The Wingham Advance-Times, 1985-04-10, Page 26Guarding- NATO'S Northern Flank
Continued from Front Page
The offices of the CFE
Office of Information are lo-
cated in what used to be the
attic of the headquarters
building. While the slanted
roof leaves little headroom
for a tall man, the offices are
bright and roomy.
Lt. -Col., Dent is on the tele-
phone when we arrive. He
soon finishes his conver-
sation and greets each one of
us in turn.
Then it's down the to pur-
pose off the visit and he
doesn't mince words.
What we report when we
get back home,. he says, is up
to us.
"We're certainly not here
to put words in your mouth.
We only hope you will keep
an open mind and that from
now on, whenever you have
an occassionto discuss
Canadian Forces in Europe,
at least you will have some
knowledge upon which to
base your opinions."
Weekly newspapers, he
—*aid, are considered an im-
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"Your newspapers stay in
the home fol at least a week
and they are read. We know
this. We know this is one of
the best avenues we have of
getting our story across to
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` Lt.co1. Dent's words are
music to the ears of mem-
bers of the group, most of
whom are publishers.
"Why don't you come and
speak to our advertisers?"
asks one of the fellows from
Alberta.
After we've been advised
Lt. -Col. Dent and his wife as
well as Capt. Anido and his
wife will be joining us that
night for dinner at our hotel,
we file back outside to board
the bus.
That's when the fun be-
gins.
With about half of us on the
bus, one of the group, Lorne
Eedy of St. Marys, Ont., de-
cides to get a picture of the
guard with his submachine
gun. He hasn't noticed a sign
stating the area is off-limits
for photographs.
He and another member of
the group are busy getting
the guard to raise his gun a
little higher to make a better
picture when Mr. Eedy sud-
denly finds himself sand-
wiched between two military
policemen.
They want his camera, and
or his film, and they want it -
now.
Straggling out of the head-
quarters, Peter Schierbuck
of Fairview, Alta., and Allan
Willis of Stettler, Alta., are
so intent upon watching the
goings-on with the Military
Police they step off the curb
into the path of a bus.
Those of us on our bus, in-
cluding our bus driver, Cpl.
;, Landry, don't know where to
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passengers near the front
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There's an audible sigh of
relief on our bus when Mr.
Schierbuck and Mr. Willis
appear around the back of
the other bus, and now look-
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tions, make their way across.
the road. It turns out Mr.
Schierbuck has pulled Mr.
Willis back just in the nick of
time.
There's .much joking about
who has saved whom, but we
all know it was a close call.
"I thought for sure at least
one of them had been hit,"
said Cpl. Landry, "and so did
that driver."
Our attention now swings
back to the confrontation
with the MPs.
Capt. Anido has come to
Mr. Eedy's rescue,
or at
least we think he has. After
much talking and gesticulat-
ing the four of them disap-
pear into the Military Police
office.
"Oh, oh, there goes Lorne
- one down already," says
someone.
Within minutes however,
the captain and Mr. Eedy
appear with Mr. Eedy's
camera intact.
The captain says the inci-
dent will be reported to Lt. -
Col. Dent. We say we hope
there won't be any trouble
and the captain says he
doesn't think there will be.
Amid the jokes about the
CCNA being the first casual-
ty of CFE, somebody mut-
ters, "God, what a. way to
start a trip." • ..
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this first day in Germany is
far from being over.
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Crossroads—Apr. 10, 1985—Page 11
H. GORDON
(GREEN
Went to a meeting of sheep
breeders not so long ago and
before the program was half
over the old wolf question
came up again. Some off the
breeders were off the opinion
that the government ought to
beasked.to-incr-ease-bounties-
and instigate poisoning pro-
grams, but at least one
sheepman had a different
idea. Said he, "I have been
raising sheep ever since I
was a boy and I have yet to
lose an animal to a wolf. My
trouble is with dogs. Every
year I have trouble with
dogs. Not wild dogs either,
but dogs with pedigrees
longer than mine that come
out from the city. Sometimes
they belong to the hunters
who claim they've come to
rid the country of coyotes for
us. Sometimes they're the
manicured and shampooed
darlings that belong to tour-
ists and vacationers .."
Which started a lively
round of discussion and a lot
of yarn swapping about the
killer instince that the sight
of placid sheep will arouse in
many dogs — an instinct
which is usually far more
damaging to sheep hus-
bandry than the coyote
menace ever was.
One breeder with a Scot-
tish accent so furry I could
hardly follow him, told us
how in the country where he
grew up a suspected dog was
put on trial by suspending
him upside down until he
pukes. And if there were
wool in his vomit he would be
executed on the spot.
"Trouble is," another
breeder said, "that when you
go to a man to try to tell him
that his dog was worrying
your sheep, he just won't be-
lieve you. And instead:of of-
fering to pay for the damage,
he's apt to get mad enough to
clip you one! And if he finds
out you've shot his dog, he's
sure as hell going to sue
you!"
All of which reminded me
of a story I once heard about
the Saskatchewan sheep
man who once,found three of
his ewes with their throats
torn out one spring morning,
and another two or three, so
badly mauled that he had to
put them out of their misery.
Well the old fellow reasoned
that the murderer, whoever
he was, would return to the
scene of the crime and he
waited up for him night after
night with a rifle over his
knee. No luck, although
twice he was sure that he
saw some animal sliding off
into the dusk from 'a knoll
nearby. "All right," the old
guy said, "'so you're smelling
my gun, are you? Well how
would you like to smell a
little steak flavored with
strychnine?"
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poisoned hunks off meat
where he had seen the ani-
mal. Sure enough the morn-
ing after one of the meat
chunks was gone.
And that Wright have been
the end of the story if the old
fellow hadn't mentioned the
incident to a friend who was
.on his way to _the tavern. But
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the angriest men in the prov-
ince drove up to the ranch in
a big fine car and announced
that he was going to sue for
five hundred dollars.
"My dog a sheep killer?"
he yelled. "No way! He
wouldn't kill a fly! How
come he happened to be on
your ranch? Well I'll tell you
why. There happens to be a
little bitch in heat over at
your neighbor's place, and
my dog was just on the way
over to pay his respects,
that's all. And you, you went
and poisoned him when
all he was after was a bit
of love! Understand? Or
maybe you're too damned
old now to remember urges
like that! ..."
The old sheepman kept
pretty calm about it. "No ...
no" he said, "I'm not too old
to remember. But let me tell
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when I'd be headin' across
country to pay my respects
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