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Fanfare Books, Stratford,
announces the appointment
of Anne, Trites-McArthur as
manager. Ms Trites•
McArthur has been involved
with het...father's bookstores
in Barrie and Orillia since her
student years. More recently
she worked with the
Canadian Book Information
Centre 'as Displays, Co-
ordinator, in which . capacity
she organized displays at
conferences, professional
development days and other
evfaists across Canada.
Her knowledge of the.
Canadian publishing field
will make her especially
valuable to Fanfare , books.
Working in cooperation with
Owner , Ellen Stafford,. her
participation will permit
more attention to be paid to
many promotional activities
and community services that
have had to be. postponed for
lack of time and energy. A
regular bookietter, compil-
ation of booklists covering
various categories for
interested groups or.. in-
dividuals, children's story- ,
times, exhibits and talks at
local events are some of the
projects planned.
Fanfare Books was
established in 1967 and over
theyears has become known
as "the other place to visit in
Stratford" during the ex-
tremely busy 'summer
season. The ,shop, open all
year round, is "housed 'in an
old Victorian house over-
looking the Avon at 30 and 32
Waterloo South in Stratford..
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thank,* for your protreoleoge
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Chuck and Chester at the IPM
• By Alice Glhb
Chuck- and Chester, probably hold the record 'for the
most photographed pair at the International Plowing
Match. As a matter of fact, the team were downright blase
about having its picture taken by the end of the match, late
Saturday afternoon.
Now if you happened to escape watching television
coverage of the match, or didn't pick' up a 'newspaper in
the last week, you wouldn't know that the two fellas
talking about were a beautiful team of good natured oxen
owned by John Thomson and son of the Stratford area.
Between the two of them, the oxen almost tipped the
at four tons - Chester weighing exactly a ton, aind
Chuck a little slimmer at 1,840 poUnds.
The reason I'll remember • the team long after I've
forgotten much of the commercial side of the International
Plowing Match, is that Chuck and Chester provided me
with the most excitement I've had in some time.
-It all happened on Saturday afternoon when a friend and
I, and some other media'ypes, were waiting for the final
event of the match - the mayor's competition. Now for
some unknown feason which had nothing to de with
alphabetical order, Mayor Betty Cardno was the second
last mayor scheduled to try her hand at the plowing
competition, which meant we all had some time to kill.
It was at thiS point the mayor challenged myself and my
friend to try our handwith the walking plow. Aftey all, she
said, you- shouldn't be-afraid to try anything once,
Now While reporters in gendl'al are delighted to take
picttires of other people making fools of themselves, they
rather prefer to stay, safely on the *felines. But •after
Mayor Cardno demonstrated that the oxen could be
tnisted, I decided to throw caution to the winds.,,,
- Which explains how I lost my breath at the International'
Plowing Match. And also discovered there's more to
plowing straight furrow than meets the eye.
Now Chuck and Chester seemed like quite placid
creatures when I examined them before picking up the
plow, but once that team"put their hooves in a furrow, they
took off like greased lightening, Mr.. Thomson
senior stayed beside •me to guide the plow, and kept
murmuring things like, "You're doing fine" or "Just bear
alittle more to the right, to the right!" (under duress I'm
known to forget which is left and right) but all I could do
was to keep hanging on to that plow. Those oxen probably
sensed the big storm blowing up (as it did less than 15
minutes later) and they weren't about to• waste any time!
Tattoo
After completing two short rows, I found my heart wafrg
beating a steady tattoo which didn't match any band music
I knew, and my breath was coming in short, steady gasps.
I think someone said now that wasn't bad was-it, hut my
recognition of-those moments is hazy at best. Still, as the
mayor said, you should. try everything once. Now I'm
passing myself off as a veteran`. of the plowling circuit and I
just forget to mention that my two furrows not only had
alot of grass still suspiciously above grqynd, but the
furrows themselves were as wobbly as a worm with a bad
stomach ache.
But I didn't spend all of my two days at the match•oot
onthe fields, much as I enjoyed those bouncy wagon rides
out to the plowing events. Like most match visitors, I
spent a great deal of my time in the tented city, wandering
up and down the streets of acity that might just qualify as
.one oft the, wonders of the world. For someone who listened
.•a little cynically to the stories of a city sprouting-from the
Armstrong's fields, I have to admit I'm still awed by the
hundreds of hours of co-ordination as well as good, hard.
physcial labor it must have taken to produce the en*
rtsult.,
It's no wonder when the CB,C National News sent
clown a film crew to capture some of the highlights of the
match, Jim Armstrong inisisted they take some footage f
the‘tentedeity, rather--"than-shots of-plowmen working with
the teams of horses and oxen like the crew originally
intended. After all, the, days of unmechanized ploWing
survive today as a hobby for most - and the International
?lowing Match is far more than a competition to test
coppetitors'skills with a plow. Visitors to the match only
had to stand beside one of the, six "foot wheels on some of
those monstrous tractors to know that mechanization and
the attitude- "bigger is better" is here to stay in the
farming community.
Wondered
Like most visitors, I wandered in and out of a variety of
displays, collecting ,stickers sporting a variety of slogans
for my efforts. As one rather weary looking parent told me
as she accompanied a herd of school children up and down
the streets of the te.oted city; the childrens' main objective
seemed to be to see who could collect the most stickers and
other assorted "freebies." But in case teachers and guides
sometimes thought their charges were only interested in
the loot they, amid collect, one boy assured me the most
exciting thing he'd seen at the mate vas the live fqx and
giant owl in the wildlife display at the. Ministry of Natural
Resources exhibit. But anyway, who can blame the
students for collecting such catchy stickers as "Butter
eaters make better lovers", "Only love beats milk" and
a little tenderness" - slogan for the Ontario Pdrk
Producers.
For Every one .1
Now the beauty of the Internation:d Plowing Match was
that if offered something for just about. everyone from
fashion shows, to commercial machinery exhibts, to the
daily parades-and for the adventuresome, helicopter rides
over the Armstrong and neighbouring- farms. Even the
weatherman smiled favorably on the match - at least until
late Saturday afternoon, when visitors had a Chance to
experience a Huron'County rainstorm fristhand. Most of
us man,aged to scramble for shelter in the nearest available
tent or building, but some of the plowmen still our on the
Thlds weren't quite so fortunate.
Now as the yain pelted down on the roof of the. metal
O.P.A. he Iv rt rs building, my friend and I con-
gratul• - • ourselv s that we'd managed to escape the
vkors of the storm. Now and then I leaned tout of the
doo 'ay tesnap a picture of some poor, wet, bedraggled
attire wading through the water, but while we were a
trifleidamp, we'd einerged.pretty well unscathed. Little
did we know! What we hadn't counted onwas the fact
althoUgh the rain eas,ed to a drizzle, the downpour had
turned the streets of the tented city to mud-slippery,
treacherous mud.
• Slid andSlipped
So with shoes in hand and pant legs rolled to our knees,
,we slid and slipped back to the parking lot. By then it had
started to drizzle a ,little 'more steadily, and as we
scarmbled between the cars and trucks already heading for
the exit, we learned the cardinal rule of plowing matches.'
Always remember where you parked your car! There's
nothing quite as demeaning as having people in their dry
vehicles grinning at you smugly as you search hopelessly
for the dark blue car you arrived in some hours earlier.
Bat frustrations aside, the people of Huron County,
Particularly those directly involved with the match,
shouldn't be blamed for giving themselves a rather large
pat on the back. After all, the 1978 International` Plowing
Match was a roaring success! Oh, and Chuck and Chester,
wherever you are, thanks for the, memory.
THAT GOOD OLD ROCK AND ROLL.--;-Moxy, a -Canadian band,
entertained in concert last week at Seaforth DiStrict High School.
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