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' lPQSTOIC, SEAFORTH, Ui1tT., JULY 1, 1965
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HIS WEEK ' and NEXT
Where A Giant Fell
By KAY..ARGYLE •
There is a place in the Unita
ed States which I visited last
week which may never become
a national shrine, but will be
'forever "seared'• -•into the pages
of American history.
That place is Dallas, a city
which still, on the whole, re-
fused to talk about what hap-
pened there 'on Nov. 22, 1963.
There is a,glossy sheen about
ballas, with Its soaring sky-
scrapers rising up out of the
east Texas oil country. -It is
bustling, wealthy, hot, confi•
dent, newly emerged from cow
town to big city. But it is neith-
er as civilized or as sophisti-
cated as it thinks it is. To this
Canadian observer, there are
inevitably comparisons between
Alberta and Texas, both of
which have prospered on oil
and beef. But there is much
more that is different.
The scene df President Ken-
nedy's assassination looins up
suddenly out of the dark if you
are entering Dallas at 'night, as
I did. You are unprepared for
the sudden recognition of the
triple underpass, the small
park, and behind it the Texas
School Book Depository build-
ing from which the death bul-
lets travelled on that fateful
day.
Nearby, there is a rather tat-
ty and apparently temporary
memorial. A bank of paper
'flowers res,ts on a concre e wall,
and someone has cu; nut in red
*plastic letters,to form that best
known of 'all reme:nbrances,
"Let We F6rget." A flag flut-
ters in the breeze. •
It all looks so innocent and
pe,cefui that to see the scene,
yourself removes none -of the
unbelievability from your mind.
There is no mark of death
about the place, but then you
realize of course there wouldn't
be, even though you had' some-
how expected it.
There seems now, 18 months
atter the death of President
Kennedy only one important
question about the crime. It is
CROMARTY
Among guests who attended
the centennial services on Sun-
day and visited with, friends
'were: Mrs. Howard Eves and
daughter, Janet, of Moose Jaw,
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
T. Laing; Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
McKaig and daughters, of Sud-
bury, with the McKaig's; Mr.
• and Mrs. Donald;" McLachlan,
Toronto, with Mr. and. Mrs. Car-
ter. Kerslake; Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Weitzman, Niagara Falls, and
Miss Jean Hamilton, Toronto,
with friends;• Miss Agnes His-
lop, Saskatchewan, with Mr.
and Mrs. T. L. ' Scott and Mrs.
E. Moore; Mr. and Mrs. Don-
ald Scott and' family, Goderich,
with Mrs. Grace Scott; Mrs.
Shirley Elliott and family, Es-
sex, with Mr. and Mrs. John
Wallace; Mrs. E. McDonald,
Mitchell, and Mr: G,.,H. Speare,
Toronto, with Miss Olive'
Speare; Mr. and Mrs. H. Cur-
rie and daughters, •Dorchester,
. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hulley, and'
family, Winthrop, Mr. and
. Mrs. Kenneth Walker, London,
with Mr. and Mrs. Otto Wal-
ker; Mr. and Mrs. W: N. Bin-
ning and family with Mr. and
Mrs. K. McKellar; Mrs. Elmer
Colquhoun with Mrs. Sadie
Scott; Misses Caroline and Jan-
ice Christie, of London, with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Murray Christie; , Mr. and Mrs.
0. R. Francis; of Woodstock,
with Mr. and Mrs. K. McKel-
lar. -
*Mrs. John Jefferson enjoyed
the Horticultural bus trip to
Toronto on "Saturday.
Mrs. Jessie Hamilton is a pa-
tient in Scott Memorial Hospi-
tal, Seaforth. '
Sympathy is extended to Mrs.
Otto Walker, whose sister, Mrs.
Francis Statham, Parkhill, pass-
ed away in St. Joseph's Hospi-
tal, London, last week.
'Many friends and relatives
from this area ' attended the
funeral of Mr. Edward •: Brooks,
which took place at the Whit-
ney funeral home, Seaforth, on
Friday.
Mr. Frank Allen is confined
to Seett Memorial Hospital,
Seaforth.
universally accepted that Lee
Oswald did the killing. But
was it the act of an insane
mind that could have exploded
into violence anywhere, or was
it a crime that could ha%a oc-
curred only in Dallas?
Oswald was a left-wing Marx-
ist, but Dallas is a hot -bed of
right wing conservatism, verg-
ing • at times on fascism. As
well as being a city •of -extrem-
ism, it has one of the highest
crime rates in the U.S.,. but has
few slums and little racial
strife, .although there is still
more segregation than integra-
tion.
It will never be known whe-
ther Oswald's behavior was in-
flamed by the extremist clim-
ate in which he lived.
There are still the, right-wing
fanatics financed by men of
great wealth, but one wonders
if Dallas isn't getting wise to
them.
None is more famous than H.
L. Hunt, the 76 -year-old multi-
millionaire oilman and manu-
facturer whose name has be-
come synonymous with far-out
conservative causes.
But when you meet this man
in his office in the 54 -storey
First National Bank, as I did,
and then later watch hike' "drink
beer at your elbow straight
from the can, you wonder what
all the fuss was about. This
dumpy old man, with clear eyes
but a slightly foggy memory,
Seems resigned to losing the
battle.
"There's no future at all for
the conservative movement un-
less it gets a 'different name,"
he says, and you wonder,
"What's in a name?"
"The free world" (as he sees
it) "can be saver] only at a
profit," he adds, "Businessmen
are like a bunch of children.
They 'thought LBJ was a con-
servative but' they won't say -
anything now because they've
never had it so good."
H. L. Hunt'is one of the few'
people in, Dallas who will talk
about the President's death.
I asked Mr. Hunt if, he
thought there was any connec-
tion between ,Oswald , being„ a
Marxist and him being the ap-
parent killer of Kennedy.
"Of course," he said, "I don't
know -what other motive Os-
wald would have had. And now
the left-wingers are taking un-
to themselves the martyrdom
which rightfully belongs to
Kennedy." •
KIPPEN NEWS
Field Days of Stanley No. 7
and No. 14:
Races
Grade 8 — lst Bill' Hender-
son,No. 14; 2nd Brenda Trieb-
ner, No. 14; 3rd Lois Wright,
No, 14.
Grade 7 - Lst Elrwin Keyes,
No. 7; 2nd Debora Stephenson,
No 7; ard Michael Gridzak, No.
14.
Grade 6 — 1st Brenda- Turner,
No. 7; 2nd Sharon Keys, No. 7;
3rd Mary Lou 'Johnston, No. 7.
Grade •5 — lst Gordon Wright,
No. 14; 2nd 'Barbara Keys, No.
7; 3rd Randy Gridzak, No. 14.
Grades 3-4 — 1st Allan Keys,
No. 7: '2nd Linda Gridzak, No.
14; 3rd Leslie Coleman, No. 14.
Grades 1=2 — list Billy Step-
phemson. No. 7; 2nd Paul Grid-
zak; No, 14; 3rd Marjorie Keys,
No. 7.
Relays
Grades 6 -7 -8 -1st Lois Wright,
No. 14; Barbara Gridzak, ,No.
1.1; Brenda Triebner, Nb. 14.
2nd Erwin Keys, No. 7; Bill
Henderson, No. 14; Clayton
Cooper, , No. 14,
Grades 3 -4 -5 -1st Randy Grid-
zak, No. 14; Joe Clifton, No. 14;
Gordon Wright, No. 14. 2nd,
Steven Keys, No. 7; Dale Park,
No. 7: Alllan Keyes, No. 7.
Paper Novelty Race
Grades 5-8 — 1st 13iII Hender-
son, No. 14; Clayton Cooper, No.
14. 2nd Joanne Irmanse, No. 14;
Donna Clifton. No. 14. 3rd Bren-
da Turner, No. 7; Deborah
Stephenson, No. 7.
Grades 1-4 --• list Pail Grid-
zak, No, 14, Everett Robinson,
No. 14, 2nd Allan Keys, No. 7;-
Ronny
;Ronny Key, No. 7. 3rd Joe
Clifton, No. 14; LesIle Coleman,
No. 14.
3 -Legged Race
Grades 5 -8 -1st Brenda Turn-
er. Nc. 7; Deborah Stephenson,
No, 7. 2nd Brenda Triebner, No.
WE ARE OPEN
JULY 1st
DUBLIN NEWS
Mr" ' and Mrs. A. Memo- g
and family, London, witb. Mr
and Mrs. Joseph -Jordan.
Mr. Louis O'Rourke • has r
OF THE.
all Kees Van Hulten an Air San
. Van Hulten, . of Ni uw I ,uiyk,
Holland, with Mr. and. Mrs. Leo
e- Kroonen.
turned, to his home near Beav
erlodge, Alberta, after a two
week visit with 'his father, Pa-
trick O''Rourke, and Mr. and
Mrs. Wilfred O'Rourke. .
Miss Bertie Van Hulten, Mr.
Arrange Lions
(Continued' from Page 1)
Beginners. -11:15 - 11:50
Teacher—Anne Sills.
Lynn Swart, Patti O'Rourke,
Mirrium Hassan, Lrari Kennedy,
Steven Maxwell, Carol Anne
Staflen, Bonnie Dungey, . Tom-
my Johnston, Douglas Fry, Su-
san Hoornaert, Linda Heard,
John Wilson, Janet Osborn.
Beginners. --11:15 = ' 11:50
Teacher—Bob Cosford. -
Arni Stinnissen, Mary Nobel,
Sandra Johnston, Gary Ryan,
Darlene Storey, Cathy McLean,
Ron Harper, Sharon Johnston,
Bob Montgomery, Patricia Rob-
ertson, Debbie McPherson, Greg
Fischer,' Brenda Savauge.
Beginners -11:15 - 11:5D
Teacher—Peter Stinnissen.
Jane Baker, Gordon Geddes,
James Case, Janice Rose, Rose-
mary Groothius, Kim Campbell,
Pam be Groot, Kimmy An-
stett, Douglas Anstett, Laurie
Bridge, Jane Osborn, Bob Cole-
man.
• Beginners -11:15 • 11:50
Teacher—Mike ,Stinnissen.
Jane Ribey, Michelle Savauge,
Gaye Fischer, Jane Osborn,
Vicki O'Rourke, Judithann Dor-
sey, Paul Krauskopf, Reg Swart,
Joanne • Swartz, Donald Heard,
Joy Fischer, .Linda Marie, Cole-
man.
Beginners -11:15 - 11:50
- Teacher—Mike MacRae.
Anne Marie HQste, Jayne
Cardno, Louis Arts, Geraldine
Ryan, Jane Johnston, David
Staflen, David Moggach, Pam
Snowdon, Neil Beuerman, Lori
Savauge, Robert Huisser, Diane
Nigh, Wayne Nigh,
Juniors -11:15 • 11:50
Teacher—Judy Crich.
Cheryl Bennewies, Leanne
Melanson, Penny Hulley, Judith
Lynn Steffen, Mary Oke, Lisa
Whyte, Ralph Wood, Randy
Wood, Doug Hoover, Kevin
Henderson, Robert Brugger,
Shauna Graham, Pat Devereaux,,
Joanne, Groothius, Joanne Mel-
anson, Peter De Groot, Joseph-
ine Wiilems, Joanne De Groot,
Donald Etue, Kenny Doig, Ran-
dy Alexander, Luke Janmaat,
Craig Kerslake, Mary Kelly,
Laurie Fischer, Ann Nobel;.
Starr Fischer, Jack Hemingway,
John Lansink.
OF THE WEEK
14; Lois Wright, - No. ' 14.. 3rd
Anne Hayter, No. 7; Mary Lou
Johnston, 7. .
Running Broad Jump
Grade 8 — 1st Brenda •Trieb-
ner, 2nd Joanne . Imanse, 3rd
Billy Henderson.
Grade -7 — 1st 'Michael Grid-
zak,'2nd Erwin Keys, 3rd Donna
Clifton
Grades 5-6 — let Gordon
Wright, 2nd Randy Gridzak, 3rd
Brenda Turner.
Grades 3-4 — 1st Joe Clifton,
2nd Linda 'Gridzak, 3rd Alban
Keys.
Grades 1-2 ` 1st Paul Grid-
zak, 2nd, Cindy Robinson, 3rd
Majorle Keys. ,
Standing Broad Jump
Grade 8 — 1st Barbara ,Grid-
zak, 2nd Joanne Imanse, 3rd
Lois Wright.'
Grade' 7 —, list Erwin Keys,
2nd Deborah Stephenson. 3rd
Karen Hendrick.
Grades 5-6 — 1st Gordon
Wright 2nd Brenda Turner, 3rd
Dale Peck.
Grades 3-4 — 1st Joanne Clif-
ben,.2nd Allan Keys, 3rd Linda
Gridzak.
Grades 1-2 — 1st Nancy Faw-
cett, 2nd. Marjorie Keys, 3rd
Donna Gridzak.
Mr. and Mrs, Angus' Jones
and son, London, attended the
McDenmoltt-Locannex wedding
Saturday morning in Chatham
and spent the weekend with.,t'he
latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Lloyd Lovell. •
Mr, and Mfrs." Edgar McBride
and. Miss Bonnie Dalrymple are
travelling by car to Tress Pes-
•boles, Quebec, where Mills Shar-
on • will attend U.W.O. summer
school for six weeks'.
•Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Wren
visited Sunday with M'r. Bert
Wren of Exeter who just return-
ed home from the hospital.
Those attending the McDer-
mitt-Locamer wedding Saturday
morning at Chatham included,
an aunt and, uncle, Mr. and
Mrs. Lloyd Lovell, Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Lovell, Mr. and Mrs.
Keith Lovell, Mr. and Mrs. An-
gus Jones, London.
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SHOW
for Mr. and Mrs. Jim Carter
Friday, July 2nd
BRODHAEN
COMMUNITY HALL
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SOCCER .
Wed., June 34th
in ST. COLUMBAN
WINTHROP vs.
ST. COLUMBAN
Garvie time: MO p.m,.
Mrs. George Coville is spend-
ing ~a few weeks in New York
with friends.
Mr_. Tom Feeney, London,
with Elmer and Louis Feeney.
Mrs. -Wellington Crawford
and Alvin in Owen Sound.
Among guests attending the
jubilee celebrations of the
Ursuline Religious at Dublin
Saturday and visiting relatives
were: Rev. Arthur Looby, CSB,
Windsor, and Mrs. C. Curran,
Montreal, with . Mrs, A. M,
Looby.
Mr. and Mrs, Frank Dill, of
Lansing, Mich., and Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Dill, Stratford, with
Mrs. Joseph Dill.
Mrs. Robert McCormick, De-
troit, Mr. and. Mrs. Louis Kraus-
kopf and Bill, Mr. and, Mrs.
Charles Krauskopf, Ferndale,
Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. Jerome
Nicholson, London, with Mr.
and Mrs. James P. Krauskopf:
Miss Elizabeth Weber, Lon-
don, with Miss Mary O'Connell.
Mr. and ,Mrs. Edward Hallin-
an, Detroit, with Mr. and Mrs.
Jack O'Rourke.
Mrs. Fergus Reynolds, De-
troit; 1Vlrs. Joseph Gibson, Mrs.
Gracie and Mrs. Brydson, To-
ronto, and Mrs. Birdsall, Fort
Erie, with Mr. and Mrs. Mar-
tin Klinkhamer.
Mrs. Peter Dill; Mrs. Tom
Stanley, Rochester, Mich., and
Mr.. Robert .Byrne Hamilton,
with Miss Monica Byrne.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Schnuck,
Kitchener, Mr. and Mrs, Lloyd,
Etue, Goderich; 'Mr., and Mrs.
Ken E'ue, Seaforth, with Mr.
and Mrs. Fergus 'Stapleton,
Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Carpen-
ter; Chatham, with Mr. and -Mrs.
George Goettler.
Miss Marie Krauskopf, Ham-
ilton, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Krauskopf, Fort Lauderdale,
Florida, .with Mrs. Catherine
Krauskopf. .
Mrs. Richard Tate, Dearborn,
Mich., and Mr. and Mrs. John
Frappier, Montreal; with Mr.
and 'Mrs. Gerald' Holland.
Mr. and Mrs. Pat O'Rourke,
Hamilton, and Mrs. John -.Rob-
ertson, Dundas, with Mr. and
Mrs. Clayton Looby.
Dr. and Mrs, Frank Staple=
ton, Galt;. Mrs. Jim Newcombe,
Port Credit; . Mr.• and Mrs. Jim
Newcombe, Winnipeg, and Mrs.
Richard Bok, Seaforth, with Mr.
and Mrs. William Stapleton.
Miss Marie Nevin, Mr. Dennis
Maloney, Toronto, . and Mrs.
Carron Fadden, Weston, with
Mr. and, Mrs. Wilfred ,Maloney.
Mi. and Mrs. Bill Benn and
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Jordan, To-
ronto; Mr. and Mrs. John Cleary
and children, Weston, with Mr-.
and Mrs. Frank Evans.
Mrs. James Ackroyd, Toron-
to, with Mr. and Mrs.' Dan
O'Rourke.
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Kelly, of
Kitchener, and Mr. and ,Mrs.
Jack Kelly, London, with Mr.
and Mrs. Fergus Kelly.
'Misses Theresa and Alice Ry-
an, London,�and. Miss Mary Mar-
garet Ryan, -Kitchener, with Mrs,
Patrick Ryan.,
Mrs. Kahue, Chatham, with
Mrs. Alice Coyne,
Fete Bride -to -Be
Approximately 60 ladies 'fet-
ed Miss Leona Krauskopf, whose
marriage to Mr. Keith McCar-
thy will be an event of July 24.
A miscellaneous shower 'was
sponsored by Mrs. Theo Mel-
ady and Miss Mary McLaugh-
lin. A congratulatory address
was read by Mrs. Theo Melady,
and the bride -elect was assist-
ed in opening her numerous
and practical gifts. Several
games were • played and lunch
was served. .
Graduate At
S.S. 8, McKillop
Graduation exercises were
held at S.S. No, 8, McKillop,
Monday evening, honoring the
school's graduates, Sheila J.
Dietz and Gary F. Dietz. -•
Taking part in the program
were: Welcome by .Ronald Mur-
ray; valedictorian, SheiIa Dietz;
piano solo, John Elligsen; duet,
"Two Roses," Sheila Dietz and
Margaret Elligsen; baton duet,
Margaret Elligsen and Janice
Dietz; recitation, Danny Mur-
ray; solo, Larry Murray; solo,
Margaret Elligsen; "Wishes For
a Graduate," 'Ruth Ann Sie-
mon; year book dedication,
Gary Dietz; "Mr. Coulter's Mes-
sage to the Graduates," Dar-
lene Elligsen; "Mrs. Coville's
Message, " Mita •Rapien; pres-
entation of diplomas and year
books,. George Rock, assisted by
Janice Dietz.
The. master of ceremonies
was Ronald Murray. The music
supervisor is Mrs. Mary Lou
Johnston, and Mrs. Teresa B:
Coville is the 'teacher.
Build Own.
(Continued from Page 1)
Burgh of Cromarty, Scotland.
"It is a source of pride,"
writes Provost D. R. MacKen-
zie, "to mother towns, that the
names are carried across the
seas."
The Link between the two
Cromartys was established tWo
Years ago when Mrs. Frank
Grimster, a native of Cromarty,
Scotland, visited here. She lives
now in Chippewa. The' church
is to receive front her a picture
of CrOinaitty, SCOthind.
ensall Native Serves ;
Bruce Area Patients By Air
(By E. S. McCannel in the
Kitchener -Waterloo Record),:
The, doctors with the larges
territory and the most rugg
terrain- in southern Ontari
have beefed up their transp
talion.
,The husband -wife team o
Doctors • Mervyn and Norm
Hopkinson of Lion's Head fo
14 years have covered niost-9
the Bruce Peninsula by car
horse, on foot or by a plan
shared with a Wiarton doctor
Now they have a plane o
order, -
Anyone who knows Bruc
Peninsula realizes that trans
portation can be a proble
First, there is the distances
The Hopkinsons are the onl
doctors north of Wiarton which
'is 21 miles south of Lion'
Head. The tip of the peninsula
•Tobermory, is 34 miles in th
other direction.
Then there ,are the roads
While the main highways ar
good the sideroads still follo
the winding Indian trails. T
winter the never:ending wind
from Lake Huron whip ac?os
the narrow land strip to Geo
gian Bay and the results are
continuing snowdrifts. A few
winters ago the eommuai'ty of
Dyers Bay was snowed in for
two weeks.
' Doctors Mervyn Hopkinson
and James Leeson, of Wiarton,
work closely together and a
year ago decided to take fly-
ing instruction and buy a plane.
They got a four -seater Cessna
172.
Dr. Leeson is tall and he•
and Dr. Me'tvyn Hopkinson had
been dubbed Mutt 'and Jeff by
the peninsula people, who also
applied the 'name to the. •plane
and painteda cartoon of • the
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doctors on it's nose.
Dr. 'Mervyn Hopkinson came
from a flying family althou
he did not fly until a year •ago:
A brother, Keith Hopkinson,
operator of Sky Harbor airport
at Goderich, was killed in a
crash a year ago last March.-
Keith had often urged his
physician brother to fly but the
doctor kept putting ' it off until
he had the money -for a plane
and time for _the. instruction.
The other half of the Lion's
Head team, Dr. Norma Hopkin-
son, saw her husband 'get his
private pilot's licence and de-
cided she, too, would fly.
It's. hard to find the, --time
for study and instruction when
you have a full-time medical
practice and three children to
ook after, . but she hopes to
solo by fall: '
The 'Hopkinsons ordered a
Beagle aircraft. They have the
department of transport strip
at. Wiarton to land on, a pri-
vate strip at Lion's Head and
a farm -field at Tobermory.
"When they 'call .a doctor up
here they need one in a hurry,".
Dr .Mervyn' said. He feels that.
when both he and his wife are
airborne the service to• their
patients 'will be stepped .up.
He now makes his calls in a
fire engine -red Mustang:
The Hopkinsons have an of-
fice at Wiarton as well as .the
one in their Lion's Head home.
They alternate days at the of-
fices. The Lion's Head office
is equipped with a radio re-
ceiver on the plane's frequency
and the hope is to get a trans-
mitter at the Wiarton office as
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The Hopkinsons are not too
sure why they came to the
Bruce Peninsula 44 years ago
to set up practice. Both were
from small towns, she from
Hensall and he from Tillson-
burg, She was graduated from
Western and he from Queen's.
ST. COLUMBAN
Rev. John. Mclf'er,.,S.F.M., To-
ronto, with Mrs. William Mc-
Iver.
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Walsh,
London, with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. John Smith, De-
troit, with Ted Doyle.
Mother M. Marietta, Toron-
to, with John Delaney and Mr.
and Mrs. Steve Murray.
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Zettle,
Preston; Mr. and Mrs. Hubert
Miller, Waterloo; Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Morris and family, Lon-
don, with Mr. and Mrs.. Thos.
Morris. . ' • - .
Miss Jean Maloney, London,
with Mrs. Nora Maloney.
Mother M. Afra, •Chatham,
with Mr. and Mrs. Jack McIver.
Miss Helen Anne Louzon and
Michael Louzon, White Rock,
B.C., with Mr. and Mrs. V. J.
Lane.
Mr. and Mrs. John McMillan,
Detroit; Mother M. Marion and
Mother M. St. Alfred, Chatham,
and Miss Noreen McMillan, of
London, with Mr. and Mrs. Bill
McMillan.
Mr. and Mrs. Pat Murray, of
London, with Mr. and Mrs. Jas.
McQuaid and Mr. and Mrs. Gil-
bert Murray.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe l(ioylan, of
Waterloo, with Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Moylan,
Mr. and Mrs. Auguste Du-
charme in London with Mr.
and Mrs. Ducharme and Miss
Hilda Kennedy.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Williams,
Windsor, with Mrs. Mary Wil-
liams.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Purcell
and family, Kitchener with 1Virs.
.'honias Purcell, and —11
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lifts.: rack MeV*. , ;
Dr. Mervyn Hgpkinson thinks
his friendship with D'r. Sher-
wood Fox may have influenced
the move. Dr. Fox, one-time
University of Western Ontario
president and a native of Col -
pays Bay in the peninsula,
wrote The Bruce Beckons and
other books on the area.
It was a happy selection to
come here, both doctors agree.
They cite • several reasons, in-
cluding their children, Joanne,
14; Bruce 12, and Mary 8.
This is a better place to raise
children than the city, the doc-
tors believe. Children here be-
come more stable, are more
resourceful.
And then there are the peo-
ple of the peninsula them-
selves. The doctors describe
them as "a loyal group, more
philosophical and stoic. than
city people. ' They have been
slower to adapt to change
and life goes at, a slower 'pace
but with the increasing influx
of tourists this will ,:change.
"They are so co-operative.
Knowing we are spread thin
over a large area they make
every effort to come to the
office. House calls are rare
and when you get , one you
know it's urgent."
And doctors are spread thin
in the peninsula. The two Hop-
kinsons cover the- 55 mile -long
area whose winter population
of 3,500 is swelled to 50,000 in
the tourist season.
How has the peninsula ac-
cepted the Hopkinsons?
A Bartow Bay man in his 70s
answered that'question with typ-
ical peninsula simplicity:
"They're us now,"
This acceptance can be illus-
trated in many ways. For ex-
ample, there was the problem
of ,how to refer to a man or
wife when both are doctors.
is was solved, Everyone
calls them Hoppy and Norma..
The Hopkinsons have taken
a deep interest in -their com-
munity. She has served on vil-
lage council and school board.
He on the school board and
industrial commission. Both
have been on the 'hospital
board and they are a part of
the other community projects.
When a new building was to
be erected for the Red ,Cross
Outpost Hospital here, the Hop-
kinsons donated valuable shore
property as a site even though
the structure cuts off their view
over Georgian Bay.
Backwoods doctoring presents
problems and challenges.
Because there is no , drug
store north of Wiarton a com-
plete dispensary must be main-
tained at the Lion's Head of-
fice. More than $15,000 • in
drugs is stocked. Lack of fa-
cilities meant they had to buy
their own X-ray machine and
cardiograph:
Their home office is run as
an outpatients department and li
a small operating room is
available for—minor or emerg-
ency surgery. When the' new
hospital is completed in late
summer, it will have these fa-
cilities.
Lack of facilities up in the
peninsula also means the doc-
tor must .become more ver-
satile.
Most medical problems are
'the same, but some differ. For
example, there -is a high inci-
dence.of water accidents but
lifesaving instruction to the
residents through the years has
had rewarding results. Last,
summer alone four • persons
were revived by mouth-to-
mouth rescusitation.
"With the distances involv-
ed up here if they Waited in a
drowning for a doctor to come
the patient • would be dead.
The people realize they must
know what to do."
There is also a high inci-
dence of hunting accidents.
Nearly everyone in the pen-
insula has a gun and "many
froth . outside come here for
the abundant game,
The problem peculiar to
this focality is rattlesnake bites.
The two Hopkinsons have prob-
ably administered more anti -
Mrs. Joseph Connolly, accom-
panied by Mr and Mrs. Fergus
Kenny and family, London, have
left on a trip to the west coast:
They will visit Mrs. Connolly's
daughter, Sister Francis de
Sales, in Edmonton.
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Friday, July 2
Music by 'Desja.rdine's
Saturday; July 3
Cavaliers
Saturday, June 9th
Music byrthe Cavaliers
venom than all other doctors
of the provinee-26 treatments
so far, 'and no fatalities.
:The fear some have of the
Massassaga is overemphasized,
but all should know that
prompt treatment is required,
Dr. Mervyn Hopkinson said. He
takes• a particular interest in
the treatment of rattlesnake
bites and sends live specimens
to laborateries for research.
He would like to see a spe=