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The Huron Expositor, 1979-03-08, Page 3D9ES THIS MEAN SPRING IS HERE? — These puddles, the first we've seen in a long time, might just mean that spring is just around the corner. After all can April showers be far behind? •(Expositor Photo) Someth,„,.411 g by 'Susan White Wheewl!That's my first reaction when somebody asks how we enjoyed the Caribbean cruise we took last week. l'nr too worn, out still to appreciate it, Would we like a cruise? Is another question I'm getting from friends since we got back, My answer is pretty much yes... with the warning that you have to be in pretty good shape to take the pace. I left more than a week ago with the avowed intention of taking it easy, of sleeping, resting, sunning and eating a lot. Now while there was no compulusion todo anything more than that,somehow the huge range of things to do on ' the ship, places to see off it and people... --to talk to everywhere took over and .1 was swept into the .goingest week I've had in along time. A friend who went on a cruise once told me she and her husband felt like staying in bed for a week after they got home. At the time didn't really understand that, now 1 know exactly what she meant. I'm at work my week after but I'm dim, very dim. The fresh sea air, the balmy weather and the' good food must have kept us going at full speed all day and night on the ship. Now that all those things are absent and, we have to cook and clean up after ourselves,, we're both near Collapse. Probably the highlight of our week on the SS Veendam (Holland America line) with 600 plus other people was the service provided by cabin stewards, deck stewards, dining room stewards and generally every one of the ship's under executive level employees, all Indonesian and all male. • , The mess at home takes a lot of getting used to after a. week of having our beds turned down and our' cabin tidied up every time we left it. The Indonesiancrew increw hart, epnrotevritdaedment of the week a terrific amateur shew teaturing a candle nose and music on bamboo magician instruments. ahenanntgds riTgah osieinhgghetwr tcton.t,e or aer three lounges on the boat - every night we found a lot of the acts pretty corny. Some wit suggested putting the big name acts in the dining room and, the stewards en• the stage perManentht. For the self improvement minded there were dancing lessons, needlepoint lessons, bridge and chess lessons, The better half and his brother Jim made the semi-finals of the shin's ' CI Own* wurnament (beating Out a little old lady and a 10 year old kid but I wasn't supposed to say that) and we all played a couple of games of the ever presen t bingo. That shows I think just hew hard the participation 'business got hold of us all. The main recreation on a c ruise of course though is eating. You eat a multi -course breakfast, have tea and cookies mid morning then a • ditto, lunch. Afternoon there's tea again then a gala dinner (shrimp cocktail was my appetizer choice every night except the one when I ate caviar) and to get back energy after a hard • evening of ,sitting at the moties, or watcnin g a floor THE HURON EXPOSITOR MARCH WM show we had to, go to the midnight buffet, 1 think being sensible and passing up all the food that couldn't try on the VeendartI was harder on me tha being hungry. Last but not least, those of you who are interested in a • shipboard romance.. forget. the Veendam, To. the regret of us all, but especially my single swinger brother-in-law...there were about five singles under 40 on the whole ship.. -Young people don't go on these expensive two week cruises" a musician who works aboard ship told us.. (By flying to Aruba wd picked up the Miami bound week of a longer cruise.) And how richt he was. (We did. get the names or Ships which are more int he the swinging single mode. should You be interested.) just because the average age of Veeodam passengers was about 65 didn't mean, they weren't a lively bunch. I remember the gold dust twins, two ladies in their seventies, dressed up for the costume ball. And age doesn't mean, therewasn't love stories, A newlywed couple who were feted by the captain at a partyfor honeymooners were 70 (she) and 80 (he) and often held hands at their table for two. Drawbacks? Well there were a few. It was hard to get used to dressing up for dinner and after every night. But with the help of clothes borrowed from my sister I started to even like that. The pool was too small and after sitting here for five minutes I really can't think of another complaint. Our shipboard accommodations were supee but the best thing of all about A ereise is it'sso easy. You go to bed at night at sea and you wake up every morning at a different port: With a whole way of life to explore. Yes, we only had a day at the most, on each 'island but we saw enough to, know what we'd like to go back to. More about our ports of call next week, n anuary The final of a three part series. BY ALICE GIBB Cooney Weiland, the Egmondville native who earned a place in the Hockey Hall of Fame, wasn't just an all-star center, he was also an all,star coach. Weiland moved up from the playing ranks in 1939 to, become coach of the Bruins, coaching Dit Clapper, his old team mate on the Dynamite Line and the infamous Eddie Shore, until the scarred N.H.L. warfior was traded to another tearn Now the year that really counted in Weiland's coaching career was 1940.41, the year the Bruins took home the Stanley Cup. Under the management of Art Ross and the coa.thing of Cooney Weiland, the Bruins ended the season as world champions. It was a featthey wouldn't accompli sh again until the 1969-1970 season. Cooney Weiland ended the season b Amen by Karl Schuessler I haven't -always said the kindest things about the lotteries. When'I think about it, I haven't written one good word about them. But just to show you I can see a little good in the worst of situations, I will admit: People do win. People do hold right numbers. Dreams do come true. Of course there are winners. That's what keeps everyone putting in his money, isn't it?. - Like that group of workers who for over a year and a half threw in their dollars into a money pool. Then bingo! Last week their venture, finally paid off. They didn't become instant millionaires, for they had to split the pot,ten ways.. But who's going to quibble at $100,000 each? - These women, mostly middle aged and housewives said they can now pay off the mortgage, take that long put -off vacation and of course show their husbands what it really means to bring home the bacon. And these women Can probably count on a little more respect from their boss. He's no longer employing assembly line work- ers. He's now got a -bunch of, ladies -of - means on his hands. Yes, there are winners alright. Some- times it can be downright embarrassing. Take the Anglican clergyman in Toronto. He's a brother of actor William Hutt of the Shakespeare Festival fame. The Rev. Hutt's family held the winning ticket for a million. This, too, had to be divided - about four ways this time. Now, what to do? An Anglican minister holding ' $250.000 worth of ticketin his hand? • • • People do win lotteries I can hear brother William intoning now in his best Lady. Macbeth voice, "Out, out damn spot", but the black ticket won't go away. The Rev. Mr. Hutt says he's keeping the money, of course, and he's contemplat- ing an early retirement. There were some twitters in his congre- gation, but all's fair in love, war and gambling, right? If you won, you won. No need to apologize. It's not your fault your friends and neighbours will have a hard time keeping up with you. You can't help it. You wake up one morning and find out you are the Joneses, When you put your money down for a lottery ticket, you know you take huge chances at losing, but you have to remember. You do take the risk of winning. And some of the churches are finding themselves winners. Some of Wintario profits are falling down onto their spires. Not long ago the Ontario government announced that if your church is named a historic site, then it may become eligible for Wintario money. Extra thousands would sure bewelcome: relief for some of these old churches trying to keefrlip with the high cost of tuck pointing the bricks, releading the stained glass windows and straightening the leaning towers. Wintario money looks good' at a time like this. But shouldthesinking church grab the money that 'can save it? Money from the coffers of gambling? A choice like that is going to raise more twitters and twits in every historic sited congregation Thank Careless smoking (Continued from Page 1) fire alarm when asked by Clarence Reeves. Dr. Brady summarized the evidence and spoke to the jurors.. Among his remarks he said from evidence it appeared the deceased was a heavy smoker and a carless smoker. He said he was struck by two coins and a ,cigarette lighter on the bed. When moved the sheets under them were white, com- pared to grey around them. He said there was strong evidence that the deceased had been lying on the bed atidlhat the coins and lighter had fallen out of his pocket and left evidence they had been there before smoke became too heavy. Dr. Brady said from evidence Mr. Howard had arrived from work at his apartment at 2:30 a.m., lit up a cigarette while in the chair, went to bathrode where he took off his shoes and then lay down on the bed, to be wakened later by the smoke. In an attempt to get out he had stumbled into the 1 bathroom doorway rather than the adjacent outside door. Dr. Brady asked thc jurors for any recommendations they might make that Might in the future save lives as he recalled that fire chief Harry Hak has said it was only "%ininutes before there was a conflagration with the fire engulfing 'the whole building with catastrophic loss of life. Thc jurors were John H. McClwain, foteman; Allan Campbell. Bonnie Bedard, Bradley Carnochan and James Coleman. Gary Hunter. Godefich, crown attorney, - was in attendence, also a court reporter. Expositor asks: Have You done your income tax? BY DEBBIE RANNEY The season of filing income tax returns is almost upon us, so it was that thought that inspired this week's Expositor • Asks question. "Have you filled out your income tax form yet and are you doing your own or getting help?" Mrs. Lloyd Bedard of 46 George' St., Seaforth said she hadn't filled hers out yet and that her daughter Was going to do it for her. • Mrs, John A. Hamilton of RR 1, Varna said, "YeS, the accountant did it back in January," She said the farm gets done just whenever the accountant comes. She said they ,don't do their own anyinore,-"ncifthe Way farming is." Mrs. Gordon Johnston of RR 1, Varna said, "No, we haven't. We're usually early. 1 don't think my husband has gotten • his T-4 slip yet." She said they always took their form to Goderich. Dale Jetties of Zurich said he hadn't done his yet but that he would probably get it done before the deadline. He gets somebody else to do his for him. Mrs, David Marshall of Brucefield said they have had theirs filled out (for about three days. They had someone else do it. Mrs, Robert Hamather of 110 London Road in Hensall said, -No, we haven't," although she thought they would be gettng it done "very soon." They have somebody else do it for them. Mrs. James May of Brucefield said they had had theirs filled out for about a week. Machine breakdown • meortO, _:news. left dui Because of the breakdown Of one of our Compugraphie typesetting machines a small quantity of news had to be 4, left Out .• of this week's morning had not yet arrived. Expositor. Late Wednesday The news will appear in afternoon at press time- a next week's paper, repairman promised for that ., • t` tt, • • • - • • • heavens •most of the churches in our district aren't historic sites from the government's point of view. But our local church building - loved and endearing to every one' who's had anything to do with them - is a historic site. It's sad when the declining member- ship can't keep up with the old dowager of a building, when they can't keep her up in the manner and means she's used to. But the Minister of Culture and Rec- reation has told us Wintario funds aren't meant to repair every leaky church roof in the province. So Perth and Huron counties don't have to make such a weighty decision for or against gambling money. .• An old saying is making the rounds: You pay your money and take your chances. Next time you buy a lottery ticket, think aboutthat. Not that yoti may lose, but that you may win. But then again. Don't won", You have as much chance at winning a million as being struck by lightning twice in your lifetime. Or twenty times more likely to find yourself murdered. Tuckersrnith avvards gravel contract BY WILMA OKE Tuckermsith Township council Tuesday awarded the contract forgravelling township roads to Sandy Contracting Company Limited, Goderich. The contract, the lowest of three tenders, was for $32,290 for 16,000 cu. Rids on the roads and 1,000 'cu yards stockpiled. Allan Nicholson, road superintendent, said road employees have been busy repairing washouts on roads throughout the township following the recent rains and warmer weather. Joe Gibson, RR 2, Seaforth was appointed weed inspector for the township. He is the weed inspector for the County of Huron . - , Council approved grants for the following who have requested them: (amount of grant given last year in brackets): Seaforth Agricultural Society, ($100) $125; Hensall South Huron Agricultural Society ($100) $125; Huron Central Agricultural (S100) $125; Huron Plowmens Association, $50, same as last year; Salvation Army, 525. same as last year; Mental Health Association, $25 same as last year; all 4-H members in Tuckersmith, 54. per member, Three groups asking for grants were refused: Huron County Historical Society, Huron Country Playhouse and the Blyth Centre for the Arts. Connell discussed the cost of building permits with the possibility of increasing the rates but decided to leave them the same for this year. Passed for payment were the following.. accounts: Vanastra Day Care Centre, $3,972.60; Vanastra Recreation, 56,902.07; roads $15,319.84; General accounts. S5,303.67, for a total of 521,498.18. Council accpeted the resignation' of Lawrence Young, the janitor at Vanastra Recreation Centre. An advertisement will oe placed in the local paper for a replace ment Tuckersmith Township council aceel an invitation to attend the March 1980 session of Huron County Council. as spectators. Road superintendent Nicholson was authorized to attend the C S. Anderson road • • school at Guelph University for a three-day course in May. • Council adjourned at midnight. Winning the coach of the year award, bu Weiland and the Bruins manager Art Ross had a falling out, and Stanley Cup or no Weiland was fired. The next season, Art Ross assumed the coaching duties himsel and Cooney Weiland spent the first season for many years as a spectator rather than a participant in NHL hockey. After saying good-bye to the Bruins, Cooney coached at Hershey and New Haven in the American League. Then in 1950, the professional turned amateur and signed on as coach of the Harvard University hockey team. It was a job he was to hold for the next 21 years of his life. What was Cooney Weiland like as a coach? According to J. Concannon, writing in the Boston -Globe Weiland was a man siiho t different, the whole concept of hockey. Kids were very puck -conscious -They still , are, to some extent. They didn't know too much about playing position." f To his player s, Cobney Weiland some- - times, seemed aloof and apart, but his • coaching talent couldn't be disputed, - Tim Taylor, who was captain of the 1962-63 Harvard team, which won the Eastern college league championship, said in 1971, "I can remember practicing, how frustrating it was. It was impossible just to • score a goal. We practiced the Cooney Weiland way, with a lot of back -checking. You'd get in a game and it was an entirely . different world. They you d realize how r ght C ney was. Pep talks with Weiland were also short and to the point. bill Cleary, another former Harvard player, recalled, "A pep talk is you play goal, you play right wing." I remember playing Boston University once. He kept teling us to watch No. 17. No. 17 was Dick ROdenlieiser. Cooney kept saying, -Watch what's his name. You know. Eisenhower." Joe Concannon, the sports- writer, had a number of Weiland stories in his repertoire, which he recalled in 4971 when Cooney was retiring, One of the storeis happened on a hockey trip when the Harvard team were playing against Clarkson in Potsdam, New York. 'The team was socked in with ax ice storm, so Cooney and the sportswriters t decided to pass the timewith a card game. Concannon said, "Cooney knew a card game called euchre or something like that. -It's an old Canadian game," explained the old Canadian. Well, Fran Rosa of the Globe and I were partners against Cooney and official Eddie Barry. Cooney had a new rule every time his team "loSt a hand." When Coon y Weilan finally decidd to hang up his hat, at 70 years of age he did it, with style. The Harvard team finished the 1971 season as othteinufoteudrthoorafnakgeed team10) ivite in the (c0d -An old hat on his head, with thick- rimmed glasses setting off a stern, deliberate look, Cooney Weiland stands at one end of the Harvard hockey team bench in Watson Rink, watching in studied silence the game that has been his life." "Occasionally, he is apt • to shout something out, to indulge in converstation with an official, to say something to a player on the bench,Usuall though, he remains quiet, observant, involved bweocradusse, Cooney Weiland is a man of few When Weland started his coaching career at Harvard, the practices were held on an outdoor, wind-swept rink which mus have reminded him a bit of his Egmondville days. ' • The team played their home games in the Boston Arena and in his 21 years as coach. Weiland managed to collect one more record - 311 victories with the team; Only four other college coaches everwon 300 games in their careers. In an interview' with Concannon at the time of his retirement, Cooney recalled his first year at Harvard. "The first year I came here," he said, "I was right out of the pro circles. It was quite • • You're The Hospital Auxilliary Seaforth Women's Institute meeting will be held on, is to be held in the Seaforth Tuesday . March 13 in the Public School, Tuesday board r om the hospital evenin March 13 t 8:15 e at h at 8:00 p.m. p Roll tall to be answereci M tl ' f th with "Ways to teach children . . Seaforth Agricultural Society to become better citizens". e nes ay 14. Jean Siertsema /the Huron 1979 at Seaforth Public County Dairy Princess for on y meeting or e • • Wd d March School, 8:30. 1978, will be the speaker. The March me ti of ih L ch tt 11 b en e n earn= ee will e g • J. McGregor, Mrs. E. Stephenson, Mrsr °Isabelle Hunt and Mrs. Ethel Kerr. The March meeting of the Seaforth Horticriltural Society will, be, held at the Masonic Hall on Wed. March 14 at • 8 p.m. The, guest speaker will be Eric Eberhardt, who will be' • showing two fltns, Sugar and spice 13y Bill By the time this appears itt print, the - worst of the suffering in Canada will be over. And I don't mean -that dreadful February cold snap which turned us into our annual winter condition, a nation of misanthropes. Burst water pipes, cars so cold you can't even put them into reverse to back out in the morning, and temperatures that would freeze the brains of a brass monkey arc bad enough. But we're used to them. We know that in another four months, we'll be gasping in a heat wave and beating off mosquitoes. No, that's not, the Suffering we did this February. It was being smugly satisfied on a Thursday night. mildly dismayed on a Saturday afternoon, and utterly !laminated ott a Sunday night that caused the sufferieg. Talk about blue Menday. That Monday in Feb.. after them Rooshians had kicked the living stuffing out of Canada's finest, was so blue it was almost purple, I'm_not saying that I, personally,-seffitt when Canada's primary export, hockey players, is no longer marketable, l'hi not saying that. I'm just saying that 1 bleed a little, internally, When a bunch of rotten red, pinko communists make a group of fine, young, liberal, eapitaliStS look like a bunch of old -age pensioners whoSe Gcritot has been cut off, Right after the second game. I went te the clinic and had a cardiogram, just in ease, The worst suffering is over • . I must say We took it well. as a nation. For once, there were no alibis. How could - there bc, when hundreds of millions of, people saw our collective Canadian noses being rubbed in it? Sports writers, their guts churning. praised the play of the Russians and intimated that they knew all along what would happen. As they always do, after the event. The Canadian players showed more grace. The best of them simply admitted they were beaten soundly by a superior team. But they knew in their hearts that they, and all their highly paid buddies, were facing not a physical Siberia, but a They were the Best in the West, and they had not"' been just beaten but thoroughly trouneed, by the Best itt the where hockey is a relatively new sport, . „ Net ler ilie to ask, "How did it happen?”All the experts 'have .agreed that- the _ Russians skate better and are infinitely superior in physical condition to the pampered Canadian pros, ss ho weighed an average of nine pounds more than their .. opponents, hockey?" And I think 1 ki' 1W the answer to that. It is only for Imo to osie, "Why do We suffer so much when tvP' licked in .• • For a century or so. -Canadians have been hewers of wood and drawers of water. Fair enough. We had lots of wood and water, and still have and other people need them But we also had three superior finished products manufactured at home, that nobody else in the world could touch, when it came to quality: maple syrup, rye whiskey, and hockey players. Our supremacy in these departments is virtually ended, Our whiskey has been watered more and morc, our maplesyrup has been thinned to the consistency of greasy -spoon gravy, and our hoekey players, with a few stalwart execptions, are' more impressed with their hair -dos, their press clip in s and their fi• 1 tnents than they are svith beating their opponents. There is a SadnesS here. Ryc whiskey is bad for the liver, Maple Syrup bad for the teeth, so perhaps their denigration is not a national disaster, But to have a hockey 'feln that is second or third or fourth best iti world? That is unthinkable,- ' - Every red-blooded, middle-aged male in Canada has hockey iti his veins. .Hc personally knows, or his best friend does. or he lives in, or livesItt the next town to, cir is shah ceusin of, or grew up with, �r was preceded by only 10 years by, in Se11061, a genuine hockey player, who made it to Jtinior A. Or Senior A. or even the NHL, or one of its farm teams. • • Two of the quarterbacks on my high school football team, Les Douglas and Tony Licari, tnade it to the Detroit. Red Wings organization. My brother-in-law, Jack Buell, played Junior'A and Senior A and became a referee. My grandson, at the age of two,, was given- a hockey stick and demolished his grandmother's hardwood floors in the living -room, smashing a puck around the floor with great vigor and a certain lack of control. (She finally put her foot down when he insisted on scrim- maging around the piano while she was giving lessons.) To add insult to Wert', this idiotic idea of lona Campagtion. Minister of Jocks, has popped up. She wants to give 518.5 Million of my money and yours to fOur Canadian cities, so that they can build big arenas to accommodate four more losers in an NHL ! at is already - tvatered-down with iediocre talent that 60 per cent of them eouldn't have made a Senior A team 30 years ago. What ' she should do it support An —Order -in -council vvlitai prOe* laitris that with the emergence of Red China, Russia is now a second-rate potvernot worthy to be faced -off against. , Then Allan Eagleson can organize another "Series of the Century with China, Where they learned to skate about eight. years ago. We'd probably win it by •one goal in 1980. And lose it by 10 in '81, •