The Brussels Post, 1975-04-02, Page 3•
FIRST PRIZE WINNERS — Ted and Greg Cowan of
1:1.R.5, Brussels proudly show the cheque for $75 that
they received as winners in the Brussels Lions canoe
race, professional class. There were six entries in
this class and 15 in the amateur race.
(:Photo by Mrs. Greg Cowan);
OPP investigate
PORTAGING AROUND THE DAM — Th,e Brussels dam was one of the obstacles
that entrants in the Brussels Lions canoe race had to get around on Saturday. Prizes
were presented after the 'race at the Lions Park in Brussels.
(Photo,by Mrs. Greg Cowan)
Recent investigations carried
out by officers at Wingham
Detachment OPP include:
On Monday,March 24, Robert
W. Reid of R.R.1, Kenaboek,
involved in a single car accident
on Highway 4, north of the Blyth
C.P.R. crossing when his vehicle
went off the east side of the road,
hit a snow bank and rolled over
onto its left side. There were no
injuries, and damages to the
vehicle were estimated at
$100.00.
On Thursday, March 27, David
W. Fokton of R.R.2, Wingham
was involved in a single car
accident on Nelson Street, north
of Victoria Street, Lower Town,
Turnberry Township when his
car left the west edge of Helena
Street and struck a pole. There
were no injuries, and damages to
the vehicle were estimated at
$500.00.
Wayne R. Coultes of R.R.#5,
Wingham and Brian G. Johnston
of Blyth were in a collision on
Highway #4 at Huron Road 16,
Morris Township. Mr. Johnston
was injured as a result of the
accident as well as a passenger in
his vehicle, Roy W. Riley of
Blyth, Damages to both vehicles
were estimated at $1500.00.
On Saturday, March 29.
Edward Watson of Blyth and
Larry Badley of R.R.2, Blyth were
involved in a collision on
Concession 8 at Sideroad 10-11.
Morris Township. Injured as a
result of the accident was Rh.,,nda
Badley. Damages to the vehicles
.were estimated at $1150.00.
On Friday, March 28, Barry L.
Gibson of R.R.#1, Fordwich was
involved in a single car accident
on Huron County Road 30, south
of Concession 6 - 7, Howick
Township when a dog ran in front
of his vehicle and was struck AO
killed. Damages to the Gibson
vehicle were estimated at
$150.00:
On Sunday, March 30
Christopher J. Hetherington ol
Bluevale was involved in a single
car accident on Huron County
Road 28, south of Highway 87,
Gorrie. There were no injuries,
and damages were estimated at
$250.00.
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Amen
By Karl Schuessler
Hey, you people! I think some of you are
giving me the run-around.
Now that's not a very nice thing to do, is it?
It may be true. Silence is golden. But when
a fellow like me makes his living by
talking--and by listening to you talk--there's
no such thing as golden silence. I'd never
bring home a dollar if I relied on that old
saying. •
I need to keep on talking--and so do you.
But sometimes when I come near; you clam
up. You drop your voices. Change the subject.
Shift y our feet. Force a smile. You say polite
words and unctous phrases: Delete all the
expletives.
Now I know. Those are the proper things to
do. But they sure keep me out. I never can
wedge my foot into your world, when you put
out with all that happy talk, That locks me out
as much as if you'd never opened yOur mouth
at all.
So there I stand. Trying to sniff out a good
story. My newsy nose gets a whiff of one. And '
I m off. ,Making tracks. To your place:
Because I heard you know all about
cockfighting.
Yeah. yoU say, that's right, You heard
about that too. But you don't know anything
else abOut it,
And two. You' never attended a cockfight.
They're illegal you say.
And sorry. You can't tell me anything more
than what I already know.
"That's it?" I moan, "You can't help me
out at all?"
Yep. That's right. But wait a minute.
There's a felloW a mile and a quarter away.
You think he can help. Yeah. That's it. I
should go there. -
You tell me exactly how to get there. And I
go exactly there. But he knows exactly
nothing. He tells me about two other fellows
that possibly might know. He thinks they can
help me.
And when I leave his place, I have two more
names and two More sets of house directions
to follow.
And it's only then I realize. I'm on a chase. •
A wild one at that. the fellow I really Wanted
to talke with
marl
the first one. He could tell
me plenty, He was sttiart enough. Sart
enough to twist my nose for news in another
direction —Straight away from him! And my
best lead vanished right in front of me. Or
rather, I vanished —banished myself —right.OUt
of his sight
6ee, gas is getting expensive. Deadline's"
tail me. I can't afford to drive ail over the
countryside. For nothing.
I know. YOU don't like your name in the
paper. You tell the that every time I See you:
You don't like to be quoted.
I know. You don't want to take the chance of
being laughed at. Poked fun at. I can't blame
you. Who does?
I know, You don't like it when people
"blow"—as you say. But are you really all
that modest? Besides. I don't want you to
brag. I want you to talk. Tell me something.
I know one fellow who won't see a friend of
his living in a nursing home. He's afraid the
local correspondent will name him-,as a visitor
in the newspaper column.
But Still. I never have figured out why a
- newspaper man belongs to the fourth estate.
Remember? In old England there was the
first estate--the clergy. Then the second
estate—the nobles. ,The third - estate--the
masses.
then the fourth estate. You can't , get much
lower than that, can you?
And kierkegaard, that Danish philosopher
and religious thinker, warned women about
newspaper men. God forbid! Never marry
one,
So the reputation is poor enotigh.
- And I plod along in their footsteps. .
It's hard enough. I need all .your help I can
get.
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THE BRUSSELS PST'i APRIL 1915