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„ Royal • Canadian Legion Branch 109• elected officers for the y,
coming year who were installed at a recent joint installation
service with the Ladies Auxiliary. They are (back row, left to
, right) William Moore, house committee chairman;' Larry Webb',
Sgt. At,Arms; David McMillan, welfare committee chairman;
• ) Barney avis, entertainment chairman, (front row,"left to right)
Howard Carroll, sports convener; Stan ,Youngblut, secretary;
Robert Chapman;`prresident; Ed Tonks, first vice-president. Ab-
sent when the photo was taken .were second vice-president
Harvey, Johnstone,_third vice-president Sandy Profit;„ service
bureau' chairman George Low, property committee chairman
George Chambers; public; relations .officer Neil Shaw and
Padre Rev, . G.L. ,Royal (photo by—Fred Bisset)
legioo,ladics kuxiIir Exeiutive
- , The Executive of the' Ladies Auxiliary to the Royal Canadian
Legion Branch 109 was installed recently. They are (back row,
left to !sight), Lorraine- Jones,,' Linda • Fr.eerrian, Sharon. Scruto'n,
This column is going to'be.a .,
little tough to write. No,. there
hasn't been a death in the
family. Not quite. ' ' N .
But ..1 wasn't ,too sure 'I
wasn't going to bleed' to' death
(through ;the eyes) when t tot-
tered out of bed at seven this
morning just two hours after
,ttering irit bed:
It was all that reading. My
brother-in-law, . Jack Buell,
brought along. on 'a visit some•
old high school football p.ic-
tures, and we spent mostOf, the,
night, barely stopping for food'
and drink 'deciphering the
• names under the photos. ,
There, we• were, in the 'tate
1930'S, looking.,so 'young and
sweet and,' innocent it would
• make your eyes :wafer. One pic-
ture was headed: Undefeated
,,Champions of Lanark County.
, That ,was a great, year, I"
reckon. 'Come : 'on, now. 'How
many of you: have ever been on.
a team of •Undefeated Cham
pions of . anything?
We talked •and'• laughed, a lot
as we identified long -forgotten
• faces and our wives .muttered
away 'contemptuously in, the
background.:. They thought we
Were behaving like a c43uple of
schoolboys; We were.
Right -in the middle'.of the
front now; bolding the ball, was
Les Douglas, quarterback and`
. team captain. He. wasn't a big
guy, but "he "was solid bone,
muscle and grit. He Could
always claw .bis way that eXtra
• five inches for a touchdown,
..through six hundred pounds of
enemy flesh.
He was.a great ' hockey,
player, too. Made 'it to
professional. (Birt lie was born.
.twenty years t:oo soon. There
were."' just ' too many great
hockey players in"' those days,
and he didn't quite, 'make °the
NHL-, though' he led the
American. Hockey League in
scoring for several seasons".
Today, he'd be .knocking off
• about $601000 a year: ,
Flanking him in the •photo.
were Bob White and Tori? Har-
- per. Tom could run with the
• bal'l''like•'arabbit with sic guys
"shooting at him..
Bob White was my best , There Were .quite a, few more,
friend,, through high school: He-'; but Old . Jack, my brother -in
wasn't: huge; either but when la'w ' and myself, didn't
weneeded a few yards, therebela,bour the tragic theme. We
was no question of who would laughed until we were purple„ in -a
get the ball. Bob would take a the face ,at all the things we
plunge at anything the size -of a had - • t away.with; not all the.
,doughnuthole; and always thinthat, had got away with
come up with the-. necessary . so. many of ;us:
years. _
We' all hated school,: except It was also nice 1p, see our
for the sport% but Bob' White coaches, Earl, Fleming, teacher,
was bright., Today ',he'd' be such a handsome young man' I,,
going to college and becoming can't believe we called him
an engineer, ..or something •„,"Old Fiero"
J'C Cosgrove, 248
,.equally useless. 'Bu.t in .those' pounds of science teacher 'who
.days, there was no way: No could wipe two recalcitrant e. •
`'students' loans. no grants, and students off, their stool. with
pdang few' affluent parents. 'If one hand as easily as,I could
you got a job'in.:a factory, you wipe the dust off the win- -
' were lucky",
„,
dowsill, if such a silly' thing
Last time I saw Bob was
ever occurred. to me. -. • •
London, England, during the • As`you can• see, this has been -
war. Il' was in the •lobby of the •a hard colun7n to write. And
famous, or infamous, trap y d•
S d probably a mightiۥult one
Gun Club
At the Vanastra Gun Club on
July 3, Al Green of. Clinton hit:
23 out of 26.t,rgets in the trap
' shoot. He was' followed by Jim
Hogg *of, Seafcirth•with 22 hits, -
-;;and Mery-Batkin of Clinton
and "Manfred . •Die,rof, of.
Goderich with 21, hits eath.
Next came Joan Dierof 'of •
Goderich with 20, Charlie
Brandon of Clinton' with 19,
and Eric Collins of Clinton and
Ashley Gilbert of ' Goderich,
with „16 each. r -
In, the Skeet shoot last Satur-
day, Merv. Batkin of -Clinton hit
23 out of ,2'b targets, In second
spot was ; Harriston ,.Schock of
Zurich with- 22, and in third,.,
_place was Harold • Smith -of
Seafbrth with. 21.,
•Tare top three were -followed
by Tone, Allen of Londesb'oro
.wi'th 20 hits, Yawl Wheeler of
Clintorr with 19,...Jim Hogg of
Sea.f'orth,. with 18, AshleyGilbert • of .,Goderich with 17
and Bill McNutt'of,E'xet'er•with
16.
Janet H:. Sutherl t, daughter
of Mr. • and• Mrs.
Sutherland, 95 Yardley Wood
Road, -London, ;,received- •her,
.diploma in Broadcast Arts at
Fanshaw College convocation
exercises held at Alumni Hall
recently. Janet is a:graduate of.
GDG,I and is Oresently em
ployed et CKNX in Wingham.
'
Palace.•He was checking out, I to read m (phdto by Beta Photo Studio)'
was. checking. in. Hello and
goodbye. He had completed pne
tour of operations on ''bombers
and was about, to, begin his
Second. . On which he was killed.
Beside .Bob in the picture
was Johnny Hogg. A nice guy,
•who was forced by his parents
,o maintain a much higher
standard of intellectual and
- cultural life than the resp of us'
poolroom .bier s: He played the
violin. •He .,passed his• subjects.
He was a clean -living, -good-
• looking lad, just the type you'd
wantjor yourself, though he
had a distressing'habit of „drop-
ping crucial punts;,
As -I heard it later, they
foundJ.ohnny lying in a.rubber'
dinghy in the a Medit!erannea.n.
Dead: He's been ' shot,,down,,
wounded, parachuted, got into`
the dinghy, and died.,
Therr,there was Les Morris, 'a
kids' with a terible home 'life, a
terrible birthm'ar'k, and a per-
. sona'lity to.go with both. But he
was. also a terrible, t,errifving'
tackler, who could hit a.fancy-
dancy halfback so hard that the
guy didn't know he'd been am-
putated at the knees,runtil he
tried tostandup.
• And Norm Davis. H e•'liad the'
speed of a gazelle, and the
grace of a gnu. •He didn't come
back from tiie war -either.
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