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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-01-05, Page 13Page 2 -Crossroads --Jan. 5, 1983 --1, Cross Country .Ski SIXTH ANNUAL HERITAGE SKI LOPPET Jtii* 23/83 - Heidelberg REGthRAYION FORMS AVAILABLE AT: 0.1111. SPORTS Waterloo THE ATHLETE% FOOT STORES Waterloo, Kitchener, Cambridge, Owen SoutU or moo SMOFFER'S MUG MART r 1 1 1 1 38 North Street, Wingham 1 1 G & S• Refrigeration & Appliance 357-2776 Discount on Labour Only 4,00 -Off 1 Expires Jan. 14, 1983 J INSULATING ??? DEPRESSED! You Must Have Added Up Those Heating Bills. If Your, , MONEY is Escaping Out The Walls & Attic1 of Your Homes. Give Us A Call. Don't Forget, Next Winter This All Happens, Again. Why Not Save Money By Insulating. "FREE ESTIMATES" We Will Match Or Better Any Honest Deal. CGSD een No OM 24 250 HOMES BUILT PRIOR TO 1971 ARE NOW ELIGIBLE FOR A C.H.I.P. GRANT UP TO A MAXIMUM OP500.00 OFF YOUR INSULATING COSTS. HUNTER INSULATION LTD. 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Brusso Grey & Bruce Mutual Fire InsuranceiCompany 262 IOth St. Hanover, Ont. N4N 1N9, 1-519-364-2250 Albert McArthur Howick Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company Wroxeter, Ont. NOG 2X0, 1-519-335-3561 Randall Hutchinson A.I.I.C. McKillop Mutual Fire Insurance Company Seaforth, Ont. NOK IWO, 1-519-527-0400 Mrs. Margaret Sharp West Wawanosh Mutual Fire Insurance Company Dungannon, Orn. 1-519-529-7961 Bill Duncan �u- 01111110■•11111,,,P Bill Smiley For the birds Iiimmas0•00's Well, a typical week. Went to a euchre party and learned that I was even more stupid.at euchre than I am as my wife tells me - at bridge. And that is abysmally stupid. Fact is, I don't like games in which one must use one's mind and at the same time depend on Lady Luck. And my wife loves them. I had to, almost literally, drag her away from the euchre party. And I hate- navigating, which I also contend, despite the protests of all the old World War II navigators who thought they bombed Essen when, they were bombing an orphan asylum, is a trade for idiots who depend on such weird things as mathematics and physics, and not the trade for an intelligent per- son who believes in witch- craft; The Lord, and a good pilot to get them home. So almost endeth the lesson. My wife navigated home, in rain. I merely steered the brute. And she learned that the shortest distance between two points is whatever way the car goes, with me at the wheel. After I gave up on her math, I turned to my intui- tion. We got home, finally but the guy behind me wondered if I was leading him on a wild goose chase. Perish the thought. And speaking of wild geese, I had a visit from my grandboys. There seems little connection, but there is. I took them down to the park to see the wild geese, to me an on-going source of awe. They're not really wild. They're smart. They are Canada geese who have dis- covered that it's easier, and saves a lot of wear and tear on the wings, to dump them- selves in the local park, and feed heavily on bread crumbs and fish -'n -chips, rather than fly south. Cost of flights south is -even af- fecting the geese, let alone Canadian turkeys, who pay enormous sums to get in the sun for a week in winter.. Anyway, tete boys thought the geese were for the birds, yuk, and that the sea -gulls were much • superior. Until I threw a bread -crust and they watched a great gander and an insignificant sea -gull go for it. ‘Nooconflktt. The kids apparently learned some deep .lesson about Darwin, because they started throwing stones (potential BOOK REVIEW 1 LOVE MY CAT! By Marton Schaffer. Illustrations by Kathy Vanderlinden. Kids Can Press, Toronto. Distri- buted by Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, Toronto. 8 by 7 in. 32 pp. Paper $3.95. Reviewed by PERCY MADDUX Many simple children's books have no story to them. So it is with "I Love My Cat!" by Marion Schaffer. However, this book has in- teresting full-page illustra- tions on every page, while the text, written in the per- son of a little girl, tells about the cat. The story is on the top part of the pages opposite the illustrations, while on the lower part is a translation into French by Danielle Thaler. So the book really has three features: illustra- tions, story in English, and story in French. All of these make it a fascinating and stimulating little volume. crossroads Published every Wednesday by Wenger Bros. Limited as the lifestyle and entertainment section in The Listowel Banner, The Wingham Advance - Times, The Mount Forest Confederate and -The Milverton Sun. Members of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspaper Association. and the Ontario -Press Council. Controlled distri- bution in Elmira, Palmerston, Harriston. Brussels. Millbank, Newton, Atwood. Clifford. Drayton, Wallenstein, Moorefield and Arthur. Display and Classified advertising deadline - 5:00 p.m. Thursday week prior to publication date. - Advertising and Production T e Listowel Banner 188 Wallace Ave. N., P.O. Box 97. Listowel, Ont. N4W 3H2 Accounting and Billing. The Wingham Advance -Times Josephine St., P.O. Box 390, Wingham, Ont. NOG 2W0 The Listowel Banner 291-1660. The Wingham Advance -Times 357-2320 The Mount Forest Confederate 323-1550 The Milverton Sun 595-8921 Elmira and District News: Kim Dadson 669-2690 Toronto Argo fans?) at the sea -gulls. I also learned some other things, while the boys were here. I always do. My own kids were brought up in middle-class, properly re- pressive .circumstances. They weren't to swear, break things, get their clothes dirty. They were to be respectful, not ask em- barrassing questions of adults, and vote against the governrnent. These grandboys are com- pletely irrepressible. They might be a little quiet, patiently, contemptuously, during a five-minute harangue after they've just knocked a lamp off a table, but it's just a cover. They roll their eyes at each other. They don't swear, but they know all the words, as a little listening will confirm. They break things with abandon, always coming up with the wide-eyed explanation that, "It just broke They jump, deliberately,into puddles that will soak- them to the navel. They call me "Bill". How's that for respect? They ask embarrassing questions. "How come your hair is black, Gran, and Bill's is white? Why do you put your teeth in a glass at night, Bill, are you afraid the fairies will get them, and not leave you a dime? How come Gran gets mad when you fall asleep with your mouth open, Bill? Hey, Gran, why are you getting so fat in the tummy? Are you going to havea baby?" We had some people in on Sunday, and a little girl, three, fell in love with the PETER intuzzoorr It's hard to believe that it's 19 years since John F. Ken- nedy died, and my world as a Washington correspondent for the Montreal Star was turned upside down. The anniversary reminds me that as an anchorman, I am often asked how I am able to wade knee-deep through gloomy newscasts and not be sunk in deep and permanent depression. What I tell people is that you have to approach the news with a certain amount of detach- ment or you'd lose your mind. But that's not entirely true. If you're not affected by the events °-you're reporting, to some extent, your journalism is pretty mechanical. It's where to draw the line that's a pro- blem. Clearly, I didn't know where to draw it when it came to John Fitzgerald Kennedy. I can say that now because for me personally, when he was shot, the Wash- ington landscape was sud- denly overcast. You could dispel the gloom a little bit, as some of us do on a dark and rainy day, by rushing around the house turning on the lights. But it's never the same thing as sunshine. Despite the fact that I was only a bystander, on the sidelines of what is now referred to as Camelot, I was caught up in the youth and verve of the Kennedy ad- ministration, and the spirit that animated official Wash- ington. And although I went through the motions of news- paper reporting for another. five years after that, it was really the end of the line when President Kennedy died. I stayed in Washington through the Johnson -Gold- water campaign of 1964, and for the first year of the John- son administration after that. I spent some time in the Toronto Star's Ottawa Bureau over the next couple of years, but my heart wasn't in it, and neither was my mind. i was nearing a turning point in my life and it had a lot to do with the fact that I got too close to a story; I had become too steeped in the atmosphere of what I was supposed to be covering. And so the reporter has to draw back, but not to the point where he misses the drama of what he's writing about. It's a fine distinction. 1 know, and like many fine distinctions, hard to define. That's not news but that soo is reality. And there, at the popcorn counter, in a town that is one of the wor t in Canada, as far as the rec ssion and unem- ployment goes, were all these little kids, waving two and five -dollar bills at the popcorn girl. Some reces- -' sion. Some hard times. Their mother had a conve- nient migraine, and their gran had guests to prepare for, so the boys and I spent most of our waking time to- gether. It was like spending a weekend with two char- ming con artists. You know perfectly well you're being taken, right down to the horrible expensive games they want for Christmas, but it's so much fun that you scarcely feel the shaft going in. worst of the two, Balind, and followed him around all afternoon. Her father reported that she didn't get to sleep until ten that night. The divil's influence. And I also learned some- thing about our society when I took them, and dumped them, at a matinee at the local cinema. ` First of all, it cost $1.50 to get in. Each. It was a dime in my day. Second of all, acting the big wheel, the affluent, benevolent grandfather, I gave them a buck each for treats. They looked rather askance. I checked the prices of goodies. No wonder they were askance. On dollar would not even buy them one (small) box of popcorn an one small pop. Sixty cents for a narrow box of stale popcorn' and fifty vents for the smallest pop. And Balind dropped his dime, when --I made it up to $1.10. What a rip-off. The movie, a cheap cartoon, began at 2:00 and ran for an hour. Arthritis Research Is Paying Off In Ontario! Please be generous with your support. We need everyone's , help if we're going to beat this terrible disease. THE ARTHRITIS SOCIETY 100 ACRE FARM BY PUBLIC AUCTION To be held on the premises, known as the farm of: L. GIBBONS RR 3; Wingham. Described as the east half of Lot 35, Con. 13, Township of East Wawanosh, County of Huron. From Wingham, take No. 4 highway south, approximately 2 miles to Concession Road 12-13, then west (turn right) approx- imately 3 miles, on: Wed., Jan. 12, 1983 2:00 p.m. We have received instructions from Dockstader and Dockstader to offer under power of sale, subject to reserve, this 100 acre farm with two storey fieldstone, 5 bedroom house. 2 complete bathrooms, full basement with combination wood -oil furnace. House is updated as to insulation, plumbing and wiring+ and with good drilled well. Barns are equipfed for farrow to finish hog operation, and two 12' x 50' cement silos, also slatted floors and 50,000 gallon tank. For further information, contact: DOCKSTADER AND DOCKSTADER London. 434-6056 or Auctioneer: ALLEN AUCTIONS LIMITED Lambeth. 652-2282 AUCTION SALE Of Appliances, Furniture and Antiques, for: THE ESTATE OF MRS. FORBES Harriston, Ontario. With additions. At Gray's Auction Centre, cor- ner Hwys. 87 & 89, 1 mile west of Harriston, on: Saturday, Jan. 8, 1983 10:00 a.m. APPLIANCES: Norge Continuous Clean elec- tric stove; Norge heavy-duty washer and dryer; humidifier; RCA portable colour TV; 30" Moffat stove; 'electric barbecue; floor model Fleet- wood colour TV; Viking fridge; small electrical appliances, good. FURNITURE & ANTIQUES: Lazy Boy chair, good; chrome table and 4 chairs; chesterfield and chair, good; 2 bedroom suites; hospital bed; 2 washstands; dressers; 2 buffets; pressback rocking chair; extension table and 3 leaves; round pedestal lamp table; hanging paper rack; cloverleaf table; piano stool; 2 covered rocking chairs; chest 'of drawers; cribs; end tables; coffee table; what -not shelf; kitchen stool; double mattress and box spring; drop leaf table with butter knife leaf and 4 chairs; china cabinet; pressback chair; brown swivel chair; in the rough: large selection of wooden chairs; telephone table; chest of drawers; office chair; plus other rough pieces; extension table with 2 leaves and 6 pressback chairs. CHINA & GLASS: Green depresion cream and sugar; 6 fruit nappies; 6 B&B. plates; dinner plates;- platter and serving dishes, glass; hand painted teapot stand; glass knife; hand painted glass pitcher; hand painted vase. CLOCK: Waterbury weight clock. MISC.: Picture frames; books; chamber pail; lamps; hamper; coffee grinder; towels; Tupper- ware; 2 jugs with handles; Celsur bottles; 10 round record cylinders; tea tins; blow torch; large homemade doll house; kitchen utensils; school desk; trunk; lanterns; double theatre chair; jars; bag cart; everyday cutlery; 2 cream cans; airtight stove; parlour stove; many other articles too numerous to mention. TERMS: Cash or cheque with proper I D. day of sale. Lunch Booth. Owners or Auctioneers not responsible for accidents day of sale. Any announcements or corrections given ver- bally day of sale. Auctioneers: BARRY & KEITH GRAYt,, (519)3384722 or 3434607 0 N W EXTEN'E' Y 31. 0 ANNUAL PER CENT FINANCING ON ALL OUR REMAINING NEW 1982's IN STOCK! BUT HURRY! OUR STOCK OF 1982's IS GETTING SMALLER ALL THE TIME. SUPER USED CAR 1982 Mercury Grand Marquis 4 door, 8 cylinder, loaded, brown. Stock No. P986. 1980 Lincoln Mark IV V8, loaded, fawn. -- Stock No. E3136A 1980 Ford LTD 4 door, V8, automatic, power steering, power brakes, radio, air conditioning, blue. Stock No. G31 1 1 A .... , 1979 Ford LTD 4 door, V8, automatic, power steering, power brakes, radio, vinyl roof, air conditioning, blue. Stock No. F204YA 1978 Mercury Marquis Brougham 2 door, V8, loaded, gold. Stock No. K2438A 1977 Lincoln Town Coupe 2 door, V8, loaded,, blue. Stock No. P978A 1979 Chevrolet.Impala 2 door, V8, automatic, power steering, power brakes, radio, maroon. Stock No. C3126A 1982 Mazda GLC 2 door, 4 cylinder, automatic, radio, red. Stock No. G2445A 1981 Ford Escort 2 door, 4 cylinder, 4 speed, radio, white. Stock No. A2224A 1980 Mustang 3 door, 6 cylinder, 4 speed, power steering, power brakes, radio, yellow. Stock No. V31 22A 1980 Ford Fiesta 2 door, 4 cylinder. 4 speed, radio, gold. Stock No. V2426B 1980 Ford Mustang Turbo 3 door, 4 cylinder, 4 speed, radio, white. Stock No. S3027A 1979 Mercury Capri 3 door, 4 cylinder, 4 speed, radio, copper. • Stock No. L2427C 1979 Ford Fairmont 2 door, 6 cylinder, automatic, power steering, power brakes, radio, copper. Stock No. Y2002A 1978 Chevrolet Chevette. 4 door,' automatic transmission, radio, brown. Stock No. P960A 1977 Mercury Bobcat Wagon 4 cylinder, 4 speed, radio, copper. Stock No. 02001A 1977 Plymouth Volare Wagon V8, automatic, power steering, power brakes, radio, cream. Stock No. Q2211 B 1977 Pontiac Ventura 2 door, V6, automatic, power steering, power brakes, radio, blue. Stock No. 03070A 1980 Plymouth Horizon 4 door, 4 cylinder, automatic, radio, brown. Stock No.'P959A 1977 Ford Pinto 3 door, 4 cylinder, 4 speed, radio, blue. Stock No. J3058C 1979 Chrysler Cordoba 2 door, V8, automatic, power steering, power brakes, radio, silver. Stock No. L2385A 1979 Mercury Monarch 2 door, 6 cylinder, automatic, power steering, power brakes, radio, gold. Stock No. J3058B . 1979 Chrysler Cordoba 2 door, V8, automatic, power steering, power brakes, radio, to -tone cream -brown. Stock No. 23061 A . . '1979 Mercury Cougar 4 door, V8, automatic, power steering, power brakes, radio, copper. Stock No. F3028A 1978 Ford LTD II 4 door, V8, automatic, power steering, power brakes, radio, brown. Stock No. F2032D 1975 Chrysler Cordoba 2 door, V8, loaded, blue. Stock No. Y2159B VALUE$ :1 0,950 '1 5,750 :6,950 '5,450 +4,950 '.6,500 :4,360 '6,750 :4,950 '5,550 :4,950 :5,950 :4,450 54,550 '3,850 32,550 :2,500 :3,450 :4,1 50 '3,1 50 :4,850 :4,500 � :4,950 :3,850 :3,450 :2,350 Harvey Krotz Ford Wallace Avenue N. Listowel Car City 291-3520 "Where the lights burrs bright till 10 each night, Saturdays till 5 p.m." • a