The Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-05-16, Page 25SUGAR. 'N' 3PIF
Several items this week, none
of them large enough to write a
column about, but each of them
of such vital importan to the
state of the world.„ t t. they
must not ,rlle, ignored. ,
Germany: a--'enaiple,.,.,..of lef-
tovers. Prostitution is legal
there. In Kaiserslautern,
there's a rather bleak four -
storey building. Probably finan-
ced by American aid. It is a
(uh, shallwe say?) house of ill
repute.
In their rude and licentious
way, the soldiery call it, "Four
floors of 'whores", which has a
nice echoic ring to it. But what
caught my eye, at 11 a.m., was,
the huge neon sign on top of the
building. It read, "SEX MIT
heart." The word heart was not
spelled Out, but represented by
a huge, red, Valentine -type
heart, in neon. A nice touch.
Another place in the same
city was "Harry's". He has a
good gimmick, which I'd like to
see Eaton's and Simpsons
i adopt. It is 'a clip joint for
suspecting North Americans.
There are no Germans in the
place. But you can buy
anything from a -Hummel
figurine to a vast, lousy pain-
ting. However, his gimmick get -
sem. When you walk •in the
door, you,are offered a Coke, a
coffee, or a beer. And when you
leave, you are offered a free
gift; comb, nail -file, plastic car -
key -holder, something. It's
chicken stuff, but it's smart. In
a lot of Canadian stores, all
you are offered,is a slice of cold
shoulder:
Trees. The Germans treat
their trees, as we would roses.
They are carefully, husban-
ded—and even wifed—and
produce the expectant harvest.
They . are then cut up as
carefully as bread. We whack
our4 down and burn them.
Not that I'd want to live in
Germany. Who wants to live in
a country where the trains run
on time, and highway signs say
something as vulgar as'Ausfar-
ten?
MOVIES:k4cently I was in-
volved . in the making of a
movie. I am here to declare, by
the grace of God, that I do not
now, or ever, want to be a
• movie star, a supporting actor,
or an extra.
You guessed it. )' was an ex-
tra. Unpaid. I spent a beautiful
spring aftern'oon running up
and down hills, shoung, "Get
him! Kill hint! Hang him!", in
• a soldier's uniform, and bran-
dishing a stout club. •
Why I, as a soldier, was
, carrying a club, instead of a
musket, I dop',t know,but ex-
tras .don't question De -Mille,
do they?
. Trouble was with the movie,
that' we extras didn't know
what the hell was going on. We
puffed up and down 'the hills,
got slapped in the eye by,willow
switches, and jumped over logs,
waving our clubs menacingly.
It was pretty exciting. The first
time.
Then we did it over and over
again, because someone had
forgotten to take off ,the sun-
glasses, or the watch. It was a
'period, piece, and the beer cans
and Coke bottles didn't fit into
the 19th century milieu.
Must admire thecameraman,
though. He climbed about .forty
feet into a tree, to take "down"
shots of us' idiots running
through the woods, yelling,
"Kill him! Get 'Him!',', and
such. Then he lay under a log,
shooting up, getting crotch
shots and feet shots as we did
the same thing. Then he waded
into a :Oyer (in April) -and did
the same thing. Finally,; he, ran
by 0111 SMI1EY
backwards with a hand camera
while we raced, (or stumbled)
toward him, shouting the same
stuff. He tripped a couple of
times over trees cutdown' with
a 1974 chain saw.
Biggest problem was not to
laugh during shooting (as we
call it),
There is something eminently
hilarious about a collection of
middle-aged people, some of
them with hernias and heart
attacks, walking backup a hill,
for the fifth time, in order to
come running down it agaiii,
because some silly ass had
cried, in the excitement, "Go
get him, Mike!", instead of
"Kill! - Kill!" and the sound
man had picked up the °modern
expression.
DEPRESSION: Not the
psychiatric kind, the .economic
kind. I ' feel it in my bones,
There's a big' depression
coming. Jolly good, is what I
say. We haven't had a decent
depression in this country for
years.
There's almost a desire for
one; The kids, of course, don't
even 'know what one is. Heard
a girl say today to another, "Vu
gotny money?" .The other
replied, "Yabudy„ Yabudy god-
dagetsum cigrets." Priorities.
But the old folks' now. In
fact, they almost, have a
nostalgia for it. They brag
about it. Lumpy -porridge in-
stead of Krinkly Krunehies.
Hamburger, two pounds for
two -bits. Mailmen working and
Banged glad to have a job.
Railwaymen ditto. •
There are books, "Ten Lost
Years'', and plays dramatizing
the Depression. And it was
dramatic I was there. For the.
ten Lost Years. And I didn't`
feel they were lost. Ask anyone.
If you can 'find hire. Or her?
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GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, .TkIUUSDAY, MAY 19, t97 RAGE -9A
election device for air
In an obscure ,corner of the
Goderich Pollution, Control
Plant property, a simple device
installed February 2, collects
sames which tell. experts at
McMaster University,
Hamilton, how clean the
town's air is.
The device is little more than
a plastic bucket with a, large
funnel leading into it. Around re'
the top edge of the funnel thin
wires protrude skyward.
The function of the' wires is
not scientific, but an easy
method of keeping birds from
landing: Bird droppings "could
affect analysis of the device's
samples.
Ger fisher; manager of the
pollution control plant, changes
theckets monthly. He sends
the samples by bus to the
,university.
The task is easy, as Mr.
Fisher says changing the
buckets "only takes about 10
minutes".
He is one of over 30 persons
in Ontario who change the
buckets as part of a government "
sponsored program conducted
by McMaster.
- Warren Snyder, a field
technician with the program,
says the result of studies made
of the samples will be maps
charting the density of air,
pollution in the province. •
Samples, such as the one sent
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analysed for every known
pollutant. At the end of six
months, data from the samples
are fed intoa computor which
gives a large general pattern of
pollution throughout Ontario. •
McMaster University • has
beer conducting the pollution
program for about two years,
Mr. Snyder says: Sudbury is°
termed°<"the key problem"- as
the researchers want 'to
discover' how the massive
pollution from the mining area
affects the rest -of the provifice.
The network of air'pollution
samplers stretches from Barry
to Timmins to Goderich. Most
of them are manned by govern-
ment personnel- or ordinary
citizens. Cooperation has been
good, Mr. Snyder says.
Results from sampler
analysis are coordinated by Dr.
J. R. Kramer, with the geology
department at McMaster.
Direct funding comes from the
Air Management Branch of the
Ontario Ministry of the En-,
vironment.
The computerized results are
used at air management`con-
ferences attended by municipal
employees. What is learned at
the conferences can be'used in
helping set pollution bylaws, -
,Mr. Snyder explained.
Results from • 'the Goderich
sampler have yet to be included
in findings as it was only in-
stalled in February.
The'researchers Will install a
new sampler here in June. It
will dwarf the old one which is.
about 5 feet high. •
The improved unlit will sit on
a fifty -foot high tower erected
on the site of the old
The new one wil
pollutants from the
sampler.
1 collect
air and
definitely, Mr. Snyder says, un-
til the ministry of the.Environ-
ment decides to quit funding it.
Until then, researchers' will be
able to plot changes in the air
which affect everybody.
Gerry Fisher and Warren Snyder check the level of the container at the bottom of the collector
which keeps samples of rainfII. The samples are analysed in Hamilton -for pollution content.
(staff photo)
rain. The old unit _just collected
rain. •
To further the study's fin-
dings, researchers' will also in'
stall a collector six miles from
4.. shore on Lake Huron, It will
. float on a bouy with sufficient
height to keep waves from con-
taminating 'samples.
'The study will last in -
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