The Huron Expositor, 1978-12-28, Page 377 ,
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Varna
Barry TaylOr'S and
the Don Taylor's were at. Bob
and Willa's in Clinton on
Christmas.. - • .
With the Gordon • and
Lorna Johnston and Darryl
'on Christmas Day were Lyle
and Glenda , Urquhart ' of
Toronto, Ron and Mary Lou
Henry and daughter of
Blyth and Chris Wise of
Clinton ''area. ' 'Lyle .and
Glenda were• home .for
,several days over the week-
end. Their friends will be
interested' to know they're
building a cottage at Apsley,
• north at' Peterborough.
' This will be Rev. Alec
Taylor's last Sunday at the
pulpit, Varna and Goshen
Churches.
Man who gave alarm is praised •
(Continued from Page 1)
alarm sounded and hoped it , wasnet one of
his buildiogs that was on fire. However, a
few minutes' rater, Iv1r. McKellar phoned to
let him know' that , it was the Royal
Apartment' building.which was burning.
Earlier this year, Mr. Dale had renovated
the building, spent between $8, and $10.000•
on -renovations, which included the
installation' of heavy fire doors at the front
and rear of the building.
While the Howard apartment was
extensively damaged in Mel .,fire„ other
apartments on the second 'floor received'
smoke and water dathage, and third. floor
apartments received largely smoke damage.
Tenants have gradually .moved back into..
their apartments since the fire., Lois Dalton,
. who lived , on the third floor, said her
apartment sustained\ smoke damage and •
required airing out and washing to rid if of
the smell.
She was able to get back into her
apartment ai noon on the day following, the,
fire. ,t
The office of r. Charles Moyo, under the
Howard apartment, also sustained water,
damage in the fife, but_ not enough to
necessitate closing the office.
Mr.. Dale said tWO of the building's
apartments were empty.at, the time of the
fire..
Constable John Burgess, the police officer
who is inVestigating the fire, said he expects
to hear from the fire marshall's office this -
week on the cause of, the fire.
Harry Hak plans to bring" Mr. Reeves'
action in saving the liveg .of his fellow
tenants up at the 'next meeting of the fire
department. The fire chief said he hopes Mr.
Re-eyes— can receive some further., •
commendation for his actions.
Constable, John Burgess of the Skaforth'
police has completed his investigation on the •
royal' Apartment building fire and for-
warded the report to coroner. Dr. Paul Brady.
The results of the investigation by . Mr.
_Adams will also be forwarded to Dr. Brady
who will decide if an inqUest should, be held•
into the death of Mr. Howard. •
A CaRISTMAS..SLEIGH RIDE — Pra4. Reynolds of Harpurhey gave
• daughter Dawna Durst special Christmas Day ride with a horse and an
old fashioned, cutter, dowrrOoderich Street. (Expositor Photo)
Tuckersmith ok's rec
centre fee increase
•
A new fee schedule was pro' posed for -felt the little trees would not grciw with other
the Vanastra 'Recreation 'Centre at the large trees' so close.
December meeting of Tuckersmith Town- ,APPROVED
' ship council held recently. Council approved an 'application ,from
The 'centre's director,, Dianne Durnin„ Joseph and. Margaret Lostell for severance
proposed to raise fees at the centre, to help of their 100-acre farm into two strips of land.
cut• . down • on the deficit—which ,results A motion to oppose the severance was .
annually. Council members. approved the fee . defeated when Reeve Ervin' Sillery broke a,
increase. "tie vote by voting against the opposition and
Members of council and their wives were then voted for the acceptance motion when it
invited by Seaforth Legion Branch, Nu. 156, was made. ,
to the New, year's Day Levee on January 1 Council expressed no 'objections to a
which thelegion is holding in their hall. severance application of.Jacomina K-olkman
-r-Courscil•-agreed to accept a proposal by In Stanley. Township.
Principal John A. Ross on behalf of the ' Council made some appointments for
pupils of the Vanastra Public School to plant 1979, including naming Councillor Robert'
50 trees 'of several different species in the Fothering.ham.-. to represent council on
'park behind • the - recreation centre. The 'Seaforth Fire Area Board, Coancillor Frank
students have been .using.•the park for 'a Falcener on 'Clinton Fire Are -Beard and
• playgroud and their way : of thanking Deputy Reeve Robert Bell. to Hensall Fire
' council for the use of the area is by buying Board: Cleave Coombs: of Egmondville to'
the trees from money they have raised. They. Seaforth community Hospital • Board;
will plant them under the supervision of the Councillor -Falconer to Farm Safety Board;
.A.us ble-Bayfield Conservation Authority. , Reeve Ervin Sillery to Ausable-Bdyfield
ep y Reeve Robert Bell said the Conservation Authority; Councillor. Foth-
planting should be done in co-operation with eringham and Councillor William Brown to
a.coancil representative in order to avoid Vanastra Day ,Care Board and re-appointed
grass cutting difficulties. Councillor Frank Lois Evans, Betty McLean, both of Vanastra;
•Falconer did not vote for the proposal, giving Margaret Rogerson, Doris Cantelon and
as one . of his reasons for objecting that he Carol -Dickson to the day care board.
Lions pay traditional Huronview visit
Carrying on a tradition
that had' its beginning more
than fifty Years ago Seaforth.
Lion's • spent the Sunday.
,afternoon before Christmas.
with".residents of Huronview
at Clinton..
In a Short program that
preceded a visit by Santa and
the presentation of .. gifts,.
members .sang, carols and
watched as twins Susan and.
Sandra Halley stepdanced.
.Rev. JameS,Broadfoot of St, •
Thomas Anglican Church,
Seaforth contribtited a.
' Christmas message ((and
greetin•gs,...wereLextended by •
-club .. president -Gordon
Rimper.. Appreciation was •
expressed on, -behalf of , the •
residents by 'MTS. K.1.
McLean. •
• /
The prograM was arranged
by James. M. St:ottani:I
Spittal.
•• Following • the Huronview
visit Menibers of the club and
theirfamilie$ gathered at the
Comninnity Centre . for their"-
annual Christmas party
arranged by a committee
headed by Paul Carroll.
The children were
entertained by Michael Park. -
RR • 4. Scaforth• with songs
and music and a cartoon
movie. A pot luck supper and,
a' vi sit. by ,Sa nta 'concluded.
the event.
•
of bare footprints in rippled
sand. Thee. , colour re-
production t excellent.
Many people clearly worked
very hard .to produe. this
volume; one wonders why.
More On coffee table books
next` week, and on art, and
thp art of photography. • •
(If rail have no access to a
bnokstore;-° you may order
any of the books reviewed, or
any hardcover books, by
sending a cheque or money
order to: Renaissance Com-
munications, 115 Melrose
Avenue, Toronto.M5M 1Y,8,
Ontario.)
A new group, called; fide ,81VIPt.
Society for the freedom of -"I feel it is very important
Choice, has been formed in to "Show people outside the
Huron' County to promote county that 'while there are
intellectual freedom and de- people in Huron,CountY who
fend novels, \studied in want the book banned, there .51,4
HuroW • County ti Sewn2 ry are also , people to fight
sett s, 'ch hay een against it, she• told the
nder fire.. '. group:.t
A ;meeting to set itp,,,the —..SDIAS principal Bruce
group organited by Godprich , Shaw said he felt "sonieltind
town councillor Elsa Haydon, of voice" had to be created ifi"
was inferrnal with Mrs,; Hay-, the county 'to balance the
don. inviting ''a number of "negative force"•of the book
people whP-laye been vocal banners. He said it, seems
on issues concerning everywhere he goes, people
individual, freedom in the are making "snide remarks"
past. • about Huron county because.
One issue'at the top of the
suggested goals of the group
was lobying for the Huron
Coun
ty4
'Board of Education to,
lift its lassroom banning of
The Di iners, by Canadian-
author argarer'Laurence.
Earlier this year, 'the board
took the novel off the ap-
proved list Of 'material for
high School English classes
after pressure from the
,county chapter of the Renais-
sance International group.
The 19 people who at-
tended the first meeting fo
the Society for the Treed=
'Cif Choice decided- to delay
planning any definite action
for the organization until a
secoridsmeeting can be held mentality," the principal-,
on January 17. ., • said.
Mrs. 'Haydon• said she
decided to' hold theftfirst
meeting to defend the books
the Renaissance group
wanted banned. She said she
didn't intend to "'Convert
anyone's thinking': nor „did
she intend to form a -bona
i
Joseph's llospilal, London
on December 19 of Mrs: Guy
Ryan of Lucan. She was in
,her 74th year,
The former , Annie
Maybelle Rands, she"was the-
ug: hter of the late Mr. and
. s. Thomas Rands of
Seaforth where she grew up.
'and, attended school. .
Predeceased by \her
husband, sheis survived•by a
son Thomas ' Ryan and
daughters Alice, Mrs. Gerald'
Hodgins and Kathleen, Mrs.
Harold Woodburn, all of
Lucan and by, two grand-
children. '
The remains rested at the
C. H askett and Son Funeral
Home in, Lucan until Thursday
when a fnneral 'service was
conducted by Rev. John
Holland of Holy 'Trinity
Anglican Church.' Interment
followed in St. James
Cemetery, Clancieboye.
of the book question andlie
. "doesn't like being branded
by, .the sajne . brush."
SPS pKncipal Paul Carroll
told the group he was
interested in other issues
than just the recent book
banning. He mentioned, as
examples the recent minitttry
of educatiOn treatment'df the
film Jesus Trial and a letter
he received from Ontario
Hydro telling him he couldn't
have certain information be-
cause if it was given to him,
he wouldn't Understand it.
"As a resident of Huron
County, I resent picking up
national news and seeing
comments about our weird
The elder) get the faster
time flies. I remember
holidays that were—sbiong we
got bored by the middle Of
July. I remember December
24th's that seernedlo stretch
Or Months.
And when r was a"school
kid that week between
Christmas • and New ' Years
was a huge long time. .
But that's all changed
now. The four days we had
off around Christmas went
by the way one afternoon
used to when I was 15. 1
remeNier leisurely visits,
We used to have so much
e for visiting friends and
relatives over Christmas that
\we gdt sick of each other.
This year it seems like aunts,
uncles, cousins and their kids
were people we passed in the
hall' as we' moved from one
get-together to the next. It
was nice to see you folks, but
1i' minutes after you left' I
thought of all kinds of things
I wanted to ask.
We even stretched
Christmas out quite a bit at
the White, hou-Z, this year,
having good friends for lunch
December 24th, and
attending' church Christmas
Eve, We didn't even open
it uary our presents until a family
• convince a ship captain I was sea worthy.. I
played it cool. I played tennis for four days Ch
THE HUROi4
°met tio say
bySusan Whiie
• too quit
arge The death occurred in St. knows a sailor needs a tawny windswept
after brunch about 1 p.m.
Still the holiday just whiz,ied
by.
I didn't ieven have much
work to do' becanse the big
Christmas meal wasn't at our
house, but it doesn't feel like
I rested' for those, four days.
Don't get the idea that.we
didn't enjoy Christmas.
was a •ovely, friendly low
key time. But' vvitere did it
go?
I guess it's' 1 the classic •
human quest. . .to hold on
tOthe spirit of Christmas and
have it light • up our lives all
year long. Why can't we?
*******
The above will likely be
Karl. runs away from home
Amen
..by Karl Schueoler
read with a chorus of groans
from Expositor staff mein
berS who've' just come
through , a • very t,,busy
Christmas here. . These
people (antk.they're mostly•
women)' do" their Christmas
baking and gift wrapping and
the thousand and one getting
,ready for Christmas chores in
the middle of the ' night
.1 think. That's the only tittle
they can fit them in becaute
they work long extra hours
here just as the time when
they are extra busy at home.
That's the case with. many
people in our community
though and they deserve a
thought and a thank you for
making. 'Christmas so Plea=
sant for the rest of
Consider. the. tOche;*,,W110
give. up spare .tithe to
Christinas ceneertS• ditto The
Sunday •Schobl. teachers and
*Choir leaders. The clerks who
are rushed off-Their feet, in,
.operators who k p the reads
local stores,. t, snow plow
open. •
The hospital personel and.
pollee who • ipend'ChristmaS
day at work.
The 'taxi • and bus' drivers
who allow those whci don't
have cars'to get around.,
To thete and the many
other hard workers I haven't
mentioned... . .the rest of
us appreciate your, making
our ChristMas easier. • •
I ran away from home a few weeks
before Christmas, I packed my bags.
Hopped a iplane and went to Tampa,
Florida. And it Wok me only four days to
S " straight and go t a decent tan. Everyone
•
I took my tanned body over to the Yacht
Club. I paraded among the sails and
walkivays. I kept my legs, spread wide
apart--everyone knows a seaman needs 'to
be Solidly grounded. I held thy hands
behind my back -- an old sea captain's trick
I've picked up along the way.
I held ,my breath more than usual. I t
brought color to my cheeks and a flatness
to my stomach. I squinted my eyes--years
of ocean _salt, sea, wind and• Sun do that to
sailors.
It worked.:Jake Sherrick walked over to
me and asked if I'd like to crew on his 26
fogt hanger sailbeat named •Sunshine.: He
said he could'use me the next two, days ,in
the sailing regatta'in Tampa Bay: PaY's not
Jrnuch -- beer and sandWiches
l'altowed,,I ,would. And at eight o'clock
Saturday morning all . the boats', crews
syncronized their watches, at the 'captains'
meeting. •
Istarted to worry. Maybe I'd led Jake on
with my body. By just lobking over. the
crew; I knew (his race • was serious.
business. Jake's crew wanted to win this
regatta. This was no pleasure cruise. The-
week4end'race was no joke.
Before we set sail, I told Jake I'd never
crewed before. He didn'fseern to care. The
truth was he wanted bodies. He said he
needed bulk.. Human flesh. He needed
ballast. He wanted hodies to give his ship
live weight. Or in Other words, live
balance. Or moveable balance, That is,
when he wants to tack to the right side, he'
needed my body to weigh down the left
side--to help-balance the boat.
Imagine. I'd signed up on Jake's yacht
only to become a weight. No dead weight,
of course, but live weight. Jake only
wanted me for my body,.
He must have• sensed mydisappoint-
live balance. He said I'd ha et° be
ment. He assured me it. took greatylent to
provide
exact in my weight placement. I couldn't
sit to close to the bOw or too• close to the
sternl had' to sit just right., He told me he
really was depending on me when the time
came to balance my weight over the keelsm.
wheri I had to hang out real, real far over
'the boat's edge with my back stretched
'over the• water, so the boat wouldn't
Jake told me it takes great talent to sit
very still while all the other crew members
rush to rig the sails and letAtit the ropes. It
takes great talent to keep out of the way.
•To not rock the boat. One unnecessary • • •
move of mine and that would slow the boat
down. The only time he saidl was allowed
to leave my still position was when I had to
go the head. And that, to all you
landlubbers, is the bathroom. ••
Jake told; me I needed .other talents too.
A good sense of timing. Whenever he'd
yell "Tack" that meant he was steering:the
rudder 'to the other side. The jib sail--the
big one in front--would flutter and swing to
the other side. At that moment--when4he
whole weight of the ship was shifted--all
the crew members—and that meant my
good 'live weight too--would have to pivot •
' on their fannies and move their balance to
the other side. That takes perfect• timing.
Every time, .
I gave Jake the best' I had that weekend.
On the first day of the race, the wind.never'
came up. The day Was so .calm it -took 12
,
-hours to go the 25 miles. But the second
day; all, my live weight talent came to the
fore. Except-, of etairse, the •time I piyoted
"and found my fanny and the'rest of me too
down in the cabin. I forgot about the &Or
on the deck. It was wide open, and I fell into
Then there was the time that Jake
wanted to tack: But I was sitting On the
tine, the mainsail rope. Or the time I
accidentally turned on the depth• sounder. '
Or the tithe at night I:accidentally turned
off the light' on the compass. And I
accidentally shone my flashlight into
Jake's eye's while he was trying to watch
the Markers for the:race. And I accidentally
tote pff sonie of the, telltales those little
red ribbons that help Jake judge the wind's
direction and the boat's direction. Or the
Six times at least Jake had to tell me to get
out of the way so he could seethe, telltales.
That second day out proVed our crew one
'cif 'the best, in the bay. We brought the'
Sunshine into third place. We won third
over the 30 sailboats in The bay.
And when we walked off, our ship, Jake
?shook my hand. He promised me if 1•
wanted to run away 'to sea • again, he'd
sign me on. Only next time, ,I would no
longer be just live weight, but 'experienced
live weight.
I was happy.• All the way back to Ontario,
I kept imagining how we would have lost
that race if I hadn't run away from home
and crewed with Jake: '
get signed up on a sailing ship:
Don't think I spent all that time trying to
MRS. GUY RYAN
ook. - °
aid l And I played tennis in the right place. I
Away from all the tourist places and right
on Davis Island in Tampa Bay where the
locals gather. They pot only have tennis
courts there, but the Davis Island Yacht
Club.
Charges have been laid
following an accident early
Sunday morning which
resulted in approximately
$300 in „damages.
Samuel' Fehr, of R.R.1,
Seaforth was proceeding
along Main Street 'South,
when his car collided with
the rear of a vehicle driven
by Beverly Learn of 176
Oxford Street, Apt.' 312,
Hensall.
There was approximately
$300 in damages to the two
cars involved in the •accident.
Mr. Fehr has been.
"charged with following
another '..vehicle, too closely
and having liq wit.. readily
ayailablc in his car.
The investigating officer
was Constable John Burgess.
...
Troyer's bookshelf
Pub lisher.s think Canadians don't
BY WARNER TROYER
In attempting to under
stand the patterns of
Canadian book publishing
obviously expensivevolumes
dealing. with Cultiire Which
may then be left about to
ithpress visitors. • Here:
publishers seem generally:to, b
believe that Canadian's do A.THE
not like books, especially. - edit
hardcover books. At least
that's been my theory for
sometime, and ies•borne out
by the curious and unique
Canadian habit of publishing
most of .each Year's harvest
of books in the falli After all,
Canadians may not like
books themselves, but they
probably see in b-tioks • an
appropriately prestigious or
ettitural gift for someone
else; massive fall publication
fists followed by the trickling
trifles of mid-Winter, spring
and summeItos.est Ibe ac-
cused of hypocrisy, this data;
my last book was published
in May, 1977; my next will be'
Out in February of 1079.) In
any 'event, tile notion that
Canadians can be most easily,
persuaded to bey books as
gifts for others leads natu rat:,
.ly to the development of the
'gift 1)0'4,', 'or 'coffee table
book .' These Utter being
photographs by David Street;
Published by McGraw-Hill
' Ryerson Limited. $14,95,
My own' only departure
*from the audience at ballet
took place about 1972 when ,
asked to 'perform' as a
Stretcher-bearer in the Nut-
cracker. I endured the dis-
tinct discomfort of dropping
. my end of, the stretcher on
stage; those little girls in-the
'tutus, I found, are. much
licirOer that they leek. And
thereby hangs a point, one
germane to bothJhese books;
because ballet is largely
illusion; the orchestra pit is
- interposed between audience
. and stage for the good
reason that One's suspension
of belief doting the per-
formance would he destroyed
• by the sounds of Creaking
joints, popping nthicles..
thudding feet. grunting
ballerinas,. The blooci-lined
ballet ilipers and . seat-
stained 'tutus have no place
in the ethereal romance. of
Swa., Lake or Romeo and
Juliet. .
Unhappily for me, atleast, ,
neither.. of ..these
antiseptic polite, pretty,
' Celia F, ant: admist.that, as
Artistic Director of the
National Ballet during its
first twenty-five years of life,
she. came to dread "crotch
shots" in televised and
filmed • performances; and
Karen Kain admits to, being
very, very tired after re-'
hearsals. But nowhere, here,
are the agonies of en-
duence, the couniprpoints of
pain that are every serious
dancer's constant- • com-
panions.. Nothing here about
the fact that' touring bai-
erinas prefer hotel rooms
where the bathtub is im-
mediately beSitle—the toilet,
so theyean dip alternate feet
into the John while soaking
'in the tub; flushing con-
stantly to relax their painful
pedal extremities with a do-it
yourself whirlpool bath.
Nothing. eith'1.. al•out the
erma ,-,,ir disfigurement of
Toe ,, pr feet hammered into
obscene caricature of.thetn-
selVes by the daily' tOrture of
rehearsal and performance:
Nor much about the monastic
life of p'eople who cannot
succeed even a little without
sacrifice of almost every
-'normal' pleasure' of food,
home, family, romance, re-
creation.
Never mind. In Celia
Franca's memoirs you will
find a biography of the birth,
triumphs, survival of the
National Ballet from the time
she joined it in 1951. Ken
Bell •was official photo-
grapher to the company from
the beginning. If the photos,
in the book seem. to have
been chosen more for,
archival interest that
aesthetic pleasure, that will
only please those who want a
prtcord 'of the National
company • from , its be-
ginnings.
Celia Franca's book is sub-
titled,. 'A Celebration..' It
v.& more. aptly have been
Called. with its fifty colour
photos 'amd 160 black and'
white picture a catalogue.
The Karen- 'Cain book.
subtitled, I au' a nance,'. is
oPlebration, - f th. :a4y.
"'") photos are o'len Sup( ••h,
occasionally haunting, The
,text by David Mason, who
gets credit on the dust jacket,
is banal. But, fortunately,
most of the book is pictures,
Mr . Mason. who was done.
• •
"a number of pOpular books
• in military history," should
return to his first love. •
What this slim (125 page)
book 'does do, , and
beautifully, is show you the
many-lovely facets of Karen
Kain, just as advertised. You•
won't read here of het,
celebrated hi-jinks with Ann
Ditchburn, her collaborater
in 'a decade of mischief \ that
made,, the pair the black
sheep of the National
COmpany. ('Though Miss
kain does confess, on one
fey occasion, to having don-
ned bwrilliant blue Oleg
warmers, horn-rimmed
gia$Ses and a hideous wig to
await Frank Augustyn's kiss
in •Sleeping' Beauty.)
Mostly, the book is, like
Miss Kain herself, - she of
the stunning eyes and • de-
mure while, - simply lovely.
When shewas nine years of
age Karen Kain wrote • of
. herself, in, a school essay
published •in ..the book, that,
"I hope to, be a nice person
all my life." 'Nicetiess,':: of
co'u'rse, being the endemic
Canadian curse, • spreading
blandness' and de,spair over
an otherwise faseihating
exciting —landscape. Miss
Kain has allciwed nothing in
this book to c tradict hezr
ambitions of Gra Three.
' • SUMMER PLACES
- text by Brendan Gill -
photos by ROW Kalman;
'Published by McClelland and •
'Stewart Limited. $29.95 until
Deceinber 31, 1978; then.,
$35.00: .
When Mrr Gill instructs
us, on page 69, that,' "the
piritt6tsietst churches.i '.na,iwiaebriye a
EpiSeopalian," We know he
is an American. In Canada
they would be Anglitan. So is
Most, of the Wok.. That's ok.
But . the 'pictures, like the • .
prose, are dull,
If you Want.a.collage of the
massive and baroque spin-
artlepri ctit6tt rrriee as ebfu tinh e iiltPheer i col.; t
obseene inanifestations of
Victorian architecture, a con- •
gery of insipid photographs .
celebrating the dubious."
pleasures Edvvirdiatt stitn-
mer sloth, this is the hook fit
you. if you don't, it isn't. •
.The dust jacket is hand-
.Soinel the inside, coVers
contain the. best photograph
in the boOlt,*a sepia-toned set
it's probably useful to re- therefore. ,a .survey of 'sonic
member that Canadian, of this season's coffee 'table
s: , a
ALIFAX.EXPLOSION
by Graham Metson
- edited by Graham Metson;
Published by McGraw-Hill
Ryerson Limited. $8.95.
,This isn't yoUr standard
coffee table book )c'heck the
low price.) •The format is
paperback, about it'/2-by-11
inches, only,72 pages. More-
over the picture content is
probably 'less than one-fifth
of the total book. What this
book iss is an engrossing
account of the 1917 explosion •
in Halifax liorbour that killed
1.650 pebple and 'utterly
decroyed two square miles in •
the heart of that city,
lascinating reading in our
history. nit NTATIONAL BALLET
OF CANADA
- Text by 'Celia Franca -
photographs by' Ken Bell;
Published by the Unfversity
of TOronto PreSs. $24.95,
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