-
tion's 3rd annual World Open.
The nine -round Swiss Sys-
tem tournament is in two sec-
tions. A total of $12,600 in 31
prides will be distributed in
the Open Section including
the top tournament prize of
$3,000. The entry fee for this.
section is $43.
If your rating is below
1,800,. and you'd rather pot
compete Against grandmas-
ters and masters, you can
pay $39 and play in the
Booster Section: Theie will be
a total of $7,400 in 33 prizes
distributed in this section
with a top prize of $1,000.
The World Open was first
held .fin. 4973 Y s►iih gift world
recoretepenlournament
fund of $15,000. The next year.
the prize fund was raised to
$17,000, and'was again the top
open prize fund. This year's
i20,000 fund will undoubtedly
set new world records.
Seven hundred twenty-five
players 'competed in 1973.
Grandmaster Walter Browne
went undefeated and col-
lected the top prize. Interna -
YOUR HANDWRITING TELLS
-Pointed m's hint
probing mind
By DOROTHY
ST. JOHN JACKSON
Certified Master
Graphoanalyst
Dear Dorothy:
I am 35 and have been
working at one job for 10
years. It has become very
boring. It takes the fun out of
my life, but it pays well and I
hesitate to quit. What do you
see in my writing? I hate to
be bored.
B.T.
Dear B.T.:
Everyone hates boredom.
And intelligent people are
bored stiff by it.
You have an excellent
mind. •the tall points on your
m's and n's show your keen
comprehensive thinking pat-
tern. The inverted v forma-
tions, on the same letters
focus in, with X-ray preci-
sion, upon your deep probing
mind.
You are an extremely ac-
tive person. Your whole per-
sonality is geared to variety
and change in your life with
new and interesting chal-
lenges, seen in the long, lower
loops.
Now is the time to take a
careful inventory of yourself.
Take a look into cultivating
broader and more rewarding
goals while you are still so
young
It is your nature to work
hard, seen in the long down -
strokes, and . to take your
work seriously, seen in your
heavy writing. Add boredom
to such traits and it plays
havoc with your energy and
your ability to think.
You need more freedom.
No clock punching for you.
Don't fight against it.
Struggling only causes ten-
sion which goes hand in hand
with boredom. And they walk
all over your nerves!
D.J.
Your diet may
cause migraine
LONDON - Diet causes
migraine and most victims
could keep the headaches
away by carefully controlling
what they eat, according to a
survey by Dr. Ksatharina
Dalton.
Migraines are triggered by
alcohol, citrus fruits, choco-
late, cheese and going with-
out food for too long at a time,
the report, published
n the
Newsletter of the British Mi-
graine Association, says. -
PHILOSOPHER DIES
Italian philosopher Pietro
Pamapnazzi, who believed
the immortality of the soul
can be known only through
faith, died May 18, 1525.
tional Masser Julio Kaplan
was second. Top prize in the
Booster Section in 1973 was
taken by Michael. Lau, who
• was then a! student at the
Brooklyn fdclani aI High
School.
Danish grandmaster Bent
Larsen took first place in the
1974 World Open. The defend-
ing champion, Walter
Browne, drew his game
against Larsen, bus his total
tournament store put him in
second place. . The 1974
Booster 'Section was won by
Marco Silva, an unrated
player from Colombia.
Upsets were the rule rather
than the exception in the 1974
- tournament. ' Larsen and
Browne, the tournament's
two highest rated players,
finished one-two, but two
other grandmasters didn't
fare as well.
Nicholas Ocipoff, editor of
tforet t teii, g
Bulletin, hid a rating of 2,058
going into the tournament
and beat grandmaster Arthur
13isgui'er, Grandmaster Pal
Be o, Who was rated 2,515 at
the time, was beaten by
Mitchell Saltzburg, who had a
2,224 rating.
Game of the Week. Ken .
Regan was another .upsetter
at the 1974 World Open. At
that.time, Ken was 14 and his
rating was 2,104. He beat or
drew against five players
with ratings higher than' his.
Here is Ken's game from
"round 8 of the 1974 World
Open against National
Master Charles Powell of
Virginia. Powell had a rating
of 2,301.
1974 World Open
New York
Powell Regan
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ought up with
"We were still x .aUCeeaktili.
when Ave hided to.ce it.
vin, The the is, we'wan
evil it a family ahow. In the rif
Oa the bars started coming fi..
and 0000e wanted to be chle'te
drink when, they came
entertained. There's, nothjing
wrong with that but it just didn't
fit in With otF idea of keeping,,ti
show'", fatniy affair.'And.rather
than get into a. big haeme,, we de-
cided to end it while we were still
on, top and have people reMem-
ber that way."
So the show remained a SUCceS
- even in its last objective.
Still, it's'been 4104 time since
the guys and galsof the Barn
Dance were together and Johnny
himself ,has a tifew butterfliies. {,/�
"Are used to' have about 20
people on the show and we
figured we could get in approxi-
mately 18 members in an .hour
and a half. From about 9:15 on
we'd improvise - cut a verse
here -- add a chorus there-- to
end up just right. We had a• lot of
signals that only the boys knew.
"Now with 26 musicians and
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advance tickets from the Jim
'Courtney Travel Service in Uisto
wed, The prices have jumped 4: bit
since the `old'Barn Dance days
to. 42.5 0 : per per*n (tat
Hydraulic ran.*
2 hr. *Orvieto
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Irishman's Dream" were
always great favorites.
Clarke always donned on a
green tam and wore a bow tie.
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