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h0. GOderich Signal -Star, Thursday, ugust 1601,
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1902
SUGAR
and
PICE
ulloguali By Bill Smiley
Goderich Park Athletes ,
Finish Fifth At Kincardine
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• Competing"at a field and track dthaisrhd, ' in the junior 100. yard
meet in onnaught Part
_track and field- proficiency, IS
cardine, Wednesday, August 8,1
i ' of the summertime actiy-
a group, of athletes from the 1'73,1
i at, Judith Gonderham Mem-,
Liroderico Parks Asseciation fin- algal Park and the 'fifth'', place
f§liet.t Ofth in. a 4ield of nine
•groups with an aggregate score
of 93 points. Winning the
meet, with 132 points, was a
similar group Irom ]rt
Towns represented in the
competition included Port 0 -
glop Listowel, Kincardine, Owen
Seund, Goderich, Exeter, St.
VV-Inghani and Palmer -
Norman
Mug() Grange and Carolyn
(Auk, &Wm Judith Gooderham
Park; were in charge of the 38
.iocal contestants.
Paint ana. ribber' winners, for
the Goderich groin), included
George Clark, as winner of the
senior poie vault with :a jump
of eight feet, and Doug Keene,
who took the intermediate
standing broad jump With a leap
of 10 feet.
Other winners adding to the
Goderich point score were:
John Murphy, third in the senior
running broad jump with a span
of 18 feet 8 inches; Dianne Al-
len, second in the intermediate
girls' running broad. jump with
13 feet; Janice Twaddle, second
in the junior 60 yard dash;
Janice repeated with another
second in the standing broad
jump ler juniors; Larry Paper -
nick, third in the senior 440;
Maureen Dowds, first in the
volleyball throw and second in
the seniors softball throw.'
Sandi* Lewellyn was . a close
second in the -junior high jump;
Wayne Irwin, third in the jun-
ior running broad jump; Scott
Bolan wonhis ribbon . with a
A tternendous change has,
.taken place in summer living
in 'the Canadian- small 'town
fluxing the past 20 or 3p years.
Anroig-iae1t rxnnotat
all sure it's been a ,change for
the better.
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I was. thinking about this to-
night. It's been one of those
old-fashioned, 'red hot summer
days that seem so scarce nowa-
tithes. Sitting, in the quiet, cool
kitchen, with nothing to dis-
tract me but the moths slam-
ming against the tcreen door, I
got reminiscing about. summers
back in the twenties when
was a freckle -faced 68 pounds
Of bone and muscle.
In those days, kids , didn't
come running to their' mothers
eight times a day, whining.
"Gee, •what'll we do, Mom?
There's no fun Outside. How
about taking us for a Swim?
Can I have a dime for a dairy
queen? Why don't we have a
cottage, like other people?
When are we going to get •a
boat?" And so on.
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Quite the contrary. Mothers
in 'those days- practically had
. to call the police to locate their
youngsters, so that they could
. drag them in and feed them
three times a day. For kids ini
•thOsA tii,nes, there qP1Ply `..r!P
m the day,.
andnight alwayS fellfar too
early. -
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For a small boy in those days,
there were about 480 fascinat-
- mg, things to do on a summer
day. There were no organized
swimming elassses, no organized
Iittle leaglies, no organized any-
thing. Eve6thing Was beauti-
fully disorganized: You snatch-
ed a jam -and peanutbutter Sand-
wich in the cool bright cif the
, niornihg, and took off running.
,,,,••• 3 • •
•
'3Viaxbe ,VOU -to .tbe
i rgrOun ds and ,plaied_baSeball
all morning. There'd be about.
12 kids on each side, and every
pitch, every close play; was
argued,violently, with a lot of
pushing in the chest and fierce
repartee :like, "Oh, , yeah?
• You're nuts! Sez who?"
•
Maybe you took a swing
around by the sandpit, crawlea
into the carefully concealed
cage with the boys, and lay
around smelting, monkey tobac-
co in toilet paper, and plotting
• a horrible fate for the gang
in the next block.
Or they're sleeping in strange
beds at somebody's cottage,
while their parents sit,around
knocking back the gip. and
tonic: •
-
Or the •poor little souls are
crouched, ,with vacant stare, in
front of a television set, watch-
ing a re -run of one of last
winter's programs, while in the
soft, warm outdoors,the birds
and the trees and the moon
mourn the days when the pip-
ing voices ot Children at play
provided a counterpoint to the
melody of a velvet summer
evening.
'Presentation On
His Retirement
Retiring after 13 years ser-
vice as post office caretaker,
Alfred Williams, Britannia road,
was the recipient of a testimon.
ial presentation at the Federal
Building, East street, early in
August. Mr. Williams retired
July lst. His assistant, Stanley
McGratten, is temporarily in
charge of the caretaking duties
.Postmaster A. M. Homyth
made the presentation of a tri
ite „lamp` and matching smelter
set, representing the post office
staff and rural mail carriers and
e -Customs,.
Unemployment Insurance, Vet-
erans' Affairs and associated a� -
livery services engaged at the
Federal Building. Mr. Williams
has no mmediate plans regard-
ing his 'retirement other than
to, "take things a bit easier for
a while,"
" There are more than ope and
a -half million -women in Canada
with paid jobs, and the largest
group of women workers is in
manufacturing.
Maybe you just sat on top
of a stone wall, in the sun,
chewing licorice and seeing who
could spit the farthest. Maybe
you lay on a wooden bridge
and fished; the hours peeling.
off like petals as you watched
the dark water 'below,,, Acite-
ment flaring with the' stir of a
trout's tail behind a log. Or
maybe you swam in the river
until .your lips were blue and
your eyes bloodshot, then lay
baking in the sun, mindless,
following the ponderous dance
of the great, white cumuli:it's
clouds.
• *
Maybe you had a "feed."
First, there'd be a round -up, of
beer bottles and scrap iron and
old tires. These were sold and
-- -the -profits - invested -in -wieners
and pop. Then you'd send the
best snatcher of the gang to
swipe a bunch Of bananas off
the outside stand at the fruit
Store. Then you'd all go home
and steal .(you never asked for
it, you , stole it) any food you
could get away with, . and may-
be a handful of the old man's
• pipe -tobacco. Then you'd all
retire .t� the cave and have an
orgy Of food that would make
one of the emperor Nero's feasts
loOk like a Sunday School
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if your plans
,standing ,of the local, innior
athletes, in this meet, is a cred-
itable tribute to the recreation-
al program instituted by its
youthful supervisory staff.
• WINS $100
Norman Fuller, R.R. 2 Gode-
rich, was- the winner of the
silver ' doitar anniversary draw
at Goderich Motors. The.lucky
draw was made by Deputy Reeve
May 1Vlooney. To the winner
went $100 in silver dollars. •
Ranking only seventh in size
among Canada's 12 law schools,
Dalhousie University's_ law 'fac-
ulty has graduated 10 provincial
premiers and three Prime Min-
isters of Canada.
There were almost 4,400,000
pupils in attendance at Canada's
elementary or secondarrschools
in the academic year just ended,
and another 129,000 were en-
rollea at .university or college.
At last the value of British comedian Jimmy 'Edwards in the
field ot ediicatibn has been recognized. He is new' Profes-
sor Edwards, headinaster of •chiselbury School, a seat of
`lerning and, culcher' for the sons of gentlefolk. The fierce-
ly moustached comic plays his new role in "Whac1-0!", the
BBC Transcription Service series heard Saturday nights on
the Trans -Canada network of CBC radio.
In 1961 the five_ leading'
sourCes of Canada's imports
were the United States, the Un-
ited Kingdom, yenezueld, West
Germany and -Japan; the five
leading sources of exports were
the United States, the United
Kingdom, Japan, West Ger-
many and Communist China..
VER 905 ONTARIO FARMS
RE *OWNER -OPERATED
By Huron Federatian of Agri-
culture
.Following are facts about the
Ontario farmers: There were
l21,308 faring'. in Ontario in
in, 1961, 14% less than in 1956.
l'he average Ontario farm, is
153 acres, 12 More than in 1956.
More than 90% of our Ontario
farms are owner -operated. Near-
ly one-third of .the dollar value
of Canadian • farm produce is
nuniceted from Ontario farms.
:.Ontario_ farmer_ prn,
vides food and .fibre for 28 per-
sons -In 1960 only 11.3% of e
Canada's labor forcin-
eoyere ,far
rs.1,
In the 20 years 'from 1940 to
1960, the gross value of output
per farmer has increased from
$736 to $4,695.
The farmer is`the No1 mar-
ket for- Manufactured items
froni many of our factories.- As
consumer's in 1991, farmers in
Ontario spent more than $47
million on tractors, over $27
million on trucks, in excess of
$22 million on automobile, well
over $7 million -on electric. poW-
er. They provide a Market for
a large portion of the produc-
tion of, rubber tires, steel, chem -
:teals,' petroleum products, ap-
pliances,. gte. Farm business
keep's many factoriesrunning,
thousands of people employed.
Nes Notes: Harvesting of the
winter ,wheat crop in Ontario
is now general. „Production will
4e well below that of a,yeat age
since acreage is down 20 per
cent and. the average yield is
below normal due to winter -
killing. The outlook for spring -
sown oats and barley is favor-
able.
An -clUtbrealt of hog -cholera -
in Ontario , and Quebec has re-
sulted inthe destruction%01
several ,thousand animals, which
had contacted the disease or
Were 'suspected of having been
exposed to it. The government
is compensating farmers for de-
stroyed animals. ,
• Manitoba crop outlook favor-
able: - Better -than -average crop
prospects are being maintained
in Manitoba though western sec-
tions of the province are in
need of rain, according to Mani-
toba Pbol Elevators' latesteroP
report. Early seeded, acreage,
in particular shows promise of
giving good yields. Grasshop-
pers are taking a heavy toll,
particularly` in the Red River
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as scrap allowance for yoUr old oil or coal furnace when you install
a modern gas furnace.
$50.
as atrade;in allowance for a coal or oil heater now used as your
central heating system ...when you install a modern gas furnace.
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trade-in allowance for coal grates when you install a gas conver-
sion burner.
• towards a new gas water heater if you,install it 'when you
convert your heating ssistern to gas!
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After supper, new delights
beckoned. You could climb in-
to the treehouse and kick little
girls in the face when they
, tried to climb up, You Could
play Run. Sheep, Run and Red'
'light,. in the gathering dusk.,
You could 'haunt" your big sis-
_att.&her boyfriend as they
lit in suse,,IciOus silence on the
porch.
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was with ihe sharpest of
'Pan that you heard, your moth -
it's vohlatio or iiiorcing "2'000o-
It000e toiling tho, Jcnell 'Of
parting day. Every inother• bad
her special caIl 4i4 We knew
our 'On • Itolif blocks awdy.
And every father had the ,same
treatniont /or kids' who failed
In tea tor on
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