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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-04-27, Page 42Page 2—Crossroads—April 27, 1983 cross S 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 anal Production The 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. Shirley Whittington Reach fora teen REACH FOR. A TEEN Because so many teens were reaching for Soap, the CBC has reached for the plug on Reach for the Top. The televised teen -aged quiz tourney has been cancelled, and parents and teachers, (but very few teenagers) are protesting. When Mary Tyler Moore terminated a, few years ago, the New Yorker ran a car- toon showing a disconsolate MTM fan throwing his tele- vision set over a cliff. When MASH expired recently, people held wakes and carried on as if real people were at stake, not a prepro- grammed series of colored microdots projected on a TV screen. ButReach for the Top is real. Real teams of real high school students answer ques- tions fired at them with merciless rapidity by a real quizmaster. The kids match -wits instead of brutish grid- iron beef, It is a national show, and national winners are given scholarships. Reach for the Top glorifies scholarship and does it with- out giving away rooms full of furniture. There are no screaming studio audiences, no trips to Las Vegas for the winners, no leggy show girls rampant on the set. It is the only quiz show I can think of which puts a premium on intellectual excellence. Reach for the Top teams exist in most high schools and they train hard for their televised jousts. A friend who teaches English and who has coached a reach team for eight years says his kids give up three lunch hours a week. He adds, "They also do a lot of read= ing on their own, and they're constantly discovering new areas of interest." Reach for the Top team members are enjoying increasing prestige in their schools. This teacher thinks it's because of the current vogue for quizzes and games like Trivial Pur- suits. Why is the CBC signing a death warrant for a show that has been playing to de- cent ratings for almost twenty years? They blame "budgetary restraints", yet Reach must have been an in- expensive show to produce. There are no flashy Journal style graphics or special ef- fects, no studio bands, no elaborate sets. Scripts are simple and the sharp kids who constitute the show's talent aren't paid except for tiny bronze lapel pins. Often these students are driven many miles to attend tap- ings. Their teacher coaches do this cheerfully and say they enjoy working with the teams because they believe in the standards of intellec- tual excellence espoused by the no-frills Reach for the Top. Compared to the big bucks lavished on Hockey Night in Canada, and other CBC shows like Tommy Hunter, the Reach for the Top budget must look like petty cash. Last week I talked to someone at the CBC about the impending disappoint- ment to Reach for the Top competitors and their coaches. She says the show is being cancelled because it is reaching "the wrong people." "We were trying to reach kids with Reach for the Top but our surveys show that they are just not watching the show. The viewers turned out to be in the 55 and over category. I work on the show, and my own teenager doesn't even watch it! Reach for the Top is just not going in the right direction." She added that calls and letters protesting the show's cancellation were all coming from older people. There's something Orwel- lian in this reasoning which suggests that all viewers are valuable but some are more valuable than others. My CBC informant hinted darkly that the future of another cheerful CBC earful might be in jeopardy. "Did you ever hear of a Saturday morning radio show called Is Anybody Home?" she asked. "It's designed for kids from six to sixteen, but our audi- ence measurement data shows that kids don't listen to it. It's the older people who like it. And production of the show just isn't justified if it doesn't reach the audience it's aiming for." If reasoning like this makes you angry, write the CBC. If the demise of Reach for the Top bothers you, let the Corporation know. If you think Canada's broadcasting service is betraying Canada's bright kids, put your feelings on paper. Write a letter, but get a kid to sign it. "ALFiE" Michael Caine stars as the amoral Alfie, a swinging young Londoner with a rov- ing eye whose "Love 'em and Leave 'em" philosophy of love has him running away from disgruntled boyfriends and husbands. Tune in for the feature film Alfie on Global Television on Satur- day, May 7 beginning at 12 midnight. CLEARING AUCTION SALE Of Tractors, Trucks, Combines and Farm Machinery, for: MR. DON KOCH Lot No. 39 & 40, Con. 7, Wallace Township, 3 miles west of Palmerston on Wallace -Minto Townline, on: Saturday, Apr. 30, 1983 1:00 ,p.m. TRACTORS: WD AC with motor, over -hauled; No. 77 Oliver 1939 or prior Case model R, unstyled; Oliver OC 3 Crawler with blade; Minneapolis -Moline "U", all above in good run- ning order. UNI -LOADER: Case 1737, fully equipped and in good condition. TRUCKS & CAR: 1976 Chev 1/2 ton V-8 auto, power steering, power brakes, new paint, sell- ing certified; 1973 Chev 1/2 ton V-8, 4 speed with hoist, selling as is; 1955 Dodge 3 ton cab and chassis; 1972 Plymouth Fury 3, 4 door, selling as is. FORAGE: Vermeer 605F round baler, very good; 2 Gehl 188 Chop -King harvesters, com- plete with 2 row corn heads and pickups; Gehl forage box on new 8 ton Horst wagon; Grove forage box on new 9 ton Martin wagon, both wagons have 1 1 L x 15 8 ply tires; Dion forage blower; approximately 70' blower pipe, elbows, clamps; homemade round bale wagon; NH 7' trail mower. HARVESTING: Case 600 self-propelled corn - bine with bean equipment in good condition; Case 400 pull -type combine in excellent condi- tion: Cockshutt 423 self-propelled 12' swather. TILLAGE & PLANTING:, 40 plate Cockshutt 241 wheel disc with new set front plates; 12.5' Noble bolt -on harrows; Harley rock win drawer; Case 9 plate.one-way disc; 10' chain harrows; 6 section diamond harrows with stret- cher; 3 drum land roller; JD FBB 17 run grain and fertilizer drill, good; Case 4 row 3 pth corn planter; 8' Brillion seeder -packer; NI 101 fer- tilizer spreader with grass seed box. GENERAL EQUIPMENT: 20' Gooseneck tandem trailer; NH 205 3 beater spreader with new apron; NH 205 single beater spreader; Star -Line tank spreader; hydraulic dump trailer; heavy duty trailer; dual wheel trailer, frame, 6 yard gravel box and hoist; 12' livestock rack, post hoist. ANTIQUES: Grain cradle; wooden harrows; post drill; 1875 JC Cockshutt walking plow. MISC.: 2 brand new Goodyear 28L x 26 10 ply tires, very good shape; 67-72 Ford front-end pickup; 212,000 BTU oil furnace, unassembl- ed; 2 wheelbarrows; 2 new 750 x 20 truck tires on Chev Budd rims; 4-900 x 20 tires on rims; assorted car and truck tires; 2 Wisconsin engines for parts; Moore's 3 pth snow blower; Champion snow blower; assorted misc. items. TERMS: Cash or cheque with I.D. Farm is sold Selling by number. Auctioneer or Porprietor not responsible for accidents day of sale. Proprietor: DON KOCH 343-5502 Auctioneer: DON REA Listowel 291-2600 voillionsomalw Bill Smiley To bee or not to bee Humans, though not as tenacious and purposeful as the ant, nor as busy as the bee, have much in common with them. Ants, of course, can't swim. Or they can, but they can't hold thein noses when they- go under, so they drown. Who'd want to be an ant? Bees, on the other hand, can fly, and we can't. But they are unable to jump, even to a conclusion, and we can, so that evens out. We don't have the single- mindedness of ants. They know where they are going, or what they are doing. We don't. We go wandering about and get squashed. They do too, of course, but at least they were headed somewhere. Bees bumble, but never on the scale that we do. They zero in on a flower. We stag- ger into a cactus. They go, "Vr000m, Vroom ! " We flood our motors and go, "Ka- whuck, ka-whunck, ka a-a- glunk ! " There are other similari- tiesond differences, none of which prove that humans are superior. Ants don't have sexual hang-ups. They know that they are workers, or soldiers or whatever. Humans don't, half the time, know whether they are punched, bored, or kicked in with a frozen boot. Bees also know who and where they, -are. Like us, they have a Queen, but theirs doesn't have to consult the Labor Party before deciding what to do about unemploy- ment. She wipes out the workers. That automatically creates new jobs. Imagine a world in which bees had unemployment in- surance. You'd not only have a bee in your bonnet, but a bee in your bum, your brain and your bra. Unlike us, ants don't worry about their ants. We have poor aunts who must be kept under cover, rich aunts who must be toadied to, and crazy aunts who threaten to come and stay with us. Bees don't bother much about other bees. They just buzz about, sucking honey. What a life. They have no rotten kids, frigid wives, drunken husbands, goofy grandchildren, aged parents. So far, it looks as though we've got the short end of the stick, and the ants and the bees are in clover. But there's one thing that drags them down to our level. We all live in cells. You didn't know this? You say humans have free will? You think we can call the shots, be masters of our own destiny, choose between good and evil, live as long as we like, go to heaven or hell, decide what to have for din- ner? Nonsense. You are sitting in a cell as you read this. I am sitting in a cell as I write it. Maybe your cell has a re- frigerator and an electric stove, and mine has an ash- tray and a filing cabinet. But they are cells, At night, we move from the TV cell to the cell with the platform where we, for no reason, expect to go to sleep. We wake up in the same cell, after nightmares about being in a cell, and proceed to a smaller cell where we peer at ourselves, shake our heads gloomily and remove various normal blessings. Can you imagine a bee -shav- ing his God-given whiskers? Then we romp down through a vertical cell with no windows to another cell with orange juice and coffee. Ants and bees get spilled sugar and honey. No coffee, no tea, no caffeine problems. Next, we leave this cell for a mobile one, with FM radio, AUCTION SALE Of Household Effects, for: THE ESTATE OF ETHEL CAVELL Of Harriston, with additions at Gray's Auction Centre, corner Hwys. 87 & 89, 1 mile west of Harriston, on: Saturday, Apr. 30, 1983 10:00 a.m. APPLIANCES: Frigidaire refrigerator; Frigidaire washer and dryer; small electric stove; Sunbeam mixmaster; humidifier; dehumidifier; Filter Queen vacuum; Fleetwood colour TV, floor model; record player and radio in cabinet; Gibson built-in dishwasher; countertop dishwasher. FURNITURE & ANTIQUES: 6 high back wooden chairs; 2 chesterfields and chairs; chests of drawers; 2 platform rockers; 2 end step tables; upholstered chair; dressers; wooden bookcase; night stand; 2 single beds; dresser with mirror and night table; chrome table and 4 chairs; flat -to -wall cupboard with pie shelf and 3 panes of glass in top doors; small china cabinet; hall tree; double dresser and mirror; washstands; new style love sea:; 2 extension tables; hanging paper rack; rope bed parts; jeweller's desk with small drawers; cast iron bed; walnut drop leaf table; corner cabinet with glass door, new style; coffee table; bed, dresser and mirror; pool table; crib; wooden rocker; mahogany chest of drawers. FURNITURE IN THE ROUGH: Boston rocker; wooden rocker; round drop leaf table; chest of drawers; small wooden table; Edison gramaphone. CHINA & GLASS: Nippon cup and saucer; Nip- pon plate; hand painted pitcher; Bavarian dish; sherbet dishes; wine glasses; cake plates; 10 cups and saucers; silver cream and sugar; silver flower basket; hand painted china egg, cracked; Nippon dish; 4 large plates; cups and saucer, small plates; tea pot. MISC.: Pots and pans; bedding; floor Tamp; gas lamp; trunk; lamps; TV table; quilting frames; crock ink wells; egg crates and lids; ice cream maker; , syrup jar with Pewter lid; picture frames; sad irons; Empire tobacco cutter; Hungerford Smith Co. Ltd. Toronto Golden Orangeade fountain, good shape; washboard; granite pieces; sauerkraut board and masher: clock shelf; hay knife; large cow bell; lard renderer; 2 blow torches; baby car seat, up to 40 lbs.; wheelbarrow; 36" turning lathe; boy's bicycle; child's wagon; IH 11/2 hp gas engine for parts. CLOCKS: Electric floor model clock; Session mantel clock; Admiral, made by W.M.L.; Gilbert schoolhouse clock; clock case and wooden gears in pieces. Many other items 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 GRAY (519)338-3722 or 343-3607 window wipers, and auto- matic knees, legs, windows. Meanwhile, the ants and the bees go about their business, getting exercise, fresh air and a keen curiosity about what's going to happen to- day. We know nothing new is going to happen today. We go to a big cell, where ladies type in a little cell within a bigger cell. We pick up our little cellular pieces from the ladies and go off to our indi- vidual cells, where we spend the entire day convincing other people that they should be happy to even have a cell. Sometimes we are happy. We go to a big cell and browse around, humming and snuffling things and touching the untouchables. But it ends all too soon. We are brought to a tiny cell, where a young woman punches out some tentacles that drag us back to the big cell, where the Queen Bee in- forms us that we have no taste, no common sense, and less intelligence than a bee or an ant. While this tirade is taking place, what are the ant and the bee doing? Biting, sting- ing? No, they are anting around and beeing around, with no sense whatever that they are the lowest of the low, dumb slobs, cretins. The words don't mean anything to them. Some day, humans will rise to the level of the ant and the bee. They will accept their cells, instead of trying to kick the sides out of them. They will do what they are supposed to do, without a lot of ifs, ants and bees. Someday, humans will stop gossiping about each other. Ants don't. Some day humans will stop stinging each other. Bees don't, ex- cept when you bug them. Someday humans will stop asking, "Why?" The word is not in the vocabulary of ants and bees.. ' But humans must have a care. If they don't, the theme song of the Twenty-first Century might well be, "My cell is your cell. Your cell is my cell. And your cell is our cell ... " On the other hand, perhaps we are not lost in the cells. Ants can multiply, but they can't divide. Bees can buzz, but they can't beam. Maybe there's a future for us, if we can just get out of those cells. First Canadian woman canonized Mother Marguerite Bour- geoys, who founded a relig- ious order and the first school in Montreal, recently became the first Canadian woman canonized, by the Roman Catholic Church. French -born in 1620, she set- tled in what is now Montreal in 1653 and taught and did charitable work there until her death in 1700. Her order, the Congrega- tion of Notre Dame, now numbers some 2,600 women members. AUCTION SALE Of Contents from the dlosing of: THE-KURTZVILLE GENERAL STORE Owned and Operated by Dick and Jessie Golding, Gowanstown. Also Household Effects for: EDWARD MEHRING Gowanstown. Sale will be held in the Kurtzville Community Centre, located 2 miles north of Listowel and 4 miles west of Gowanstown, on: Saturday, May 7, 1983 11:00 a.m. ED MEHRING HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS: FURNITURE: Chesterfield and matching swivel rocker, floral and good; green vinyl Lazy Boy chair; chesterbed with matching chair, newly upholstered; RCA stereo with AM/FM radio, record player and tape deck; Queen Ann style occasional armchair; coffee and step-up tables; table and pole lamps; record cabinet and old records; rack of tapes; Argus slide projector and screen; card table; footstools; hostess chair; White electric sewing machine (cabinet); Electrohome humidifier; Hammered aluminum fireplace accessories; 2 room speakers; Sound Track stereo with radio, record player and tape deck; TV stand; quilting frames and clamps: teacher's oak desk and, chair; cedar chest; bed, spring and mattress; chest of drawers; vanity dresser and bench; bedding and linens; assortment of plants; Firestone older style refrigerator. POOL TABLE: Full size Boston pool table, ad- justable bed, Boston balls, cues, rack and ac- cessories (like new). DISHES: Quantity of everyday dishes, pots and pans; plus ornaments and some good dishes. MISC. & TOOLS: Walker exerciser; electric ad- ding machine; Acorn fireplace and pipes; 4 sheets of 4' x 8' used panelling; Porter cable table saw and ,motor; 1/4," electric drill; 2 work benches; large assortment of hand tools; Homelite chain saw (new); garden tiller; CCM 3 speed high rise bicycle; 20' wooden extension ladder; plus misc. items. KURTZVILLE STORE: Oak top 1 1 ' store counter, complete with drawers; oak top 5' store counter, complete with drawers; Sargent & Greenleaf fireproof safe; 2 drawer steel filing cabinet; double pedestal wooden desk with wood pulls; Berkel hand meat slicer; Smith Cor- ona hand cash register; National hand adding machine; electric National adding machine; meat display cooler and separate compressor; large assortment of new bolts, all sizes; nuts, washers, screws, nails and spikes; belt laces; galvanized and plastic pipe fittings; wooden display shelves; chest of drawers and card display rack; wire shelves; some rubber boots and work clothing; new and used boys' and girls' skates; sewing needs; boxes of assorted home needs; 2 curling brooms and covers; few garden tools; galvanized and black 7" stove pipes; 3/4" and 1" plastic pipe; Warren high beam platform scale; commercial glass cutter and glass; B&D electric lawn mower (used). ANTIQUES & MISC. ITEMS: Beldings silk cabinet; 3 drawer silk cabinet; 2 paper roll dispensers; 2 desk crank phones; 1 wall crank phone (English); 2 green glass coffee jars; Vo- gue paper holder; coal oil lantern glasses; in- sulated ice cream containers; Gilbarco electric upright gas pump; Imperial Esso hanging sign and light standard; cream soda can; gas hang- ing lamp (no shade); odd wooden chairs; chest of drawers. SALE ORDER: Starting with dishes, household effects at 11 a.m. TERMS: Cash or cheque with proper I. D. sale day. Owners or Auctioneer not responsible for accidents or loss of property sale day. Auctioneer: BOB GILMORE 485 Victoria Ave. S., Listowel 291-3489 UCTION SALES ANNUAL CONSIGNMENT AUCTION Annual Consignment Auction of Farm Machinery, Trucks, Tractors, and Misc. Items to be held at the Milverton Stockyards Limited - on: Saturday, Apr. 30, 1983 12:00 noon TRACTORS: MF 135 diesel with Allied No. 300 loader with hydraulic bucket and chains; Cockshutt4No. 30 tractor and 13-6-38 .duals; MH No. 22; MH No. 33, high arch; No. 1060 Neufield tractor; all tractors in working order. TRUCKS: 1976 GMC cabover with 18' livestock rack, complete with loading shute and side lacks, selling as is. MACHINERY: MF No. 464 4 row corn planter with insecticides; JD 10 ton wagon; 16' flat rack and wagon; 32" bale elevator with under- carriage; Case 4 bar side rake on steel; 5 sec- tion harrows with poles; 12' chain harrows; 6' Cockshutt horse mower; Black Hawk horse drawn 2 row corn planter; Ford 4 row corn planter; 7' IH binder; No. 385 Wetmore grinder; V -type snow blower; 22' 5" Allied auger with 6' extension; 16' utility elevator; 15' 4" grain auger; 9' stone fork; Oliver 17 run seed drill with fertilizer (good); MH 15 run seed drill; AC 3 pth, 3 furrow 14" plow; 6' scraper blade. MISC.: Hydraulic brick buggy; 17" Smalley hammer mill with 25' of blower pipe; Ebersol straw shredder; Ebersol hammer mill; utility trailer with license plates; portable hydraulic wood splitter with 5 hp motor on wheels; 4 steel pig feeders (like new); water trough (good); 3 wooden hog feeders; and a host of forks, shovels, tools, and misc. items to the in- terest of any farmer. TERMS: Cash or cheque will be accepted with proper identification. AUCTIONEER'S NOTE: This is all good machinery, right off the farm. List is subject to additions and deletions. Lunch Booth will be available on Stockyard' grounds. Auctioneer: JOHN NICHOLSON, Milverton 595-8596 CLEARING AUCTION SALE Of Household Effects, Appliances, Dishes, Some Antiques, Riding Lawn Mower, Snow Blower, Garden and Hand Tools, Bedding, etc., for ESTATE OF JOHN G. SWITZER 3 miles north of Mount Forest on Old No. 6 Hwy., straight west of John Deere Dealer. Watch for signs, on: Saturday, Apr. 30',. 1983 11:00 a.m. Sharp HOUSEHOLD, APPLIANCES, ANTIQUES: Zenith 18 cu. ft. deep freeze, good condition: Frigidaire full size fridge, good shape: McClary smaller fridge, working order; Kelvinator por- table dishwasher, good condition: Kenmore wr- inger washer, good shape: Hoover spin-dry washer; Beech 24" propane stove; newly upholstered couch and chair, real good condi- tion; 2 B&W TV sets, one 12" portable: 2 good upholstered rockers; 5 piece modern bedroom suite; double dresser; chest of drawers; 2 night stands; box spings and mattress, real good condition; cedar chest, good shape; single electric adjustable bed, 1 year old, like new; small maple tahle with leaves; older model stereo, working order; records; reclining' chair with vibrator; coffee table; end tables: chrome table, 4 chairs; dehumidifier, working good; pine blanket box, good condition; 2 old rocking chairs; old wicker type fern stand; 2 bathroom metal shelf units; modern type china cabinet, glass doors; 3/4{"size bed, complete: pole lamps: table lamps; card table; TV tables; suitcases: large offering of everyday dishes; 2 crocks: small appliances; wooden folding chairs: partial silver chest; press glass fruit bowl and 12 nap- pies; appoximately 25 good cups and saucers: 5 piece silver tea set, good condition: number of good glass bowls, plates, baskets: small wicker pieces; silver trays; decanter set: can- dle holders; 2 electric .wall clocks: 2 old sugar shakers; glass biscuit barrel; flower vases; everyday cutlery; water glasses: pots and pans; sealers, etc; bedding; 2 older model vac - cum cleaners: small plant stands: boxes of books; a lot of small items not listed. LAWN MOWERS, TOOLS, ETC.: Mastercraft 5 hp riding lawn mower, 32" cut, good condition; Ariens 6 hp snow blower with electric start, top condition; electric lawn mower, good condtion: good rubber tired wheelbarrow; 8" Sutton bench saw, motor, metal stand, good condi- tion; 24" aluminum extension ladder: 2 wooden stepladders; wooden ladder; small bench grinder; 2 skit saws: small sander; jig saw; 2 sump pumps; small picnic table: bundles of garden hose; hand weed sprayer: tool boxes; 3 part rolls of snow fence; stakes; small garden tools: hand and carpenter tools: lawn chairs; small barbecue; bundle R12 in- sulation; cans of paint; flower pots; other small items not listed. TERMS: Cash sale day. Cheques with I.D. Cof- fee truck on grounds. SALE ORDER: 1,1 a.m. tools, misc., 11:30 riding lawn mower, snow blower, dishes. bed- ding, appliances, furniture. Estate, Executors or Auctioneer not responsi- ble for accidents, injury or loss of property sale day. Auctioneer: JOHN D. McPHEE Mount Forest. 323-4056