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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1973-07-12, Page 17GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, JUL,Y12 6y 8111 911111 Rider shows some of The groan house af� hs giant cucumbers' he grows In his greenhouse at RR 1 produces tomatoes and lettuce. (photo by Mllvsna Erickson) ntly, eighteen 4-H Youth cil Representatives red together in Clinton to Youth Council ,objec- and activities for the 1973, Programme in Huron y, In setting down their fives the' Council !all .on building ..up en- am in the 4.H Program priority. e of the programmes the Youth Council will gaming and operating or include: reation Workshop for 4-H Council Representatives H Club Leaders. A coin - to gej, up the workshop ed_ Beth Passmore, Joe n,--Barryr Gordt,n, !Glen i1 Don Dodds, Keith arson ' and- Len reior. The committee meeting to set up the m that will be offered during the summer. Youth Council also toset up"a programme e4•H Exchange delegates Michigan during the week y18-25. The committee to set up and look after the enter- , tainment incl.udect..uebairman- Barry Gordon, Dwight Etherington,' Barry Miller, Beth Passmore, Joe Phelan; and Karen Tyndall. It was decided that the committee meet on, Monday, July 9, 1973 to prepare a programme. It w"as also suggested that' the enter- tainment be held at Balls Grove" north of Clinton. Youth Council (reps are also interested in offering a Detnon- stration Workshop . to club members putting on demon- strations„ this summer. Other topics suggested for ..further -meetings included a "Vari+fty Night" for ''the fall and a Bottle Drive to help raise funds for Youth Council Ac- tivities. Mr. and Mrs. 'Art (Shorty) Fougere, 46 Church Street, were the winners of the June .Canadian Legion 156 Seaforth "$r,00o.,:M,�,�:_.{t'.".� * .* * Opening -night for The Pen- dulum Players season is Satur- day, July 14 at 7:30 in Harbor Park at the Bandshell. The' first offerings will be Box and Cox by John Maddison Morton and The Red Key by Charles -Emery. Did you know that yours truly was once, a shy little boy? Do you know how a lady can sell all -Canadian crossword puzzles to newspapers? Do you know anyone who worked at the Milton brick works in 1914, before going_ going Off Co war? thday, to which I replied, 'Why, Fd� Y good time; old man." I will, Billie, we are twi s.' There. Ross. were so many of you in the Last time I'was at the Strand Palace, they nearly threw me out because ' I was sharing my room with the bearded lady from the circus. •The maid had Do you feel like writing a_book? entered our room before my old Lan B a y} , buddy . Sigh Thandi, a _Sikh me in the from India, had got his hair up and his turban ore His hair hung to his tailbone and he had a beautiful, curly beard. The maid gave one scream and ran. Singh was killed in Burma. . Then there are the poets who write. G. H. Drabble of ,Speers, Sask., sent me a dandy about the beverage room and the poverty and misery it leads to. His poem is both funny and true but it's a bit long to print, hand it can't be condensed. Mr. Drabble gets me in North •Bat- tleford News. Same goes for a long, lively poem by Vic Smith of Rock- wood, who insists: When you are driving out this way. Stop in and pass the time of day. You'll find me in my "bed,•of Weeds". My wife and I are just "hayseeds". • Thanks, Vic, I will if I do. And thanks, allyou other chaps and chickens. Your l'tters make me' realize I am not writing in a void, a heartwar- ming feeling. I, same class who were in the War and my. heart went out to • you all for you were still my 'Little' boys and. had no business with aeroplanes." .Do.,youu---feel-like- reviewin a- Y a ate man of Stan, I book someone else, has written? Alt., who reads Brooks Bulletin, wants advice These are some of the things on how to sell a syndicated that came up as r- opened my Canadian crossword 'puzzle. mail -in th last few,' weeks:- •-� She sent me samples and If a columnistdoes not have - they're excellent. Anybody any any readers, he very quickly ideas? Her letter ends, "How ceases to be a columnist. That's,_ soon do you become a grampa? why I'm so grateful to readers Congratulations!". Every letter who drop a line and have a has a nice chat, tell me their troubles, of that. personal touch like merely wish me good health. Just before my birthday in June, I had a long letter from my Grade I teacher reminding me that we share the same natal day, June 2nd. She was the kind of pretty, young, sweet and kind teacher who can make that first vital year in public school a joy rather than the horror that it can be. Going through some old clip- pings,' she came across one which she sent along to me. The heading on the news story was FO Wm. Smiley Victim Brutal Hun Treatment. The rest was an extremely garbled account that `ma'es me wince with embarrassment even today. - Apparently after being beaten half `to' death after an .escape attempt, I was so weak I c"ouldn't move for twenty days. _~.This is pure exaggeration. It was. only five days. And when the Russians overran our camp, I walked 156 miles across Ger- ,Carol Willis, daughter of Mrs. Janet Willis'Goderich and the late Emmerson' Willis. graduated from Perth -Huron Regional-- School ---of Nursing: Graduation , exercises wars held June 29 at Central United Church, Stratford. She has ac- cepted a position at Toronto General Hospital. Bill Shaker of Shifnal, Salops, England, reads me in the Canadian Champion, Milton. He likes my ~`cheery notes" and writes a very cheery one himself, at the age of 84. He worked at the Milton Brick Co. in 1914, joined the army, went to France in the R.E.S. Guards Div. and was at4Ypres, the Somme, Arras and Cam- brai, names that ring a bell with old-timers. Lucky guy. But he wishes me best -of luck and good health. Montreal publisher wants me to write a book. He doesn't even seem to realize; or care, that I haven't got the clothesline fixed and my wife is raising hell, day after day. Write a book indeed! Mary Johnson of Winnepeg wonders, 'if I'm the same Bill Smiley who wrote a series of articles on education for •the 1, Salt Lake City Tribune:- Sorry, Mary. 'Twas another Bill. But .Mrs. Johnson has written a many and' -stumbled" onto an ,• book called - "Programmed advanced air base.. ' Illiteracy in our Schools" and Poppycock! ,.It was only 90- . wonders if I'd like to -review it. some miles, I' rode a good part ` Sure would. Send it along, of the way in 'wagons, Russian Mary. - staff cars, German wood - On House of Commons burning trucks, and a two -horse stationery comes a letter from carriage. And I didn't stumble' old friend, Ross Whicher, M.P., onto anything. I arrived at the urging me to make that trip to advance air base in a jeep. But` England, and telling `me that that's a long story. you can stay, at the Strand Anyway, my teacher; whom!' I Palace in London for less than still think of as Laura Walker, $30.00 a day. He ends, "Have a says of the clippings: "I. adfnit I - shed some tears over it, for all I tild'srediiiis'ahyl1attle boy'iii gray trousers and a navy blue' blazer coming to my desk and announcing his name and bir- SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL RED CROSS Now Available On 1ST. AND 2ND•MORTGAGES Anywhere in Ontario On MERCIAL; INDUSTRIA RESIDENTIAL, QOM AL and FARM PROPERTIES - Interim Financing For New Construction, & Land- - Development For Representatives In Your Area Phone SAFEWAY INVESTMENTS AND CONSULTANTS LIMITED (519) 744-6535 Collect Head Office - 56. Weber St. E. Kitchener, :Ont. —We Buy Existing Mortgages for Instant Cash— the cratt Corner a learpit w.... 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