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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1971-11-04, Page 13�n�.iir : endi Dear Ann Landers: "Novice In Nebraska" who declared that worhen were undeniably the stronger sex,, prompted me to write my first letter to a newspaper. Of course, he is right. And, in addition to the er, evidence he cited, I have addi"tional facts which •�••-•scrbsta=int;•irrte��tti•s�s'talerrtertt:--�•"' source is Dr. Theo Laz g•. a British journalist. 1 In the female ,,homo,sapien,. the mortality rate for almost all disease is iowe c t than in males. Although women get :.sick mcite , often than men, they recover more rapidly, The woman is a better` automobile' driver (fewer ' • - , accidents) and the-. relative -. weight of her brain is greaten, The female is less apt to stutter, • and she is overdrra.wn at the bank less frequently than the male.' Women feel pain far more , acutely than" men but they bear • it more stoically. The final and most impressive facts ,are, ,that - women live longer and the I. times greater. - The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Dear Hand: Thanks for the additional evidence. I dottbt'•the battle of the sexes will ever be resolved, however, for the simple reason that there's too much natural fraternization with the enemy. * * *. ..._._ • Dear Ann Landers: Please, help .a -Senior Citizen who can barely afforda party fine, much less. a°' private one. We need •a phone to keep in touch with,our c h 1dr-en, the doctor, the; ,,,,,,;,,,„„d,l;gggiaLend"'a few friends,'1'krl writing about the teenagers who share r this line. We can pick up 4• Do -it- yourself w 1t•''s easy with ,•Su.nworthy ready-pasted'wallcoverings .414. SIJNWORTHY EVERY PATTERN UNDER THE SIJN a7 Start today four your supplies see HENDERSON'S BOOK STORE The Square " GODERICH the phone at almost any hour of the day or night and hear phonograph records. Nobody is talking - just on.usic. Or we can hear bours of homework - History, English, Math., etc. We feel this is very. unfair but there's nothing we can do about it. Will you help? - Missouri ,C -laid -, - .... Dear M.C.: 1'll :try. A word to you • Missouri cats ' who are hogging the telephone: Will you please allow the old folks who share your line to interrupt your homework assignments and concerts temporarily to make a call? I'm going to suggest that - they ask you (nicely, of course) to __release the line. for . ten minutes. When asked, be sweet and co-operate. Thanks. I Knew you'd say yes. * * * Dear Ann Landers: A very nice woman who was widowed recently has moved next door to us. The woman loves children and has offered, •to•-si4'-•with _.r r we want to go out. This has been wonderful for us and for the children. They love-ter:•Sti a great storyteller -and -has a delightful sense of humor. But a problem has arisen. This woman ' is deeply religious and her religion is different from ours. ' She is confusing our children by telling them certain things are sinful and that ,God will punish them if they do not obey 'His laws. While we believe in God, we do not believe in the hell -fire and damnation -punishments that this woman is espousing. We . are beginning to see signs of fear and guilt in our youngsters - . also they want to know, who is right 'and who is wrong. What shall we do? - All His Children . Dear All: Have an honest talk with the woman and ask her not to discuss religion with your children. Explain that they are becoming confused because the religious. beliefs of their upbringing conflict with ""what she •has_ been telling them. •, Let your children know there are many different religions, and that we must respect . the views of others and not consider them wrong merely. because,, they are not the same as ours. , * *- * Dear Ann Landers: Please tell that 11 -year-old boy -With' the drunken bum of a father that'his mother doesn't have to stay with a husband like that if she doesn't want to. Yes, even if she is: "sick_ TODAY'S CHILD BY' ,HE L.EN. AALL , IT HAPPENS TO EVERYONE, TILL ., "i4 fun-lov 1 ng bo y Rrlly's,,disposition is just as winning ati his smile. This three-year-old is an outgoing, loyal, fun -Io. ink; boy who makes frieneis"readily and captures the heart of eyer•yone. he meets. - With an Anglo-Saxon background, Billy• is about a.�c•r- age in size with blue eyes, fair' skim, and shining blonde hair. Ile is in good general health, but he has cerebral palsy (lack of. muscle control) affecting his legs. lle is attending a nursery school operated by the Society for Crippled Children where daily therapy is a.ailaljle, and is almost walking. He tries hard and thrives on the...prraisc he.��g.,cts for his achie%e+cnenis. „Lida...bikes .t ►...•4 .h Sc�sa c ., trlret ,r►,ta.cl_, �.uts► s , i,,j ,iia Y "S'ESyOC."";n,.n %aT ..'TYfx �� � .. .� ...:Ypxmrvnb.a.'7�l+UQal; with e inucat,eo ra tovs. too#�ors.artl to unt ii School, especially the music, and' in his foster home he is often heard surging little rhymes to himself. This laddie needs parents whose lose will surmount his physical handicap and who can help hint de.`ek►p• to ihf limit of his abilities,. with more concern for l►er•sonal-ity than for scholastic achievement: To inquire about adopting, Billy, please vv -rite to To- - day's Child, Department of Social and Family •SerVices, Parliament fluiltlrngs, Toronto 182.- H'br general adop- tion information, ask your, Children's aid Society. Now . there are two! a lot anti has no diploma." The Welfare Department of' her state will support her and her children. This is why we pay taxes. Legal Aid wi1T• provide a lawyer for her, too. She can get a separation ordivorce. After this nervous wreak gets the guy out of hex __life,. she probably won't be sick so•inuch. And she might decide- -to get that diploma. I speak froth experience. - Liberated. Lois__ Dear Lib: Thanks' •for, your letter. Women who stay with abusive, alcoholic husbands are themselves sick - but that's another' column., %..=..-• TIRED OF SNOWMOBILE TROUBLE? - BREAKING STARTING CORDS -- FOULING SPARK PLUGS - BREAKING CAE3L1_S - WIFE CAN'T START IT SICK OF MIXING FULL SERIOUS ABOUT Bt1YING THE: BEST AND FORGETTING TROUBLE? SEE ME FOR THE ANSWER STEVE ARGYLE OUTDOOR EQUIPMENT COLINI\ 5I BAY! i1 LD ,,f ti o So We've just been through a perfect late fall weekend in . - :these parts. The sort of weather we'd been waiting for all summer, and which refuse34 oearrive, But the weather was ,the only thing that was perfect. Therest of the weekend was a comedy of errors. My wife", had ,lost her glas§es. "She can e ;'about Pightc;.e.n._.rsa.iles,._but_has. ble with the small print. So I was -volunteered on a beautiful Saturday. after-;' noon, when 1 had ,planned. to get in a last game of golf, to drive 75 miles round trip, with her, to the optomet- ,- rrst. For an eye examination'' Oh, no, she could have ob- _ tained a prescription from e..: lam. 44-e-,- Me.rel y -ssa that she could choose 'frames for the dam' things that would enhance her beauty. - She had explained that the optometrist was •t;losed • on Wednesday afternoons, and that since I was -free on Saturday, there was no rea- • son I couldn't drive her yak yak yak, ' p. : _ Just before we left she wondered • whether she . should call to make sure he was ,open , l scoffed at the --T"dr'a. "I) ” t be silly. 1f he • ” closes °'`` dnesday after- noon, he'll be open' Satur- tion point, and twenty, • minutes after that we were laughing as we lumbered off on the home journey,. -• • Arrived chez nous and the house was like an oven, We were bickering ,about who'had turned the thermo- stat up to 75 titwas 7''S out- side}, • when a sepulchral voice .frronr..aba ce in formed:_„ us that our. only begotten `son ' haT` arrived.; '"%aken a shower, and turned on the heat to avoid a chill. He's .he same character who will walk around in his bare feet in winter. Following a long-distance a,,, tt1 of a few days before, we had • 'half -expected him, • along with his kid sister. Half, because you never know with them. However, Old Fuss -Boots had decided we should stock up with grub, just in case. We hadn't all been to- ,gether for • about eight months. So we went "all out: (*.-a- turkey, a big roast, wine; all sorts of goodies.. The freezer ' was "bulging with • meat, Kim didn't come.- Wlie 'rt his mother asked Hugh what he would like for dinner, and rhymed off the deli- - cacies, he answered- calmly thatehe was.a vegetarian and • had, b.rough-t his own little • packet of brown rice. day. Especially with all that There ate times when it's -'out-of-town . business." So., } hard to' keep your temper, irdr3-X r ... time we'd sorted this out, coolly, we had a desultory dinner of boiled brawn rice tor him;'• Kentucky fried chicken for us, But)yate stillhad a facile, fickle finger ' for us.- Hugh had come h.onn,e to get away from the city,.see the glory of fall foliage, walk in the woods' .and on the lonely . 1 nii''tlowed a bit on the way, with the sun •smiling on a world of magnificent colour, But 'l'cl still rather have been six other •places. We tot there, parked, ' walked to the store and, - you grabbed it - he was .closed. Ten minutes later we were at the curt recrimina- b r,, ave the Maitland represented at London A meeting of the Save the Medway Association held in London this.. wok, was attended by,.representatives of the Save the Maitland Association and•the Federation of Agriculture. John Van der Eyk of Listowel represented the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, William- Osborne of Monktan' represented. the Perth County Federation of 'Agriculture-, Jim Vallance, represented the Save the Maitland Association and John Martens of Ilderton represented the National Farm'e'rs 'Union. Detailed' reports were -received on the general progress of Save the"": Medway --the- program of monitoring the Medway, co-operation of the Canada Centre For land Waters and the signifi', progress being made in ecting and improvin. the Ma ' : n' River; this is a j'rint ndrrtaking of OFA, the Perth- ' and the Save the Maitland Association, whose president Mr. Jim Valiance of A Brussels reported that paid membership in his association now -exceeds 400. Mr. Van der yk, detailed their „procedures on water testing; Dr. John Robinson, UWO b a c teriologist, put laboratory . techniques in perspective. Considerable debate followed on water sampling. • Both the Provincial Minister of the Environment, and the -Ontario. Water . Resources Commission were. criticised for lack ' of initiative , and adequate procedures.. It was agreed that future monitoring of the Medway will be done as follows.. First Dr. Shute will seek the, co -o' eration of Dr. Sam Maharajah at the Public Health Laboratory in sampling the Medway on a routine basis, with samples being , taken at the same depth and at the- - same place with an independent witness present for the sample taking. All samples to • be marked Save the Medway attention Dr. Evan Shute, R. R. '1, Arva, Ontario. Dr. ' John Robinson will receive duplicate 'samples and will supply more detailed reports, than those currently ` received' from the Public Health Laboratory. Jim Vallance pointed out that the value of water sampling was -nimised by the absence of any ovincial standards on stream quality. Drs. Shute and Robins'tn together with Mr. George Tatham will draft a detailed request to the Ontario Minister of the Environment requesting details of stream,, quality in Ontario. Copies of the above' correspondence . will be sent to the three rntjor political parties in Ontario, the Canadian Environmental Law Research -Foundation, Western Ontario members •- of tttario Legislature; the 0 A, the. NAT, • the-Envir ,. for ental Secretariat of the National Research Council, • .Save the Maitland, the Middlesex. Federation of Agriculture, the Perth Federation of, Agriculture and the Ontario • Minister of Health.. • �„ 'Dr. Robinson reported on the growing concern over health hazards emanating' from sewage lagoons. He quoted the research of `Dr. Sydney Webb, University of Saskatchewan aerobiologist 'who has• retrievedvirus particles which have become ' airborfie'. from sewage lagoons. Dr. Webb has retrieved E. coli from' ai ,aircraft five miles away from the Victoria B. C. sewage lagoons. .Spray irrigation • of untreated sewage lagoon effluence can present -a heal th a, hazard to livestock, said Mr. Van der Eyk; Dr. ' Robinson confirmed that there were documented hazards to -human httalth. Mr. .Jim Valiance reported that the 0.W.R.C. had used spray irrigation at the Listowel lagoon • because it t."1 -led nothing better to offer but would be discontinuing the spray prograrh at the . end of the current season." It was moved by Dr. Harold Johnson, seconded by 'Dr. Evan Shiute that—"The • 0.W.R.C.. initiate a pilot project for the complete elimination of all polutants, specifically phosphatee.s,, nitrate compounds, the B.O.D. load and bacteria of intestinal origin, from entering the Medway River directly from NOTICE RESIDENTS OF GODERICH WHO HAVE NOT AS YET GOT THEIR Persons who do not hcj-v-e tags for their dogs b y ---N oar em,b e r 15.,... =-L9 71_ a.r e -•.-•s ub j ec_t_ t_o $1O violation. This in-cludes pups. 4 cr •.•,.R .eharcLli s Ee r - -ANNAt'CO `L` "OF f l't 3 the -sewage lagoons now located adjacent to county road- 16 in London Township." The motion was carried • unanimously and will be forwarded to --Mr. R.• D. Johnston,, Chairman of the • O.W.R.C. .It was, moved. by Mr. Jinn Vallance and seconded by Mr.• ..Fred Halos: that "The Chairman -L. - of Save the Medway write to the Chairman of the 0.W.R.C. -requesting the detailed plans of The • O.W; R.C.• .for removing phosphates. and nitrate• compounds from sewage lagoon .effluence by' 1973 which is the announced target date'• of the 0.W.R.C." Carried unanimously:•. beach. - He woke up Sunday morning, stretched his necks. and- had a muscccle spasm. This is a thing that sets your neck over on one shoulder and gives you a foretaste of hell if you try to turn your head. Spent most of Sunday, another perfe:ct dayz..trying to, find --the .local chiroprac- tor at his carefully conceal- `-` ."ed--""cotta'ge-"'tem-mite from - town, and thereafter slap- ping hgt towels on Hugh's . neck. He could 'see only the foliage on one side of the road, as leve drove. Home tb- Mama, and the last blow had fallen. The freezer compartment of the fridge wasn't working. 'And it was loaded with meat. All of which was rapidly getting The meat is in the neigh- bours' freezer, Hugh's neck is slightly better, and, at time of writing, it's another beautiful day in which I have been chained, first, in an institution, and second, to my typewriter. Tomor- row, everything will he,back to normal. And it'11•snow. The Argyle Syidicatel•-' ,. • • Indusrtrici,i... • Fortin' • Factory Plain or safety toe. Choice of Ss SHOE SHOP 142 The Square Goderich, Ont . 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