The Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-02-28, Page 204
PAGE 8A— OOER CI a SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1974
Born�� acre
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Bendi
last ewiee • •
Bill SMIIEY j
, KEEPING' HOUSE pathetic when I got''h`ome at
ISN'T THAT HARD D midnight and explained the
' Women; as any matin can tell hour by telling her that I'd had
. you,,are a' mixed blessing. And. to go through the usual ex
every woman i a' �' ferent mix. chanBe of chewing gum, •.
Sonia ate like bker. They inanities and recipes for cheap
,slake your thirst, but make you wine that ,we male curlers have
feel a bit, fogey, and you wind to put up -with after each game.
up with..a headache. Others are. She was reading a book when,.
like an 8 to 1 martini: cold, I' 'came in. Dangerous sign.,
' very dry, and they hit you right "Hello, Bill",without' looking
up. Icicles. Proffered kiss wires
between the eyes. �-• et,
Thi is , an interesting offered a forehead. - Then the '
metaphor, but I -'think I'll pur-, , dam broke.
a •d
sue it some other day: Like.
The deluge began as a low,
'en` Women's Lib has crura- penetrating monotone, and '
behind the downstairs toilet
and then pall- the toilet -lid "
cover down to hide it. The ,Cat
did.
•I -didn't break that saucer in
her favorite, coffee set. The cat
did, ;
-I didn't put that burnhole in
the 'rug. It was the cat. He was
smoking a cigarbutt he'd
picked up on the street.
My wife is the type who has
the kitchen fldor so clean you
can eat off 'it. So, who wants
eat off the kitchen floor?
bled,. back into a cringing• soup -1 wilt up into something closely
ding -board for `'male egos. akin to a fire siren.
g „How can you be so filthy?',
This was the theme of the en- for cattle
stttt]g-mon-ologt#e; during -which— ° ..�:_,,,
your faithful' servant stood
•around with' rosebud • mouth 111 dUS#ry here
and baby blue eyes agape, an -
innocent and a broad. Lloyd McLeod, Manager,
Now look. There wasn't a 'General Beef Department,
-
o line good
Don't ,hold your breath waiting
Anyway, there' I. was, living
the happy, blissfully peaceful,
`sordid life of a guy who is bat-
ching it. Newspapers all over
the floor, ash -trays looking like
Mount Vesuvius, dishes in the
”. sink piled so high I couldn't see
the taps. Cosy, like..
'My wife seemed to ,be so
.fascinated by her grandson that
I thought this' idyllic existence
might go on for months. I'd
make a duty call every second
- night or so, and as a. matter of
,course, ask her if she missed
,me. "No'.;, she'd reply cheer-
fully.
heer-
fully. ,
One night, I got carried
away, = and, told her - -that
missed 'her, Ah, fatal error:
"ypu do?", she, chirruped. ,
"Yeah. Well, you know. It's
dirty dish in sight. (though she, Canada Packers Limited, -'said
did find some •in 'the cellar- today that Jthe outlook for
way.)' I'd run the carpet southwestern Ontario's' 'cattle
sweeper .over a.couple of 'dirty- industry appears very
- grey spots on the rug. I. have favourable. He was speaking
no sense of smell, so how could recently to the • Middlesex
I know. that the „whole joint „County .Beef Imp.rov ment''
• smellell like a cat -house? I Association. in Parkhill.
hadn't made the bed for three He pointed out that eastern
weeks,' but, hell, we changed Canada, •,tx,hich includes the•
our sheets only once a month in Maritimes, .Quebec and Ontario
prison'•,camp. So, O.K., _her has .73 percent of Canada's'
plants were dead, but who can population but produces. only
•
think of watering plants when . 3g' percent of- the total
his 'mind is • filled with the Canadian_beefsupply. Ship
anguish of the human race and rnents from 'western Canada
and imports from the United
States make up the balance.
These figures indicate great
potential for -local: producers, .
assuming competitive prices. •
Mr.Me"Leod said that com-
petitive prices- are a good, ,
possibility since southwestern.
Ontario has good gra*j land,
favourable climate, excellent,
feed- supplies = particularly
corn, and a large consuming
market in. Toronto.
not the same without you" whether dr not 'the_ _Leafs\ are
thinking of the facts: a pile of going to make°the ptavoffs?
` soiled socks; down to my last What am I supposed. to do,
shirt,- the.. one with the just because her feet go
peekaboo look where the seams "Squish, squish"," when she
,are ripped;' nothing -but TV .(ec.- walks around the kitchen floor?
. cech!) dinners for the last four It never -bothered me. • I wore
days. my toe -rubbers. .'
She took another, romantic- , Dust? What dust? As' she
,meaning, •and°`'it- didn'-t help writes her name on the coffee
when I added, .in jest, "Yep, table.
and I'm sick of that big, strap- Beer bottles? What beer bot -
ping blonde 1 had to hire to do tles? They're alldown the
the housework..; Maybe she's
"only28, but I thirik•that bosom
of hers ispractically obscene.
She should be in burlesque."
-My wife was- home' 'on the
_next bus. It didn't seem to help
her normally, furious
disposition that: :I was out
curling 'when she arrived.
Site - was completely 'unsym-
cellar except those three on the
A bombscare. last- Frida 5 at
the twu piaiits of Rentiik l#o11�e
Systems Ltd. ,of •Henaall sent
about 30Q employees home for
half-day holida,yE •
Exeter • detachment of the
OPP said that an unknown per-
son phoned the plant's switch-
board on 'Friday afternoon
about 12420 p.m. and told, then'
there was a bomb hidden in -one
of the plants, which' •manufac-
ture motor homes, trailers and
mobile 'homes. -
Police, from the OPP sear-
ched the plants but could find
no bomb. The incident is still
•under investigation. •
Andy Imanse, plant
manager, said the scare was„a
serious- matter as it meant a,
complete production shutdown
and the loss of thousands of
dollars, both to the company
and the employees.
He said • that from the
rn-
moent the threat was phoned
in,,they viewed it as a hoaxbut
had no choice but to think of
the employees' safety and
evacuate the 'plant.
Last week, -74 employees who•
were laid off after Christmas
were brought back to work -to
bring the plant 'back to, full
production.
• He also said that, based ort' '
counter, "
past performance, Ontario's
I was pretty hurt and disap- beef producers are,'capable of
pointed; ,I can tell you. I had , meeting • the chalinge. ;The
sweated, and slaver, arid torn• , Province's population•"in the
my gut out for at least, twenty, h, past'ten years has grown: at the
minutes, sprucing up the place rate of 2 percent'per Year, and
so she wouldn't have a mobs to Ontario farmers have•increased
Paper Leaf forward Lloyd Lounsbury Is -caught in an all too
familiar pose. during- Sunday , afternoon's benefit hockey
game between the CKNX Try .Hards and the Signal -Stare
Paper Leafs. CKNX took home the coveted Silver Tissue
Award bat work is already underway on organization of a
PP report busy_ week
`O'fficers -.of "the G'oderich
Detachment of the Ontario
Provincial Police investigated,,
eight motor vehicle 'accidents'
during the past Week involving
seven cases, of property damage
and injury .to one person:•
During a total of 800 duty
hours the officers patrolled
8,429 . miles of highways and
,'other roams laying 29 charges,
•22 under the Highway Traffic
Act and seven under.the. Liquor
Control Act,' .and issued eight'
warnings. '•'. ' y
•
There were no reported
-thefts, -break ''artd`" ' enters or
disturbances but the detach
relent ''answered 10 requests for
assistance, conducted four
prisoner escorts and in Provin-.
tial Court, Criminal Division,.
at Goderich registered 30 con-
victions under the H.T.A. and;
come home to production of beef 2.6'percent • ,20 under the L.C.A.
I didn't make that mess . Detachment Information Of- a
annually, .
return match in Wingham where the. Paper°Leafs bvow they L.
will bring the troPhy home. Signal -Star coach Ed Byrski is
-reviewing film of • last Sun ay's _game in an effort to.iron out
problems 'which frequent4r led to situations like the one
shown here. (staff photo)
'Ref- E:W'. •Mou1ton ' notes -.that..
following the ..car 'ahead to) .
closely can make one the 'cause'
of a reMr end cn.l1liGitin. '
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