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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1970-06-04, Page 3M At f• M • • BY G. Mack.EOD . ROSS should ee ee Ii', Iever l av thee Godericb, it would certainly be in winter, but What a trip! Ahlios,,t torrential rain every driving day to South Carolina. We left Charlie in •tears, which made the parting harder, In any case he . had eyed us reproachfully from the . first appearance of the suit eases. The Rochester N,Y. papers say-, the number, of U.S. • deserters, given sanctuary in Canada is on the increase. A pity we cannot find a better test for immigrants than renunciation of obligation to their own country. pidn't Stephan Decatur propose a toast in Norfolk, Virginia in 1816: "Out Country, right or wrong!" The U.S. Customs dealt,. harshly with the two car -loads preceding us. Searched their trunks thoroughly and then sent them to their rooma This only. served to recall some amusing stories of the Customs 'of yesteryear at Windsor. „ Q. What `is your nationality? A. Scots. Q. Where were you born? A. London. Q. How can you be Scotch and born in London? A. When a cat has kittens in the oven, they're not biscuits! An Immigration officer on the Detroit side: "You haff an accent". Reply by an elderly Scottish lady: "So half you!" • During Prohibition (in the Canadian u' U.S,- of course. an, , • politicians are so liberally Minded) the problem constantly arose: How . to smuggle enough liquor over the border to East the • whole -holiday in Anierica. On one occasion the' solution was that Mrs. °T.....was carried over , on . a stretcher; with bottles • packed all round 'her, by her son. No, no. She was not malingering. Site was really ill: ' " Passing • the Tioga Boar , `rlunting, Reserve, I promised my&self again an investigation "in depth" into this anomaly. , Somebody else boasts: "We. make money ,on garbage," and: we run into beautiful downtown Cohocton. Lunch - at Howard Johnson's Camp Hill refectory where they have run' out of milk. It's Good • Friday --even so, what a contrast to the Holiday House's which have a monopoly on the New York Thruway -no relation to. Holiday Inns of course. Oh what a fall was there my Countrymen! Civilisation was recaptured in WASHINGTON, D.C. where stands the fireplace which Lord Amherst was `given by the "People of England in appreciation , of his victories in North America" in the mid 18th Century. First' installed in his home in Sevenoaks, Kent, he • brought it with him to Montreal. It iso built in Siena marble which must have been the rage at that period, for the same material appears in Tryon Palace, New Bern, N.C. 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The Leader Since 1903 • lea A night in WashingtOn, oh, the direction contrary to norinalityy outlined, with ,low bob, hedges right bank f the Potomac, With But youtook warning, You and filled with massed tulips. e above,•acke R, ()lir emergenc and the rice flats i o,e lets co,� in, an+gh s p �'�' Beyond, , � p making dayand night hideous, plumbing kit and with a little kit gradually towards the rave. And Surprisingly for a pretentious, - of luek, eau 'tune' the several just as we leave to r+s"Uirnn a fine motel; no bellhops, not even' lin `services,' which neglect has Vee -formation of confident one of the 57 colours available, brought to such a sorry pass. Canada geese fly north, after a W a s h i n g t o n is s p e It Add don't forget. Had you not cold winter south, oblivious to H - 0 - in • myt, got a reservation here, you might the awful weather awaiting them estimation, Lobster, Bluepoints have been forced .to drive 10 in their homeland: and Lowenbrau and though I miles further south, where not first saW this restaulrant-in 1942, ° just a plumber's certificate was its shadow ever increases. 1500 necessary to your . comfort, but people are constantly seated and that of a master electrician, as expeditiously served by well. everrsmiling girls. A triumph of Easter Sunday -And a- great catering in , a world where P hunt to find the church, because quality seems forever on the of a plethora of one-way streets,. downgrade. • • ' so that, you must cruise far Saturday to the National up -stream on the One:Way Up Cathedral, hoping to see and Street, so as not to miss the photograph some of the Easter • church on. the One -Way Down decorations, but" we were too ' Street. However we found it in early. A small army of time and it was refreshing to well -tested voluntary- find that they spoke the same flower -arrangers is employed; language as that which we had the whole master -minded by a known from birth. There were high command which decides in no guitars. The altar wasnoton great detail what flowers will be rollers, so . that , it might be used and in what quantity, for moved to any quarter of the each altar, chapel shrine, and church. It was all refreshingly statue. For example the lady . mediaeval. And no one seemed from Utah allotted to the , the worse for it. Washington Statue was given. In the South the ecumenical buckets of purple stocks and _ virus seems to have been assessed orange althea which she arranged at its real value and heed is given into a bee -hive shaped wire cage' to the teaching of history in filled -with oasis blocks. As for such matters. - It seems to be the Cathedral itself, they are still - universally recognised that for building on more and more, for the few to meddle with the long the master plan is far from established spiritual, beliefs of subsequently returned to complete. the many, results in schism, not Liverpool to join a shipping On thb road again with lunch unity and that it takes longer firm. A' later arrival was an Qld at, a HoJo at Petersburg; Va. than one short lifetime for the- Lerpolian, . in the person; of perhaps the birthplace -of -trench -.hope-for evolutLo.n to become Rishop.::,Stopford, -Bishop. of warfare, for her.during'the Civil effective. London, in whose diocese South War, this form of warfare held ,After that we drove on to the Carolina used to- be. The local things up for 10 months. beautifully sited Holiday Inn .on press says of him: "Educated at MYRTLE BEACH Arrived at Dunes Village we :meet disappointment '`head on, for . Twisty, the old 'English Sheepdog, a most..consciehtious visitor here, will take his 'family "elsewhere" this ° year. There ensued something of a hiatus. Our Washington ' correspondent. 'returned, whilst we relapsed into two weeks of respiratory complaint. Meanwhile in Charles Towne the Tri -Centennial Celebrations opened for a, week, each day named -in honour of one of the Lords Proprietors, the original grantees of the Carolinas from King Charles. It -sounded like "The Stately Homes of England." Lord Albermarle, Lord Ashley, Lord Berkeley and Lord Craven. Added to whom were Clarendon, Carteret, Sir W. Berkeley and Sir John Colleton. Lt. Genl. Eric N. Goddard brought out his wife from .England, whose Huguenot ancestor, Prioleau, arrived in the Carolinas in 4685 and • the Neuse River at' New Bern,Liverpool College, Oxford" but - ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. ` N.C. A little bit of Switzerland. an old alumnus of the College It is always hard to determine The attraction here is . the assures yob. _ it is situated in why one place should be . reconstructed Tryon Palace; the _Liverpool. favoured ' as a stopping place little bit of England, recalled This year we elected for a more than another and Rocky • from the 18th century, for here -ground floor 'apartment. Some Mount is one of the many spots you will find, compressed into very - strange noises emanate where failure to reserve has very few acres, --all the from on high, while after 7 a.m. resulted' in tears on previot�"footprints of the Lion," all so sleep is impossible because at occasions. You can usually tell'lovingly restored bythe children this, the golf tournament season, how the interior economy of the of the men who became rebels Myrtle Beach is plagued with the hostelry fares from the people i nspite of -themselves. "Package Golfer" who is firmly behind the desk.`' However to Everywhere you roam there are of the persuasion that the Earth give instruction in all the' signs bits of England over which to belongs- him alone. This and portents must be reserved trip. The red sandstone steps 13, to for,,,,,Adult Education, Course at ' from St Bees, Cumberland in the I th G.D.C.I. commencing July Lake District; the Siena marble 1999, •. . fireplaces; the views of You have been 'warned before Twickenham; the "Cat" by the of the man in the inner sanctum fire to hold plates to be warmed; who bends, with hooded eyes, the puzzle jug which pours froth ,like a croupier, over his account a hidden spout and dousesAhe book. He sees no customer; unsuspecting pourer. There :was hears no customer;, . feels no • lots 'of slapstick in 18th Century customer; smells no customer. If England. Finally an original wig you spot his ilk, do not be stand, which suddenly, , in the surprised that the `heat' is 20th century, has appeared in `uncontrollable.' That after 9.50 every lady's boudoir! They are p.m. no -hot water emerges from identical. . No hint of any the taps.• That one hot tap seems improvement here. to have a frog in its throat, and, ' Outside are the ' formal like the camel, makes water 'in a gardens; the variformed beds, SENSATIONAL END -OF -SEASON. SALE icero hostelry has the local reputation forbeing the ` best run in the. � area. Mei Bot. . pleased leased with ...n his bookings, and' for the first time in my experience, the "NO VACANCY" • sign is pasted on the door. He complains that his 'Pitch and Putt course costs $6000 per year to maintain, while the plot is valuied at $400,000. Should he build additional accommodation on it and, scrap the P. and. P.? Today's' major problem:., How 1» protect. your capital.' Btlt he " should ° worry! lie hasn't met qur laentle Ben yet: and only fears that Myrtle Beach. may become a second Atlantic City. ,. We are fortunate to meet the -- daughter of a friend'. about to return to Hong .Kong, which enables a check on the ravages of 46 years of time to the Peak, Repulse Bay and Canton. 0 b servation's ; along the highway. The Volkswagen'still is without brakes, surely a subject for investigation by Nader. Yesterday we actually- passed a Volkswagen on Hiway 17. Obviously they're slipping! APPO LO 13 April 11th Apollo ' 13 .blasted✓ off;? a product of the "Religion of Cooperation" which is Cape Kennedy, with Willy Brandt and 4500 wIthers as spectators. The most eourageous recovery by the crew after such a dire material failure produced some notable statements.: "Adversity introduces Man to Himself ' and, • "it brought out the- special qualities of man which we rely' upon -when the -machine fails". While the thermometer hit the 80 . mark at last there - was another entry, in the '"How tactless can you be Department?" Beat this if you. can. Julie Nixon proudly shows the visiting Duke of Windsor a: souvenir mug "commemorating" his Coronation! Fortunately it was displayed upstairs -with the family -and the grape - was still • crimson. However a runner-up arrived in the same department. •A postal,. frank by a Columbia, . S.C. firm which read: "General No. . Sherman visited here. Why not you?" But talking about.;p.ostal franks this weks bisenit goest•o „ none other than'the Goderich Post Office for a letter ,received, in Myrtle Beach on the '15th April but franked 570.111, April 21st. Both 1970. For the •Charleston, Tercentennial 04004100 effigies Were set up* at co of vil° :War' t vantage points*:: ts: . �; soldiers, Unfortunately. they were dressed in Union uniforms:;! 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