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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1979 BLYTH, ONTARIO, PRICE: 25 Cents
A VICIOUS GANG - The Black Donnellys will ride again across the
boards at the Blyth Memorial Hall. The cast posed here were trying on
the Huron County Jail at Goderich for size. The play "The Death of the
Donnellys" will open August 21.
Fiddling for50 years
Player sums writer
BY DEBBIE RANNEY
Jim McCall of R.R. 1, Blyth has been
playing the violin for over 50 years now,
but recently discovered he had another
talent. He can write music.
Mr. McCall has been playing violin ever
since he was in public school, and since he
will be 65 in November of this year, he
figures he's been playing the violin for well
over 50 years. Over the years, he played
with several orchestras, but it has been in
the last year and a half that he discovered
his ability to write music.
He thought his case at writing lyrics
might have something to do with the fact
that he always could write poetry, but other
people told him that had nothing to do with
it. He started out by writing old time
waltzes but says that hymns are really his
strong point. But he has written a bit of
other music too, including more modern
songs, children's songs and Christmas
songs.
When writing his pieces, Mr. McCall
makes up the music first and lets it sit
around for a day or two,
"Often the music suggests words," he
said.
He said he could put the words down in
maybe 15 minutes once he gets started.
Once he has set the words to music, it's
almost impossible for him to change what
he's written. But he never bothers to write
lyrics to his waltzes. He always plays his
new tunes for his wife Effie who at one
time used to sing along with them. And he
puts all his music on tape.
Mr. McCall started his music collection
by writing Effie's Waltz, a song for his wife
and then he kept doing more and more
songs as they came to him,
Mr. McCall uses the violin to make up
his music but says he can't just sit down
and say he's going to make up a new tune.
"I think I just do it. 1 suppose it's a talent
you're born with," he said,
So far he has written 44 songs which he
keeps in a photo album, Mr. McCaII has a
publisher for some of his songs - Clar-
Don Publishing in Mount Forest, He
heard of the music publishing firm while in
Toronto looking for a publisher,
Of his new-found career as a music
writer. Mr. McCall says, "I enjoy it."
Volume 89 — No. 32
Blyth Vees in WOAA
The Blyth Vees will begin
their W.O.A.A. intermediate
Softball play-offs on Wed-
nesday, August 8 at 8:30 in
Blyth. Their opposition in the
best 2 out of 3 series will be
Ripley.
The Vee's continued their
excellent play of late winning
two games last week and
stretching their winning
streak to five games. On
Wednesday, August 1 Blyth
travelled to Belmore and
defeated the Belmore Inter-
mediates by the score of 5 to
3. Blyth scored four times in
the first inning with Bob
Hillis' bases loaded triple
highlighting the outburst, A
strong pitching performance
by Bruce Bromley and some
excellent defensive plays
held Belmore in check.
On Thursday, August 2 the
Vee's defeated the Howick
Summer theatre theatre
If you've been putting off
arrangements to attend the
plays at the Blyth Summer
Festival this year, time is
running out. One of the
season's plays has already
closed, and there are only a
few performances left of the
season's other three produc-
tions. If you kicked yourself
for not getting tickets to "I'll
Be Back For You Before
Midnight" before it closed,
you'll want to make reserv-
ations now for for the final
performances of "This
Foreign Land" on August 10
or August 18, or for "Child"
on August 9, 14, or 15.
"McGillicuddy's Lost Week-
end" has several perform-
ances left, of which the final
one is August 17. Tickets for
all performances are going
quickly, but most dates are
still open.
If you missed getting
Jrs. by the score of 7 to 6.
Howick took an early 6 to 2
lead but the Vee's fought
back scoring three runs in
the seventh inning and two
runs in the eight inning to
win the game.
A triple by Wayne Coultes
drove home Keith Lapp with
the game -tying win. Bruce
Bromley followed with a
sacrifice fly to drive in the
winning run.
Time Ieftllmited
reservations for the Saturday
night country suppers, don't
give up hope yet. The
Festival has added several
Friday night suppers on
August 10 (a performance of
"This Foreign Land") Aug-
ust 17 (a performance of
"McGillicuddy's Lost Week-
end") and August 24 (per-
formance of "The Donnel-
lys"). The cost is $5.50 per
person and reservations
must be made in advance at
the box office.
August 21 sees the open-
ing of a new production on
the Blyth stage. "The Death
of the Donellys" opens then
and runs until September 1.
Tickets for the Donnellys
play are $5.00 for adults,
$4.00 for seniors and $3.00
for children, and reserv-
ations are available by
phone.
Inside this week
Carriage house disappears P.
Beef drop hurts farmers P.
70 Immigrants okay'd P.
Squirts opposition fights with giggles P.
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Junior Farmers garden at Bluewater
The Huron County Junior
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second, annual Garden
Project at the Bluewater
Centre for the
Developmentally Handicap-
ped in Goderich, With the
help of several residents
from the Centre and a
student hired for the
summer, they have planted
and weeded and will harvest
and market a vegetable
garden.
The Centre is equipped
with a garden tractor and two
rototillers which are used to
care for the one and a half
acre garden. The Bluewater
Centre is anxious to make
use of the surrounding
property, while at the same
time preserve the rural
setting and to provide agri-
cultural training to some of
the residents. The Junior
Farmers hope, to make a
profit from the project and
return a portion of it into
improving the garden of the
facilities at the Centre for
additional resident training
and summer employment for
students. The whole purpose
of this project is to give the
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The play initially is about a
young couple grappling with
the fact that their eight year
old son has been lost in a
snow storm for 21 days.
Both, in their own way, are
blaming the other for the
loss. Celia, the mother
played by Kate Trotter, is a
fragile and icy character in
her mourning but becomes
the core of strength later.
Her husband Peter, played
by Sam Malkin, hides his
own fears by trying to get his
wife out of her shell.
The opening scene sets the
mood with Celia entering
with a lit birthday cake for
their son. There is nothing to
suggest a child's presence.
The tension is somewhat
eased when two neighbours
enter to offer their help to the
couple, along with a tuna and
potato chip casserole.
Although the initial con-
cern is with the child lost in
the storm another comes to
light when the appropriately
named "Dolly" played by
Seana McKenna tells the
bereaved Celia and Peter
that she is pregnant. Her
THE BLYTH STANDARD, AUGUST 8, 1979 — 3
husband Kerry, Peter Snell,
is not prepared to include
children in their lifestyle and
plans for the abortion.
The play is the serious
effort of James Roy, artistic
director, and theatre goers
are in for a bit of a shock. The
opening night audience
seemed uncertain about the
outcome of the scenes. Faced
with the very private pain the
parents are experiencing and
understanding the awkward-
ness the other couple feels,
the audience was nervous
and tended to laugh at many
little things that must have
made the actors agonize over
just what they were getting
across.
But the uncomfortable
feeling is soon laid to rest
with the incredible acting
quality of the four people on
the stage. Child is not a play
to avoid because of its
dramatic insight into todays
human nature. It is a play
that must be seen to be
enjoyed and pondered over.
Its highlights concern us all
and our children of the
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Behind the Scenes
by Keith Roulston
Anew cliche
Pardon my old cliche, but new cliches
are getting as scarce as hens' teeth.
You hear a lot of talk these days about
how difficult it is for oilmen to find new
supplies of oil to keep our energy hungry
world going. If they think that's tough,
they should be on the search writers have
for something new and different to say.
There's no greater insult one can give a
writer than to say he or she fills their work
with tired, hackneyed cliches. It's telling
the writer that there is little imagination in
the writing, that everything is borrowed
from somewhere else.
The trouble is it's getting harder and
harder to find something new and fresh to
write about. There is only so much new
under the sun. Most things in our world
take place in an endless cycle. People are
born, grow up, fall in love, marry, have
children and eventually die. There are
good times and bad times, happiness and
sadness, war and peace. Any one of those
conditions has been dealt with several
million times by writers from Shakespeare
to Arthur Hailey. Write about them min
and you're either running the risk of being
told you have nothing new to say o: you
have to find some new angle to write about.
Recently one writer desperate for
originality created a novel about Siamese
twins who get married to two different men
along with appropriate accounts of their
love lives. How about a love story about the
world's first two test tube babies, one male
and one female who fall in love, settle
down and start their own little test tube?
Coming up with something new to say in
a world with a finite number of new things
has always been a problem of course.
Every timz somebody writes a story it
means one less topic to deal with for the
next writer who comes along. With each
generation that passes the next generation
is that much harder to find something fresh
to write about. But the 20th century has
speeded up the process to a dizzying
extent. New technology has increased the
number of books in print. Radio and
movies increased the number of stories
being written and recorded. And today we
have the hungry giant of television which
gobbles up as many stories in a week as
were written and published in a century up
until our own.
If you want to be an inventive writer
these days you either have to find
something out of this world to write about
like science fiction or you have to spend
about two years researching to find out if
anybody else has come up with your idea
before you. If they haven't when you begin
that research, chances are somebody'l1,
have written about it by the time you
finish.
I think that's why there's been so much
attention paid to things like gay liberation
recently. It opened a new line of story
telling and everybody rushed to get in on
the action, to write something fresh, Of
course only about the first story was fresh.
After that we had the same cliches about
normal people being regenerated about
homosexuals. There was love, rejection,
jealousy and hate all played out again just
as in a 1940's movie.
It's not just individual story situations
that are now cliches but whole kinds of
stories. Over the years every combination
and permutation of story possibility has
been so repeated in western movies that
now the western movie is a cliche. I've read
or watched so many stories about the
loneliness of living in an isolated farm-
house on the prairies that if I never see
another one it will be too soon.
An acquaintance on attending a perform-
ance of a play of mine recently said to
herself: Lord, not another play about small
town politics. She was right of course. It's
all been said before.
Yet the thing about most cliches is that
they are eternal truths. They may be
stories told a thousand times but usually
they've happened a million times in real
life. One of the most common criticisms
I've received over the years as a writer is
that my characters are stereotypes (that's a
walking, breathing cliche). To some people
I guess they are. On the other hand, nearly
every one of those stereotypes was based
on a real person that I've met over the
years in the various small towns in this part
of the country. They're exaggerated a bit
for the sake of comedy perhaps, but they
started out as real people.
The problem is that we have dealt with
fiction on television and in movies and
books for so long that sometimes it's hard
to separate out what is real and what is the
copy. Does art imitate life or does art
imitate art? Sometimes when I get such
criticism I find it hard to figure out myself
whether my characters are original or are
shaped through the vision of too many
stereotypes of small town people perpetu-
ated on the television screen.
The nice thing about writing for theatre
however is that you have the real final
judge right in front of you: the audience.
Someone phoned the other night to tell me
how much they had enjoyed my play. "You
know," she said, "we didn't realize until
we got home that all those characters
reminded us of people we had known."
The cliches and stereotypes may not be
new, but they're still true. I guess I'll stick
with them.
The fire chief se ys
If you have a fire on your premises,
don't hesitate to calf' the Fire Dept.
because of what i1 may cost you. In this
area your municipal ouncil covers the
cost of fighting fires,
This is a public service announcement
sponsored by The Blyth Standard and
written by the Blyth fire Chief Irvine Bowes.
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Coach house dismantled
Grant Sparling and his wife Pat hated to
see it come down but discovered they had to
let the old coach house on their property go
because there was no foundation under it
and it was literally collapsing.
So they started tearing it down brick by
brick on Tuesday. Progress will be impeded
for about a week or so since a nest of baby
swallows was found in the building and they
will be given time to find their wings.
The old coach house had historical
significance to many people in Blyth as it
used to belong to the late Dr. Milne who was
well known here. The coach house was
where he kept his first car and stored his
carriages. There was a room where
harnesses were kept and behind that was a
horse barn and a cow barn. There also was
an upstairs in the building although Mr.
Sparling didn't know what it had been used
for.
The coach house held a lot of sentiment for
the older people in the village, Mr. Sparling
said. The bricks from the building will be
saved as they match the Sparling house,
Can YOUsave a life?
If the person next to you in a restaurant or theatre starts to choke or
turn blue, would you be able to assess the situation accurately and do
something to possibly save that person's life?
In many cases the answer would be no and it is that lack of
knowledge that lessens the chances of someone surviving a heart
attack or choking experience.
In Goderich last week nine persons registered for a two day course
on cardio -pulmonary resuscitation. A majority of those people were
nurses.
Ontario statistics claim 30 per cent of the lives (of heart attack
victims) could be saved if everyone knew basic cardiac life support and
the Ontario Heart Foundation course being taught is considered the
standard for the province.
We all believe that students should learn a little more about
managing how to live in today's society and this could be a starting
point. Learning cardio -pulmonary resuscitation in the schools would
prove an effective way of educating the public about this life saving
skill.
Perhaps the next place to start would be to have the two day course
taught to factory workers during stop periods. Between the schools and
the work place information would be made more accessible to the
everyday person who cannot stand to see anyone die without offering
to do something.
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1,000 FISH KILLED!—Pig manure spread on a
flood plain of the South Maitland River is
thought to have polluted the water and killed at
least 1,000 bass, suckers and catfish recently. A
three mile stretch of the river was affected in
McKillop and Hullett townships. Ministry of the
Environment officials from London investigated
the incident, but say they have made no
decision to lay charges in the incident.
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Obituary
LORNE JOSEPH CRONIN
Lorne Joseph Cronin died
early Wednesday August 1,
1979 in his home, Blyth. He
was 51 years old. His wife
was Josephine Gamble, He
was born in the Teeswater
area and lived in Blyth since
he was a young boy,
He is also survived by his
children Catherine (Mrs.
Brian Skinn), Wingham;
Mary (Mrs, Cameron Cook),
Belgrave and sons Tom and
Pat both at home.
Sisters Madeleine (Mrs.
Nelson Meier), Hamilton)
Marie (Mrs, Gerald Heffron)
Blyth; Margaret (Mrs. Ed.
LeSuudcr), Stratford, broth•
ers Jim of Mildmay and Tom,
of Blyth are all surviving.
Mr. Cronin is predeceased
by one brother and his
parents Mr, and Mrs. Tom
Cronin Sr.
The funeral service was
held Monday at St. Michaels
Roman Catholic Church,
Blyth, with Rev. Father J.F.
Hardy conducting the ser-
vice. Interment took place at
St, Michaels Roman Catholic
Church Cemetery, Blyth.
Pall bearers were Don.
Glousher, Carmen McDonald
Stanley Glousher, Jim
Chalmers, Lloyd Appleby
and Merve Ritchie.
Blyth Euchre results
There were only 5 tables of
euchre in play at Blyth
community centre Monday
night.
Here are the results,
Ladies high • Mrs. R. Watt)
men's high - Joe Homes;
ladies low - Vera Badley;
men's low - Clarence John-
ston) ladies lone hands -
Edna Hackwell; men's lone
hands • Ted Fothergill.
;hands
again next Monday
night.
Beef drop hurts farmers
BY LISE GUNBY
Seaforth grocery stores have dropped
their beef prices in accordance with the
province -wide cuts of 10 to 20 cents per
pound'.
Community consumers arc accordingly
pleased. But what about that producing and
consuming unit - the farmer? Cattle farmers
have been criticized, often unfairly, over the
past year. Now the swing of supply and
demand has stopped temporarily on the side
of the consumer.
"Everything that goes up has got to come
down," said Archie Etherington, past
president of the Ontario Cattlemen's Associ-
ation,
A cattleman who bought a steer three
months ago !for 1$1,000, fed the animal until
now, and possibly paid the interest tied up in
$1,000, can now get $850 to $900 for the
animal.
"That's a tremendous loss," said Mr,
Etherington.
The drop in price is having a "severe
dollar and cents effect," said Don McKer-
cher, a beef producer at R.R. 1, Dublin, with
a decrease of $10 per hundred pounds since
July 1,
"Figure that on a 1200 pound steer.
That's $120 a head," he said, "But on the
other hand, replacement prices have
dropped too, so that's a help,"
"The prices of replacement steers are
down considerably, so there is still a positive
margin if you're selling and buying today,"
said Mr, McKercher.
The effect of the price drop varies from
farm to farm, said Brian Miller of R.R. 3,
Exeter, who graduated from the Ontario
Agricultural College in agricultural eco-
nomics.
Those farmers who bought high priced
replacement cattle in March may benuking
less money than expected, he said, but those
who bought them cheaper in January may
not be realizing such losses,
"Certainly there has been a loss of
potential income," said Mr. Miller, and
inventory value has decreased, but the loss
is a "paper sort of thing" until the cattle are
actually sold.
Mr, Miller said that he wasn't sure the
supermarket chains were dropping the beef
prices as much as they could, They could
drop the price a little bit more to accurately
reflect the prices farmers are getting for
their beef.
"But the reaction seems to be fairly quick
this time," he said.
SUFFERING
Ross Procter, on a farm near Brussels,
said the farmer who is suffering from the
drop right now is the man who has been
buying feeder cattle at 600 to 900 pounds
and feeding them up to 1,100 pounds. These
farmers were paying $1 per hundred until
the price broke, and thus have $900 tied up
in an animal they kept for 60 days or longer,
plus feeding costs. That farmer, who now
has a 1,100 pound animal to sell, can only
get 72 cents per pound.
Beef is selling for $72 per hundredweight,
and the price should be $80 for the farmer to
break even, let alone make a reasonable
profit.
Mr, Procter, who is a cow/calf man,
explains the situation in the following way:
Today, he said, we're starting to breed for
our 1980 calf crop, which will be born in May
of 1980, It takes approximately two years to
grow them out, So the action we're taking
now won't be reflected in the markets until
1982.
"We're always operating on three years
lead time or drag time," said Mr. Procter.
GOOD BUY
Three years ago, there was an abnormal
low in prices, and consumers got an
extremely good buy, he said. So between
1974 and 1977, producers slowed down their
operations. That reduction is showing now,
after the three year drag time.
The implications of the present price drop
are long term, he said. The signal he's
getting as a cow/calf man is that there will
not be as much confidence in farmers to go
ahead and rebuild their herd after the cuts.
And the longer the price stays down, the
higher beef will go in the future, he said,
Consumers should understand that, said
Mr. Procter. "I'm not damning the people
who try and do something about beef
prices," he said, by substituting other foods
or buying economical cuts, but they should
realize that it's a "three-year deal."
In addition to the iron law of supply and
demand, there are a "whole host of
reasons" for the present price cut, he said: a
soft economy, the truckers' strike in the
United States which disrupted the marketing
of cattle and other agricultural products,
consumer resistance to the earlier rise in
beef prices and the publicity surrounding the
price of beef,
Also, said Mr, Proctor, "if the pork cycles
don't happen to coincide (ie. if pork and beef
prices aren't high at the\same time), then
the consumer does have) an alternative,"
thereby decreasing the demand for beef.
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DEMAND DOWN
Brian Miller cited a number of reasons for
the price drop. "In Ontario and Canada in
general, as well as in the States, the demand
for beef is down considerably."
Carcass weights are higher, he said, and
so there is more beef available for this
reason, and not just because of the sheer
number of animals on the market. The
increased weight is related to the cost of
replacement cattle, he said, because from
February through to now, the prices for
them have risen dramatically.
"Instead of buying more cattle," said Mr.
Miller, farmers are keeping what they have
longer and feeding them a little differently."
Because the price of corn was not that high,
more farmers were feeding high-energy
rations, he said, although the price of corn
has now risen dramatically ($20 a ton in a
three-week period).
•
In addition, there has been a "big
increase in pork production in eastern
Canada as well as in the States" he said, and
"broilers are a relatively attractive alter-
native to beef for the summer season,"
What docs all this mean for the cattle
farmer and ultimately the consumer?
"The long term trend is towards a rise in
the price," said Mr. Miller, "but that may
take six months to a year." This will depend
on when the supply drops or when a cut-back
in pork production occurs, he said.
"The crop isn't over yet," Mr. Ether-
ington said, "it (the price) isn't going to
jump back up next week."
Despite losses, real and potential, arca
beef producers, though not welcoming the
market situation, seem to be taking this
weeks price reductions in stride.
As Don McKercher said, "We've recov-
cred before.
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S - THE BLYTH STANDARD, AUGUST 8, 1979
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Regional Headquarters in
Toronto, Seventy of these
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five were refused and the
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birthday celebrations the
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NEWS
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MRS. ELEANOR
BRADNOCK
during past years. Some of
the teachers and pupils are
Mrs. Marie (Welsh) Beatty,
Aldon Hasty, Edith Beacom,
Eugene Dobie, Marian
Tigert, Madeline Caesar,
Gordon Murray, Ellis Little
and any other pictures you
may have. They will be taken
off and returned. If you have
any please send them to Mrs.
Oliver Anderson.
Mr. and Mrs, Robert
Youngblut, Susan and
Kristen of Toronto visited on
the weekend with his
mother, Mrs. Myrtle Munro.
Mrs, Ray Griffiths of
Blyth and Mrs. Bob Soloburg
of Mississauga visited last
Thursday with Mrs. Myrtle
Munro,
If you are interested in
seeing the Owl and the Pussy
Cat at the Grand Bend
Theatre on August 15th
please contact Mrs, Leonard
Armchambault immediately.
Winner of the July 25th
Auburn and District Lions
Club Lottery Draw was ticket
343, Dorothy Green and
Little Brother, 103 Napier St.
Goderich,
August 1st draw No 162,
Mason Robinson, Box 1091,
Wingham Ont.,
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Weston of Toronto are visit-
ing this week with her
mother, Mrs. Mary Rollinson
and brother Mr. Murray
Rollinson.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Cartwright, David and Der-
rick attended the Muzzle -
loading shoot near Kitchener
last weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther
Morley of Ailsa Craig visited
on Sunday with her brother
Mr. Ben Hamilton and Mrs.
Hamilton.
Mr. and Mrs, William L.
Craig returned on Monday
from a two week trip to the
West Coast.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Haines of
Niagara Falls visited on the
weekend with his parents
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Haines.
Mrs. Mary Johnston and
daughter Jennifer of London
visited on the weekend with
her parents Mr. and Mrs.
Wilfred Sanderson.
Mr, and Mrs. Ralph
Hamlyn of Lambeth visited
last Sunday with Mrs, Albert
McFarlane.
Mrs. Anne Overholt and
friend of Woodstock visited
last Thursday with Mrs.
Eleanor Bradnock.
Mr. and Mrs. Allan Craig,
Tyler, Peter and Benjamin
returned last Thursday
evening after a two week.
camping trip up north.
Mr, and Mrs. Greg Park
visited last week with friends
at Athens near Brockville.
Mr. and Mrs. Major
Youngblut visited last week
at Al's cove up on Georgian
Bay with Mr. and Mrs. Allan
Rush and also with Mr, and
Mrs. Don Smith and family
at their cottages for a few
days,
Mr. Warner Andrews
arrived home last Tuesday
after a three week trip to
Western Canada visitng at
Kindersley and Saskatoon,
Russel Manitoba and
attended the Thresherman's
Reunion at Saskatoon and at
Austin Manitoba.'
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THE BLYTH STANDARD, AUGUST 8, 1979 — 7
Londesboro h�s'. lakeside service
A large number of .the
United Church congregation
attended 'service overlooking
the hike at Menestung Park,
Goderich on Sunday
morning,
Welcoming the
Worshippers was Nick
Whyte Ushers were Scott
ONDESBOR
NEWS
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MRS. BERT
HOBBROOK
Overboe, John Cartwright,
Larry Gross and Kevin
Radford.
Before the service
Barbara Bosman with Diane
Stevenson accompanied on
electric accordian led in the
hymn sing.
Mr. Bob Elliott was guest
speaker. His message was
"God is Close in the Outdoor
Setting." emphasizing
personal relationships to
God.
Benediction was by Rev.
Scott, Mr. Elliott thanked
everyone for his invitation
and to Dianne Steenson for
the music.
Next service will
September 2nd as Rev. Scott''•
is on holidays.
This service was followed
by a smorgasbord picnic
lunch served inside.
After lunch a number
enjoyed the swimming pool
with Ken Scott and Brenda
Radford acting as lifeguards.
Others enjoyed touring and
just visiting.
PERSONALS
Congratulations to Mary
Lou Vincent and Donald
Stephen Blake who were
married in our church on
Saturday August 4th.
Mr. and Mrs, Jim Fowler
of Strathroy visited on the
weekend with her parents
Mr. and Mrs. Claire Vincent
and attended the
Blake -Vincent wedding
where Elaine was guest
soloist.
Valerie Miller. and Marsha
of Clinton visted on
Wednesday with her
grandparents Mr. and Ms.
Bert Shobbrook.
Mr. and Mrs, Norman
Lunar of Scarboro visited last
weekend with Mrs. Alice
Davidson and their mother
Mr.s Grace Fairey.
Mrs. Grace Harrison of
Weston and Miss Eva Vivian
of Toronto, who are
holidaying at Inverhuron
called on Mrs. Knox and
Lavine on Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs, Bill Knox of
Blyth spent Thursday with
his mother while Lavine was
in Toronto for the day.
Miss Betty Hutchinson
and Marion Doran of Toronto
and Mrs. John Shaw of
Lambeth called on Mrs.
Knox and Lavine on Saturday
and attended the Blyth
-Theatre production Child in
Mrs. Millson, Sarah
and John of Woodstock spent
Wednesday and Thursday
with her parents Mr. and
Mrs. Bert Shobbrook. Darren
returned home with them.
Visitors on Thursday with
Mr. and Mrs. Airie Duizer
were Mr. and Mrs. Anton
Korthos and sons Herb and
Bert, Mrs. G. Kerhoeven,
Mr. and Mrs, H. Klop and
son Herb, nephews of Mrs.
Duizer from Holland.
On the weekend ne •phew
Anton Slaavinenhock of
Kitchener visited the
Duizers.
On Sunday Mr. and Mrs.
John Ceen of Holland and
John Ceen of Kincardine
visited the Duizers,
On Sunday evening at the
same home Mr, and Mrs.
Jacob Muelwib, Fonthill and
Mr, and Ms. Pete Hoonard of
Blyth visited,
-Julie Scott and friend Kim
Philips of Goderich visited
last week with her
grandmother Mrs. Jean
Scott.
Mr. and Mrs. Ken Scott,
Jim Bob, Christie, Mrs, Jean
Scott and Julie were Sunday
supper guests of Mr. and
Mrs, Wm, Scholl, Monkton,
Bonnie Turner,
Tuckersmith spent a few
days last week with her
cousin Elizabeth Lawson.
This week Barry Turner is
visitng with John Lawson,
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Burns
were Sunday guests with
their daughter Mr, and Mrs.
Colin Paterson, London, also
present were Colin's mother
Mrs. Annie Paterson from
Crieff Scotland and his
cousin, Miss Sheila
McPheson, _ Glasgow,
Scotland.
Theresa and Melanie Knox
spent the weekend with their
grandmother Mrs. Beth
Knox.
Mr, and Mrs. Chas,
Chambers and Laura of
Clinton visited on Sunday
with her parents Mr. and
Mrs. Jim McEwing,
Gregg Andrews had the
misfortune on Saturday to a
fall that caused a
fracture to collar bone,
Vacation Bible School
August 13 -17th.
BURNS U.C.W.
The Burns U.C.W. met
at the home of Gladys and
Ida Leiper on Wednesday
aftenoon with 16 present. Ida
Leiper opened the meeting
with reading "Forget and
Remember", Ida led in
prayer. Readings "My Bible
and I" and "Recipe for
Living" were by Ramma
Jamieson and Gladys Leiper.
Ida Leiper read the scripture.
Ida called on (Margaret
Taylor who gave a most
interesting talk and showed
pictures and souveniers of
her recent trip to the
Netherlands and other
European countries. Ida
Leiper thanked Margaret
also Ramma and Gladys for
helping.
Mrs, Rice was in charge of
the business. Roll Call was
answered by a Bible verse.
Treasurers report was read
by Jean Leiper.
Correspondence was
received from the United
Church of Canada regarding
refugees.
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DINAH AND THE GREEN
FAT KINGDOM
By Isabelle Holland
Everything happened the
year Dinah Randall was
twelve. A move to a new
town; a cousin moved in with
them; Dinah, always plump,
got tat; everyone tried to
heap (?) her lose weight. She
was so unhappy Dinah took
refuge in a fantasy world.
Francis, an ugly pup, and
new friends came to the
rescue.
Auburn
The Auburn Librarian,
Mrs, Lillian Letherland has
requested that all Huron
County Library books be in
by August 16th.
re
Mrs. Rice reported two
more boxes of clothing
were delivered to Scott
Mission, Toronto.
Burns leo dies will provide
cookies for the last day of
Bible School. Hazel Reid,
Margaret Taylor and Glorida
and Mr. Ewing volunteered
•to help.
Mrs. Rice closed with
prayer and lunch was served.
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8 — THE BLYTH STANDARD, AUGUST 8, 1979
Area wedding Ladies home
Knox United Church, Bel -
grave was decorated with
white and blue silk bows with
hand crafted roses in their
centres and lighted candel-
abra enhanced with pink and
white silk flowers for the
wedding of Doreen Margaret
Taylor of Belgrave and Jack
Louis Mali of Holyrood. Rev.
John G. Roberts of Belgrave
performed the double ring
ceremony on Saturday July
7, 1979 at 3:30 p.m.
The bride is the daughter
of Margaret and Lawrence
Taylor of Belgrave and the
groom's parents are Rose"
and John Prapost of St.
Catherines.
Donelda Lamont of
Belgrave was maid of honour.
Bridesmaids were
Joyce Thompson of RR112,
Lucknow, Brenda Mali of
Calgary, Alberta and Heat-
her Currie of RR113, Wing -
ham. They wore gowns sim-
ilar to the maid of honour.
Trisha Taylor of R.R. 5,
Wingham was the flower
girl
Pasquale Urso of Sudbury
was groomsman and Guilio
Tonelli, Sudbury, Robert
Gordon, Belgrave and Stelvio
Bandiera of Toronto ushered
the guests.
The organist Alison Roberts
played the Homecoming
while the bride and her
attendants entered the
church. She accompanied the
soloist, George Cull, when he
sang Turn Around, We've
Only Just Begun, 1 Believe
and the Wedding Hymn. The
Wingham Legion was decor-
ated with pink candles and
vases of pansies on the tables
for the reception which fol-
lowed,
They toured northern Ont. on
their honeymoon.
The couple have taken up
residence at RR 3 Holyrood.
The groom is employed at
the F.E. Madill Secondary
School in Wingham and the
bride is employed at the
Wingham and Area Day
Centre for the Homebound.
Huronview ladies
take shopping tour
Mrs. Charlotte Dearing,
Mrs. Bernice Glousher, Mrs.
Florance Flood, Mrs, Minnie
Fowler, Mrs. Verna Elliott,
and Mrs. Myrtle Parker
spent Friday afternoon shop-
ping at the mall in Goderich,
Saturday morning, the
choir held a practice. Rev.
Darrell preached on Sunday
horning, and Sunday even -
ng Mr. Dick Roorda held a
service,
We thought for awhile on
fuesday morning that our
)arbecue for 1st Floor North
ladies, and Ground Center
would be rained out, but Mr,
Sun co-operated, and we had
a beautiful day to enjoy the
hamburgers and hotdogs.
The Over 90 Club held
their picnic at the Conser-
vation Park. Mrs. Margaret
Jackson, Mr. John Baker,
Ephraim Clark, Bill Westlake
Lillian Ballantyne, Jennie
Lawson, Caroline Palmer,
Mrs. Elizabeth Rae, Mrs.
Grace Bell and Mr. Roy
Maize played several games
under the direction of Mrs.
Pat Hunking. A boxed lunch
was served at the close. Mrs.
Elsie Henderson and Mr.
Cecil Skinner provided the
musical entertainment.
Huronview would like to
welcome Dr. John Gorwili,
Mrs. Charlette McQuire, and
Mrs. Muriel Gibson, These
people are all new residents
this past week,
from Isle tour
Mr. and Mrs, Robert John-
son of Mississauga called on
Mrs. Harry McGuire on
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ron Kirk-
ham of Windsor who are
holidaying at Jellystone Park
Bayfield visited on Saturday
with their uncle and aunt Mr.
and Mrs. Lawrence Taylor.
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Clark-
son of Fordwich visited on
Sunday evening with Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Hibberd.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thomp-
son of Goderich visited on
Saturday with Mr. and Mrs.
Mark Armstrong.
Bureau Editor:
MRS. LEWIS
STONEHOUSE
Mr. and Mrs, Harold
Cantelon of Tweed spent the
holiday week -end with her
mother Mrs. Harry McGuire
and attended the Wingham
Centennial.
Miss Mae Coulter of Ayl-
mer and Mrs. Clifton Walsh
have just returned home
from a tour of England,
,.Ireland and Scotland.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne
Nichol and family of Bramp-
ton visited on Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Wight -
man.
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Wight -
man and family of Fergus
motored to Vermillion, Al-
berta to visit with his sister
and brother-in-law Mr. and
Mrs. Fred McGrath and
family also toured Jasper and
Banff.
Mrs.. Verdin Mowbray of
Lucknow and Dr. John Mow-
bray who is home for a
month's vacation from Africa
spent last Thursday at the
home of Mr, and Mrs.
Lawrence Taylor.
Walton pair
visit Utah
The community is invited
to the Resolutions meeting of
the Walton Women's Ins-
titute along with two other
Institutes on Wednesday,
August 15 at 8:15 p.m. This
being the year of the child,
Kathy Pride of Goderich will
be guest speaker.
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Wat-
son spent a few days over the
Civic Holiday week -end with
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Prit-
chard, Kim and Mark of
London.
Mr. Jim Shortreed of the
Manor, Seaforth spent the
weekend with Mrs. Short -
reed at their home in the
village. Sunday dinner
guests with Jim and Isabelle
were Mr. and Mrs. Gordon
Shortreed and Wilfred Short -
reed, Miss Michelle Beuer-
mann and friend of Stratford
called at the same home
Sunday evening to visit with
her grandparents.
Mrs. Edna Hackwell spent
a recent weekend with Mr.
and Mrs. W. Smith and
family in London.
Mr, and Mrs. Stewart
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MRS. ALLAN
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with their daughter, Kim in
Salt Lake City, Utah.
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human hair or lifelike synthetic fibre hairpieces,
available only from Aug. 7 to Aug. 19. Early
appointments are advised; some colours are in
limited supply. Hairpiece specialist Gina McCann
will operate the Bruno centre at Chris Penderson's
Barber Shop, 103 Water S t reet, Kitchener [744-
8692] and Frank Willemsen will operate the Bruno
centre in Henry's Barber Shop, 126 Downie Street
[271.0980]. Both learned their specialities from their
award•winnling hairpiece stylist brother, Harry
Willemsen, for the past two years operator of the
original Bruno of Toronto shop. Members of the
Willemsen family have barbered in the Kitchener
area for 25 years. All Bruno centres offer complete
services Including hair adding, cleaning, colouring
and specialize in custom hairpiece manufacturing.
A TEAM TO BATTLE—The Squirts in Blyth
were in for a surprise Wednesday evening when
their mothers showed up to play in some pretty
Busters tie,winone
On Monday, July 19 Blyth
Busters tied with Benmillcr
in Benmillcr. The score was
22-22. On Monday, July 30
Blyth defeated Summerhill in
Londesboro. Lori Ann
I-Icsselwood hit 2 home runs
and Marg Anderson hit one.
The final score of the game
was 19-8. Blyth plays again
in Blyth at 8:30 on Wednes-
day 1 against Londesboro
and Monday Aug. 6 against
Benmillcr.
BLYTH INN
FOR 1'Ol1R ENTERTAINMENT
1ENT
Aug. 10-1 1
LES PERANCE
YOUR 1IOST HAROLD AND TIIELMA
NNFW
���P McGAVIN.O<<AIvo
FARM EQUIPMENT
Sales & Service
FORAGE HARVESTERS
(with hay pickup & cornheod)
—Fox 900 1-770 N.H. 1-260 M.F., like new
2-5717 N.H. 2-880 N.H.
ii Several used forage harvesters In stock many makes
and models
FORAGE BOXES
1—Fox w/8 ton Horst wagon $ 1,495
iii 1—Fox w/roof & new 8 ton Horst wagon . , . $ 2,195
iiii 1—Grove w/new 8 ton Horst wagon $ 1,795
1—Grove w/Martin wagon $ 1,595
1—Kasten w/roof $ 1,295
iii 1—Turnco $ 950
1—Rex w/roof & JF 9 ton wagon $ 1,695
ili 1—Kasten w/new 8 ton wagon $ 1,79S
1—Dion w/Vic wagon $ 1,750
ii 1—Dion 3 yrs., w/roof & 8 ton Horst wagon $ 1,99S
2—Dion on GMC trucks each$ 2,500
1 -Dion w/roof on GMC truck, 350 engine,
air brakes $ 3,500
1—Rex w/roof $ 49S
i! 1—Gehl w/roof $ 295
6.6
6.6
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6.6
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6.6
6.6
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SPECIAL 0 - -THE WEEK
A.C. C w/scuffler
BALERS
250 Ford 530 Ford #37 I,H.C,
#46 I.H.C. Cockshutt #67 N.H..,
268 N.H.N.M. Super 67•
HAYBINES & CONDITIONERS
Gehl 9' haybine N.I. hay condit,
270 N.I, cutditioner 2—Cunningham condit.
450 N.H. mower
ASK FOR NEIL OR BOB
519-887-6365 WALTON 519-527-0245
iii
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ridiculous costumes. The game was between
the mothers and sons on the team. The score
was believed to be tied. The outrageous players
are (front) Lenore Scrimgeour, Gwen Patterson,
Brenda McDonald, Pat Sparling, Barb Howson,
Sybill McDougal, hiding behind are Carol
Lawrie, Donna Sippel, Mary Bell, Laurel
Glousher, Joan Leibold and Deanna Snell.
THE BLYTH STANDARD, AUGUST 8, 1970 — 0
WARP1ING: Som.
:Scenes Ma'
'Frighten -- , ; ;
/.,A• Theatres eranch�
• entad
Recommended as
ADULT ENTERTAINMENT
Starts Friday Aug. 10 • Aug.) 6
Friday & Saturday Two Showings 7 & 9:10
Sunday - Thursday One Showing 8 p.m.
30 THE SQUARE
PHONE 524.1811
AIRCONDITIONED
WINGHAM *PHONE 357.1630 FOR 24 HOUR
LYLEDM
(INEMA
••••••
•
MOVIE INFORMATION
WEDNESDAY TO SATURDAY
AUGUST 8.9.10 -11TH
-Seo Both Films For The Same Admission
The Promise 7:00 p.m. Zenda 9:00 p.m.
p1�
OFZEI
Plus 2nd Feature
SONF.
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SUNDAY -MONDAY -TUESDAY, AUGUST 12-13-14
ONE SHOWING EACH DAY AT 8:00 P.M. ONLYI
Never
have
so fRw
taken
so much
Wont so
many.
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Last Night Thurs. Aug. 9
THECONC�RD'
A/RP�RT7O
STARTS FRI. AUG. 10 - 16
Recommended as
ADULT ENTERTAINMENT
AE,1117LLE `':
I- ORROR _g or
Ihat'n li `tntliio:
iAANit$G:'SOME & E j,�4Y �R,�•IIGHTEi;I1kr 40%1
...makes "CARRIE"
look like an angel!
HWY. 8 GODERICH AT
CONCESSION RD. 4 •
• PHONE 524-9981
1
BOX OFFICE OPENS AT 8:30 P.M.
FIRST SHAW AT DUSK
For Information Phone:
482.7Q30
DRIVE-IN ITEDTHEATRE
LIM
BEECH STREET-CLINTON
t _ NTIL SAT. AUG. 11
2ND FEATURE
CLINT
EASTWOOD
CUNT
EASTWOOD
WILLTURN
You
EERY
WHICH
WAY
BUT LOOSE'
ADULT ENTERTAINMENT
ADULT ENTERTAINMENT
PLEASE NOTE: Complimentary Passes
not valid for Clint Eastwood shows.
SUN. AUG. 12 THR_U TO TUE. AUG. 14
Everything happens I
on the boulevard -
and the boulevard
happens at night.
•T��,iJ1 ! XI
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• r~ `
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— aomorrANct
10 .1210,0$
,wl CO Aol a onl
Starting Wednesday,
"ALIEN' is a corker, a walloper, a rouser, a screecher and
a ton of fun...11 all movies were as thrilling I would happily
spend all of my lime in the movies."
Gone Sl..hl. NBC IV
Aug. 15
IF YOU STEAL IT,
ROLL IT AND WRECK IT -
YOU'RE A
OP%
111
ADULT ENTERTAINMENT
10 h- THE BLYTH STANDARD, AUGUST 8, 1979
1 Coming Events
FLOWER SHOW and Tea
Thursday, August 16, 3 • 9
p.m. Blyth Arena.
Horticultural Society invites
everyone to exhibit and
attend. Special prizes.
1.84x2
THE HURON COUNTY
HEALTH UNIT
invites you to attend the
Child Health
Clinic
HEALTH UNIT OFFICE,
MEDICAL BUILDING,
BRUSSELS
on
TUESDAY, AUGUST 14/79
from
9:30.11:30 a.m.
for:
1. Health Surveillance
2. Anaemia Screening
3. Immunization
4, Fluoride 1.84-1
COMMUNITY MEETING for
interested citizens of East
Wawanosh and Morris
Townships at the Belgrave
Arena Thursday, August 9 at
8:30 to discuss a proposal for
managing the Belgrave
Community Centre by a
committee representing the
Townships of East
Wawanosh and Morris.
1.83-
CLINTON LEGION BINGO
every Thursday, 8:00 p.m. ,
First regular card $1. re-
stricted to i6 years or over,
15 regular games of $15. $5
least on split, Many other
specials. Jackpot $200. must
go each week.
1.79-tf
4 Help Wanted
4 Help Wanted
SENIOR
SECRETARY
An opening exists in the Administrative Centre of
the Huron County Board of Education for a
Senior Secretary
Superior typing and shorterhand skills advan-
tageous.
Salary and benefits will be discussed in detail at the
interview.
Applications will be taken until
AUGUST 17, 1979
Please send detailed resume of qualifications,,
past experience and salary history to
MR. J. W. COULTER
Superintendent of Education
The Huron County Board of Education
103 Albert Street
CLINTON, Ontario
R. J. ELLIOTT D. J. COCHRANE
Chairman Director
4.83.2
CYANAMID
FARM SUPPLY CENTRE
R.R.4, Clinton
482-3423
Requires immediately full
time person to perform
general duties. Work
includes truck driving, fork
lift, pay loader,
maintenance, etc, 4-84-2
NANTADS
Word count
Charges are based on the number of words. Sets of
numerals as for serial numbers, street numbers,
phone numbers or prices count as one word per set.
Words joined by hyphens count as separate words.
FIRST INSERTION -15 words $2.00, 08c per word
thereaf ter
SUBSEQUENT INSERTIONS - No copy changes,
6c per word, minimum 51.50
SEMI -DISPLAY
FIRST INSERTION - 51.68 per column inch.
SUBSEQUENT INSERTIONS - 51.40 per column
inch.
(Minimum size in this category 2 inches. Accepted
in multiples of half inch)
BOX NUMBERS to this office - 50 c per insertion.
BIRTHS - 15 words 52.00, 8c per word thereafter
MARRIAGES, ENGAGEMENTS, DEATH
NOTICES - 15 words 52.00 each additional word
8c
IN MEMORIAMS- 52.00 plus 10c per line of verse
COMING EVENTS - , 15 words 52.00, each
additional word 8c, Three insertions for the price
of 2
CARD OF THANKS - 30 words 52.00; each
additional word 3c per word.
25c DISCOUNT FOR CASH PAYMENT AT TIME
OF INSERTION.
MadII.e of classified ads Is 4:00 P.M. Monday
No cancellation of multiple insertion
advertisements after Noon, Mondays.
Phone 523-9646
5 Bus Opportunity
DEALERSHIPS now avail-
able for new and innovative
Central Vacuum Systems.
Canadian made, Small
investment can increase your
income substantially. Con-
tact: PaulMills, Centra -Vac
Warehouse, 48 McCague
Cres., Alliston, Ont, LOM
1AO. 5-84x1
GO Into Business for yourself
Electrolux will help you. No
investment - car required.
For appointment call 271-
6571 or write Box 54, Strat-
ford, Ont. 5.83.4
Farm Stock For Sale
HAMPSHIRE, Yorkshire and
York X Landrace boars,
serviceable age. Bob
Robinson, R.R.#4, Walton.
345.2317. 8.84-2
FOR SALE Saanen nanny
goats due this fall. Phone
523-4284. 8-84x1
11 Articles For Sale
BUY your new International
Harvestor Lawn Tractor now
In 80 (Hydrostatel)
36" Twin Blade mower
Farm prile 51650.00
Down payment 450.00
Bal. Dec. 1/79 $1200.00
No Interest
rturewe
SEAEONTH AYR • CAMBRIDGE 1
Seaforth 527.0120
11-84-1
MOVING - Selling antique
electric floor model radio,
bell pump organ, display
case; old mirror frame and
mirror, laundry tubs, triple
dresser and double bed, 48"
mattress and spring with
legs, Inglis automatic washer
and dryer, electric freezer,
child's rocking chair, child's
wagon and tricycle (needs
repair), old bottles. Phone
523.4569. 11.97.2
4 Help Wanted
4 Help Wanted
Theatre Administrator'
RESPONSIBILITIES
Working closely with artistic director in operation of
Blyth Summer Festival and co-ordination of winter
cultural program.
SALARY:
58,000.00.510,000.00
POSITION:
Full time, March to September, Part time, balance
of year.
Forward applications to:
The President, Board of Directors,
Blyth Centre for the Arts
Box 291, Blyth, Ontario. NOM 1110
Application deadline -- August 24, 1979.
4-84-1
11 Articles For Sale
ADMIRAL and Simplicity
Home freezer available in all
sizes, Bowes Electronic
Shop Hamilton St., Blyth
Ont. 523.4412. 11-84.4
STAVE -TYPE silo, 14' x 60'
with top, fill pipe, ladder and
unloader, less motor, To be
moved. Phone 523-9360 or
524-8065. 11-84-4
4 WOODEN windows, 2
glass, 28" x 56" • good
condition. Phone 523-4430.
11-84x1
Property For Sale
11 Articles For Sale
LODI cooking apples ready
now. Contact Boyd Taylor.
523-9279, 11-83.2
STOVE wood for sale. Hard
maple, beech cherry and
ash, Phone 5.7251.
11.81x4
PIANOS -ORGANS new and
used at lowest prices. From
June 16th.- to August 20th
store will be open by appoint-
ment only. Pulsifer Music
527-1508 or 527.0053.
11.79-tf
Property For Sale
WORKMAN
REAL ESTATE LTD.
Henry Mero, Seaforth, Office 527-0430
Ron Doiron, Bayfield Office 565.2797
Harold Workman, Clinton Office 482-3455
Dirk van der Werf, Res. 482-3165
QUEEN STREET
11/2 storey home in excellent condition, 3 bedrooms,
garage, sundeck, 531,000.00.
MORRIS TWP
99 acres, 67 workable, gravel pit and bush,
$72,000.00
HULLETT TWP
213 acres, 150 workable, 600 hog barn, steel shed. 4
bedroom home, 5189,000.00.
HULLETT TWP.
246 acres, 220 workable, house, barn, 2 sheds,
$350,000. MORRIS TWP
100 acres, 90 workable, brick house, large barn,
$129,000.00
EAST WAWANOSH
100 acres, 80 workable, 8 acres hardwood, beef
barn, beautiful 2 storey brick home, $126,000.00.
DINSLEY STREET
5 bedroom Aluminum sided home. Large lot.
519,900.
STONE HOUSE
2 acres with a four bedroom stone house, large
workshop. $69,000.
WANTED
"Farm Listings of all types."
14-84-1
Pierre Rammeloo•
Res. 523-9478
Reduced to sell • nicely decorated home, has
Franklin fireplace, counter top stove, fridge, ready
to move in.
Four unit apartment bldg. all rent( .- block from
Main Street in Blyth
Blyth area - 150 acre hog farm.
Blyth area • house and small barn on app. 3 acres.
200 acre beef farm north of Blyth
200 acre hog set up.
Our company has over 100 farms of all sizes listed in
the Counties of Huron, Bruce and Grey.
14.64•tf
12 Wanted To Buy
QUANTITY of mixed grain.
887.9275, 12-84x1
WANTED - Used furniture,
appliances and antiques. Call
Jack's Place, Lucknow, 528-
2625.
12-79-tf
Property For Sale
Real Estate Ltd.
Clinton
Phone:482. 371
13 ACRES • at Holmesville,
with modern 1 floor home
and farrowing operation.
******
BLYTH - 1'/2 storey 3 bdrm.
frame home, on extra large
lot, Located on paved hwy.
******
Restaurant and gas bar,
Londesboro. Apartment
above.
******
11/2 storey, 2 bdrm. brick
homeon Dinsley St. Priced for
quick sale.
******
150 ACRES - in Morris Twp.
with barn and 11/2 storey
frame home,
******
MORRIS TWP. - 2 floor brick
home on 5 acres with frame
barn, 2 miles from Blyth.
Severed.
******
BLYTH • 1 floor 3 bdrm.,
frame home, broadloomed
throughout. Garden house
included.
******
CHOICE BUILDING LOTS -
fully serviced in Village of
Blyth.
******
BLYTH - 11/2 storey frame
home, Central location. Nice-
ly decorated and landscaped
with sundeck and garage.
******
BELGRAVE AREA -150 acre
dairy farm, has milking par-
lour, lots of buildings. F.C.C.
mortgage in effect.
******
5 ACRES - East Wawanosh
Twp. with barn, 1'/2 storey
frame home with stone fire-
place, nicely decorated and
landscaped.
******
FABRIC STORE - located in
Blyth. Apt. above.
******
CLINTON - 1 floor frame
home on SOLD Located
on Hwy. #4.
******
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
If in the last few years you
haven't discarded a major
opinion or acquired a new
one, check your pulse. You
may be dead. 14-84-1
FOR SALE - Three bedroom
older 2 story brick house on
acre of land with garage
in the village of Walton.
Marie Coutts, phone ,
887-9307. 14-84x2
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cvante!ASSIFIE
13 Wanted 19 Notices 22 Legal Notices
WANTED',
DEAD OR DISABLED
COWS & HORSES
STOCKER CATTLE
TOP PRICES PAID
For fresh animals over S00 Ib. $1.00 a hundred
weight. Cows and horses over 1,200 Ib. 15,00 each.
4 Wheel drive radio dispatch trucks, 24 hour service
7 days a week.
BRUSSELS
PET FOOD SUPPLIES
Local calls - 887-9334, toll free 1.800.265 -4267
13.70-tf
GOOD used furniture,
appliances, antiques.
Vanastra Home Furnishings.
Phone 482-7922.
13.79-tf
17 Wanted To Rent
TWO or three bedroom
apartment or house in Blyth
or area. Call Rob Burkholder,
days at 523.9474, 17.84-tf
19 Notices
VIOLIN Lessons, Interested
persons phone 523-9506.
19-84x2
CUSTOM combining and
swathing. Phone 523-4260.
19-84x2
CUSTOM Swathing. New 12
foot swather, Phone Dale
Whitfield, 523.9337,
19-84-2
HOT MIXED
ASPHALT PAVING
AND SEALING
Complete repairs to
driveways and parking
lots, Also pavement line
painting and barn roof
tarring.
FREE ESTIMATE
JAMES SYMES
528.3233
19-84-2
CUSTOM silo filling, for hay.
Phone Hank Reinink. 523-
9202. 19-79-tf
19 Notices
Dogs
Groomed
By appointment only.
527-1931
19.75-tf
cash:
BERG
Sales Service
Installation
• Barn Cleaners
• Bunk Feeders
- Stabling
• Silo Unloaders
FREE ESTIMATES
Donald G. Ives
R.R,2, Blyth
Phone Brussels
887.9024
.19-79-tf
Attention ;s.o
\500 Farmers °°
We now paying $5,00 = $15,00 for fresh dead
or disabled cows & horses over 500 lbs. All
calves & pigs picked up free of charge. Fast
Efficient Service = 24 hrs a day 7 days a
week.
HURON DEAD STOCK
REMOVAL
CaII collect 482-9811
Call us first you won't have to
call anyone else
19.75-tf
New Mattresses
Everyday Prices
Lower Than Most
Sales
40 dinette suites
of Wood and Chrome
C & E Furniture
NEW AND USED
1/2 mile south on
hwy. 21
Goderich 524-7231
We take Trades
19-75-tf
Hank's Small
Engine Service
Henry Reinink
1 Mile North of
Londesboro
523-9202
Lawn and Garden
Equipment Repair
19-70-tf
CUSTOM swathing. Phone
Hank Renink 523-9202. If
no answer, call 482-9948.
19-81-tf
Marie Salm
AUCTIONEER &
APPRAISER
Specializing in Antiques
or Collectables will buy
• or sell by Auction. We
also repair Broken
Furniture,
Phone Marie Salm
523-9641 l9.70-tf
AIR HAMMER Backhoe,
Septic Bed installation. Cecil
Cranston. 529-7691.
19-79-tf
PHIL'S REFRIGERATOR
and Appliance Service. 24
hour emergency service.
Used appliance sales. Phone
887-9062,
19-79-tf
CONCRETE WORK
Expert chimney and roofing
repairs; specializing in
stabling. Don Ives. Phone
Brussels, 887-9024.
19-79-tf
20 Auction Sales
THE BLYTH STANDARD, AUGUST 8, 1979 — 11
In the estate of
ELVA GLADYS GARRETT
late of the Village of Blyth in
the County of Huron, Mar-
ried Woman, deceased.
All persons having claims
against the Estate of the
tbove-named who died on
the 31st day of May, 1979,
are required to file full
;particulars thereof with the
(undersigned on or before the
24th day of August, 1979,
after which date the assets
will be distributed, having
regard only to the claims of
which the undersigned shall
then have notice.
Dated at Clinton, Ontario,
this 24th day of July, 1979.
MENZIES, ROSS
Clinton, Ontario
Solicitor for the Executor
22-83-3
20 Auction Sales
Auction
Sale
of
68 acres to dissolve a partner
ship will be held for
EDWARD
and
JACK WATSON
N, P, Lot 1, Con 7, Morris
Township. 3 corners north of
Blyth on number 4 hiehway,
Saturday, August 11
at
10 A.M. sharp
This farm has 68 workable
acres with steel shed 24 x 40,
pump house 12 x 18 on a
drilled well, presently being
used for pasture. Property
will be offered for sale sub-
ject to a reserve bid. For
information phone 519-523-
4543,
Terms • 10% down
Balance in 60 days.
BRIAN RINTOUL
Auctioneer
20-83-2
ANOTHER INTERESTING
Auction Sale
WINGHAM AUCTION CENTRE
NEXT TO L.C.B.O. WATER ST., WINGHAM
SATURDAY, AUGUST 11,11 A.M.
Furniture from prominent apartment in Kincardine
with some additions from Wingham and Brussels.
Partial listing: 2 pc. Queen Anne style chesterfield;
15' chest freezer; pair twin beds w, headboards;
corner china cabinet; small wardrobe w. mirror
door; 2 chests drawers; iron bed w. brass knobs;
excellent oak library table; arm and 1 side chair w.
petit point seats; large cedar chest; new love seat;
hall tables; parlour tables; end tables; night tables;
Hi-fi comb, record player; stereo radio -record
player; B & W portable TV; records; 2 rugs - 12' x
12' and 18' and 10'; 2 pc. green chesterfield; chrome
kitchen set; 6 dining chairs caned high backs with
leather seats; metal 4 door filing cabinet; nearly new
dehumidifier; humidifier; several odd upholstered
vintage arm chairs; Captain's chair; hall tree;
steamer trunks; several mirrors; pictures;' some
bedding; variety of dishes, consisting of almost
comp. set Bavarian Princess China; several bone
china cups & saucers; costume jewellery; several
table lots miscellaneous items; 16 lots Foreign coins
including Sterling Silver Presidential mint coinset of
36; some Silver Proof coins and Mint sets.
Preview; Friday, Aug. 10, 2-5 and 7-9
JACK ALEXANDER • AUCTIONEER
TEL. 357.1442
20-84-1
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FABRICS
SALE
All summer prints have
been reduced by 25% to
clear room for large
selection of Fall fabrics
which will be arriving at
the end of this month.
Already our sewing
supplies for the Fall
season have arrived with
Fall Fashion patterns by
Butterick and Vogue.
Remember we are open
Friday nights and all day
Wednesday.
Larone's
SEAFORTH 527-1960
8
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• Financial assistance
• Management counselling (CASE)
• Management training
• Information on government
programs for business ,
Can we help. you?
See our representatives
Randy Brown and Bob McCllnchey
at: The Parker House Motel Clinton, Ontario
the 3rd Thursday of each month
on: [Next Visit: August 16, 1979]
illFEDERAL BUSINESS
DEVELOPMENT BANk
(Branch Office Address)
For prior information call 271-5650 [collect] or write
1036 Ontario Street, Stratford, Ontario.
c
12 — THE BLYTH STANDARD, AUGUST 8, 1979
Sugar & Spice
by Bill Smiley
Almost every day in the summer I drop
in at The Oasis, as I think of it.
I know, I know. Nasty -minded readers
are already thinking it's some kind of
watering -hole for dry old Bill Smiley, One
of those air-conditioned bars that are so
dark you can't see a thing for five Minutes
and have to count your change by the
Braille system.
Not so. I strongly dislike those joints.
Most of them are dark and dirty and stink.
They have a few poor, lonely souls who
have nowhere else to go, and very often a
construction gang or a road gang, noisy
and beer -swilling and profane, sousing it
up on the company's time.
Nope. I avoid those places like the
plague. The Oasis is nothing like that. It
doesn't have a braying television set,
foul-mouthed roisterers and cold -eyed
waitresses, It's just the opposite.
True, it is air-conditioned. But not the
kind that makes you wish you were wearing
a fur coat after five minutes.
And true, it is not brightly lighted. But
there is enough light to see what you are
imbibing, count your change without using
your fingertips, and read a book or a
newspaper.
And that's exactly what I do there, and
why I think of it as The Oasis. It's a
charming little place to stop and refresh
oneself, to cool out and meditate a bit, and
gossip and just plain, sip, before plunging
back out into the desert of life,
What The Oasis provides for the
wandering bedouins who stop there is a
little peace and quiet.
It has none of the plastic jazz of the chain
hamburger and submarine joints. But it
has a number of the things those places can
never offer: charm, friendliness, good
manners, courtesy.
The customers are not made to feel that
the management is doing them a favour by
serving them. They are greeted warmly,
they are served quickly and efficiently, and
they are thanked graciously when they
leave, even though they've spent only
thirty cents and taken up a seat for half an
hour.
How many public places to eat and drink
are there like that in this country? You
could count them without taking your socks
off.
Sure, we have fancy restaurants in this
country where you can pay $50 for a so-so
dinner for two, and- be patronized by the
wine waiter. And we have eleventy-seven
thousand snack bars and lunch bars and
grills where everything tastes the same.
But we have scarcely any placed like The
Oasis. It's not much, physically. Just a half
dozen or so tables in the back of a store.
Very much like the sort of tearoom you can
still find in England, if you get off the
beaten track.
The menu varies little, but there's a
good soup du jour, good coffee and hot tea,
fresh -made sandwiches, and a lot of
goodies that are baddies for the many little
old ladies and all the vulnerable young
ladies who frequent it: home-made pies,
butter tarts, muffins loaded with calories.
Part of the fun, for me, is sitting there
getting a jolt from my coffee and listening
in,
"Just a pot of tea, thanks. Well, what
are you going to have, Ida? You are? Well,
what kind do you have? Well, maybe just a
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24 Cards of Thanks
I would like to thank my
neighbours and friends for
cards and treats sent to me in
Blyth, Wingham and Lon-
don. Also thanks to the
doctors and nurses, the Lon-
don churches and Lodges.
Special thanks to my family
for remembering my 84th
birthday. —Rus Wilson
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24 Cards of Thanks
1 wish to thank my neigh-
bours and friends of Londes-
boro and Rev, R. Scott for
cards and visits while I was a
patient in Wingham Public
Hospital. Special thanks to
Drs. Mobray and Cheyne and
the nurses on second floor.
All- was greatly appreciated.
—Marion Letherland
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The Oasis
24 Cards of Thanks
The family of the late
Howard Campbell wish to
thank all who helped during
their recent bereavement.
food that was brought to
house, and the many
beautiful cards, and the
many expressions of
sympathy will long be
remembered, — Sincerely
Mary Campbell and family.
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square of pineapple cake. And just one
butter tart to get started on." And half an
hour later, those the gentle ladies are
walking out with about six hundred calories
they didn't need. Each.
Even when The Oasis is busy, there is no
sweat. No barking of orders. No getting
cross. There's time to laugh and joke with
old customers, be pleasant to new ones,
and make sure nobody is being neglected.
I've watched tourists come in, a little
uneasy because they're not used to such
informality. They tentatively order soup
and a sandwich, find them excellent, wind
up with a whacking great piece of pie, pay
a modest bill, and go out looking as though
they couldn't believe what had happened
to them.
It's a place that brings out the decency in
people. Seating is limited, The other day,
four people walked in and there wasn't a
table for four. A young couple, with a babe
in arms, offered to move to a table for two
that had just been vacated, transferring
their food, utensils and baby. The
new -comers were so shocked they could
scarcely say thanks.
Very often, The Ticket -Seller is there.
He sells tickets on every lottery you've ever
heard of. He loves children and jokes and
talks to the little guys in The Oasis. He
drinks a coffee, displays his tickets, usually
selling one or two, and hits the street. The
Columnist observes.
Two teenagers grab a table. The
Columnist listens. "So, I said to him, not
on your life." Giggles. "So, guess what he
says?" Giggles. And so on.
Despite what my wife thinks, 1 am not
enamoured of the lady who runs The Oasis,
though she does have a beautiful face,
figure and walk, In fact, she doesn't walk.
She sashays.
I am in love with a little place of sanity,
sense and serenity in this increasingly ugly
world,
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BIG MEAT VALUES
Schneiders "Store sliced” Dell
Beerwurst per lb.
Thrifty "Part slices"
Bacon 1 Ib. pkg.
Maple Leaf Sweet Pickled
Cottage Roll '/2 's, per Ib.
2.29
.79
1.39
Maple Leaf Ready to Serve Smoked
Pork Picnics per Ib. 1.19
Scan "Chunky"
Headcheese sliced per Ib. 1.59
FROZEN FOODS
McCains Choc. or Glaced
Donuts 6's
Old Country Haddock
Fish n' Chips 24 oz.
Niagara unsweetened
Orange Juice 12'% oz.
Capri 167
Bathroom
Tissue
4 roll pack
89
.89
1.19
.59
Heinz
White
Vinegar
160 oz.
1.49
NOTICE TO LOCKER RENTEE'S:
Locker Rent Is to be paid in advance.
Please check with us if In doubt of when
your locker box is due.
FIELD
DEMONSTRATION
1/4 mile north of Vincents
Con Eckert Farm
Come - Drive the Newest
Tractors from International
Harvestor
11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Thursday - Friday
August 23 (Thursday) Et August 24 (Friday)
SEAFORTH 521.0120
Crisco
Cooking OiI
750 ml,
1.49
1Gattuso
Macaroni or
Spaghetti
1 kg. pkg.
.89.
We reserve the right to
limit quantities
BAKERY
Westona Mealtyme or Lewis Soft.Twist
Fresh Bread Reg. 67c for
Dietrich's 100%
Wholewheat Bread
.57
.57
Reg. 71c
Weston's Soft n' Crusty
Rolls 12's Reg. 73c for
Weston's Jam filled
Buns 6's Reg. 85c for
.59
.69
PRODUCE
No. 1 Chiqultta
Bananas per Ib.
Sunkist size 113's
Oranges per doz.
Large Chilled
Watermelon
No. 1 Ont. stalk
Celery per bunch
No. 1 Ont. Fresh
Cauliflower
.29
1.79
each 1.99
.45
each .59
Sunapan
Salad Dressing 1 L 1.39
York Smooth or Crunchy
Peanut Butter 500 g. 1,19
Libby's in tomato & Cheese sauce
Spaghetti 28 oz. .69
Heinz
Ketchup l00 oz. 2.79
Tide
Detergent 6. L. 2.99
High liner
solid white
Tuna
6.5 oz.
1.39
OPEN 6 DAYS A WEEK
OPEN FRI. NIGHTS TILL 9
Phone 523-9332
We Deliver
FARM EQUIPMENT LIMITED_
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