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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1972-07-20, Page 16.STAR,.THIJ sDAy..jtuLY 2d', 1972. weekend wortilos* --ii olutioF!otosis'• mItios, i l ly``ntoom l m tw`or^omoiwoll, There's nothing quite like a . about three days of , intensive summer in Canada. We have that care. ' - winter°that just goes on and on and During the s,atrne 24 hour's. the 12 on. Then. suddently. about "the flicker had phoned friends Of oars first of June, it's spring. The who'd invited us .clown to lie temperature. soars. the grassy around their pool. She had agreed grows violently and we kick off that as soon as we had.spent a day =_ our rubber's with gay abandon or two with the bride. we'd go 'Fwo weeks' later'., everybody straight to their place., has.a cold, the roses are nipped by The bride is about 70 miles the frost. "the furnace is • still north, in the resort area, through rumbling. and the weatherman hairy traffic. The friends lie P. announces • triumphantly that bout 85 miles` south, through E. • Wia.rtonorsomeplace hada 1 ;r11- hairy traffic trying to get 'north. time over -night low of 40 degrees No'problein. The flicker's- mate on the umpteenth of June does the driving. a By, thetirne this appears in print. we'll probably be g7asprng And right inthe.rnidst of all This for breath and wonderiq . when t1Icicering. who calls up to see 'if I his unprecedented heat w ave will want to`go out bass fishing but my end. -Don't war rv; rt +ill hist i iil''f°teiiifi 'apt':`Dari-Ffilis©n"T'1T about the time you start to get the give you three guesses. Where do poisonous juices -of winter soaked yeti think I wanted toago? out of vo •. Anci ttrE�nit"will be -fall, Well. we flickerecl.....o.LL nori3OL -nand idiots like me will t?e writing ,Nice day. Traffic _just below columns about that refreshing nip manic level. Arrived late. Great in the air• dinner With ne.w...4ndaws.. Motel Nip in the air. Holy o!d Hughie' ' room surrounded by green with ,There was so much nip in the air :falls rushing in ',background. early this surnttler that a , chap idyllic, scarcely needed a nip+of anything Next day. colli Motel toilet ease.' .backin"g up. Kids visited. Went for . Oh. well.'I guess it's better than , chilly swim in lake. Blew kids to living' in the sweltering heat of ,terrific smorgasbord at" hotel: Israel or • Egypt'. Though it -Drove them home fo apartment certainly isn't any safer. as those with mother cat and four kittens. • who haveeen on the highways Mother •flicker somewhat recently will attest. horrified. Invited, kids to lunch • Why aoes my Wife'remind Me- of next' clay at motel. Immediate a flicker' A flicker is a bird with a a8ceptance. red,top-knot. We have one in our Midnight. Temperature about backyard evory summer. It flops 52. Couldn't get motel window put of a t'edatr tree, or maybe closed. Romantic . falls now heaven. and flickers away'atl over 'souncliing like locomotive in the grass, sometimes within feet trouble. - ..of us. I think it's a flicker. though Next morning.motel room just I'm no expert. I can tell a- robin above freezing. Cold wind. 'Rain.• from a 'sea gull. on a, clear day„ Tottered up to' main lodge for,-., and th t�s about it. . • . -coffee.. Discovered no' lunch Well. why does s'he? She doesn't served 'Sundays and holidays. have a red -knot. But she acts like 'kids arrive noon, starving. Give •a flicker. The -bird runs across 'them two breadsticks stolen from • the grass at a great rate. It stops." table night before. lAtmosphere • looks about, bangs 'its beak ,into cool. the .ground about twelve times. Mother flicker starts pecking repeats the process for some grubs again. Grubs are kids, Kids period. then flies off.suddenly in resent being grubs. Show us their all directions: for no 'apparent. "studio. , Have conned ' • government into° S7,000 art • . And that's why my wife reminds programme "Looks intelligent but me of a flicker. That's how- our don't ask me to explain it. Forms. vaunted holidays began .this, year, -:,;,,colours', shapes: I had one day off .after ten months Finally,, head for home in rain in the sausage'factory..It was a and , burnper-to-bumper. No, Saturday which T have off 'every breakfast. No lunch. No brains. week 'anyway.. Nothing but intense desire to see It seems we had to go and see normal abode of habitation. our .daughter. the bride. Right Arrive. Collapse. Fazintly' i away. Holda.v weekend. with all revived by hot soup. Sleep • the horrorthat entail's. but never thirteen hours. • mind. Wedding pictures. Late • Up this- morning to. find own gifts. How is she? Is the marriage toilet backing up for is it a • reason. working but? Motel room? Just dream?1'. vacuum cleaner on • .dike a flicker. banging away at the blink-. and mother flicker already '•grubs in the ground. making new plans for further,. • I was caught by"sur'prise. just forays. as a grub is by a flicker. No money Aren't you sorry you aren't a and the banks were„ closed. The school teacher, with all these car 'ne:edecl a muffler. 1' needed ';holidays • A'µ Save on taxes yyour retirement n . -Money you put into ,your_. registerec[ ret'irement plan can :'b ,de.d..ucted,fr„artl_ _ theincome on which you pay ta)c. Ptit that Mae awayBm•0genty m_ ._. >.a cur. Victoria and Grey special savings account — beginning right now: You'll earn high ' interest until .the end of February next year and you can pelt it into your own. retirement income' fund and deduct that amount -from taxable income. Let us set it all 'up i or your. 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Iti°show one treats his insistedthat he call' her back and fellow man that counts, not his • say, "Send them." choice of words, You disappoint So'; there'I was, I8 years old and me, Annie. I thought you were . tete "mother" of six kids under hipper than that. ---Berkeley Biff eight years of age! I was seared to -Dear-Bi-ff---Sorer-y,t-o--°disappei.nt-,.;dea.ih.,..but.Ihued-rny.husband actl.-,.. you, but I'm a product of Sioux was determined to do my best to City, Iowa, immigrant Jewish raise those children. parvents•; -Methodist- Morning -side That_vcas.fifteen years ago. -We College and Glenn Miller .music. I brought thetil all, through didn't grow up around four letter words and I'm too old to take ,on a' hip approach to semantics. But thanks 'for..writing. +'+ Dear Ann Landers: You said On your radio•program that you are opposed to the death penalty. no. matter what the crime. You didn't say why, but I was pleased to hear you've taken' that -position. .I hope it's because the Bible 'says, -Thou Shalt Not Kiel-." It's the most valid ,argument against r --Des the death penalty. Moines Reader and Listener • Dear -Des _Moines:, The ,best English , .translation of ttre C'ommandnent.. "Thou Shalt Not Kill" is ",Trioti S'half Not Murder'." In King James' time killing meant murder'. The word for .homicide was "slaving.' : Theologians tell us that certain killing was- deemed acceptable. The evidence is .in Exodus 21 and 22, in which the Lord instructed Moses,on which crimes Were punishable by .death. I base' my opposition to the Death is so final. Many lifers have been`released, when, after having served ° a - hideous number- of years, someone'confessed,to tha- crime. ++- Dear Arlrt Landers: I won't sleep tonight if I don't' answer Pittsburgh Lament." Maybe lit can help her. When iwas 1.7 It,. 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