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THE GO IP ERJOH .SIGNAL -STAR
TilERMSDAY, 10CisOBLII aritb, 1057
2 BANDS. — Blue Water Band and Girls' Trumpet Band AT GODERICH ARENA
At 6.45 p0mQ children will line up on Square in front of Bedford Hotel and
• • • parade from there to the Arena. • • • •
MOVIES —REFRESHMENTS — PARTY —PRIZES — CONTESTS— SKATING
NOTE: At Arena, children under 7 years will go upstairs to Auditorium; children 7 to 14 will gather in main body of Arena.(If ice available)
Sponsored by Goderich Lions Club and Town of Goderich.
QUICK CANADIAN QUIZ
1- What city in Canada was the
e
first to have electric street ears ,
in operation?
2. In southwestern Ontario natural
gas piped in from the U.S. is
stored for future use by what
method?
3. The muskrat is -the animal taken
in largest quantity by Canadian
_fur trappers. What animal ranks
second in total pelts?
4.In 1930 the net national public
debt in Canada was just over $3
billicu. What is the current
ammamilmwsivw
total'.
1. hrstduet:vity per worker is high
est in the world in American in-
dustry How does the output
of Canadian workers compare?
ANSWERS: 5. Because of the
difference in the size ul the market
in the two countries. productivity
per worker averages about 20 per
cent lower in Canada than .n the
U.S. 3. The squirrel. 1. St. Cath-
arines, Ont. 4. More than $11 bil-
lion. 2. Near Sarnia, Ont., natural
gas that is piped in from the south -
tern U.S. is stored for future use in
exhausted gas wells. -
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I wonder how many women in
Canada got any ironing done dur-
ing the Queen's visit. I wonder
how, many families' had a Can of
tomato soup for Thanksgiving din-
ner, because the Queen was on'TV.
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A strange hysteria grips the wo-
men of this loyal member of the
British Commonwealth, on the oc-
casion of every Royal Visit. Be-
wildered children come in tor
lunch to find their mother sitting
at the table, surrounded by break-
fast dishes, nose deep in the morn-
ing paper's rapturous account of
wnat Sne wore at the reception.
Husbands, accustomed to the
phenomenon, are - good-natured
about her visit interfering wain the
football telecast. but let them try
to get into the act, and venture
to.. 'gndyr, in locular vein, it Ph:lip
has to watch the programmes his
wife wants, and they are the target
for blood -curdling looks from their
wives.
On Thanksgiving Day, we were
all at the farm, watching the Queen
open Parliament, on 3 V. During
a lull in the proceedings, my bro-
ther-in-law and I started a normal,
intelligent conversation about duck
hunting. We were nearly blown
out of our chair' by 'the piercing,
simultaneous "Shhh-" hurled at us
from the various corners of the
room where the ladies sat, chewing
their lips.
ever unscrupulous means, to make
the grade, had much better retire
to the bathroom and put a large
hole in his head, with his trusty
12 -gauge.
No
Admission
Charge to
to Arena
for ANYONE -
including parents.
Whether or not all this feminine
adulation of the Queen is a good
thing, is not for the likes of me
to decide. That's strictly for the
psychiatrists. But I can have an
opinion, and I think it is a good
thing. I asked the Old Lady about
it. She said: "She's so lovely, and
serene, and gracious, that it makes
us feel insignificant and dull. If
makes our lives seem crude and
scrambly, lacking in grace and
poise and dignity and beauty."
w * *
If it does that, it's good. Maybe
we'll have a little gracious living,
for a month or two after the Queen
leaves. Instead of The Battleaxe
blaring: "When --are you going to
get those storm windows on? This
place is like a damn deeptreezei",
she'll murmur: "My dear, do you
not think it feasible to raise the
temperature in our dwelling by
the installabtion, at your leisure, of
course, of the subsidiary windows?"
Then she'll probably repeat it in
French. "Installez-vous les surtout-
fenetres, garcon."
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You mustn't think I'm cynical
about the Queen or the Royal
Family. I got the daylights scared
out of me numerous times, fighting
for her fatheer and . all he ,stood
for. I think Elizabeth the Second
is a brighter jewel than any she
wears in her diadem: At her im-
perious best, she is queenly as no
other woman on this earth could
be. When she smiles, she is a
beautiful woman.
a a : a i
But I had an unfortunate experi-
ence with Royal Visits that took
some of the edge off my keenness
for the processions and pageantry.
It was during the visit of King
George VI and the present Queen
Mother, before World War H. Our
whole school went .to Ottawa to
see them. We started early in the
morning, and it took several hours
to get there, and 'find our spot.
* a a
It was cold. I was bandmaster
of the high school bugle band. My
kid brother was a drummer. Every
little while, to keep warm and keep
the crowd amused, we'd march up
and down the avenue and play a
couple of pieces. My mother, who
had come along, would clap loudly
earh time we went Past, and glare
ferociously at her neighbors, who
just stood there and looked at us.
This went on for hours.
as ar
Finally, we heard cheering in
the distance. The Royal carriage
was on the way. .Boy, it was cold!
I snapped the band to attention,
and stood in front of them, rigid
'With cold, excitement and pride.
The cheering increased in volume
until it sounded like seven small
girls and a man. You know how
embarrassed Canadians are about
cheering anything except a shorts
event.
' a a a a
Just as the carriage drew abreast;
and I allowed my eyes to flick
r"&m their dead -ahead, attention
position, so I could, have a look at
our beloved monarchs, a large, fat
lady, about 6 x 6, emerged, ap-
parently from a hole in the ground,
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At the point in the telecast
where the tension became extreme,
and Her 'Majesty was about to
commence the Speech from the
Throne, to a chorus of "Isn't she
lovely!" from the women, I took a
look around the room. My father-
in-law was nodding oft. My bro-
ther-in-law was deep in the arms
of Morpheus. The kids were play-
ing with the cat under the dining -
room table. The women stared at
the lighted box in a hypnotic
trance. I tiptoed, out to go rainbow
trout fishing, down at the Bay, re-
turned an hour later, and they
hadn't even missed me. They
thought I'd just been out to the
kitchen for a drink of water.
Stout, placid ladies who wouldn't
walk across the street to see mur-
der being done; blase newspaper -
women who need a couple of drinks
at the reception before they can
stomach another ordinary celebr-
ity; squealing teenagers, in whose
firmament the only star is a long-
haired, loose-iipped, ,undulating,
unintelligible "singer";' they all go
equally mushy about the Queen.
Members of Parliament, minor
dignitaries around Ottawa, and all
other men with the slightest pre-
tension to having a little "pull,"
go through 'sheer hell for weeks
before a Royal Visit, as their wives
wheedle, cajole, bully ,and threaten
them into making a supreme effort
to get a bid to a royal function.
The man who doesn't,. and allows
someone of equal rank, by what -
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right in front of me. She had a
box camera and an angry boil on
her neck. I saw that much, and
the top of the feather in the
Queen's hat. And that's all.
Since then, it would take an arm-
ed platoon of the Grenadier Guards
to get me out for a Royal proces-
sion. But I'm a loyal subject, and
when the color film of the Reyal
Visit comes to the local theatre,
I'll be there with the rest of them,
eyes misty, a lump as big as a golf
ball in my throat, and my handker-
chief at half-mast. . 1 always ciy
during certain odd moments of
seeing and hearing Our Gracious
Queen.
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Two Men Fined
Result Crashes
Pleading guilty to impaired driv-
ing, Edward, W. Pulford, 24, of
Goderich, was fined $(0 and costs,
or '10 days in jail, when he ap-
peared before Magistrate D. E.
Holmes he -re.
Heavy damage resulted when
Fulford's car was in collision with
a station wagon driven by William
Beck at the intersection of Victoria
and Bruce streets on October 5.
C. V. Laughton, of Exeter. acting
Crown counsel, said that a doctor
attended Mrs. Beck, 'Mr. Beck and
Mr. Fulford after -the accident, but
no one was seniously.,injured.
--Both -vehicles had been proceed-
ing south on Victoria street before
the collision. Apparently Mr. Ful-
ford failed to notice in time that
the station wagon was turning off
to stop at a grocery store1Ie court
was told. The Fulford ear struck
the rear �f the station wagon.
John K. MacDonald, of Elora,
pleaded .guilty to careless dri'Oing
in connection with another accid-
ent which happened on thesame
day as the aforementioned col-
lision. .
'Mr. MacDonald was fined $25
and costs or 10 days. He pleaded
guilty ,to the gharge.
The Elora motorist said he fail-
ed to see the stopsign at the
Dunlop intersection n highway 21.
His vehicle was in collision with
an auto driven by Walter E. Ben-
nett, of Detroit. Damage amount-
ed to several hundred dollars, but
the occupants Qf the vehicles were
only shaken up.
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