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Solovv storm.
ravr'ded ex ra challenge_to sn
o wmob ter,.
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-Blustery weather Sunday
for the Foresters'
... annual
snowmobile marathon caused
some anxious moments for.
the. organizers, but"by
p.m., all •101 starters had
returned . tp headquarters -
some without snowmobiles:
"It was quite• a :day," .
re:ports Eric 'Moore' of the
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'Foresters. idThe 5Q -mile trail which way to go,
•was . well ' marked but you °`It -.Was' a worrisome
couldn't see the markers~thing," saidMr, Moore.
from, six feet' away." The event began ,at_.1.2=noon•
Mr. Moore was ane of those . 'and by 4 p:h., 38 siiowniobjles
entered in the marathon. He '• and. , their 'drivers were .still.
said he'd covered the course a put. The last Seven 'straggled
few times • b'efore the in, cold and grateful; after six
Marathon, .but was just and a half hours battling the
"guessing" at times • about elerrie'nts,
.BY J. ALEX•HUME
r ..
IAThe Landon.. Symphb y
O:rchestia returns to •
•:•.Goderich District Collegiate}
• on Vellentine's Day evening
2. for another concert • in ,the
• 1!75'-76 series - an exciting.
program, "Spanish Music for
IJance," ,with guest: • artist
Paula Moreno, noted Spanish
dancer,' •
Following: upon the well
:attended- .December Well'
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presentation of the `Messiah'.
as the :op'ening t(incert in.this,;:.1
=ear's' Symphony..seri-es';.
•Cr>nducto -CliffordEvansand-
the, orchestra` return
ehru try14. for, this •second
concert of the .Rotary . Club:.
sponsored, symphony season.-
. '=one of *the . most'• •exciting;
presentations since the first.
cdricera'series in 1971... '
`Che:February p1rograrn,will
be'hightighted by the': ap-
pe-ararrc.e of the' 'renowned
dancer. Paula Moreno,Jwhoo
Will be laccemPanied in her
perfperritin e by`; David
Phillips, -equally : renowned.
flamenco. guitarist`
Moreno'••vill be featured in
dcFalltr's •''Miller'S Dance
and Ravel' s "Boldeo."
Miss- !Wreno has thrilled
`audienc'es all over .Europe .,
and. `North. America:
sudent '• under tunder .' Spain's.'
"We were quite rei• iev.ed," gri:it ' ;t. teachers, she• brings;
remarked Mr. Moore.
• to he stageall the power.arid?
- Getting -the'' check -point fc tri r;, ofthis tirneless.••
people.bar k .was still sannr'it`e•.• ` :.:tro zit art of .Spanish.
problem. 'A four'wheel,drive dancing. Her' television. ap-
truck • and a 'tractorwere pc ;trances are too many to
pressed 'into •service and all . list, hut_ -among those perhaps
hands -returned
safely.. seen try :local :viewers ' have
•(continued on.pagr'_'A) i>een the Mike Douglas: Show.-
Signal, asked me to .become a reporter the 'public' utilities ;commission, which
on that paper: -I jumped at, the chance, handled' also parks' and -playgrounds:
This autobiographical article by J. " Just why Mr. McQuarri.e suggested to service club and fraternal.ot•ganaratiions,,
Alex Hume, retired Parlia,ment:ary: ', me.I tryreporting I'm not sure, though and church courts and congregational.
Press Gallery rvbcirter at Ottawa after • he may have' known of my keen interest .activities. T,R,. (Tom) Elliott, Goderich-
34 cars,.and former. Goderichite, was as a GCI stoderi't...i.n,,English and history :'born; .was `a helpful Advertises city
Y and myseveral ears' service as an editor for rne: Likewise, Chanes A.\1.
.written at ,.the request of Raymond. " Y
Score rii'er curator of the Huron PionCer
.editor of.. The- Journal for,the Literary Vining and Mel W:• Rossic, ' -i editors s
Society.' Possihl as a test run from hisgave meaconstructive training °
Museum at Goderich. • ' Y g
Mr. Scotchme,r m<rde his request after. tingle, •Mr. "McQuarrie earlier -had had 'On Dec: 1, 1928,, I joined The ott<i�s:r
yw... Aarrangements :w.rrte up"�"a 7Wesf'Street-rink hockey . Citizen reportorial' staff; e'ctiliiir•ly
Alex made with the P P
curator to leave'.to ;the museum .in his ' game.. That game was hotly contested. • enough. after I ;was recommended by
home town his wide-ranging col lectionof and my report of it was' controversial, •Arthur R.•. Ford, London Free Press
Oyer 100 framed .photographs, mostly.Understandably enough; :.I' am most` -editor, also a Goderich native, On my
auto ra heal, of o'li.t,ical•• ei sorsa es.in grateful to Mr; McQtra'rrie-for starting arrival in Ottawa, , I hec�irne
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Cana.da;- the United...Kingdom,and 'The
United Stat .k.
At t1,, ,-. css•ing request''f-flr. Wilfred
r continued on page 2A. 4 , .
Exotic Spanish dancer. Paula Morena
(PART E
• As a'Ga.11ery •reporter,. 1- covered the.'••�•neuretegical .hospital ••during stn 1 Prim Minister of•Canadr to t�h.c'hiarrrlet
Ottawa •visits and me '
t :severalUnited operation for a head injury he suffered in of 'his birth, •
Kingd•o.m prime ,,ministers, hack to an accident • in his. bath it'C,tive.rnment. As a Goderichite, it • was• a special ,
Rarnsay,,M.icdontild after his Rapidan Houser, tthe:Earl of Athlone (whose wife pleasure for me to coiner the visit of two
naval conference' With U.S. President vis' Princess Alice), -Viscount` (later' Liberal prime ministers to,my home
Herbert Hoover. There were.- several 'Fairh Alcxtrnder of •Tunis, and three '. town of Goderich. In 1925 or '1926 Prime
•Ottawa visit's by the•renowned Winston Cunadi ins, Vincent Massey, General Minister Ring'spoke in the. Ja•' sLStree-1
Churchill. Other British prime ministers ''Georges 1' . Vanier, and Riilan'd` rink: In :1949 or 195'3. Primo Minister'St,
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I ec3vered zinc] met i.)ic,lude,d 'Clement Micheher, •Laurent spoke 'at. a» open air: cv.eniitg
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Attlee Harold acM1'.1an. and Naro.ld 1)urin federal election cam ai ns, 1 ?Meeting aI Agriculture rculturt 1' irk.:ifter the ,
Wilson: • Lind, after my retirenrenf. xteeompanicd different prime m'inister's, tweeting: while AV ai11n} for_ his p it•a,te:.
Edward Heath,. opposition, lea•ders, i id tanking• cabinet ralfw•ay etir to ar.riv'e from Stratford. for
• Also'I covered Ottawa visits of sev ral' ministers. Mostly throughoutnta
Ontario, sleepr.
sleeping Overnight, M. and Mrs: St. ..'
.United States Presidents: Franklin and occasionally across Canada as well: Laurent and their eldest diro hter, ?a1:rs.'
Delano Roosevelt," Harry S. Truman, lis 1935 I covered the final three weeks of
Mathieu Samson, rested arid had Sian- '
me on my lifetime career as a reporter mediately involved in Press Gallery, Dwight D, Eisenhovvier, John Fitzgerald Prime Minister Bennett's to•Or,through d' ienes.• dikes, and coffee at the home
and for his early year expe`rt•,training, work under'. the.`distinguished t;uid,irrce• ' Kennedy, who re-injured his hack -the Maritim.c provinces, Quebec and 'of my sister, Miss Esther Hurhe. . .
He was an' imaginative publisher. •and of Charles .L. Bishop, who, loans Fear"• .'planting a tree on Government••H,uusc .. Ontario. What a .lively trip that was On • Thc.` •nczt morning. ;Prime Minister St,
Smith', .I) is Archivist Alex- is edito•r',•Foe •example, he pioneered the later, was named by PrirI�. Mini`�ler grounds, and Richard M. Nixon. the eveof:thedefcatof"R,13,'that '-earl Courant ziddressed•a•joint gratheying or
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)covin to tie hubfie Archives of Canada idea as to Ontario weekly, newspapers in Kingto he a Senator..- ' Everybody who, was, anybody; it ', in`1949.:I travelted by rail coast to,. Goderich public tend seci>ard mi y school.
1 aibolishin what was cafled'.classif}ed During ..m career,. bcforr, r,ry seemezt,.visitedOttawadurin7 myPress ?•' student:;• in Court House. PI}i*k.. That
at O"tt.tawa considerable other material
g ' g Y diming cnasC with Prime rmc M'inist.er St. Laurent.
from his memorabilia files of his -42 -year crit advertisements from the front, page, • retirement..as 6i as Of Oct.; 1965, .1 came 6aller.v years,, • a • parade of United On that .tour:, it was just ,exactly one ero ded. c, tnapnign-"i-ltay ti: typical
Y which, thereafter, Was entire) to•know on a er.sonal and fri'endly-h,i'cs, Kingdom and , United States cabinet. cram ai +.n dtc • - trtivellin� by m-0-101. Mr•,
car•,eer as a newspaper reporter, e Y p g month to the day •from when Mr. St. pt t; g
be ronin on 'I'h'e Goderich Signal in to news stories. six prime iriiniSters: William. [.�',m ministers, ComimonwealEh .and fo'rcign Laurent Was in Victoria tin the,Pacific St. Laurent ..and part} liinc`hecj. tat St,
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a Bi dford'Benn' LOuis Stephen leaders. i other s theres, They included
aurent, ohn George' ie en a "er• amongst many o er ie • ars t
and Lester B. Pearson.- I also wars Viscount . Montgomery,-,• Charles " do
privrle ed•to• enjoy the' fr•iendshi r in his Gaulle, Mendes France, PresideUt
retirement days in ttawa o u e tier cuss o es ermany, o . „ a e..
Laird Borden,. Canadas. 'r•itne-minister Linelbe`rgh, General Omar Bradley.
during t to First•W'orld War•. General Mark Clark, Sir Hugh Dowding
On their Ottawa visits T wits Mivileged Marshatl. of the Royal Air F�or•ce, (whoa
1921, centirtu.in in.London:„and.endin in Towa.rd the, •of.jmy-•:work•on The Mac ' King, Arthur 1V1eigh'.an; leaders,, military'figures., -as well%as coast. ulitil he vvri3 at Lunenberg, Nova •fo ,elth. and then he Made short speech
g g .. Signal'to mid:1924- Wm.,H, Robertson rd etc, r in
1 Scr>tia,.un the :1t1<antic const. -Later in snips. to Lunch; 51ifnrth and Mitchell.
cittawa•" . .
Alex's father, .John• Patterson. htufne, after a period.of ill he.alth,.,resume,d I� h G g D f h k g th s F Id M hal tliiit 'ccunpt>,igii; 1 flew with Mr. St., ' Ile ended that-dtty by ;peaking at d ).arse -.
of the Code ich Collegiate earlier role of. publisher and editor, Mr, Laurent 'fronaMon.treal to St. -John's, ciutdc�or' av,ening.mecrt'ing in'Sir•at'ot•d an •
was princip,rl r g Robertson Was specially well-known for "
Itstitute, 1911-35; and liis sister', Miss p �' P g I Y f Newfoundland, - to welcome the loth the bank of the;Avori R ivor , •
PattersonHume %yds Victoria his pungent editoria�l'page -and,I likewise O f S' R 1 t i=I f W t G C I Ch rl province into ('onfedertat'iim. That happy .
Esther •It is intpossit�li, to detail in detail with
Public "'School' •kindergarten teacher, benefitted . greatly from his ex p
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pert event .had bec`n achieved' on A i it 1 that •- many historic evt•nts and crises •
l9l8-ri 5. guidance as a reporter. , year. during my pre Ottci' c and long :Press
While on The Signal; one cYf two weekly
P' y -4'' y.- clever as •a newspaper 1't was' from Field, 13....1. on that 19419 Gallery` service, apat•t•from the Second
newspapers in Goderich as a town of also to meet members of the. British and , wept.dur ing an exclusiveantcr vre.w I had
reporter; which began on TheGoderich •
tbnu.t 5 n u.latron T wined• added _ nt spoke of the Won -thing
tour, that I publicized the apt, clever World War under Ir•. King as prime
000 p •p g •C• • d'• R • J Fa fl - K George. with h" � Lvhcn ht. p g
Si in 1921, rovrded me with a most ala ran oyarw y, , King him -When action of my longtime it i°cndand 'Gallery wtrmste.r.. with its renewed controversy
Signal 1? ex erience as Goderich c.orres ondent VI dQueenElizabeth-in May. 1939: of th.e. so-called L -limey area of London), y
intere;iting; Varied, satisfying life. 1' A an y ce>ile t uc "V•vi m an Car» shell an first over const r a tion lust to Mention a few
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.Esp'�ciallY so since the main thrust of
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Cyril. a N :, zal. da
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for The London Advertiser and inc Queen Eliza) II and her consort. Srr. C i rl (later r cw ca an giving Mr. 5t. Laurent his later famous there were: • The •Byng:King 1'925-26
Toronto Globe,,My monthly string,of,PrificePhilip,onseveralvisits;Charles. 'girvern01,-g-encr•a1); Cleveland
that was as an Ottawa Citizen . Advertiser . c rtes ondence w
o p as o f P I P c `55 I t I t C s I
exceeded by that from the City M St.. Margaret: I also interviewed in Ottawa.
Thomas; where The, Advertiser had-. a .. HRH the Duke of W indscir: formerly
resident representative, and Chatham, King Edward. VIII, and his Duchess,
then a city of about 15,000 population. I• •after they 'had visited his Edward. 15,
rrernermber I was paid 15 cents,.,per. inch, Ranch' in Alberta,
by the Ad'verti•ser for my stories actually During.' my Press Gallery •getars, I Lodge,,. Foster Dulles, General, Jan
used, apart from the variable size of the rrrade reportorial • trips to Washington, to Ch•tlistian" ret. s, (1 ,was one of fire
headings therefor, My Globe pay was 25 New York to cover. the United Nations • reporters, t 'whom- he•gave an interview
cents pot inch, and a New York 'Canadian Club dinner • in depth for ,t.wo hours one New Year's
.
n yl the• Prince ofWales: and Princess nc ustr•ru ,r5 yru ” aton nirknartte
Correspondent in gip -'Parliamentary
Press; Gallery for more than 34 years.
: betwe4'n 1928 and .1965., That service
enableid me to observe and report the •
panorama of events•at the political heart
of thi great nation of Canada. A's well, I
trave ed Canada from coast, to coast,
and o Washington, Flew York and
Ogd'er,isburg, in'my political reportorial
work. In retrospect, my career'ftillnwed from ►924 to 1928, I gained valuable, honoring. Prime' Minister Kin, and Dai while he wA the uest orSir Rebet_t
a itat ural Progression.- from Goderich.,"..,
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d•to.Ottawa. vraried •exper•ience on •.T:he London Ogclensba.lrg when President. FNrnklinr Bowlers), Lad Bruce,, Austraiian'psime
to Landon, 1924'8, an A'dvertiser•, one of two darlies.in a city of Delano: Roosevelt and Prime Minister minister• '
'While I secured my senior about 60 000 o uiation centrallyIr. f forthe �.
ertificate ,Grade 13) at p p ing. retched . agr.,f.errient Menzbcas of the Press Gallery had
traa�rrt=lalptitin c ( loca•
ted' ,m the ro ressive, balanced estaltlfshment of the' Permnneraf Joi •t
h Colle'rizate Institute in 1920, p , g � frcr}u,rnt eonita.cts anti frignci}y relations
thhe Goderrc h _ meant I•economy of South Western Ontario. I Boated of Defence early in the' *Second ...ir"t Csovcr ramie Hiu%sc' liailcl at tht ,\1 ..5 I,anrent when he made his first
_..-- dismally in. is became hief political ,reporter on' The .World pWat% ,,At the' United Nations .I , tr• ' `t. > . ; '(1'°t{hei• `an•nuill dinner' r r. t
could not enter univdesity anywhere at . Z' 1926raciitipnal F ew , �' visit as Prime Minister tet his native
Gerald b, Advertiser 'throu.gh.'the 1(1 5. and interviewed Mrs, 1 eanor Roosevelt and with successive governors•grner<a1,. My �• •a,t, of Compton, in the F •rite'- e
that time. 1 irecarne a clerk to federal election campaigns. ' • • Mrs... Pandit Nehru, •'lit 1937,•"i had 'an t}1` g °` r
Newton's store on The,Square, selling Gallery service covered eight governors Townships Of Q rcbee. That really was an
At The Advertiser, I developed my cxclttsrvc. •inteev rew• with President. c sident. , w
boys!.and men's -.Specialities.,—:apart fro general•- Visco(rnt vvii}ingd'on, (tater r,tibtionitt, humor interest, nostalgic
In—
y reportorial.'iItt itcic>~cvr..lt in his . White }louse r>�fiee Earl Willingdon as vice r•oy e,f India) tho occasion It was truly memorable for the
In" :1c3'�il;. when 'Athol • MtQuarrrt ...federal and Ontario polities, on .the fcillciwing in
�.a.t. once' o'$••4. his }, Willingdon
Bron Tweed htrcfoot t of it ischildlioctdda s son of
Earl of Bessborofigh, a a y y,
uh'lis}ier and editor of The Goderich .beats, as they•were=t•alled;.rrn education; regular press t onferences.thcrc • .,sr, ruir, (who died in a ,Montrealthe village storekeeper, to tethers as
Bach- 'Uncle Louis.- That 'almost, constitutional crisis: under Mr. Ring the
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affectionate name for Mr.. 'St: Laurent 13eauharnois sand custom'- "•department
riizani.noff the pt mist; �1.J. Cronin the was }nint.t,diatcly picked up by the press setindals; and under Mr. St, Laurent, the
author, Prime .Minister Nehru of Indica, a
Liaquat Ali Khan of Pakistan; Neyere 'Of
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ac't•oss Colima. It turned 'out to he of post-w•.tir• Defence production Act and
T'an. anika clow Tanzania), Ea,r'1 immense.political ad{vantage to Mr. St. the Tiaras -Canada gas pipe line con-.
Latri•«Yit in bringing him, mlv�'ays a great, 'troversy.
Mountbatten of. Burma, •Senatf}r Cabot family "niton, even •closer•to the' voters My J'cess Gallery service was in-
every
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everyw'her . - • terrupted •for two' and a half years on .
Relishing the name, "Uncle 1.oa:ris"ras loon for govt. -nil -tent service." Fron`i
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he once tn'ld rite he.,did. Mr. St. Laurent Junta. .1941, to . Octiiher, 1942, 1 was,
adopted a slogan of bis own: coast to. Private . 'secretary" to 'National Warr
coast, when he fr•eguently „decltared:• - Services Minister Joseph. t Thorson,
"It's ,great to• be a .Canadian!" That before. his appointment hy. Prime
slogiiit • carried him to impressive. vic- Minister King : as president •.•o'f 'the
torics in both the 1949 and. 1953 elections: Exchequer Court of Canadti, ni)wknown
I.ili,ewIse in 19.•19, I was tr'.avelling'with as the Federl:rl Court of Canada. For a
year, before I returned to Press Gallery
work„fc)r The Ot#nwa Citizenk•I served'as •
ex•ec,utive for' Simn'snns, Toronto, • vitas'
one of .tilde many pri'tate business -and
industry XeCirti'ves who :served as $1 -a -
year men for thegovernrent during:the
war.
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