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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-02-14, Page 17„ 0 a You'd think the Smileys ,could have one. tiny grandchild - with rib Milre than the u§tral anxiety and expectancy. Nota chance. Theyliad turn it into a three-ring eircuw.-5, Just about the time the wee lad was due to arrive,. I provided the first, ring. 1. racked up my car. Not seriously.* Just enouglk so it . cOuldn't be drivem, ' it 'was during: the holidays, and bet- ween these and relentle,ta storms, day • after -day, the repair's took twice as long as they would have normally. No transport. But we had to be there when his nibs" arrived. It's a hundred miles away. Result was a nightmare of taxis and buses. There's.nothing more dismal than riding a bus in mid- winter. It's either a super - modern one, with the heat tur- ned up so that you are gasping for breath and sweating like a wrestler, or it's an old-timer, .with no heat and a draft that would freeze the brains. of a brass monkey coming in around the wpidow. There's riOtliing more frustrating than waiting for a cab. It's nW'problem down- town in the city. • You can flag one down on the street. .But when You, are in a reinote suburb, you"d be.better Off with a dog team. We waited 55 minutesfor a cab one night, af- ter five phone -CEO'S; on each of . --which4 mas-assured--"He's on 'the way," a 'pure and downright lie. My daughter, true to family form, provided a ring two f the cirCus." I'm onlY glad I wasn't there, or you'd be reading My obituary. inatead ,of 'a -coluenn this week. • She began getting signs that the little stranger was developing claustrophobia and wanted to see the light of day. Nothing violent, but enough to send 'my wife into aCtion, With all guns. .. , . "Hang on. 'Well be right uri." .Up • meant upto the university apartment where she and her husband are living. It's right out in the country and a br7ute to get at, unless you have a car. ' My ,Wife commandeered my • bother-in-law,'and he drove her there: Naturally, •the young conple doesn't have* a car. Potential Granny dashed into the building, and was just' starting up on. the elevator,' _when she heard a di4rpbodied voice asking, there anyone - there' ' • She was, more than a little startled., It was the voice of her, son-in-law, and it seemed. to be corning out of the walls. It was. He'and my daughter, the pregnant). kid, were-, 'stuck in tilt wilt)ityilv- eleira tor, beTween 1,10..m..„; They, w.eren't stuck because she was„? pregnant 2 but , because ,the elevato'Hiad ' ceased to descend . -4..,hey:d- been, cr Their '4ay. down. Well, how does" that. grab you, as Melodrama? It's like something•you'd see on one of those 'medical ries ton TV. If I'd been there, I'd haVe. fainted dead away and , been carted off. My wife ia made of sterner stuff, She can get , hysterical about: a cat crapping On -a carpet,„ ' But when it comes down .to real trouble, she's right on. And my brother.1n4aw is a great man in a „crisis. He posted my wife where,she could talk to the two kids trapped in the elevator. Then herounded up the troops: security guards, SPICE bg BILL MU Association t superintendents, and elec. Using the ladder, they had trician. ' , „ " clinibed out of the elevator and They tried everything.- , A . crawled; through that juat-big- ha If hour. passed. -NO-thing. --briough - hole; -,on tb* the second An hour. Nothtng worked. floor. They celled the elevator corn- « Needles to say, • loy reigned pany. It was New Year's Day. • supreme, „Laughing and A recorded message.. Tension' hugging and kissing. grew. It was like a wake. Nobody had gone haywire in Pregnant woman trapped in a nasty situation. The :kids stalled elevator. : had. hot panicked. In fact, After nearly an hour an& a Kim sat on the floor :and half, my -son-fn-law, one Of the . almost, went to sleep. My wife trappees,: had an idea: There, kept her head, through an hour was a small sPace at the hot- and a half of mental anguish. ,tom of their elevator car, but --My -brother-in-law 'came out Kim, with her bulging' belly,: „couldn't get through it.- There *as' a little more room:at the. top. If they could .set through, from one -elevator car to the other, maybe... The' rescuers found a panel between the -elevator cars. It was rern6Yed., The electrician was skinny. He was hoisted Up and crawled through the hole. A-, ladder was haisted and passed to him. Silence. After a few minutes of this, the rescuers started pounding the wall and shouting. No an - ',men Panic. They were just about to call the fire depart: ment when the kids and the electrician 'walked down' the stairs, into the lobby,.. • • • Sorority „ feeling like, Horatius„, at the bridge. Well, all turned out, fine. But the third ring of the circus was 'supplied to my wife. First day the baby rwas home, -she was going up to see him, and her own 'Child. A.:young woman had ehrown herself in. front ofa., suliway train, and it took Ty wife three hours to get efie",re. Why can't we have a :grakl: 'child without. all this fooferaw? Ph, well. At least, the first tirnell'e crosses the borderinto the States„when he's'aboUt gix- teen, and one of those snarly U.S. Immiiration Aficerg sayg:, "Where were you born?", he won't :have to answer, "Duh, in 4n elevator: - ds • ocomopi sIGI4AL,81u, THIMSDAV; FEB LTABY 14,. 97 -PAGE 7,0‘ but cannot afford vase - The January meeting of the of Maurice van der Meer and Gbderich and "District' Gary Davidson,: Ass6ciation for the. Mentally .• ..'MxsrEvelyn Garroll repotted Retarded' was held in Queen, on the Christrnas,.catrd sale. It Elizabeth School January 21. Nine pgrsons were in atten- dance. Vice-Prekident Bill Cameron a presided. He gave details of the Benefit' Hockey Game in sup- • port of Goderich and District -.Association for,, the Mentally Retarded,' with: CKNX Tryhtiftis vs Signal -Star Paper Leafs on Felituary 24. En- thusiasm and appreciation were shown by the members of the Association. The election of officers- will take place At the upcoming „...Yebruary ',meeting. The nominating corprilittee consists was not as successful in d973 some years but Mrs. Carroll thanisedN.11 -those vvho help9d. Oe of the members asked for pertinent informatiopregar- ding&pensirns etc: for the retar- deff'adults and Aeaineti the followihg: Mentally Retarded adults receive a "disability pension of $115.00 per month. Out of this w they must Nity $15.06 a month ,to defray operating \costs at the Workshop. For their tasks at the Workshop they are paid .06' per 'hour which comes to $1.60 peweek or $6.49 per month.. Legion gets ready to accept tank, An advance party of three 'members of the Toronto 5er- vire Battalion (Militia) ‘:isited the, Goderich-togkBranch Ofl Saturday,, February 9 to corn- Plete plariSmfor transportation of a Sherman Tank from Toronto -to Goderich. The Sherman, now deac- tivated and repainted, was pur- chased'hy Branch 10.9 last -year and wilrOccuPY a Wilicrte tt eh"e ea:-.;53T-frie aircraftafSky ,H -arbour airp,ort. 'Brandi president R. Chap- man and the. members of' the advance party made a recon- naissance ,of -the site at -Sky H a r bo u r a nd to resee ,no problems -in • winching .r the thirty -ton mom4ter ont,o it's final resting place beside the - Lancaster. Money talks and it is the: only conversation worth having when times are had. (Fred Allen) P lo nI June Bait . A meeting of the Beta ...Theta 'Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi was . held, on Tuesdayevening, 'February 5 at -the home of President,. Verna 'Kane. * Fif- teen members, repeated the opening ritual. , Further ,planning was di,ctissed for the June Ball to be held on Saturday, June 8 at Saltford Valley Hall. Music will be .supplied by the Bluetones. , Tickets will be.sold._ Spring is in the •air - at $12.00 a couple. ' This will starlings, crows, robins al.1 seen include .a smorgasbord dinner - in the area .- spring.ploughing , folloWing- -the- dance-' • 4-,-- , being, done - Eldon Bradley.' . 4,o,an Spittal reported ft -or - ploughed ten acres on the Jim ' the seryieLproject for this year, ' Bradley farm recently. • . is -Well under way.„ The chap- Mrs. Maxine Luther ', was 'ter has donated $125.00 to called on• the• "Who am I" , Aloxandra. Marino Hospital: to -progranirrie;:put wa-unable to . be used for. crib rriattresseS., identify' theperson. . • o.. . high chairs, and •sitters , which • FCL. MacKenzie among. . arg needed in .their nursery. ' ' many others. from the Lucknow .... 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