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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-05-09, Page 33t palettlrOssroads--lvfay 0, Derivi do 1. of fuchsia The word fud si l Mean- ing ing any of various chiefly tropical shrubs that bear showy. drooping ,purplish, 904 reddish or whin fiowers, and also ,meaning a strong, livid, par** red, a< named after German n botanist'] n - arca Fuch4'•(1501.66). a:. 'Mt reflects self-image , Al D. : TYLER & CO. is pleased to annourrce the OPENING of their offices for the purpose of providing CONSULTING DESIGN DEVELOPMENT services for Computers Information Systems P.O. Box 3031 Cambridge, Ontario N3H 4S1 653-2080 Portraits to Share delightful childhood changes I y rioaanry ST. JOHN JACKSON Certified Master Graphoanalyst Dear Dorothy: I'm a housewife, married 12 years to a man who loves me and thinks I'm wonder- ful. But, he's the silent type and has so many little irri- tating faults. I've tried to live with them, but I'm unhappy, and often unkind. Sometimes 1 wonder why he sticks .around. What can I do? — P.J. Dear P.J.: If he loves you and thinks you're wonder- ful, you're a lady to count your blessings. Plenty of my readers would change places with you, anytime. You crave more atten- tion than most any man could satisfy. Sure, every- one needs a little and some need a lot, but you are working overtime, seen in the upswing endings on words. You have an inflated self-image, seen in the very tall t, and are basking in the sunshine of your own self -praise and approval. Your husband hardly has a chance to rate on your team. He plays a losing game, no matter how hard he tries, as he competes with the speed of your crit- ical mind, seen in the eval- uation of the v formations along the base line of writ- ing. Maybe he figures si- lence is the best way to go. And why does he stick around? Maybe you're his showpiece. So he just "hangs in." Next time you add up all of his liabilities, try hard to balance them off with some of his assets. None of us is exempt from a fair share of human weaknesses. So when you scan your husband's faults, don't forget to take a good long look at your own. Bill Smile I'm glad to be back PLO recognized at U.N. give the Palestine J4bei The U.N., General Assena- atioii Organization a voice at bly voted On Oct, 14, 1974, to its meetings. from Sears Portrait Studio 20 color portraits for only 12 5 9includes 950 deposit Photographic package includes two 8x10's,. three 5x7's, fifteen wallet size color portraits. Noaappointment necessary. S5tr-for each additional subject. Poses our selection. Studios located in most larger Sears retail stores. Also available in• addition to package: Black Background & Double Feature Portraits Instant Passport Photos Offer for portraits taken Mon. May 7 thru Sat. May 12 Sears your money's worth . and more The farmers have been reasonably quiet lately, but that doesn't mean that things have improved. My wife and I spent the weekend in the country, and as far as our neck of Southern Ontario is concerned, quiet desperation is the prevailing mood. It's going to be a tough spring and a tougher fall by the look of it. -The banks are going -to wind up owning a lot of farm- land. The pages of the"Western Ontario Farmer are clogged with auctions these days — one advertisement after another, each representing a vision of the future that fell apart. Like the rest of us, the farmers, perhaps unfairly; see the heavy hand of gov- ernment regulation every- where. The farm marketing boards, whose goals are to ensure realistic levels of pro- duction and fair prices, are a dubious blessing. The quota systems which the market- ing boards administer lead to a variety of injustices, de- spite the fact that in many ways the order they have im- posed is preferable to the chaos that existed before them. It is ridta1rthe-fault of -the- marketing boards, of course. There is nor marketing board for feed corn, for ex- ample, and this year's pros- pects for corn are as dismal as they are for the controlled crops. Once again it is feared that farmers will not be able to sell corn this fall for enough money to cover their costs. And so a lot of farmers will spend the summer watching the weeds grow, knowing that sitting on their hands isn't costing them anything except peace of mind. SPRING TUNE-UP SPECIAL $30 $32 $34, 4 cylinder 6 cylinder • 8 cylinder Parts Extra 15% OFF all tune•up related carts P01111141C lona WALLACE AVENUE NORTH, LISTOWEL TEL. 29 t-3791 Weli,I've been to Florida, after years of denigrating those cowards who flee the true north, strong and freez- ing, to loll around on beaches, amidst palm trees, acquiring tans which are supposed to make us hewers of snowbanks and drawers of rusty fenders feel like an in- ferior breed, beyond the pale, across the tracks. You can have it. They may be more comfortable, out .of doors in March, than we are, but they're no happier. They all talk about their weather, which isn't that great, when you add up the cost of getting there, their cars, their houses, their rot- ten kids, and all their old friends who died last year. Justlike us. I lolled around on exactly two beaches. In both cases, the water was too cold to swim in, except for little kids and crazy old ladies. You had No be smeared from head to toe in goop or the sun, if it happened to be out, would burn you to a potato chip. If I never saw another palm tree, I would not weep. They are ugly, misshapen things, on the whole, with nothing of the elegance of a maple or an oak. There is one type that is rather im- pressive, soaring up like something in the South Paci- fic, but most are grubby little things that have to be clipped or trimmed, and the fronds hauled away. Just like home, except that I'd rather deal with autumn leaves than palm tree clip- pings. And you don't clip them. You need a chainsaw, unless you're Tarzan. Show me a palm frond and I'll show you a pile of dry leaves, burning scarletly on a crisp October evening. Tobacco farmers have been hard hit this year be- cause of a' failing market. It isn't that the world as a whole is smoking less. It is simply that the international market is being flooded by cheaper tobaccos from coun- tries like Brazil. Canadian sales to Great Britain have fallen off sharply, partly be- cause of the foreign competi- tion, but also because Ottawa insists on an export levy that makes Canadian tobacco too expensive on the British market. I'm told that the tobacco companies won't even talk to the marketing board about the probable volumes or price levels this fall,. so that .the board has had to make decisions in an uncertain gloom. As a result, Ontario tobacco farmers this year will only be able to market thirty-eight per cent of what their expensive, hard-won quotas would nor- mally entitle them to. Estab- lished farmers will survive for a time, but the hughe amount of money they have had to put out to buy quota is now in jeopardy. For newer farmers with large bank loans it means that the end is in sight. Their major fixed charges will remain the same, but their incomes will be cut by almost two thirds. For many, it won't matter how hard they work. The arithmetic says they'll be bankrupt by January. Who is going to want to stay in farming if this goes on much longer. More important, who will want to go into it at all? Not the sons of farmers who've seen their fathers dy- ing by inches for years now. It strikes me that the Fed- eral Minister, Eugene Whe- lan, might ve well advised to leave his bright green hat in the hall closet for a while, at least until the leaves come out. Right now, where we come from, it would make him an unmistakeable tar- get. on edge, and I don't blame him. In his place, I'd have just moved out, into a motel, and said, "Help yourselves." But he pressed on, cooking special meals, taking people out to dinner, at great ex- pense, and trying to convince me that I was hopelessly in- competent. We'd both lost our mate in the past seven.. months. He also had a dog, Cyndy, a big golden retriever, and a step -son, a big, golden boy with a cheerfulcharm and the awkwardness and lazi- ness of all teenagers who like sleeping in, eating like alli- gators, and forgetting every- thing serious they are sup- posed to do. In addition, he had a house, which seemed to be surrounded by jungle, and sixty-four glass doors which he kept so highly polished that I frequently ran straight into one, thinking it was open. I have a large bump on my forehead to prove it. The glass doors were constantly being locked and unlocked, an unnerving experience for a guy who scarcely ever locks anything. He has to tackle that jungle, take the dog every- where with him, and worry about his step -son's marks, attitude, motivation, and whether he'll get home to- night from the barbecue or whatever. My poor little brudder. Well, I finally took a little pressure off him by accept- ing an invitation from a couple of old friends who lived not too far away. My brother said, "He's all yours. I can't do anything more." This was after he'd arranged flights, a rental car and a As far as a tan goes, I gdt a dandy. My nose and my knees and the tops of my feet peeled. Otherwise, --I came - home as white as the belly of a fish, with a few freckles across the shaulders. ,Back to the people. The Canadians who go to Florida, that is. They're rather a sad lot. And they're everywhere. They think they are having a hell of.a time. They delight in telling you that it is 68 de- grees F and it's -4 degrees F back in Canada. That's after you've slipped on a sweater and put on some long pants, while they sit around, grow- ing goose -pimples because they insist on wearing shorts and sleeveless shirts. They unabashedly brag about their accommoda- tions. They seem to eat out every night. They run around in traffic : that I wouldn't even attempt, driv- ing forty miles to a "great restaurant" which serves fair food at arm -and -leg prices. Pity them. , My little brother, The Col- onel, put me up, or put up with me, for ten days out of the fourteen I wasted. Before I arrived, he'd had my daughter Kim and the boys, Nikov and Ben, for two days. Before that, he'd had my sister for about two weeks. He is extremely generous and hospitable, but by the time I got there, he was little 1 motel where there were fro rental motels, near Disney World. 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