The Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-10-09, Page 44 QODERICH .SIGNAleSTAR, THURSDAY, O 1 OBER 9,1969
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Face s�ving
The National Hockey League season
has not yet begun and already we have a
furor raging about the slashing incident in
which Boston Bruins defenceman, Ted
Green was badly injured.
The NHL is again talking of more
severe fines for offenders, whether fqr•
fighting, roughing, or slashing ,- in short,
anything that is likely to cause harm.
It's only right that. the NHL should
protect its players. It is equally as right
that the fabs should get the brand of
hockey they want: a rough, tough,.body
contact sport that is really the essence of
° the game.
The players also want this kind of
'hockey, and while they play it, tempers
will flare, fist -and -sticks -will be swung and
somebody will get hurt. Sometimes the
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Making the wearing of .helmets
compulsory would serve a purpose in so
many ways, it's a wonder the NHL hasn't
made helmets necessary long ago. -
Heads are about the most vulnerat?le
part of the human body, and are
particularly suseptible to injury when
brought into contact with ice, boards,
fists or sticks.
Accidents happen to the best. hockey
players and the playersv (should be
protected. - -
Down-time through fights would 'be
kept to a minimum, if helmets were wo ,
because only a foolwould keep swinging
at a hard hat.
Possibly the main reason helmets have
not been made mandatory is the objection
soine...04t i ers a -• aave--beet-in- •
As Jong as there is hockey there will be
the same kind of incidents. There is no
fine big enough that will stop it, even if
stopping it did not spoil the game.
So what:s the answer? It should seem
obvious; if you can't stop the stick being
swung, stop the head it is being swung at
from being hit — cover it with a helmet.
the game for many years and feel foolish
wearing one. But younger players are on
their way up; players who have become
used to wearing helmets an the minor
leagues.
The change should be made and it
should be made now. Players are too
valuable to waste through senseless injury.
Lets comnpunic�te
The miracle of clear communications
between earth and bodies in space is
demonstrated week after week. '
Screens come alive with men walking
on the.moon. Across 60 million miles of
space come television irrmages of the planet
Mars. Soon another Apollo craft with men
aboard will head into space for the moon
for further exploration of the moon's'
surface.
Yet all these amazing feats bring into
glaring focus humanity's greatest
weakness. Good communications among
nations; among races, between rich .and
poor are still lacking.
The earthly plaque now on the moon
says: "We came in peace for all mankind."
But, `in too many of the world's
nations, peace is a foreign word. 1 n
Vietnam, in Nigeria, in Israel -and the
neighbouring Arab lands, men with hate
in their hearts and weapons in their hands
continue to kill each other.
The dispossessed—and the poor may see
space exploration as a -Herculean technical
achievement. But they can not share
either the intense interest and enjoyment
of the world's affluen-t people, or the real
sense of achievement and national pride
of. most Americans.
For them, the prciblems of day -.to -day
existence are too pressing, too harsh. The
vast majority of" mankind lacks nutritious
food and adequate shelter. There are not
. enough doctors to treat the ills of the
'people. Most men are rewarded poorly for
their long hours of work — particularly in`
- Asia, Africa and Latin America.
And the fault lies with
communications among people: Men are
only too eager to listen to what is being
discovered on the moon or near mars. but
too often they do not wish to hear -about
the troubles of the family next door or
about the dilemmas of other nations. •
Barriers of language, of racial and
economic differences, of variations in
tradition and culture divide men who may
live very close to each other. When
astronauts speak to earth from space, all
of us feel close to them despite the
quarter of a million miles separating them
from our planet, We communicate with
them. Now it is time to begin
communicating ..with each other down
here on earth. — Unchurched Editorials,
United Church Board of Evangelism and
Social Service. a ._
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Liftup
Several writers lately have called this
"the dreadful centu'y." With even. a
moment's reflection one can see where
the get, it; two world wars; internment
camps and gas ovens;'Te Biafran horror
' of today.
Others, pointing to computers;
satellites and lunar landings, regard it as
the era when 'Man, all by himself, "had it
made."
From either standing ground the
ancient festival of Thanksgiving seems a
bit outmoded. For what shall we be
grateful_ to an Almighty God, benign or
otherwise?
Two good reasons come to mind - the
restlessness of youth and the outcry
against injustice. Most adults find the
castigations of their young, the sit-ins, the
placard -waving parades, exasperating. Too
many of them have been undisciplined,
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By G. MacLeod, Rom.
THE WAY OF THE. KURDS
Kurdistan is bounded by Syria, Turkey, The Caspian Sea and Iran
and tails south into Iraq. The Kurds are the lineal descendants of the
Old Testament Medes. They are essentially hillmen and have lived in
their mountains for 4,000 years. They are of pure Aryan stock;
usually fair skinned and blue eyed, with their own language, culture,
alphabet, folk -lore and traditions. They have humanity and humour
and a thin veneer of reserve. Like most other hillmen — Highlanders,
'Pathan and Gurkhas — all they ask is autonomy, and while most of
them are fanatic Sunnite Moslems, they have never submitted to
foreign rule. However the Iraqui government refuses them their
autonomy and as a result a desultory sort of warfare has been carried
on for some years, Iraqui troop ,never being able to get further than
the foothills.
• Four fifths of Iraq's ' i1 com rom wells in Kurdistan and the
Kurdish demandfor a share e gravy has been very moderate; a
share equal to their fraction of the population of Iraq as a whole;
about 25 per cent. The Baghdad government occupies their five main
cities, those of Kirkuk, Mosul, Sulamaniya, Erbil and Khanaquin, all
of which lie within an area where 90 per cent of the population are
Kurds. The rest of their country, less the plain on the east bank of
the Tigrisr is completely independent and is. under the direct rule of
the 68 year old General Barzani,„who thus governs half of Iraq's two
and a quarter million Kurds.
Although Brazani was against it, the young Kurds outvoted him
' and decided to raid the ,Kirkuk oil fields, with a view to obtaining
the concern and attention to their plight of the' western nations. The
leadership of this raid was given to a man whose nomde guerre is
Sami. Sami-is an 'engineering graduate of Manchester University and
he also studied at the London School of Economics. As a qualified
engineer and a skilled army officer as well, he was the natural choice
,..--for.ay.missiton-which_bad. as�its-object.,k . t,& ng„ t g: ---0., —
million pound sterling oil installations. However the hurt „was not
intended to be so serious that it.would endanger what might become
a major source of income to the Kurds themselves.
Such selective damage required the most careful reconnaissance
on which to base the plan of attack. Two hundred men were trained
for two months. The bulk of these were distribu ted to block the five
roads leading to the ridge from which the demolition would be
effected by mortar fire.
All went according to plan and no opposition appeared. Sami
fired carefully and slowly for an hour and three quarters. Then they
picked up all their spare shells, even to the boxes and retired.
Twenty minutes after the last shell had been fired,,_ 1,000
government troop's approached along the main road from Kirkuk.
These were ambushed by one of Sami's detachments and headed for
their base on the double. The retirement was bombed -by government
MiG's and five men were wounded. The Government of Iraq denies
any knowledge of this raid.
Since then, the Kurds have put in six commando raids, five on the
pipeline and one on a degassing station.
Kurdish autonomy was promised in 1921 under the Treaty of
Sevres but the• 1923 Treaty of Lausanne failed to mention
Kurdistan, which is • the reason given by the Iraq government for
refusing autonomy.
The Kurds believe that now is the time for our friend U Thant
and the United Nations, Britain and other western powers to take up
the question of Kurdish autonomy seriously, for it has been under
the rug for far too lung.
There are 54 wells which 'produced 54.8 million toms of oil in
1969 for a profit of 300 million pounds. The British government
owns 11.6 per cent of the Iraq Petroleum Company and the.,head
office is in London.
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55 YEARS AGO
A veritable open pit iron mine
of immense richness lies off the
shores of Keweenaw Point,,
which juts out into Lake
Superior from the southern
shore a distance of fifty miles.
The French government
departments have been
transferred temporarily from
Paris to Bordeaux:
The great, battle between the
-Russians and Austrians has been
resumed in Galicia, according to
reports from Petrograd (St.
Petersburg) and by roundabout
routes. -from_. Vienna,--and—the----
Austrians, put put to • disorderly
flight from their stronghold at
Lemberg early last ;week, have
reassembled their depleted
forces and established a new
defence west _ of their T -.,lost
position. The Russian War
'
Minister announced s that
Lemberg's . capture is complete,
As a result of the war Canada
may shortly become one of the
world's , greatest producers of
jewellery as well as other small
articles. Canadian jewellery .
merchants report that a large
trade in gold ornaments has been
severed .,between this continent
and Germany ley the orders of
the Government, which
prohibits the importation of
German, goods while the two
countries are at war.
and destructive. Yet, springing from a
generation that has been surrounded with
every comfort, they are compelling
testimony to the ancient word that
"bread alone" never satisfies and in this
yearning, however misdirected, there is
hope.
We hear a lot about poverty, racism
and pain these days. These" have always
been with us, and save for the daring of
the prophetic few in each generation, they
have been shy off as inevitable. Now
masses of people and their governments
have accepted the thesis that the good `I ife
(in terms of health, education and
security) is the right 6f all men. Better .
still, steps — faltering but concrete, are
being taken to 'give substance to that
'conviction. — Unchurched Editorials,
United Church Board of Evangelism and
Social Service.
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EDWARD 1. MSC
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• g5 YEARS AGO
One hundred and twenty-five
Sea ° Cadets 'of H.M.C.S.
`Repulse." Sarnia, .attended
divine service in Knox
Presbyterian church on Sunday
morning, under command of
Limit. R. R. Charlton, of the
special branch of the Royal
Canadian Volunteer Reserve at
.H.M.C.S. ''Prevost," London,
camp ,commandant at
Kitchigami, who read the lesson:
A 700 -mile flight over
Japanese -held territory on one
engine, and with barely enough
gasoline to get --thea home, -was
thegrecent.unenviable experience
of a Canadian pilot and an
English navigator of an R.A.F.
photo reconnaissance squadron
Mosquito.
The growing . popularity of
the Sunday night band conceit
was shown in the increased
attendance on the Square last
Sunday.
The change -over at Sky
Harbor last Saturday morning,
when the' R.E.A.F. Holding Unit
took over from Huron County
Flying Training School Limited,
was made without ado or any
formality to mark the occasion.
Seventeen head of Shorthorn
cattle, particularlyfine
specimens, ten of them from the
farm of W. A. •CuIbert, 4th
concession, Ashfield, two from
the neighboring farm of Orville
Free and five from the herd of*
Ephraim Snell, whose farfn is
located on No. 4 highway, near
Londesboro, , were shipped
Wednesday from Clinton to L.
Rice, a big stockbreeder of near
Paris, Kentucky. -
Subscription Rates $6 a Year -- To U.S.A. $7.50 lin advance)
Second class mail registration ° nut, fiber -- 0716
"Sky Harbor" now has still
another name. ° It is "Aircraft
Holding Unit No. 102." The
word "Aircraft" has been added
in recent days and means that
training planes from other units
of the Commonwealth Training
Plan, for which there is no
longer any use,„ to be flown here
and stored pending sale or other
disposition.
It is expected _that hot-air
furnaces will be available after.
August 1 to - those . holding
essentiality certificates according
to officials of the Westerni,
Ontario region` of the Wartime
Prices and Trade Board,
Flt. Lt. Thomas Pryde, of
Exeter, veteran of two•.wars and
father of four sons on active
service, here (HensalI) tonight
'was nominated Progressive_
Conservative candidate for the
Huron -Perth riding in the n*t
. Federal election.
General -Charles de Gaulle,
speaking to some 10,000
Canadians gathered beneath the
mighty Peace Tower on Ottawa's
Parliament _ Hill, declared that,
Canada's assistance had done
much to help France "stand
upright and united again."
10 YEARS AGO
Lindsay Aurey, manager of
Durham Coop Store, has been
appointed district supervisor for
Independent Grocers
Association.
Huron County Warden
William Jewitt was guest of
honor when the new $90,000
Harri.ilton Motel on Bayfield
road . was officially opened
Friday evening.
The special Queen's Medal for
highest scoring RCAF shot in
the Dominion of Canada Rifle
Association meet at Connaught
i,.ang_es _near _Ottawa, was-- mon
by Fl -Sgt.' R. H. Cunnington, of
St. David street, Goderich.
About 10,000 people
attended the Goderich Trade
`'"Fair this year, it-ireesfi—rriated by
Trade Fair officials. O.f this
number, about 7,000 are paid
admissions. The rest are
exhibitors, their families, Band
others who received
complimentary passes.
Tenders have been called for
the • building„ of an addition to
North Street United Church.
There has been evidence of
late of preliminary plans for the
ccinstruction of the new bridge
over the • Maitland River at
Saltford.
Now that ,an extensive
remodelling program has been
completed, Rieck Pharmacy, the
•Rexall drug store on the Square
"neer Colborne street, presents a
bright new look — both inside
and outside.
ONE YEAR AGO
Sky Harbour Airport, a
British Commonwealth Air
Training Plan Base during World
War 11, will be declared a
National Historic Site . at
dedication ceremonies on i3attle
of lritain, Sunday, September
15.
Enrolment figures in all but
one Goderich school show
increases this year.
Canada's only bicycle tire
manufacturing operation will
relocate at Centralia Industrial
Park this fall, it was announced
today by the._ Honourable
Charles MacNaughton, acting
minister of the Department of
Trade.
About 100 persons took part
in the annual Decoration Day
services held at Maitland
Cemetery Sunday afternoon at
1:30 p.m.
. Or august 6, an Easteni
Arctic Eskimo became a pilot
with the Resolute Bay charter
service owned by famed arctic
flyer, Weldy Phipps. Markoosie,
a 27 -year-old resident of
Resolute Baa =.:.irk W T ,- .is,bo
the first Eastern Arctic Eskimo
to earn -a commercial pilot's
licence and the first commercial
pilot to, .graduate from the
Department of Indian Affairs
and Northern. Development's
Occupational Training for
Adults Program.
Markoosie began his training
on July 10, 1967, at Sky
Harbour Air Services u in
Goderich.
Fourteen Huron County
residents were made Canadians
this week' when they received
their citizenship papers from
Judge R. S. Hetherington.
Huron County Library Board
will be ,permitted to contact
each of the municipalities
concerned' with the suggestion
that as of January 1, 1969, a
rental arrangement be made in
lieu of the present maintenance
programme of local libraries.
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M
ONEMAN'S HOSPITAL
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A hospital is like a feudal castle, a fossilised hierarchy:. Nurses are
Knights; Sisters Barons; Doctors Earls; the Matron, Duchess, and
the Consultant, at least a Prince of the Blood. At the* base' df the
pyramid, tied to their. twelve square feet of territory, are the serfs.
Would anyone go into medicine without also a talent for sadism?
A strong authoritarian bent? I have noticed that when doctors are ill, o
they lose confidence in theit Immunity. They have broken the rules;
become desanctified. Putting a doctor to bed is like, unfrocking a
priest, or--sending--a policeman to prison. One ofthe ons dealing
with. .Gillian's leg had thoughtfully left behind a brochure entitled:
"Total replacement of the Knee", with a cover picture of ,a device
resembling a nut cracker. Inside were slice by slice pictures of
someone carving what 'looked 'like red currant blancmange. One •
paragraph of the instructions began: "DO NOT PUT IT UPSIDE
1h•---`DOVp' She will -be out next Friday.
REFUGEES
Two hundred and sixty Czechs are seeking asylum in West
Germany per day.
THE DOLLAR --
The 1939 U.S. dollar is now worth 38 cents.
THE MINIMUM WAGE
'The AFL/CIO wants to "improve" the minimum wage by making
it still higher: The leaders, mount their pulpits and from behind a
positive zareba of microphones, give out the same old baloney,
insisting that conditions at the time of the Industrial Revolution,
now celebrating its centenary, are unchanged. Their concern for
mankind has hit the teenagers hardest because they have been priced
out of the market; out of the wages free people are prepared -to pay.
If you accept their argument at face value, then no progress has been
made in 100 years. Do you honestly believe that the standard of
living has been stagnant all these years?
THE SECRET WEAPON
- The secret weapon of the North Vietnamese is their willingness to
die beyond the willingness of the U.S.A. to kill. In. effect they say:
"You can kill us but you will have to kill a lot of us; you may even
have to kill all of us."
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