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In the words of Mr. Trudeau the Victory the Trudeau years that the urge for a now
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of the Parti Quebecois poses a North American republic has come to full
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demonstrated that his support In English
Thi results, of the Quebec election left Canada is about the same. In fact, It seems friseb George and Tom", for the
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separation: What we could not foresee wOs lefders, Canada has ever had — but history is triumphantly dwir won.
Mr. Trudeau's response to a new realism:
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un*rstand his own people.
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leader placed this new problem In the laps of *hether Canada has any better bets for eight years, has interviewed
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his fellow -Canadians. The only solution he sitting it out on the bench no one knows. Ed
my bed! many dodeft and nutridonists
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.As a humanist, as a along With the rest of his party, toward pwvbasft of organically raised
food and to present it in its most
Christian, he Is right. As the leader of a socialism —and Quebec at this moment is in
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simply repeating a formula which has been a rightist If ever there was one. Joe Clark is
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amply demonstrated as impractical. unknown material. He has a small-town C fives
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and additives was the royal road
Pierre Trudeau should be the Ideal innocence about him which is appealing at to good health. She *vekped a
catalyst of national unity. The son of an the moment and his speeches provide an
natural method for foods
Anglornother and a Franco father, with all acceptable cqunterpoise to the smooth logic
the advantages of a thoroughly liberal of Mr. Trudeau. Whether he has the tough- xx: at low temperatures to beat pre-
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education, he should be the present-day
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that would be next best to himb.
Laurier —the one man who could lead his
we do not know.
In OW book you ll find instruc-
No plant would
nation through troubled times to a fresh era Mr. Trudeau's phrase remains. Canada
tions on how to dry foods as well
of understanding. The seeds of separatism
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Arthur Ievin, M.D.
BACK Most of us have left a doctor's
office with all sorts of unan-
swered questions — and with
O come. on Roy! nagging doubts. With few excep-
"Oh dear, looks like Leopold and the philodendron got into another heated -discussion tions where health care is ow
Roy Wildgust of Stratford is 'quoted as begins to pollute' the clean, fresh air. on bilingualism. cerned, we don't know what
being in favor of asking his city council to The sensible way to dispose of fallen we're buying; we don't know
rescind its bylaw which forbids the burning leaves is to take iherrr to a back corner of the what's good or bad. Worse, we
of leaves in the open. He thinks bagging lot and soak therr� down with the hose. A few don't even know the right ques-
tion to ask. 14 this book the author
them is a messy job but above all he finds shovelsful of fresh earth on top and your contends that consumers cast
that the smell of leaf smoke in the autumn leaves are on the way to becoming the best of 0 t 0 learn to evaluate the quality of
air is a beautiful aroma.
plant food. After all, the great forests which health and medical care. He also
Beautiful it may be to Roy, but to many once clothed our land were nurtured on the Letters O -the Edi r tells you what you'need to know to
other people it's a plain old pain in the head. mould of their own fallen leaves. exercise your rights as a health
Any persion with a breathing problem — and Roy, if nostalgia means so much to you, care consumer —and to give you
there are thousands of us — feels like leaving buy a pump organ or a wicker baby buggy. EDITORIAL BRANDED keep our drivipg habits and skills conduct ourselves in the traffic We must improve our accident the confidence "To talk back to
the country when the annual leaf smog Leaf smoke we can do without. AS"ATTACK11 under constant review so that the environment so that we will con- record. The present cost in lives your DoI
The Advance -limes, driving choices we make will be tribute to its safety rather than to and suffering must not be main-
Wingham, Ontario. thosi of a responsible and con- its risk. We must resolve to exer- -tained. Improve your skills by "The R Document" by Irving
Dear Editor: cerned safety conscious citizen. cise prudence and caution in our taking a Defensive Driving Wallace.
Re your editorial entitled Safe Driving Week, sponsored driving so that we may contribute Course, wear your safety belts, Irving Wallace's novels have
"Promise for the Future": annually by the Canada Safety to a reduction of vehicle asci- slow down and obey the rules. Be made him one of America's best -
The mind changers knowh and bestselling story -
article
was very disappointed in the council from December 1st to dents, injuries and deaths. It is concerned.
article from your editor, es- h, provides a special /bppor- really -a matter of practicing good Please give Safe Driving Week tellers. 'Mm R Document", his -
Scientists us to think about our citizenship. your full support. most timely and. compelling
time about the widespread use of aerosol '"e m p e who is running v ing and pedestrian habits-4nd W. L. Higgitt novel to date, is. the story of &
Scientists have been concerned W seine- Amndydandy home dispensers. WA
But not to worry. The brain that sold us one Safe Driving Week will be sus -
the office of mayor. I know responsibilities. It is a time to �e- cessful again this year if it is President conspiracy to destroy the Bill of
cans — those handy little devices which the aerosol can is still alive and ingenious. both candidates very casually. solve to improve our skills anq to given the support of all drivers. *
dispense everything from cooking oil to 0__0__o Rights, of an attempt by the FBI
Suddenly the TV commercials are telling us Perhaps you are bothered with to take over the country. It is
shaving cream in our homes. The.fellows in about something new. They call it "the women's liberation, but I thought WRITER SEEKS shocking, authentic, excitingly
the know believe that the gas used to expel.' pump" —and oh boy, is it great!. They make in a democratic process that an FORMER SHIPMATES readable, blending inside facts
the product from the can will eventually it sound like something straight out of the one is entitled to run for office Dear Editor: with fiction as only Irving Wal -
gather in the upper atmosphere and destroy inventor's laboratory which will end the without harrassinent from the I am writing 6 various news- lace can. '"Ibe R Document" will
the ozone layer. housewife's worries once and for all time. local paper, which, up to this papers across Canada in the hope be one of thip most widely read
With it comes the good news that with the time, I thought was the voice of of making contact with members and, talked -about novels of the
That particular layer, they say, protects pump you can buy three times as much of the people. TO DAY"S CH ILD of the ship's company who sailed year.
humans, as, well as all other animal and D in the Canadian Navy frigate
plant life on I earth from the ultraviolet rays whatever it was you used to get in the spray Once again, I am very disap- A -Madeleine" "A cruising guide to the Carib -
can — for the same money. pointed in your attitude and do H.M.C.S. "Cap e4a
bean and the Bahamas" by Jer-
emitted by the sun. Those rays are the slice What suckers we are! Of course you get not wish to advertise in your BY HELEN ALLEN during the years 1944-45.
of invisible light which cause sunburn. Thus, far better value for your money in a paper or read it in my home if It has been over 30 years since reins C. Hart and Win. T. Stone.
too many aerosol cans, too little ozone and container that demands finger power instead that is your biased attitude. we said our "so longs" and went This Ode, undoubtedly the
poof! — we all fry to a crisp. It sounds like of bottled gas. Obviously aerosol devices Yours very truly. our separate ways and just may- most comprehensive, complete
science fiction, but it happens to" be true. cost money to make — but did we think of Aloysius Nolan be there are. some who have and up-to-date one to a chafleng-
,So, there is a strong possibility that taken up residence in this area. ins,
area that has become ex-
thatwhen they firstcame on the market? No Donny aha
just as friendly as his smile This 12 -year-old is a I hope to re-establish old tremely popular among cruising
spray cans will be legislated out of existence. way. We just followed the Pied Piper down Editor's Note—As regular cheerfu"l. happy-go-lu-ckv.*co-operative youngster who enjoys
oys friendships by means of a new- enthusiasts,- is written by two
Such laws are ready for the books in several the road. readers of this page know, the people and is eager to please J letter and if possible, organize a yachtsmen who have for years
American states. All of which sounds like The pump, of course, is nothing new. It editor rarely adds a comment of Indian in descent, I)onny speaks EnglishandCree He is in reunion in 1977. cruised extensively in these
bad business for the manufacturers who has been in common use for years. As a his own to the letters published. grade five and really wants to learn but academic progress is Those who served in her during waters. In addition to a thorough
have soM millions of dollars worth of their matter of fact some elderly folk can even However, in this case there is slow. Thi�, I,., the result of early deprivation. not lack of basic her first Commission (1944-45) or coverage of cruising conditions,
products by convincing us that we can't remember when they just poured what they such obvious misreading of the intelligence those who have knowledge of the book includes photographs,
really get along very well without t . hose wanted out of a bottle. editorial referred to that we must I)onn,,. plays hockey and enjoys power and speed skating anyone who did so, may contact charts, diagrams, drawings, etc.
clarify. Boxing is his favorite sport He is becoming a good car me at the - following address: A must for any yachtsman plan -
In the first place, we wrote penter. Food of music, he belongs to a Glee Club and loves to Les Williams, ning a cruise in these waters or
sing
without any vestige of bias about 'rhis pleasant lad really wants to be adopted so he will 3Z7 Ashland Avenue, hoping one day to do so.
women in public office. On many helongtoafarnilN lie need's im olved, sports -minded parents Winnipeg, Manitoba. 'Ceremony of the Innocelitt" by
S ilence isn't n ecessarily golden occasions over the years this \,v ho will enjoy sharing activities with him and for whom 133L1L6 Taylor Caldwell.
newspaper has urged that women academic achievement is not a major concern 0-0-0 One of the country's most ac -
run for council seats. Most read- To inquire about adopting Donny. please write to Today's claimed novelists returns to late
Whatever happened to the good old semi-annual election system the meetings ers, too, will recall that we have Child. Ministr,, of ComnI and Social Services, Box 888. Dear Editor: nineteenth- and early twentieth -
"town meeting"? We can all remember a have been dropped in Wingham. This year, several times urged the inclusion Station K. Toronto IN14P 21-12 'In your letter tell something of Because of the continuous ef- century America as the setting
few years back when candidates for public particularly it would have been interesting of women in the ministry and your present family and your %kav of life forts of the Canada Safety Coun- for her most personal novel: the
office were expected to get up on the to hear the young candidates, to be provided priesthood. For general adoption' information. consult your local til and its volunteer supporters, parallel stories of a woman and 8
Children s Aid Societ,,
platform in the town hall and tell us what with some guidance when we go to the polls. When a newspaper comments December I to 7 has become es- country — and the loss of in -
they intended to do in the next term on Perhaps they might have nothing more to on the suitability of any person tablished throughout Canada as nocense. As the bride of Jeremy
say than, "I intend to do my best for you for public office it is simply ful- Safe Driving Week. It has an im- Porter, scion of a wealthy eastern
council or school board. people," but it would be helpful to hear them filling its responsibility. We are pressive history of success in the family, Ellen Watson is cata-
Since the change in law which set up the say even that much. surprised that the writer of this numbers of lives saved and in- pulted into a life she was never
letter is not better versed in the juries prevented. It has shown prepared to live — a life she
exercise of the democratic pro- what can be -accomplished when never quite believes herself
cess to which he refers. the majority of those who use our worthy of. She enters into a world
We admire Mrs. Bailey for her
streets and highways make a of politics, wealth and power, a
willingness to serve the coin conscious effort to think positive- world where hypocrisy and ruth-
It only takes time
munity and the interest which her ly about the safety of themselves lessness reign. Against the back -
candidacy indicates. The next and others. ground of a crumbling American
Perhaps the most selfish people in the this world. All that dear old friend wanted two years are extremely import
Much remains to be done be dream as a nation comes fully of
world are the busy people. In our own sense was a few moments of companionship — not ant ones for the this town and had cause our traffic fatality and in- age and faces the first World
of self-importance we rush madly from one money, not favors — nothing but our time. a woman with council experience
jury figures are still too high. I War, Ellen loses the one man who
task to the next, completely convinced that if Then another thought came along. How been running for mayor she reek the support of all for this can protect her . . . and a
we don't get everything done today the world many people do we know who really do would have received our unhesi-
worthy safety campaign, but I es country loses the man who per-
will
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wiII come to a sudden end. Most of us never appreciate our companionship? Outside of toting support.
pecially ask each driver and each haps could have saved it from the
stop to think how insignificant our tasks are immediate family there are very few. What pedestrian to support the Canada raw and brutal ambition of the
to other people. a great feeling to realize that there is 0-0-0 Safety Council in its efforts to sons of Cain. Taylor Caldwell has
A week or so ago we did take a few someone who wants and needs you! make Safe Driving Week — 19,76 written a broadbacked, shatter -
minutes to visit with an old friend —a person And of course there Is that final and the most successful ever. ing epic of a woman and a nation
who no longer can dash about like we do. It somewhat chilling thought — in a few years Dear Editor: Please do your part by driving —both betrayed by their own
was only when her thin old arms encircled us it will be our turn to sit by the window all day If you are one of the thousands safely so hat others may follow misplaced trusts and by a
of Canadians who drove to work your example. dangerous innocense that had
that we suddenly realized, with shame, how hoping in vain that somebody out there will this morning on congested roads Pierre Elliott Trudeau once been their greatest strength.
little we really think about the lonely folks in drop in — if only for a few minutes. or streets, you made the most i m -
portant decisions of your day.
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THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES have made the difference be Engineer says can hold budget
Published at Wingham. Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Limited tween life and death for yourself Huron County Engineer J. W. According to Mr. Britnell the
or for others. Did you really think Britneil is preparing a draft recent early snow storms have
about them or were they made by the caused a strain on the 1776 budget
Barry Wenger, President Robert O. Wenger, Secretary -Treasurer budget for 1977 consisting of
instinct alone? Were you quah- normal maintenance items plus but his department still forecasts
fied to make them at all? the road and bridge construction 'that all projects can be com-
Member Audit Bureau of Circulations As drivers we face the constant items as approved by County Pleted within the original budget
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Member — Canadian Community Newspapers Assoc. Ontario Weekly Newspapers Assoc. necessity of making a series of Council in their Long Range Con- and finish with a small surplus.
vital decisions that affect the struction Plan. The draft is ex- A six per cent wage increase,
Subscription $10.00 per year. Six months $5.25 To United Stotes $20.00 well-being of ourselves and s petted to be ready for the across the board, was approved
others. We are responsible for December session of County for employees of the County
Second Class Mail Registration No. 601 Return postage guaranteed their results- TI It is our duty to A GOOD CARPENTER Council. Roads Department.
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