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GODEEICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, OCTOUR,21,1,971, 4
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'For the service of Mankind" pi St. John's Ambulance
BY BRIG. C. MacLEOD,' ROSS
With the above motto for its
guidance, the Goderich Branch
* Committee of the St. John.,
• Anabttaance-: Association - once --
mow appeals farfundS to enable
the! members of the Brigade to
° continue their work in Huron
County, 'for the ,859th ,year of
the existence of the Order Of St.
John of Jerusalem. oft,
During the past year the
Goderich Brigade Members have
• donated some 1500 hours of
duty up to September 30. Of
these, 415 hours were served
during Young Canada Week. The
NE+ First -Aid Room at the Arena
was finally provided by
, alterations which were paidc,for
„by, the Rotary Club of Goderich
while the Town donated a cot,
and, the oxygen equipment. For
Hot Line
radio for(
" students
A hot line radio show will
highlight the Ontario School
Radio Broadcasts this year, .•
Education Minister-. Robert
Weich..said
The new show; developed by
the Ontario Department of
Education's curriculim branch,
is called Catch The 2.03. It will
give elementary students in
Ontario's schools the chance to,
voice ' their opinions on a wide
variety of topics.
The show will be
pre-recorded and aired each
- Monday from 2.03 to2.30on
CBC stations and its affiliates.
The show will folio* a
• telephone conference type
format,using five' or six
,students, a mOderator and a
guest expert on the topic under
discussion. Program consultants -7 -
from the Department's regional
offices, in consultation with
teachers, ' will • choose the
• st u den t S' and the topics.
-'lludents may participate by
ail or by telephOne. •• -
Mr. Welch said the aim of the
program is to establish
communication between
students on important issues. •
Another new show scheduled
another year the Branch Lias
loaned its ambulance as. a
stand-by for the Alexandra
Marine General Hospital for
•use when, the regular vehicle is
unavailable.
This is the 12th year the the
Division kas served the people of
Goderich and of the charter
members,, Only six' are still
active. Three of these will
receive Long Service Medals for
12 years' service. At the Annual
Inspection in May awards
included five Priory' "yotes of
Thanks and - one member
promoted to Serving'Brother.
The, next class in First -Aid
opens on October 24th, when 19
members of the County Roads
Division will receive instruction.
The Division sorely needs
.new Members, both male and:
female, to carry , on the
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voluntary work which
distinguishes the Order of St.
John. Contact Don :Stemp at
132 Victoria North, Goderich,
• 524-7947.
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Whilst- the 'above-'vecorc?
redounds to the devotion of the
local Brigade, a recent *account
of an incident in the Emergency
in Malaya, (1948 to, 1960)
exemplifies the 'habitual
devotion shown by a Memberof
the St. John Nursing Service
during the above mentioned
Emergency:
To appreciate the story of
Lucie Card, it is necessary to
sketch in the background. This
Malayan Emergency lasted 12
years using a • jungle ' as a
battlefield in a war as relentless -
and cruel as the jungle itself; a
"Warlirwhich for the first time in
history, Communism launched
an. all-out effort to, win Malaya
for Mao -Tse-tung, using guerilla
tactics. And that it was no small
affair can be gpthered from such
statistics as follow:
Air estimated 12,000-:
Communist Terrorists (C,.T.'s)
6698 ti were killed and 2696
surrendered, while 2819 were
wounded, The Security Forces
'lost 1865 killed, 2560 wounded,
with 247,3A/civilians murdered,
1385 wounted and 810 missing.
The ration of 38 Security Force
'tpersonnel for each single CaT.
underlines the costlines of,
guerilla warfare.
In 1818 John Adams said of
another Revalution,, $'`It is in the
minds and hearts of the people."
In, 1952 General Templer, the
Supremo in Malaya, concurred
when he said: "The answer lies
in the hearts and minds of the
Participants stock their tables just previous to the ope. 'cg'f the Carlow Christms fair on
Wectriesda,y..„ The 'fair was well attended on openin ay and will be open again nn Saturday.
beginning at 10:00 a.m.' Those looking for gift_41 stions have a lot to choose from at the fair
with a wide•range,of original itemson display. -• aff photo
1:7 'million,
this fall is Kaleidoscope. In the -
•
format of an audio magazine, et
subjects such as English, social
studies, science, music and art'
will be dealt with in interyiews,,
reports, dramatizations, legends,
• documentaries, . music and
general ntertainment programs.
It will b aired Tuesday through
Thursday in the same time slot
at Catch The -2.03.
--The.new' -series starts Octob
25. ^
7. Ontario Scii6o1 Radio
( Broadcasts are prod ed by the
Department in co- eration with
. the CBC:-, .
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HELP
YOUR
RED
CROSS
EMBER
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urned i
bo •es
September
Nearly 1.7 milli° ottlesanci
jars a record mo '•hly high were
returned b Canadians for
recycling uring September in
the tinuing .buy -back -the -
bo e 'anti -litter program
onsored ,* -by the Glass
ContainerCouncil of Canada.
The cross,Canada total
reported by 11 collection depots
in five • provinces shows an.
increase of almost 300,000 over,
the August figure. '
In all, 7;344,098 glass'
containers have been returned to
depots since January, and close
to 8 •million sinc'e the
buy -back -the -bottle program ryas
launched,last fall.
"Naturallx, we are extremely
pleased by tlhe public reponse
to our program and the
increasingmomentum it's
gathering," said Elliot
with the arrival of cold Weather,
, we, are 'looking for close to 10
million glass containers to be
,returned ,before the end of the
year," Dalton said.
.Initially, the Glass Container
Council had,projected a figure of
5 million bottles and jars being
returned during 1971. The new
• forecast means returns will be
nearly double the original
• projection.
Comparative figures for glass,
containers collected . during
August and September are:
Ontario, 224,653 and 682,371
respectively; New Brunswick,
99,50Q and 64,000; Quebec
250,759 and 197,344; Alberta,
85,317 and 7g,404; British
Columbia, -844;b02 and
677,000.
..111e_oots_pay.A,T2c -per - glass-T-
contafner, or $15 per torr.
executive director of the Glass
Container Council.
"In fact, although collections
can be expected to taper off
1"
IS THE NOW LOOK .
too
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Corner The Square and INIttntreal St.
(In The Wt•olwortli Block)
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people." For he meant that not
only Must the Chinese terrorists,
be converted to a respect'for law
and order, but that the Malays,
who were being coerced by the
must be. shown 'theyhad
Much more to gain from the
Government than .the
Communists could, ever trope tP
give them. ,
The story which Noel Barber
tells in his recently published
book "The War of the Running'
Dogs", couples cool heroism in
the face of stark brutal murder,
with an actItunt of the brilliant
anti -guerilla' tactics employed
both by Templer. and by Sir
Robert Thompson, which
enabled a united 41/Ialaya iegto
emerge. -
When General Templer went
to Malaya As "Supremo", that is
head of ,all the forces whether
civil or military', one of his many
ideas was the establighment of
"New Villages"' in ...which the
inhabitants found themselves
out of the war for the first time
in five years. Templer then'
started /a drive to get more
nurses to ,work in these villages.
One of the-, advertisements
publiShed in England, caught the
/eye .of a young nurse of the St.
John ' Ambulance Brigade of
Godstone, Surrey, a pretty
dark-haired girl called Lucie
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afar
arriving in Malaya she was
-driving an ambulance 1000 miles
a month, often with only a -
Chinese . assistant. who, in
Terrorist country, crouched on
the' floor, surrounded by shaking
and tinkling bottles. Lueie felt it
was safer that way. She reasoned
that driven by a man, the
Communist ; Terrorists might
stop the ambulance.
•Barely three months after her
_arrival -she was driving towards a,
kampong •near Manong, where
the twisting mountain road
dipped as it reached a broad
river. It was perfect ambush
'country and as shesyvept,round
the corner, there stood an armed
Chinese. • She braked terrified.,
but, saw that he was alone. There
were -certainly pone of the usual.
ambush signssTh had been told
to expect; no failed trees; no
'sudden emerging figures:, in fact
the man lOoked rather pathetic.
Then ,a curious thing happened,
ptiCE DEPT.
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GODERICH
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jip
for themanmui, hay been
waiting for the a ival o the St.
John ambulance. As s on as he
saw it he flung hit gun into the
lallang-and raised his arms above
itts. head: For one wild Moment -
Lucie thought she was about to
accept .a C.T. surrender. Then
• she saw the man's shirt was
soaked in blood. He was little
more than a boy; Lucie guessed
his age-ras less than twenty. In
halting English he asked for
11.61p-,_.!aut when 'Lucie saki she
would drive him to hospital he
shook liis head violentiS, and
/startedto make for the jungle. It
as then she had to make her
decision, Not that there was
re ily any mental conflict, she
rcalts. Aiding a Communist
' /wOuld be wrong,
, but Lucie knew
that by joining the Order of St.
John she had undertaken to
succour "persons in sickness,
distress, suffering and danger
without ,• distinction of race-,
class, or creed"; "For the Service
of Mankind."
So she opened the door, told
the chinese on the floor to keep
quiet as she took out rolls of
she was tremblin , - until she
bandage and tape.he realised
started bathing an ugly wound in
the shoulder •with antiseptic.
When she had finished bandaging
• she took,a-- handful ' of
sulph a nil - de tablets and
,handud..4iem o. him. The:Tam),
• liad,..trot said: a xetord,,twititow 'tie
/thrust his right hand into the
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pocket of his frayed shorts and
brought, out two dollar bilis.
"For the pills" he said; then he
picked up his gun and loped off
irito the jur4let.
All the way back Lucie'was
,tortured. Th,e man could have
been a murderer; they were all
murderers she had been told.
Once he had put his gun down,
-'airely she and the-Chitiese could
• have' overpowered him. She
thought.„ ...of other things she
might have done, but' he had
looked so trusting and was so
very young. She did not real* it
at the time, but later she came
to see that her action probably
-hact,done...more to influence the
heart and mind 'of a C,T. to
surrender, than had she
succumbed to a thoughthich
had run through her mind, and
given him a large injection of
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Ctions to the work of
• the Goderich Brigade may t19 '
--sent- to the TrQalurer, *tidier .
G. MacLeOd Rossat 3 Cobourg
Street, Goderich.
*The War of the Running Dogs
by Noel Barber. Collins. 2.25.
NOTICE -
PARENTS
Goderich Police Commissioners wish to draw the following •
to your attention:
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Under the 'Highway Traffic Act, Chapter'172, Section
37 (14).
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• It is required by law to have
every bicycle marked with . a
white or amber light on ''the'
• front. Tand Ted tight 'or
reflector on the rear.
In the interest of safety, • light colour
clothing should be worn.
Board of Police ComMissioners,
. Mayor Harry Worsell,
• 4. Chairman.
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