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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-09-25, Page 20Cti /: ' $!! GOp$R1CH SiGNALSTAR, THLI$SAy, SEPTEMBER 26,1969 D T. J. Pridham is appointed laboratory head veterinary Everett Biggs, deputy •s - minister, Ontario Department of ....Agriculture and Food, announced today the appointment of Dr, T. J. Pridham, as head of the new Veterinary Services Laboratory, which will open shortly on. the campus of the Centralia College of Agricultural Technology. Dr. Pridham was born and brought up on 'a- livestock farm in Fullarton ,Township, Perth County, near the . town of Mitchell, graduating from the Mitchell District High School: ' He graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College, and worked for a short time in a large animal practice in St. Mary's, as assistant . to Dr. G. A. Schiedel. He returned to the Q.V.C. to undertake postgraduate studies, leading to a Master's Degree. During this period he took charge of the fur -bearing animal diseases laboratory at the college, where he coriducted diagnostic services, teaching and research. Front 1962 to 1964 Dr. Pridham studied pathology and virology at the University of Connecticut. with particular emphasis on poultry pathology. He returned to the Ontario Veterinary College and the diagnostic service he had previously been engaged in, until joining the Pfizer Company Limited, as a field veterinarian, providing technical services in the poultry and animal production areas. He joined the staff of the Veterinary Services Branch of the Ontario Department. of Agriculture and Food in October 1968, and has been assistant head at the Regional Veterinary Services Laboratory at Kemptville. He will immediately assume his new responsibilities as head of the Regional Veterinary Services Laboratory. „While Dr. Pridham is recognizned as one of Canada's leading specialists lir-fur-bearing animals and poultry; he has,also had wide experience in dealing with the treatment of all DR.. T. J. PRI6HAM animals, large and small. His specialties will be particularly useful in midwestern Ontario area where the poultry industry is of majorwimportance, and the province's mink ranching industry is centered. Priorities for Canada Conference to be heIdTM' Niagara Falls The Progressive Conservative Party will hold a Policy Conference, October 9 to 13, at Niagara Falls, Ontario. It willbe chaired by the Honorable Robert L. Stanfield. The Conference, named the Priorities for Canada Conference, will be divided into eight major sections which will consider science and research, the quality of life, the changing environment, Canada's political institutions, poverty in Canada, resource policy and regional development, the Canadian economy in the '70s, and Canada and the world community, The purpose of the Conference is to establish the direction of Progressive Conservative policy. While no resolutions will be considered, Mr. Stanfield has asked for definite direction in such areas as taxation and agriculture. The Conference is one stage in a ontinuing process of policy development by Progressive Conservatives. Tt will not be binding upon elected Members of Parliament, although it is expected they would be strongly. guided by the recommendations of so repfesentative a meeting: Representatives will attend from each of the 264, Progressive Conservative constituency associations, the federal and provincial caucuses, provincial associations, and the women's, youth and university associations. Professional and urliversity people who have been invited to the Conference as resource personnel will make up about 10% of the participants. The Conference will be open to the press. Each . major section will be made up of six sessions of , approximately three hours each. More than half of each session will be available for discussion 'and � questions by the constituency delegates and the delegates -at -large. There will be plenary sessions which will also allow for extensive discussions by the delegates. Before you turn the key.. fasten your seat belts! ail Reviews of recently puliiished books "Vignettes, diary excerpts, sketches and stories — all have the dazzling simplicity of genius. They emphatically, touch on the outraged decency of humanity." The Kirkus Reviews ISAAC BABEL'S YOU MUST KNOW I;:VERYTHING A NEW COLLECTION OF STORIES BY THE RUSSIAN MASTER TRANSLATED, FOR THE FIRST TIME, BY MAX HAYWARD. AND EDITED BY NATHALIE • BABEL Isaac Babel, the -greatest Russian writer of fiction after Chekhov, was arrested by Soviet authorities in May 1939 and never seen again. He was posthumouly "rehabilitatecl" in 1954 by the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R,. "►n the absence of elements of a crime." But even though Babel's position as a master Or iorld literature is unquestioned, the slow process of literary rehabilitation in his native country began only in 1957, with an edition of his Collected Works. Sold out in two days, it was not reprinted for ten years. This volume collects nineteen Babel stories of the period 1915 to 1937 that have never before been translated. None was included in the 1957 Soviet Collected Works and only a few appear in the 1967 edition; indeed, two of the most remarkable stories — "And Then There Were None" and "The Jewess" — have never been published in the , original Russian. The title story, part of the famous childhood cycle, is the first fiction Babel wrote; the manuscript came to light very recently. "Sulak," the final story in this collection, was the next to last published in his lifetime. The remainder of the stories, examples of consistent artistry in varied genres, appeared in forgotten Soviet magazines in the twenties and early thirties and have been unavailable to both Russian and Western readers. Of particular interest is "Sunset," which was to be. transmuted into Babel's finest play. In addition to the stories, there- are six journalistic pieces from 1918 (reprinted here for the first . tinie) that, reflect Babel's distress over the methods and shortcomings of the new Bolshevik regime. The appendices gather a 1937 interview with'Babel and recent memoirs and essays by"Russian writers - Paustovsky and Ehrenburg, among others. The contents of YOU MUST KNOW EVERYTHING have been collected, through official and unofficial, sources, by Babel's daughter Nathalie. She has also provided annotations and has attempted to evaluate the stories and situate them in relation to the rest of Babel's work. Stanley Edgar Hyman, writing. about Babel's THE LONELY YEARS, 1925-1939, in The New Leader, said, "As a writer during the first decades of the Russian Revolution, Babel isprimarily a chronicler of its'inisfits, of those eggs that are broken but then not used in the omelette... And, -the letters are immensely important. They are a look behind the works of art into the desperate conditions of their manufacture, like the letters of Fitzgerald." SONS . • AUTHOR: Evan Hunter PUBLICATION DATE: July 25, 1969 PRICE: $8.50 Pages: 396 Evan Hunter's new novel, SONS, tells of three generations of men in an American family — a grandfather, a father, and a son — focusing on those crucial years when each was between the ages of seventeen and twenty. War is -the common element in the lives of these men and their women — World W3ar I and, .-II•, • and the Vietnam War, wars that are profoundly the same yet compellingly different. And it is in this difference that the core of SONS lies. Evan - Hunter portrays the vast, changing heart '"""*' and mind of America over the last fifty years — an .America at once the same and radically altered. With ^ an immediacy •more apparent than in, any. history, SONS shows how many of the ideas and feelings that took shape at the beginning of the century grew with the passing years into the attitudes of today about ourselves, the world, prejudice, violence, justice, sex; love, the family, and personal commitment. The versatile Evan Hunter is the author of many short stories, two screenplays, and nine previous novels: "The Blackboard Jungle," '`Second Ending," . "A Matter of Conviction," "Strangers When We Meet?' "Mothers and Daughters," "The Paper Dragon," `&Buddwing," 'A Horse's Head," and "Last Summer." A major motion picture of "Last Summer was released in June to a most receptive public. Mr. Hunter lives in the New York area with his wife and three sons. LEVELS OF THE GAME by John McPhee (September 23rd; $6.75) "McPHEE'S TENNIS WRITING '4 IS MATCHPOINT TENSE. John McPhee has done it again, and- then some! After writing over a period of yearsra number of long biographical sketches of individuals (Frank L. Boyden, Bill Dradley, Euell Gibbons, Temple Fielding, Thomas P. F. Hoving), John McPhee found that he wanted — as he puts it — to try to write about two people simultaneously, two whose lives were closely interreflective, and who would in a sense sketch or mirror one another while I was. attempting to sketch them. Watching Ashe and .Graebner one day at Forest Hills, I 'thought, "Why not experiment first with a pair of tennis slavers? Why not Ashe and Graebner? They're the same age. Any, two Americans who reach this level will have had to know each other since childhood., At their level, the community of tennis players is so small that there are no strangers. 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Here, then, is the perfect evocation - of last year's tense semi-finals match at Forest Hills: Ashe, disciplined, determinedly holding on till the triumphant end; and Graebner, flamboyant, quick-tempered, - nearly incredulous at his defeat. John McPhee has written far mole than sports -figure biography; he has dug deep into the psyches of two men of polar natures and upbringings. The result: "a supple, fluid, graceful account," (Kirkus Reviews);,and absolutely engrossing. Wallets Camel Bags Coin Purses. Jewellery Hasty -Notes Place -Mats Braided Mats Hooked Rugs Carvings Candles Quilts Pot -Holders Hot -Pads Coasters Aprons Belts Knitted Toys Wood -Turnings Pottery Embroidery PLUS Crafted items from Spain India Russia Denmark Sweden Greece Morocco Portugal England SAVE DOLLARS d u ON OUR ' SPECIALS ON ELECTROHOME HUMIDIFIERS AND EUREKA VACUUMS AT Hutchinson Rash() — TV—. 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