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by Susan White
Confusion •
PENNX PICK-UP — A Brinks truck stopped by the
Toronto-Dominion Bank on Tuesday to pick up $550.
in pennies, the remainder of the pennies, left from
the Lions Club campaign drive to, raise funds for
renovations -to the Seaforth arena.' BrinRs picked bp
$5000. worthlf pennies the week before at the home
ofaord and Jane Rimrder. •
.,Seal haunt. Terrible?
We all have heard so much lately, on T.V.,
news, radio, newspa'p'ers, magazines, the fuss
they are- making about the seal hunt, and the
killing of the baby seals. '
Brian Doies has been travelling all over
the country and,Europe, spent a loli'of money
. on publicity to get people on his side to
protest against this. What a ShameAndiwhat a
Waste :of money!
Do, Mr. Da.vies and his gang, ever stop to
think, that everyday thousands of pigs, calves,
chickens, rabbits are killed fOr our-consump-
tion?
That minks, chinchillas are killed everyday,
to make a beautiful furcoat or steles
from their hides to wear for our ladies?
Whoever can afford to buy!
Talking about cuteness of our baby seals.
What isn't? Those animal's. I have just
mentioned, aren't they pretty and cute, in•-•
their own creation and existence?, and yet not
a word is said to protest! Why not? Is -there
nothing wrong with it?
Do Mr. Davies and his gang ever protest
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St Patrick's Day
:St. Patrick's Day,
Come all ,yee drinking Irishmen,
And raise your glass with me,
Of all the races of drinking men,,
There's non@ more fine than ye.
Let's drink to good St. Patrick's Day,
And the day of my own birth,
The time to chase your cares away,
To celebrate, it in mirth.
Have a real good' time but don't get tight,
For that would spoil the fun,
So whoop it up with all your might,
But stick to Irish rum: •
Happy birthday to St. Patrick,
And happy birthday friends to me,
And happy birthday to all Who celebrate,
,.Regardless "0", when your day may„be.
To all the ladies' in the crowd,
Who raise your glass with pride,
The Irish should be damn well proud,
To have you by our side.
Robert E. Hulley
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A Brinics•truck complete with
armed guards came to the
TerentoiDomion Bank on Tuesday
to pick up 551100 pennies that
remained from the Lions Club
campaign to assist in the
'renovation program at the
Seaforth. Arena.
.The truck earlier had picked up
a load containing a half million
pennies worth *$5000 at the home
of Gord and Jane Rimmer where'
the Rimmer family and a group
.of volunteers had counted • and
vvraPpecl them..
. In all the campaign netted $5,
813:99 ' for. the Seaforth arena
fund. Mr. Rimmer who had
suggested the penny scheme
headed the Lions club committee
that supervised' the' campaign.
The Lions • launched the
campaign in late NoVember and
within two months by combining
a house, to house canvass with
Convenient,penny pots in Seaforth
Stores were able to exhibit over
400,000 pennies in a display
chest in a window of the Toronto
Dominon •Bank. A day , long
windup program centred in a
Topnotch van on main street early
in January of last year brought
the total number of pennies
received up to, nearly, a half
million. While' this had been
• • intended as the wind up event at
the suggestion of Seaforth-council
--the campaign Was -continued and
the penny pots -were left in stores.
to attract additonal pennies.
- The campaign when pit began
had .as its objective a million
. pennies but after counting and
• wrapping the nearly 60000
pennies that were received Mr.
Rimmer said those involved in the
wrapping were just as happy,' it
stomped when it did.
nnes
To the editor:
We kill pigs too
about the many babies that are killed through
abortions? Those are human beings with a
living soul like'us, no matter 'how small by
their conception, and cute too! •
And yet i so many of us go along with killing
more and more babies everyday and yet we
CfOn'.1 ithiW anything Of itaSifit Was all right to
kill human beings. In 'my Opinion there is
nothing wrong with the seal hunt for several
reasons. The two best reasons t can come up
with are first of all; there are So Many around
as We have learned, and these who have done
it for years to kill them, are making a living
out of it, /which it in itself, a trade for them,
seal hunters. Secondly, since we have
learned, that those baby seals eat tons of fish
ROY. WILSON KENNEDY 1.0.0.F. Memorial Service was
March 9, 1978 marked -30- to conducted at the Funeral Home
the life of the long-time publisher on. Friday evening. Committal
of the Brussels Post, Roy W, serviee took place at Brussels
-Kennedy who died in Wingham Cemetery Chapel.
and•bistrict Hospital on that date Pallbearers were: his
in his 71st year; after a lengthy grandson, Robert Kennedy of
Ottawa, A. Y. McLean • of'”
Born in Brantford, Onfario, on Seaforth, James Jamieson of
February 13, 1908, he was the son Kitchener and Ralph Pearson,
of the, late Grace and Arthur Kenneth Sholdice and John
Kennedy, He completed his McCutcheon all of Brnssels.
education at RYerson Technical. floVver beaiers were': six•of Mr.
School, London,, and served, his, Kennedy's grandchildren:
apprenticeship in, printing at the,,, Jake, Deanna, Andrew, Michel,
• Stratford Beacon Herald. -Mark and Adrian Kennedy.
Mr. Kennedy became the
- publisher of the Brussels Post in, New 032- when he' purchased the
. business from the estate of the (Continued from Page 1)
late J. L. Kerr. While in good Governing ,'Authorities to be held
Reader says police taking sides
school was. .built...-He was .a
Charter Member of the BrusselS •
Lions ' Club and a member. Of
Western Star Lodge #149
1,0.0.F. • •
When it became impossible t6
continue in .business because of
ill-health, the Brussels Post was
sold to McLean • Bros. Publisher's
of Seaforth -January of 1972.
• Family ,members whO will
always love and, remember him
are his wife, the former Evelyn
Chapman; two sons, Robert of
Ottawa, David of Mississauga;
daughters-in-law, Barbara (Mrs.
Robert . Kennedy) and Louise
(Mrs.• David Kennedy); seven
grandchildren; two brothers,
Hugh of ,Toronto and Donald of
Elora. .
He was predeceased by one
brother, Captain 'Frank Kennedy
who was killed in action in Italy,
World War 2.
• Funeral service was held at the
M. L. Watts Funeral Home,
Brussels on Saturday, March. 11,
at 2:00 p.m. The Reverend b..
Sargent of St. John's Anglican
Church officiated. A Western Star
have to be removed and graded. -
Council will pay $80 of the cost:
(Seaforth's share) of. Building
Inspector Herman Van Wieren'.s
attendance at a week long basic
building official course-0'11i —
Kingston last' week.. His total
expense *as $485. and other
municipalities are paying their
percentage. „
A letter was received from
Junior Storey of Goderich Street
West, asking the town to remove
the large maple, tree beside his'
driveway saying he thought it was
a danger to his hoMe because it
was nearly dead and had dead
branches hanging.
It was noted this is a request
repeated during the past few
years. The mayor stated, that to
remove a tree from town property
it must be over 50 percent dead,
She said last year to clear up the
problem an inspector from the
Ministry of Natural Resources
was called in and declared the
tree sound and healthy.
• The matter was referred to'the
tree vomthittee to see if it had
died since its inspection last year.
Only a mother can Understand just what this
lack 'Of. sleep entails. And how it feels when
hubby dear, upon waking and noticing tat
you're feeding the little dear at lam says °Is
that the first time you've been up. She's
getup' " .good isn't she?" Hahi
Si nights you're so tired that even you
can't quite reme ber whether you were up at
niglrt for a fee Mg and when. I • jtist, sleep,
walked to the b 's room and sleep .walked
back eglin.
I've watched more TS, ,during the past four
months than rhave since 'Fused to dash home
from SPS at neon to ,watch cartoons. Many's
the night that. the three of us have just
plunked'down in front of the babe tube, after•
supper and stayed there till one'or all of us fell
"asleep. Some of the shows I've gotten to like
but 1 suspect that my watching has added to
, the Confusioa by further scrambling my
0 I've not only completely failed to do ,any of
the. interesting cooking I planned when I was
off w I've 'leaned •heavily towards
hamburger and bacon and egg dinners. Just
• in time stopped myself from feeding the dog
pablum and the baby kibble.
Now I can just hear you all .out there
laughing., Especially you who had your babies
, in, your tolerant twentiesInstead of the .stuck
in -your ways thirties.'
Btit like, I said,: things are-getting better
now.' I can recognize my confusion and they
say that's the" first step Iowardi-Coriquering
• it—like alcoholiSni, you knew?
I'm sleeping .right through most, nights,
because she is. The better half and I are
getting used to the fact that we're three
(Excuse me Tuk, four) instead of two. I • may
even find my white blouse and my grey slacks..
Sugar and
by Bill. Smiley
Once Once in training, it was a shattering
experience .to be "washed out" of air crew
merely because you had badly bent up one •of
HiS 'Majesty's aircraft by trying to land at 40
feet up, or had wound up 300 miles off course
on a cross-country training flight. It was .
devastating if you wanted to be a fighter pilot
and were shipped. off to lumbering old
bemers.
'I have friends who still bear a deep scar on,
the psyche because they were made flying
instructors and spent the rest of the war in
Canada, This despite the fact they were
chosen as, instructors because they were far
better pilots than the rest of us.
This despite the fact that many Of the pilots
they trained were dead, dead-:.' in no time..
None of this was any consolation.-They still
feel they missed something irrecoverable.
Well I know what they missed. They missed
the stupidity of senior officers who didn't
know whether they were punched or bored.
They missed •long, deadly dtill periods of
training, and'short, intense moments of sheer
terror.
They missed being shot at, physically, by
perfect strangers, and shot down, verbally, by
people on their, own side. ,
They missed the utter blind confusion of tne
amateurs in•charge ofthe war. Migawd, those
idiots lost an entire wing of Typhoons for a full
week ,
oNod y, least of all intelligence, had a clue °
where it.was, air-hitched--all-over-southern
England and northern France before I found
the blasted thing, all on my,. ewn.
Let's see, have I left anything out? Well
maybe I have. First I'll take that back about
stupid senior- officers. There were plenty of
those in Canada, too, so you didn't miss that.
Perhaps you missed the joy of climbing out
of your aircraft after an operation, lighting a
Cigarette, and talking 'a wild blue streak of
relief and let-down.
I guess you' missed the glory of heading off
for a week's leave in a strange country, loaded
with lust, a month's pay in your pocket, and •
the secret sweetness in your head of knowifig
that nobody would be 'shooting at , your for
seven days.
And you did, I 'must admit, miss th girls.
Not all of those fmnblingS in the blackout were
frustrating.
But I still say we were all crazy to volunteer,
ana even vie to be killed. Must 'write a paper '
'on the,some day.
I'm coming-out of, or • at least I hope I'm
-coming put of, a period of my life '111.
remember as the age of Confusion: It started'
last November when my daughter Was born
and continued unabated until just recently
-whew! think I've statted,torsee tf ;light at the
end of •the tunnel. , t
. I've been in a daze, .a trance sort of, for
about feurtmonths, caused mainly by lack of
sleep. It's an indication I hope "that I'm
starting, to revive that I've just realized that
it's been dangerous, to have someone in my
state writing editorials and covering ,meet-
ings •
As I come out ef this fog I start to
Understand the depth' of it and it's enough to
send me scurrying through back -copies of the
Expositor looking for libellous material so that
I'm prepared for the suits that are bound to
come. Can you• get libel• insurance retroact-
ively I wonder? .
The' big Clues to how deep I'd been sunk by
4 2 am 4 am and 6am, feedings (not all on the
same night, but still) are my good white
blOnse and my grey flannel slacks. This week
for the first time- I, missed them.
Then gradually, like someone with amnesia
who's slowly recovering a. blank 'past, ,I
remembered that. I had taken, or at least
planned to take them,both to the cleaners-back
. • before Christmas." •- _
I can't remember though if they actually' got
there„if they, are lost in our car or somebody
else's or if they slipped out of my arms and are
undei'A snowbanks If you c,.y cleaners out
there reading this can shed any light, please
give me a call.
I lost a gold ring too during the Age of
-..---Confusion, but I'M still hoping that it's under
the snow somewhere.
My involvement with RCAF Assoeiation
brings back a lot of memories, some a. bit
grim, some pretty hilarious.'
As the old ,mind's eye wandered back,
something hit me like a cold douche. Not that
I've ever taken a cold douche.
Why were we so keen to get killedfln this
age of dropouts, draft dodgers and deserters,
it seems incredible that thousands of young
Canadian males, back in the Forties, were
almost frantic te,get into the air force, into Air
crew, and into a squadron,, wherethe chances:,
were excellent they!ci be-dead with-in a couple
of months.
From the point of view of common sense,'
reason, logic, it was 'not any brighter Than
theChildren's Crusade of the Middle Ages.
Why? CerlaintY we had no death'wish. We
health, he 'was active in municipal at the Hyatt Regency HOtel in had no deep urge to immate ourselves in the
affairs having served on the Toronto, April 19, 20 and 21. breath of the war dragon. We weren't even
Village Council from January The street committee will deal running to the battlements to protect our
1945 to December 1951 and with a sidewalk problem at thehomes, our wives and children. Most of us everyday, give's ,
January 1969 to me another reason, because it beceinber 1974; side entrance door at the tegiorr saves the fish for our fisherman, whose trade were in school, or just recently out, and: didn't
and as a member of the Brussels, Hall. It is believed a portion...3R' " have none of them there things: is to go our and catch fish, and make a living, School Board at' the time the new sidewalk and 'the doorway will Oh, we knew we had to "Stop thet its their trade. There is-nothing wrong with
that. I hope everyone will see the goodpoint in.
this, although I am not a good writer, and may
be poor in expressing my opinions.
John Van Geffen
bawsta‘vd Hitlah!" as Churchill once told us
on an airfield in Norniandy. We knew rather ,
vaguely that we were defending deinocracy
and unemployment against the monsters of
totalitarianistifiand full employment, although-
it was a 'bit puzzling that totalitarian Russia
, was on our side. •
We knewloining• up was the thing to do, .
_. • th.at...most_of_ous_friends.were deing it, that ._a...
fellow looked pretty•fine in a uniform, that the
girls were, impressed and the hitch-hiking
easier.
But why the' air force? And why air crew,
where the dice were loaded so heavily?
Did we avoid 'the army because we didn't
want to be exposed to the rude and licentious
soldiery and- get all dirty , and grimy in action?
Or the navy because we preferred a fiery
grave to a • watery,
I just don't know, but most of my friends,
and mostof their friends, chose the air force,
and.,were dead keen on getting into air crew.
Within a bare few years, most of theM were
. a lot less keen, and many were a lot more
dead.
As I recall,, it was a real-downer for 'those
who failed the tough medical test for air crew.
Once chosen, you were filled with despair if
you were going for pilot and had to settle for
bomb-ajmer, just because you were a little
cross-eyed.
Obituary
I would like to comment on the legal strike
by members of U.A.W. Local 1620 against
Fleck Manufacturing.
If the police are not taking sides, ,as they
claim, they Sure are doing the marl5gethent"df
Fleck a great service by the arrest and
blackballing of Al Seynittute U.A,W. inter-
national representative, from Stephen
Township. -a-first time-contract-for
these members and as in such cases the
memberS rely greatly-on the experience and
knowedge of their international representa-
tives in the negotiation of this contract, as well
as official 'representation on the' picket line.
The reading of rights and conduct of
strikers to the union members, before they
were even on strike, by the 'police and the use
of 20-25 officers,-some froth detachments as
far away as Goderich and SebringVille, to
control 60 or so picketers isn't anything else
but intimidation.
On Tuesday in the Ontario legislature,
labour, Minister Bette Stephenson, when
asked, said she' knew nothing about the
trouble at Fleck Manufacturing. -Again on
Thursday, when asked, the minister, said she
knew nothing about the complaintS of the
workers about health and safety conditions at
the Fleck plant. However, on Tuesday, When
Canadian ILA. W,. Director Dennis
McDermott 'demanded an investigation into
the relationship betWeen deputy minister
James Fleck and Fleck ,Manufacturing Ltd.,
Bette Stephenson' said Wednesday, less -than •
24 hours later, that Mr, Fleck was in no way
involved with the situation. How fast the
minister can move to clear one of their own.
but can be so ignorant and derelict in the
duties and responsibilities of :her office.
This strikeis rightful, as tfie, Winker has the
just right to a living wage no matter what
he/she are engaged at. The present wages
paid at Fleck Manufacaturing is definitely net
such as wage and the proposed increase, by
management, of 10 cents a year, for the next 3
years is not only inadequate, but an insult to
the workers. As for the present sick benefit of
$30. a week, it is totally inadequate to meet
with present day costs. As for Mr. Turner
rejecting the issue of union security, he is just
stating that he doesn',t want the workers
unionized. For, then Management can
promise anything and not deliver, as the
workers at Fleck, I am informed, know from
past' experience. The only way to remedy this
is with a union contract that -binds the
tompatix,,,to their obligations.
Stuart Craing
preSident: Carpenters'
and Joiners Local 3054.
202.442 Main Street
Exeter,. Ontario
I can't get it through my head.
I just can't get used.to the idea that teachers
are striking or threatening to strike. It's
beyond . I can't understand it. I can't put it
hrough y system and mare it come out
goo
Let's face it. My system is geared more to
the last century. Oh,- alright, put me back
another century past that, if you want to. But
this-body of mine still wants to live in the
pre-industrial age when strikes, collective
bargaining and lockouts weren't even words
then. When no one ever heard of work-to-rule,
pupil-teacher ratios,and a final offer Selector.
Those were the days when teachers worked
hours and overhours; when they'd probably
admit they had- too many pupils, but they
accepted that as part of the job. They taught
five and six grades at one time': Put wood into
the stove and saw to it that,the kids cleaned up
the yard and washed down the windows come
spring.
That was before the time of the yellow
school bus, when kids had to walk to school;
when the school was one room and red'
bricked. •
The teachers were. either maiden or
married, but no 'matter which, 'chaste.
Because they were the examples to the
coMmunity.
In those days you didn't anticipate sickness
Amen
by Karl Schuessier
to its responsibilities, with each one practising
a little give, a little sweet reasonableness. You
wanted to think all problems could be worked
out,, in a reasonable way among reasonable
men. Certainly life didn't have 'to get mean
and vicious with threats and counterthreats.
Tally and retaliation. Press for press. Squeeze
for squeeze. •
But it did:
• That's • the real world. That's teal life.
That's the way it is. But like so many other
things in life, the legends persist. The myths
linger on. It's hard to- drain your system of
them. '
A teacher carrying a picket sign? Might as
well have God refuse to grant forgiveness to a
sinner,
A teacher dropping his „books and sentence
at 3:15 because his time is up? Might as well
have Superman not save Gotham City.
A teacher not showing up in cliss while all
the students wait at their-deskt? Because the •
teachers are strike rotating? Might as well
have limberger cheese smell' good.
It can't be, but it is. Our teachers--now
con* of age arid out to get their fair share-
in theeconornie pie:
Sure. It's all fair, legal and legitimate.
Bl.it way down deep it hurts. It's not easy to
watch your heroes and exemplars go out on
strike.
and total it up in a certain amount of days off.
You didn't wonder how you'd get your fair
share if you didn't get sick. - You probably
figured you were lucky you didn't get sick and
let it go• at that.
But this is all nineteenth century nonsense.
Pie in the sky. Whoever thinks that' way
today? Why don't I get real? .Grow up. When
we turned the corner of this century, We put •
away those childish things: Things like a good
day's work for a good day's pay. A college
education gets you ahead in life. If you worked
hard and kept honest, you'd amount to
something, "And all those rags to riches
stories, built on sweat, long hours and honesty
for honesty sake--the McGuffey REaders that
educated the nation were full of those kind of
things.
Life back then was simpler and idyl in. You
figured with a little integrity and respect on
both sides, you could :work something
out-between employers and employees, ,
labour and Management. With each living up