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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-06-14, Page 19sykes Inside this section! The Goderich Air Cadets have their first annual inspection Page 3A West Huron WI's elect their officers for the new year Page 6A Fourteen young ladies at Knox Church learn early about Christian love Page 8A Local UCW is collecting Nestle coupons as part of wide protest Page 9A Therese C. Pfrimmergraduates another large class at her clinic Page 10A Arts and Crafts show was held at Goderich's new Livery Stable Page 12A 132 YEAR -24 We're in.trouble. There's no doubt about that One of the longest standing and perhaps most cherished of institutions is coming unglued at the till death da us part clause. Marriages, to be frank, are taking a beating. Consider the following evidence. In the month of March this year, the number of "divorces in Toronoto almost equalled the number of marriages. Not exactly lofty stats to reassure a ner- vous bridegroom. And in the United States the divorce rate is fast catching up with marriages according to statistics compiled by an insurance company. While marriages totalled over 2 million , divorces rose to over 1 million. The evidence wouldsuggest it is a risky proposition. But what is to be done to preserve this holy union? Admittedly weddings are a fairly swell evening combining a few com- forting beverages with a bit of dancing. thnlesL, of purse, you are the guy with the rented suit and the new ring who has to kiss everyone in the place,in- cluding your mother-in-law,and dance with everyone with the inclusion of the best man and aunts with hairy legs. But in the interest of saving marriages this correspondent has written a marriage vow that is sure to meet the standards of every prospective bride. Afterall, it is their day. I ----(insert name), take you, ---(insert name of partner, preferably,of opposite sex) to be my lawful wedded husband and in the event you come home drunk from a night out with the boys (or girls) after baseball, golf, work etc., promise a could shoulder, ,no supper, a fat lip and a dislocated elbow. I take you for richer only, for what is mine is mine and what is yours is ours. And if my mother's prediction about you being a no-good bum comes true, will take all the wedding gifts and return to,jnother. I take you in sickness, in which condition I must be in to marry you in the first place. In the event you should verbally abuse my mother and make suggestive or rude comments during her regular three-week visits, she will dislocate your other elbow. We will have one child to accomodate my mother's wishes for a grandchild but any children after that will be your responsibility. I do not wish -to be fat and besides it would mean indulging your animalistic tendencies. The housework will be shared on an equal basis basis with the husband to cook, clean,vacuum, dust, wash,mow the lawn, do minor repairs and generally maintain the house. I promise to maintain full control and responsibility for all finances of this partnership, but a scheme of monthly allowances may be worked out on a bonus point system if terms of such a zontract are agreeable with management. I promise to be true to the terms of these vows till death do us part, which w1;be his death, if he fails to hang up his clothes, put dirty underwear in the hamper, be home on time, is not out of the bathroom by 6 a.m. and does not make a comfortable wage to keep me living inlhe standards to which I. am accustomed. I will assume the role of management in this partnership, after full consultation of course, considering that the other member of this part- nership is:.a bumbling idiot. Now the bridegroom's vows. I do. My vows may never be in popular demand with young couples but at least half of the partnership would know what they're in for. Living together is so much more uncomplicated. Just ask Lee Marvin. thederich 1GNAL THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1979 Publisher, playwright and busy fellow STAR SECOND SECTION Keith Roulston - hooked op. words.. BY JOANNE one more employee than daily paper. I was too newspaper and this got BUCHANAN we could afford to have." shy. I wanted to join the him around to a lot of Keith says he has been air force or be a history smaller theatres in blessed as a fast writer teacher," he says. Toronto. and perhaps that explains Keith had been doing All this time Keith had why he was able to the usual writing never really considered complete his play, The assignments at Lucknow writing anything for Shortest Distance Bet- high school. Then one theatre himself because ween Two Points, while day, he wrote something Canadian theatre was at the same time putting funny and read it out Loud really almost non - out four publications. to the class. Everybody existant then. "That year was really laughed. He wrote After he graduated hectic. We were running something funny again from Ryerson, Keith four publications plus a and a teacher who he had worked for six months as special Blyth centennial never gotten along with, the editor of an employee edition and. I had to at- actually said a good word magazine for a company tend rehearsals. I hired a about him. That teacher in Toronto. He didn't like summer student. I said his writing was • the job or the city and couldn't have done it excellent. decided to return to without her," he ex- Keith was hooked, He Lucknow. plains. wanted to he a creative When he got to Now that the Rural writer but realized that it Lucknow, he started up a Voice and the Blyth was probably impossible sports publication for the Standard have both been to make a living at it. His whole region. He had taken over by the mother suggested that he always been crazy about McLean Brothers and the at least go to college and sports and had been the Teeswater News has been get die writing skills. associate sports editor of taken over by Eric Off Keith went to the Ryersonian, Howald, Keith is left with Ryerson Polytechnical travelling all oyer only the Village Squire Institute in Toronto to eastern North America and says he finds a lot enroll in the journalism covering the Ryerson more•time to write. course. There he got basketball team. -UUsually one week hooked on something Keith says his ,attempt each month is flexible," else:..theatre. at the sports publication he explains. During his first year at failed because he lacked But even though Keith Ryerson, Keith went to both the know how and 'says he now has more see a student production- the,money--to produce it time on his hands, one of Bye Bye Birdie. It was properly. Meanwhile . he gets the impression it the first time he had ever had met Bob Shrier, won't be for long. seen a play on such a publisher of Signal -Star "There are other plays large scale. He went to all Publishing Limited, who I want to write and some of Ryerson's twice yearly offered him a job as the families. He was the playwright competitions productions while in editor of the Clinton editor and publisher of I'd like to enter. I'm still Toronto after that and News -Record. He ac - this magazine from 1975 writing some short saw what he calls "an cepted. until 1978 when he sold it stories and I'd like to awful lot.of talent there." After a short time, he to McLean Brothers of write ..a--1 novel...", his Keith next discovered bought the Blyth Stan- Seaforth.. ,, .voice trails off with that he.could get balcony dard and for six months, At one point while Keith 'future plans. seats at the Royal from Christmas of 1969 to was putting out both the $4.1exander Theatre in June of 1972, he was the Village Squire and the KEITH GETS Toronto quite cheaply. He editor of the Clinton Rural Voice, he was also HOOKED used to go there a lot and newspaper and the owner working as the editor of see famous people like of the Blyth Standard at the Blyth Standard (1971 Keith is a native of Helen Hayes perform. 'the same time. He largely to 1977) and as the editor Lucknow, Ontario and In his third and final accomplished this feat of the Teeswater News although it now seems year at Ryerson (he with the help of his wife (1975 to 1977). hard to -believe, he wasn't received his Bachelor of who did a lot of the work "I was working pretty always intent on being a Applied Arts in jour- in Blyth. long hours, 12 hours a' writer, especially a nalism in 1969), he bagan "She doesn't write but day, six days a week on newspaper one.writing theatre reviews she does everything else. the average," he admits. "I never wanted to be a for the Ryersonian, the She does the office work, "And we always needed reporter, especially on a journalism students' Turn to page 2A Keith Roulston is what one could. call a versatile writer. And a busy one at that! Keith, whose byline may be familiar to many of you, has just com- ., pleted a play for Wingham's centennial celebrations thisyear and has also written his third play for the Blyth Festival, a festival which he helped get on its feet several years ago. He wrote these plays in his spare time. Keith works full time as the editor and publisher of the Village Squire, a publication which he describes a:S "a city magazine for country people.:" He has a few freelancers but does most of the writing for the Village Squire himself. It features articles on various businesses and craftspeople throughout the region and in general, plays up "the less mundane things in life". Keith has been putting out the Village Squire since 1973. He is also the originator of the Rural Voice, a magazine for farm Keith Roulston is a busy and versatile writer. In order to make a living, he got into newspaper writing but his bent has always been toward creative writing. He currently works as the editor and publisher of the Village Squire magazine but has also written three plays on the side for the Blyth'Fesitval. This year he has also written a play for Wingham's centennial celebrations. Here, he looks over an edition of the Blyth Standard which he used to own. (Photo by Dave Sykes) Everybody considered Chicken Little O'Hare airport a few weeks ago air- way home. The announcement was a nut at the time but history may have planes 2,f,- all sizes and shapes have been made sort of matter of factly. proven him right sort of. crashing all over the United States and Apparently they shot this huge space You all remember Chicken Little, the Canada. The death and injury to vehicle into orbit knowing that when it cartoon character that used to run passengers and crew members on had done its job it would float in space around warning people that the "sky is those planes is saddening of course but for a few years and then crash on earth. falling, the sky is falling". those people knew the risks they took The lab wasn't due until 1980 but sun The sky is still not falling but Chicken when they went up. Thus far all the spots caused some solar winds blowing Little may just have a point. There crashes have been in remote areas or the lab out of its orbital path and certainly is enough falling out of the open areas where no one on the ground speeding up its return. NASA officials sky to warrant us earthlings to keep- has been in the way of the plane. That'is don't seem too concerned with this our heads up. a stroke of luck for us landlubbers. unscheduled return but that could be In the last few weeks enough air But that luck may soon change for because it isn't going to land where traffic has plummeted from the wild, people in the west, They.u4-bet,n told, they are. blue yonder to make one wonder if one and rather casually, tat some time in One researcher adopted a what are isn't safer in a plane. It's almost to the early July a space labratory that was you worried about attitude when point where one has to determine the shot into orbit several years ago is commenting on the lab's return and odds against a plane crash and stack returning to earth. It's not returning in couldn't understand why anyone would them against the odds of a plane a controlled manner to a certain spot be upset about the whole thing. crashing on you. on the earth. It's just going to fall out of He told a reporter the craft was Plane crashes 'have been occuring the sky. •expected to land sotnewhere between with a pleat deal of regularity of late. Researchers ' at NASA announced northern Alberta and Wyoming. I guess Ever since the tragedy at Chi"eage's recently that the space lab was on its ,he figured if a large enough target area was given people would have less cause for concern. He tried to calm people who won- dered what this space vehicle would Kook like by announcing it was going to break up when it entered the earth's atmosphere. He said most of thepieces of the lab would be small and would weigh a couple of pounds each. But others, he casually remarked, could weigh in the neighborhood of 5,000 pounds. When it was suggested a 5,000 pound piece of metal dropped from the moon may hurt if it hit somebody Phis guy says the odds against anyone getting hurt are 250,000 to one. The morning line in Edmonton today is that you people on the way to work have a 283,000 to one shot at being crushed by a space lab. And they called Chicken Little a nut. l/ r jerf seddon'.