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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1972-03-23, Page 2246 (ODER NAL -STAR, THURS AY, MARCil 23. 1072 Ann Landers says's,. Babies don't belong at weddings • DEAR ANN LADERS: My , I'm writing to warn the average boyfriend and I planned to be 'hous ew ite aga i ust pu s e - married in May bUtudw I'm not so , snatching •in broad• '• daylight. sure I w,ani to Marry him. think . within .y e ds' ,abtjy, he's gone -crazy. Denny tOld ni. interSection, . , last night that nobody 'Was the o1d ' My grandmother who is in her Style , conventional wedding, . 70:s was hit Over the head at noon ceremonY anymore,- Everybody is on Friday, approximately 100 feet • dng his "own thing, Denny's froth the., front door of a large "thing': is thafhe wants his eight- s,upermarket. Her purse With foonth-oti. nephew to be .his hest less than $?3 in it ) Was grabbed and , man. The kid, can't ,even walk. she was knocked _cold for 20 He's going to be pushed down the minutes. She hopes to be released aisle, in a stroller. The ring will from the hospital in a, day or two be on the tray. , The store manager posted this Denny doesn't have a ny warning on the Vhill which I think brothers This nephew is his is worth printing. ,- DON'T closest living next,of-kit, I told CARRY A POCKETBOOK. KEEP him I didn't think the minister OUR MONEY IN A CHANGE would ;anus it. Denny said these PURSE, CARRY IT IN. YOUR pdays ministers do, as they are POCKET UNDER A JACKET OW told. A SWEATER. BE ALERT AT ALL This" is the first sign of TIMES AND SHOP IN. PAIRS IF nuttiness I have*ever seen in the POSSIBLE." . guy. Hellas a goodlob and doesn't, 1 don't now what is happening drink or gamble. , 1 •haven't • inpiis„great country of ours when - mentioned his idea to rtiv folksa person isn't safe on the,street at yet, I'm .afraid they'll hit the , high noon. It didn't Used to be like this. and I am—HEARTSICK DEAR, HEARTSICK: That makes two of us. One of the Major reasons for purse snatching is the increase in drug abuse. But _that ' s another >column. Thanks for writing. ceiling.. Denny reads your column and re tells me you .have repeatedly , stated • that the selection of the best man is up to the groom. I need an answer soon. PleaSe comment —NERVOUS,IN TAMPA DEAR NERVOUS: Denny is •right•when he says, I have, repeatedly stated, that the selection of the best man. is strictly 'up to the groom. But 1 ,have also said babies. do not belong at weddings—not even as guests. let alopl members Of, the Wedding party*. I hope Denny regains his sanity soon. +++ DEAR ANN LANDERS: This has got. to be one of the weirdest letters you've ever receivedMy aunthas some very strange ideas about hair and she talks about it DEAR ANN LANDER: I'msone of those men who used to hide your colum'n under the sports plge when I read it on the train. Now 1 amasking for advice:* Last week my wife and I were in Honolulu for a convention The time differ4nce between Honolulu and Hartford is five hourS. Debbie (age 12) woke us up at 2 o'clock in, the morning. My• wife and I Were scared out of our wits. -Would we accept the charges?'.' Of course we would; Hurry: , Wellnt seems Debbie had a bet, constantly. She has ,read with her:girlfriend:. ••How do you .everything she can lay.her handspell .marijuana?" I, asked why on about hair and is quite alkOi she didn't look in the dictionary. authority on the subject. She said, "You can't find anything AtcOrding tQher long: heavy hair in the dictionary unless you know can sap a person's strength and • how to Spell it.' I had to agree. In evenmike himilL She has.known the meantime the call 'cost 514.50, 'people eople who wevery sick;-, and I was so relieved that She wasn't when their Clt- - was—Cut -they calling -to gi'Ve us- some -terrible recovered. 14er• tneOry is -that hair •news that I thanked her and agreed robs a person of,liiS recuperative to bring home a fresh` orchid lei , powers and once the hair is cut„ for her teacher. , • ; • some sick pedple., get well. Is My wife is burned up and•says there anything to this?— ' we sbould take the 514.50 out of LONDON,' ONTARIO • • her allowance, Do you agree? • DEAR LONDON: Hair has We've deeided t� let you settle alv.'ays been a favoritesubjeCt for it. -:-FRIEND OF ALEXANDER G. 'mythology and superstition. BELL (Remember Samsonand Delilah?) DEAR FRIEND: Of course such Most of the tales, however. are a phone call should only be made • purely allegorical. . " • in an emergency and 'your , child It is true that the conditionof probably needs' to learn thehair. may reflect good health something about the value of or thelack of it, but long hair does money. ,But there. maybe more not sap a person's' strength nor serious questiOns raised here than the, one you asked. Thirteen --•is a common age now for children to begin experimenting with ' marijuana. Was her seemingly silly-truestion a cry for help? Do you leave her often? With whom? ()DAYS. CHILD • . BY HELEN ALLEN ThE N11111111111.1111111.11101111111•111111•1 **oneNTo SYNDICATE. can it make + + . P.,FAR ANN LANDERS: If anyone Kai told me five years ago that I'd be conderned, about this problem I would not have believed RATTY PERSONALITY Peter is a lovable 10-year,old with an outgoing; friendly disposition. He seems younger than his age, perhaps because he comes from an eNtremely deprived backgrbund. It was the sort of., situat ion.% hsre a child is left I Ying in his crib with nobody Paying any attentiomto hinj This oung bo N was four before he learned to walk. Not that he had an sica I disability, but he had no opportunity or encouragement to to . There ere many other skills he did not learn and things he did not know, so' h e has never scored well in intelligence tests. Now in a good fo steel' ome a nd in t he stimulating at mosphe re of *a sped al school he has shown riailied improvement t physica y an mentall:s . T he ps cholo gist whuhas tested him is impressed with his personalit a:nd feels he has not yet reached his potential. Pet er,is a healthy, good-looking, hoy of Anglo-Saxon descent, with brown eyes and dark hair. Adults find him good company,with his .easy;conversation. He visits many • families in the vicinity of his foster home and he loves to help the.neighbors do Acores around the house or garden. i* gets on well with children of all ages. A sensitive boy, Peter needs a warm, relaxed home where there' are no academic pressures. He can fit into a f orally with cliildren erther older or younger than himself., To inquire about adopting Peter, please_ write to Today 's Child, Box 888, Station°K, Toronto. For general adcipt ion information ask your Children's Aid Society. •,., ,Foresier's Boiling league ends seasao wilIrsociat . . The Forester's rural bowling Runner's up were the Country league ended a competitive Pals with-fiermie- Fisher s ea son with asaikki-nethet-GAIF3(0,1rMaTt,Aisla Fisher. Ron and hall benmiarat 7 p.m. Saturdi ay •Edith t' Iler arld Betty and' Tom evening, March 11. , . , - Modre. -- The evening cOmmenCed at 7 • , Bev. Orr and Kevin Rumig had p . m. with a buffet strpper the hignaverages; Marlene Black featuring Kentucky Fried Chicken and Frank Baer, the high singles: and salads. George Robinson and Florence The presentation of the Robinson, the high triples: Alice following trophies were Made to POrter and •Keith- Baer had the the degerving winners. • Most: irripi.oved scores. The ',Little" trophy was The 'election officers for presented by 'Harry Little to.. the nat season was conducted_ by -Koolcats" for the over-all team Past President Tom Moore. The winners.. . with Janet Willis following will be -the new officers: (captain) Kevin Rumig, Ron and past -president; Leonard Fisher: 'Edith Fuller and Kedh and Carol. " president, Bob Rising; vice - Baer. president, Bill Black secretary, George, Robinson; assistant, Bill, Bogie; Treasurer, Helen Fisher. spring admission '72 "Grade 1.3 students! The unique Spring Admission Progratn at Guelph -enables you "'"---tzrtsetPriffitftitirgtuclies in: Arts, Science, Agricultural Science or Family & Consumer Studies — in May. For more information, ask for the Spring Admission brochure at your School's Guidante Office, or write to; Admissions, Office of the Registrar, • Ainiversiv Of guelph Guelph, Ontarid. , • Bill Bld'ck entertained with the s.howing of two interesting -films "Helicopter Canada", and "Black Creek Pioneer Village". The evening concluded with euchre. The prize winners at this we're high, Hazel McMichail and Jim Fisher; low, Alfred Etzler and Jean Pottei-. ,Brush off snow mold The lawn is one of the first. things that can be attended to in . spring, says D.B. McNeill, horticultural specialist, Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food. • •• Snow'mold, if it is a problem, will appear as soon as the snow goes. If thiswebby mold appears, use an old,broom to brush it off. This will not give complete, control, but it will reduce the damage. A good raking as soon as the turf is dry will, remove much of the old de"ad grass that builds up over the summer and winter. Use a lawn rake rather thait a garden rake, and rake jut bard enough to remove some of the debris. to not disturb the roots of the grass plants. ." After raking is completed, the first fertilizer can be applied.. If crabgrass is a problem, Use a fertilizer containing a herbicide - that controls Seedling grasses. 2, 4-D controls broadleaf weeds but not seedling grasses and should not be uted .uritil May. Healthy', ;vigorous lawns are one of the prim o features of the Mine grounds. 4 little extra effort in the spring wilt help keep it this way during the heat of swifter. Watching our high school hockey team in action the other day, I could not re- frain from brooding abut how th,e game has changed. If what • I was „w.atch,ing was "sport", and "school- . boysporCat that, I guess it's timeI was put out to pasture, Qh, it was exicting, all right. That is, if you .1ilse to watch teenage boys 'trying to tear each others'arms off with deliberate hooks, re move each, others' teeth with high Sticks, and smash each othetebrains out , against the boards.. Throw in some deliberate slashing, tripping, kneeing, butt -ending and a coupleof fights, and you have the pic- ture of young Canada play-. Mg its national game. Admittedly, the game is faster and more furious than ever. But furious is a word that does not belong in, sport, unless you think pro- fessional boxing is a sport, which it is not, in my , opinion. •In vain di) the coaches of ,high school .tearris tell their charges to play hard but clean. The kids have watch- ed too much pro hockey, where most of thelans, like • spectators in a Roman arena,--idhnt blood,. and the pros oblige. The only thing that re- deems the spectacle — and it is a spetacle, not a tame, is the fact thatthere are, usually one or two players, cm each team who still be- lieve in skill rather than violence and who use their" heads for something besides These are the players who emerge as the team leaders, even though some of the, "wild men" may have more natural ability. These are the players who almost ,never get a penalty, who walk away from a stupid fight rather than Iodic for one, who put some spark' in- to the team when it is be- hind. A pleasure to watch. And then there are the others. Kids who are plea- sant ,and well-rnannefed off the ice, out go berserk the minute the first whistle. blows. • one ot• thein "expreised his philosophy to me: "Yoh. Yer sposeta drop yer stick when a fight starts, butyuh don't drop it till the' other guy 'drops his.". And, . Of course, if the' other guy is following the., smile princi- ple, there Could be stick- swinging.matCh. Put four feet of hard - Wood in the' hands of .two young huskies, let them start swinging their clubs, and you have a situation more deadly than many of the duels- of history, f9,!..ight with lethal weapons. It's about as quick a way as any to wind up with a smashed nose, a permanent scar, a concussion, .a skull fracture,, or one eye. In my opinion, a great deal of the blame for the situation lies ,with the refer- ees."They seem to be brain- washed into letting anything go, short of chopping a head' off with a stick. The game is faster and more "colourful" that way. And. the colour is that of blood. The • goalie- used to be protected by a sort of mu- tual consent. He was slower and more vulnerable te- cape of his heavy padding. You took your shot, and if him. Now, he comes out to stop a shot and is quite like- ly to get a.mouthful of high • stick. Result?." The goalie starts playing dirty, to pro- tect himself. . Maybe' I'm just old- fashioned. But when I play- ed .team sports — football, 'DIRTY' PLAYERS ° GET THE LAURELS hockey, baseball — there were one or two 'dirty" players on each ,team, Caught in the act, they were *penalized and ostracised. Nowadays, you have to , look hard ,to find one or two "clean" players on each tam. And it's the "dirty" players who, get the roars „. from the crowd. This is 'fact, and ifs fact that is sobering, saddening and stekeninge Tho Argyle Ayndicote • OPEN. ,missiamapiaaminamidaoasitipf 0)) PLUMBER/ttzre,jcs 50 MANY NOW ARE DOING. IT ANO NOTA ONE IS 12U1NO. +AIR 4; CONDITION NQW 4, a it .111AIVMA.11K, PUJMBING- £:HEATIHG game/524-7861 55 KINGSTON ST. ' ansmiamasimm4 SATURDAYS .•..J HAVE QUESTION ABOUT YOUR INCOME T F18, R BLOCK guarantees , $ tion arises abodt your re- RETURNS. i , the,accuracY of every re- turn we prepare. If cques- COMPLETE. turn, call the nearest • . BLOCK office. 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