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AFTERNOON
12:00 Terrytoons 8, 10
The Green Hornet 57
Flintstones 13
News 6, 7, 7D, 4D, 5D
12:25 Agri -News 13
12:30 The Young and
Restless 7D, 4D
Super Pay Cards 11
Ryan's Hope 7
Tattletales 13
News 10, 8
Stationary Ark 57
1:00 1984 Summer Olym-
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Citylights 57
Let's Make a Deal 6
Days of Our Lives 11,
5D
The Don Harron Show
13
All My Children 7
1:30 Galloping Gourmet 57
As the World Turns 6,
7D, 4D
2:00 Laverne & Shirley 57
One Life to Live 7, 11
Another World 5D, 13
2:30 Capitol7D, 4D
• It's Your Move 6
City Life 57
2:40 News 11
3:00 Santa Barbara 11
Quincy 57
General Hospital 7, 13
More Real People 5D
The Guiding Light 6,
7D, 4D
3:30 Good Times 5D
Webster 13
4:00 Those Amazing
Animals 13
Happy Days Again 7
Hercules 6
Charlie's Angels 7D,
4D
Jeffersons 5D
20 Minute Workout 57
The Young and the
Restless 11`�
4:30 Toronto Rocks 57
All in the Family 5D
Gilligan's Island 6,----
WKRP 7
_ 5:00 St. Elsewhere 11 .
Wheel of Fortune 13
Jeffersons 7
Family Feud 7D, 4D
Movies on Channel 10
FRIDAY, 7:30 P.M. -"CONCRETE BEAT". Stars John
Getz, Ken McMillan. A sensitive newspaper reporter who
writes a human interest column becomes involved with
the lives of the people in his city.
FRIDAY, 12:45 A.M.-"MY GEISHA". Stars Shirley Mac -
Laine, Yves Montand. A famous Hollywood actress mas-
querades as a Geisha to win the leading role in a movie her
husband is filming in Japan.
Movies on Channel 8
THURSDAY, 11:30 P.M. -"THE INCREDIBLE SARAH".
Stars Glenda Jackson, Daniel Massey, Douglas Wilmer.
Deals with the turbulent early years in the life of. Sarah
Bernhardt, one of the world's greatest tragediennes.'
FRIDAY, 12:45 A.M.-"THE BRINKS JOB". Stars Peter
Falk, Peter Boyle, Warren Oates. A reenactment of the in-
famous robbery in Boston in 1950 and the eventual capture
of the crooks less than a week before the crime's statute of
limitations was to run out.
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Beverly Hillbillies 3
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Joker's Wild 5D
SCTV 57
Wheel of Fortune 7
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Tonight 11
That's Life 6
One Day at a Time 10
1.984 Summer Olym-
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Star Trek 3
Beverly Hillbillies 8
Bob Newhart 13
7:30 Jeffersons 10
Baseball: Kansas City
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MASH 57
Don Cherry's
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Wheel of Fortune 5D
PM Magazine Detroit
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More Real People 6
Family Feud 7
8:00 Real People 5D
Fall Guy 7
Movie "The Little
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Double Trouble 6
Crossroads 7D, 4D
1984 Summer Olym-
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The 25th Annual
Science and Engineer-
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Mama MalonD, 4D
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Movies "TBA" 7D,
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FightingWords 11
9:30 The Duck Factory 5D
The Baxters 11.
People are Funny 6
10:00 St. Elsewhere 5D, '11
The Love Boat 6
Citypulse Tonight 57
10:30 Olympic Highlights 13
11:00 20 Minute Workout 57
News 6, 7,, 7D, 4D, 50,
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National 5, 3, 8, 10
11:20 Journal 5
Newa 3, 8, 10
11:30. News 13
Carol Burnett 8 •
Family Brown 11
Movie "Figures in
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• Entertainment
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Sportsline 6
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Taxi 7D, 4D,
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:50 Newsfinal 5
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Mery Griffin 7
1984 Summer Olym-
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International Chris-
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Hawaii Five -O 11
2:30 Chico and the Man 6
Entertainment
Tonight 5D
Movie "And Justice
For All" 13
Maude 7D, 4D
1:00 Eye on Hollywood 7
Marcus Welby 7D, 4D
Hawaii Five -O 11
Thicke of the Night
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Movie "The Glove" 6,
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2:00 Night Watch 7D, 4D
Dick Van Dyke 11
Highlights 5
Wild, Wild West 3
2: WMovie "TBA" 5D
Dick Van Dyke 11
3:00 The Saint 3
Night Watch 13
4:00 Movie "Ghost of
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4:30 Lone Ranger 5D
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nds, these f • = hereat
friends .need di r p/ine
It is deemed uncivilized,
uncharitable and uncouth to
badmouth birds. We have
been trained to regard feath-
ered creatures as being just
a little lower than the angels
and great efforts are made to
feed and protect the little
beggars.
Yet birds treat people with
a bare minimum of respect.
Are birds in the habit of
,setting out trays of cashew
nuts and Smarties for us .to
snack upon?,They are not.
Do birds 'provide outdoor
bathing facilities for hum-
ans? They do not.
Do birds plan people sanc-
tuaries? Of course not. Birds
are out for number one, and
I'll bet they snicker behind
their wings when they see
people lugging home bags of
sunflower seeds, or smash-
ing their thumbs with the
hammer as they construct
birdhouses.
Generations of little kids
have learned to swim in our
local little lake, yet by Aug-
ust it may well be befouled,
thanks to the flock of Canada
geese that' have taken up
residence there. Hardly any-
body walks through our local
parkbarefoot any more, and
that old expression about
XXXX through a goose is
based on actual biological
fact. People look pack with
nostalgia on thedays when
all there was to slip on down
there was the odd banana
peel.
Birds! Let me tell you how
hard it `Is to get a decent
nigh ea',` leep around here,
especidtlly on the night be-
fore garbage day. I reckon
that between the time the
folks in the apartment across
the road quit partying and
the time the local robins
begin to boisterously greet
the dawn is about one hour,
tops. I keep hoping our bon -
vivant neighbours will blow
their speakers. Lately, I'm ..
beginning to feel the same
way about the birds. Starting
at about 4:00 a.m., they
carry on like a bunch of
battery-operated toy -birds,
chattering continuously until
they run down shortly after
five.
"Cheer up, cheer up!"
they sing.
"Shut up, shut up!" I want
10111111111111.1111.11, Bill Smiley
You can'tp lease 'will all
to yell back.
Bird experts tell sine the
robins are establishing their
territorial limits with these
raucous matins. Once or
twice a year, I could under-
stand - say right after they
sign the lease - but do they
have to do it every morning?
Anyway, by the time they
have established which fence
post belongs to whom, they
are all tuckered out. They
stick their. heads under their
wings and nap until the sun
really comes up. One might
expect the humans on the
block could then grab a little
sleep before the alarm goes
off.
But, no. It is then that the
sea gulls begin winging their
way inland from Georgian
• Bay. After the preliminary
screams which herald the
morning commute, the gar-
bage inspection begins.
There's many a hysterical
disputation as they haggle
over scraps and compete in
green -bag ripping competi-
tions. Eventually they veer
off to the park and seconds
later, the alarm goes off.
As well as disturbing my
sleep, birds have wiped out
my entire backyard corn
crop in one afternoon. Yes
sir - both cobs of corn were
totally stripped and we had
to make do with canned
niblets at the family corn
roast. It just ' wasn't the
same.
A farmer friend of ours
beats bird vandals with a
banger which punctuates the
stillness of his corn fields.
This farmer also had two
gorgeous daughters. Wheth-
er the sound of a shotgun
banging off repeatedly had
any appreciable effect on
suitors I was never sure, but
it must have then a sobering
thought as far as local young
men were concerned.
Our grandmother used to
foil the depredations of
blackbirds in her raspberry
patch by swathing the canes
in yards of white netting.
This made her back garden
look likea pray -in by an
Order of Immaculate Sis-
ters, but it kept the birds at
bay.
The other day I was
standing in a store waiting
for a parcel to be wrapped
and I saw this framed poem
hanging\on the wall behind
the counter. It was all good
wholesome sensible stuff
about God and motherhood
and the advantages of love
as opposed to multiple kicks
in the head. But what
stopped me was a line about
birds which went something
like: " ... a robin's chirp at
dawning light, will wake us
gently with a song."
Not around here it doesn't.
If I want to be wakened
gently with a song, I'll stick
to my clock radio. It can be
silenced with a swat, and
legally.
It's extremely' difficult, as places like Baker Lake,
any columnist knows, to • N.W.T., excoriating me for
please all of the people all of talking about the tough win-.
the time. In fact, if this col- ters down here, which ,to
umn had done so, it would be them is almost the deep
extinct. Half my readers get . south.
sdmad Arne that they can't And -I• get .a.letterfroth my
wait to read the next column, ' kid brother retired and living
so they can get madder. The in Florida, with pictures of
other half sort of enjoys it, the house, flowers, pool and
forgives my lapses and looks an outline of his day: coffee
forward to what the silly twit and morning 'Raper, walk
is going to say next. down the beach with the dog,
In the last couple of weeks', etc. The swine. Wait till the
I've had some letters from Florida flies get to him in
'both sides. A Manitoba edi- July and he wants to come
tor is thinking of cancelling north and visit for a month.
the column. ,Reason? "Too No room at the Smiley inn,
many columns dealing with little Smiley. , ' •
personal matters." I quote. On the whole, the letters I
bits from his letter: , get are delightful. A typical
"While it. is understand- example ' came in the other
able that family members day from Bill Francis,
are dear to Bill Smiley . , . I Moncton, B.C. He says such
feel our readers might tire of• nice things about the column
how 'the grandboys are be- that I blush even to read
having. Once or twice a year them, and would never put
would be sufficient." them in print.
should be so lucky. You But more to the point, his
are quite right, sir. Once or letter is witty, informative,
twice a year would be suffi- ,alive. He's no chicken, a WW
tient, for the grandboys' 1 infantry private. I'll quote
visit. - a bit.
And from Vancouver, a "Though obviously a man
young mother writes to say; of sound common sense, I
"Keep on writing about your wonder how, in your youth,
family and grandboys. I love „ you got involved in flying a
these columns." fighter plane, let alone risk -
The ,editor was fair. He
added: "Columns, other
than family -related, are
good and have received fav-
orable comment from our
readers." Thanks.
I get letters from religious
people who accuse me of be-•� •w
ing the right-hand man Of the
,Devil, when I jestingly re
mark that God must have
been out to lunch when he
was drawing up the menu for
this year's winter.
I get letters from other re-
ligious people who send me
dreary tracts and letters full
of Biblical references, with
the hope that I will print the
lot.
And I get letters from still
other religious people, most-
ly clergy, who enjoy quib-
bling with me, over a point
but urge me to continue writ-
ing as I do, to make people
think.
But on the whole, it is not
exactly a dog's life. I re-
member receiving a fairly
vicious editorial blow from a
weekly editor who said I
wrote ,too much about teen-
agers, because I was
school teacher.
I retorted with a bit of
tongue in cheek. In high dud-
geon, he cancelled the
column. It's still going. I
wonder if he's still the editor
of that paper, deciding what
his readers can read. (Had a
number of letters from his
subscribers supporting me,
none supporting him. )
I receive letters from
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ing combat in one. (Ed. note:
me too!) I remember during
those war .years, watcting a
young fellow land his old
Avro Anson like a wounded
pelican in the middle of our
freight yard and walk away
from the' wreck looking a
little shgepish. Soon after,
and nearby, another boy flew
his Harvard trainer at full
speed into -a grove of trees
one foggy morning. He didn't
walk away from that one."
Speaking of education, he
says he attended five differ-
ent schools and doesn't think
much of today's big schools.
Of the new permissiveness:
"Anti -social behaviour today
may be blamed on every-
thing from sun spots to
Grandpa's weakness for
women and hard liquor,
which all agree is a vast im-
provement on the old con-
cept." A strapping at school
and another at home for be-
ing strapped at school.
His last school was graded
"superior," because it
taught to Grade 11. Equip-
ment consisted of a tray of
mineral specimens, the re-
mains of a cheap chemistry
set, and a leather strap, but
managed to tuna out a num-
ber of people who went into
the professions.
Bill Francis says: "The
school's rather good record
was due not only to excellent
instruction, but also to draw-
ing, from a radius of five
miles around, those whose
eyes were fixed on distant
goals and whose legs were
equal to hoofing it back and.
forth. There was nothing
wrong with my legs and I liv-
ed nearby.
"Just a little light upstairs,
they said;, a .handicap I've
learned to live with.
"Now, some seventy years
later and a little wiser, I
have become just an old fel-
low round whom the wind
blows in the laugh of the loon
and the caw of the crows and
the wind whistles 'by so
dreary and cold, in chilling
disdain of ways that are old.
But this feckless old fellow
just putters around , and
heeds not the wind nor its
desolate sound. Cares not a
whit for what the winds say;
just listens for echoes of.
' things far away."
I think that is wise and
honest and real. May I feel
the same. I'll be in touch, Bill
Francis. You're a literate
man with some brains in
your head. An unusual phen-
omenon.
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Spray your lingerie with a
can of anti -static product to
prevent bunching, says
Clothing and Textile Special-
ist Margaret Loewen of the
Ontario Ministry of Agricul-
ture and Food's rural organ-'
izations and services branch
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