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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Tilt JUNL 1976 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Mini St Georgetown Ontario tt 1 Ml Publisher lit I ill Iti I Hard working volunteers the heart of many programmes A column last week by one of our columnists has unfortunately rubbed a number of people totally the wrong way Yes the article was humorous and yes the article wis about Brownies but no the article was not making fun of Brownies nor most definitely their leaders We have nothing but the utmost esteem for who volunteers his or her services and time for a job that is going to produce nothing but work ana more work The reward Verv little In fact most people who care enough to get involved will tell you that their lone reward has been slap on the wrist from a person or persons whose sole contribution was the to com plain or criticize No our columnist who herself is a sort who loves to get involved was simply telling a story of one of those moments in her role as a mother of a Brownie past and present It was a humorous moment which she like all of us likes to share with others in hopes of a little enjoyment to others Show us a leader of a Brownie or Cub Pack Scout or Guide troop or hotkey team or soccer team or any other of the many many organizations volunteers are offering Halton Hills youth who doesn t have a similar share of humourous stories and we II eat our Boy Scout manual Donate blood Monday Out of the darkness into the light From operating room to a bed so white I opened my eyes and there I could see The lifegiving blood that flowed Into me And Thanks filled my soul As I thought of the One Who had heard of the Clinic And took time to come My prayers will be with them Whoever they are May God and good fortune Carry them far On The Home Front Its not easy living with a sex symbol by If J recint newspaper article is to be I must fan up lo the ail that I married to sex symbol to survey dom on large cross section of people aided by series of middlt aged nun won nut Ihc most group No presuming they were not using liter is Iht standard model I can only surmise that the mn being photographed for the survey must have ruflid their hairs and heaved their manly chests up a position far removed from the normal nestling point of mid waist level Hearing thi burnt of hysterical laughter with which I greeted the article my husband demanded to know what was reading If I had been blessed with greater intelligence I would immediately destroyed this evil subversive literature but unfortunately he got his hands on It and life has nivcr been quite the same since Overnight the words middle aged usually taboo when mentioned in relation to the first glimmir of in an off his shirt ind on the coldest days the top four buttons are left proocalivelv tan trust sending him lo tin stores any more Supposing the swell young girl on the ihttkoul counter was one of those people surveyed what would would happen to my frozen foods while she does into trance it the sight of this symbol of male splendour When be leaves or work in the morning I im left with Hit uneasy feeling that It is not his know how they re alter hut his body I fully expecting him to start dragging mi out on a round of discos hi will probably buy hi buggers with a belt and T shirts suggestive slogans I assume he will now hive to be suitably coined by stylist insteid After ill the time Jones Tony I now having to live with the realisation that I have in equally exalted sharing my roof and years of marriage this is not easy to I kid believed that we would grow old gratefully together but obviously this is not going to be the case I the one expected logo into thi graceful act while he becomes a winger I now shop for a new wardrobe in order lo hold his and wear eye upon retiring for the night Keeping in mind Die fact that he is Italian split second decisions have to be made such as whether to douse myself with Chanel No in order to be alluring or use blueberry muffin essence to remind him of his ties to hearth home and bambini Mind you I discovered then is only so long can live with this kind of daily pressure and out of sheer self defence I completed an evaluation study of my own The very next time he reminds me thai he Is Die new Six Million Dollar Man 1 offer him the gomg market rate based upon my Queens Park Commentary McMurtry the publicity freak queen Park Bureau Of The Herald TORONTO Attorney General Roy has been getting a reputation as a publicity freak The mam attention of Mr McMurtry In his month of office seems to have been directed to hockey violence drunken driving and pornography And all three being flashy Issues he has been getting reams of publicity Which causes a bit of wonder about the latest MiMurtry move He personally is going before the Supreme Court of Canada to present the province case in the challenge to the propriety of its action In putting Itself under the inflation controls It is very rare for an attorney general to go Into court personally to handle an action this Mr McMurtry has no out standing background in Civil law There is logical ground for suspicion that tit is making grandstand play you might boy who owns the bat is running ball gome The point to be argued before the Court is a highly important one whole question of power of he cabinet is at Issue a power which was given a setback just a few weeks ago by division court the hospital closings The very best legal to lent available Is colled for lo present the province s case Presumably the attorney general will retain some as associate counsel Incidentally while talking of law ihe whole core fault in the hospital closings was bad legal advice The govimmcnt lawyers advised it that it had powers which it I at least in the opinion of the division court Open Information A highlight of the PC meeting was stress on more freedom of information in govern ment He legates generally appeared to favor a proposal that would have government documents open to the public This has been a matter of contention in the legislature for years with opposition parties complaining that they can I sec documents which they should have access to Actually there has been a dramatic im In the general situation regardin documents At one time the government would release practically nothing except com mission or public Inquiry reports Anything else was declared be in tonal and privileged This position of course was based on the fear that Internal studies Inquiries etc could possibly be used as political am munition against the government But in the past few years there has distinct change When the asks for a document usually gets it and the attitude of the government Is much more open On Parlioment Hill Orion would have cost Canadians 20000 new homes by Stewart MacLeod Ottawa Bureau Of The Herald As this is being written the governments plan to buy IB Jong range patrol airplanes from the Lockheed Cor dead And hopefully there won be any resurrection Downstairs in the national press con theatre military officers are removing models of the plane that were lo be displayed at a background briefing when the deal was lo be sealed At a Liberal caucus Defense Minister James Richardson is ex plaining what went wrong At defense headquarters officials look depressed And executives of Lockheed are walking around Ottawa stunned silence All had an enormous stake theproposcd billion deal and their anguish is But we as taxpayers also hod on enormous stake in the deal like for woman and child in Canada and I think wi relief entitled lo breath a small sign of bemuse few of us can identity with such a And it would be nice if we could pay tribute to the government for changing lis collective mind and saving us this money but Hints not what happened The deal fell through because of incredible financial bungling The Conservatives don deservi any particular either because while they criticized details of proposed pur chase there was no sustained attack against the overall expenditure Conservative Liader Joe Clark referred to he deal as a Marx Brothers comedy as the government made a lastditch attempt drum up financing for the scandal struck Lockheed But eight hours after the cancellation was announced Mr Clark appeared unaware of this latest little Attention Somehow this proposed billion ex pendllure never got the attention it deserved And as mentioned earlier perhaps its But it would us to build 20 homes costing And remember Iht that devclopid over the govern spending IK million on Ottawa magnificent National Arts Centre Well the SI billion the government was prepared to spend on ill propeller driven planes could provide such centres It a staggering figure There is no doubt that the armed forces need new patrol to replace the lumbering old Argus that now look for enemy submarines enemy fishing boats seamen Hut never was a lory explanation regarding incredible cost of the electronic equipment or these planes Australia bought the same basic plane at less than half the price Canada was going to pay and that country takes a serious view of its coastal patrols The military officials have argued that Thoughts We the Herald Angels issue a challenge the electronic equipment would be far more than inylhing in Australian plants but it hard to see how advances could amount to more than 25 million per plane Even more difficult to understand is why hi government continued to pursui deal with Lockheed long company had piymg some million In bribes the world and long after American banks refused to extend any more credit to dii debt ridden firm Mess And no one has been able to figure out the incredible bungling that resulted In Lockheed making an unsuccessful attempt to raise million from Canadian banks to start the project The company had apparently thought Ihc government was going to Ihe sum and Mr Richardson said he thought the company would provide Hi tailed it a misunderstanding If was an award for Mr would win hands down Anyway when it turned out that no one would or could provide the money the deal fell through We ve exhausted the possibilities said a tired Prime Minister Now Instead of paying billion to Lockheed the government has only to dish out about million lo the company for design and contract work already done Mere But even this little penalty payment would buy about new automobiles It I until I had left reckless youth behind that I came to like the game of baseball Not as a player mind you but as a pec to tor Way back In those days when I shaved only twice a week spending an afternoon witching a gam unfold seemed dull way to in At time here many lo Ithi0iiiiUnvjfflfnt I fan I for the m inif an J nun it j villi ttlal in jtrK i Uk f tit ft far i Ml f a great spectator sport Then one day it all changed With mother of his Ideas my editor said we II form a ball club Challenge all local teams a minute I said I tan Can you And when s Inst you played He lonfesscd thai like me he I remember time lit played What position do you play I nuked I as trying Is Il de He said he hud no titular When I him if hi owned not a glovi arid but hi mild tie I mid I thi ugh Hi it wax ml I I for Ihr Ilirnld Aiigrli I sold I I bad my mouth mill colonel In tin A li flfl r Kr hint I ill games docs not a coach and manager make I reminded him but to no avail So one day I moved the beverage glasses and one a scrap of paper came up wtih a rosier of everyone on staff and correspondents as will 1 1 lame to mnre than nine and were in business We still don a baseball or a bat or gloves or caps or T shirts imbloioned with the nnmi of our club or anything hut nevertheless we re a In 1 1 club may lie that any ball ilub wi play will Ix on Jit that tiny provldt lie iMinlials of game We II sec what Imp So if any liam of own or mliilKUm or hank managers or kids or wind vi tan whip the Herald liny are to limi and el In Ihe How I Into these things Viewpoint Potpourri by Time again for potpourri regular feature of this column Here we travel the globe to bring you the latest in life hap spiced with tongue In check humour all part of this wonderful wacky we live in First we re off to Glenn III where a young woman learned the hard way it pay to remove girdle while driving An officer on duty watched the car swerve and sway down country road finally hitting a mailbox The officer determined that the aforementioned girdle stuck between brake pedal and the Truly a classic cast of oh my girdle killing me or in this cose making a darn good try Away Calif now where firemin in training burned the wrong building destroying a 123 yearold landmark Tin house burned by mistake wis built by one of the area first settlers It stood mar buildings given Training for training Tin traditional rtd trucks helped hide of rtd faces as one was ovirhiard say die mom I cant believe wi nil In thing Hi real from for you In tin lull si i f stupidity surviys A study of ime Parent Families showed divorce is liberating for most men and women Obviously a trick question Now I wonder who took the lime effort and money to figure that one out Off to the Appalachian Mountains now where two enterprising College students found a new way to hitch hike On a sharp curve motorists found a neat sign which read Drive with Caution and Core As Ihc motorists slowed down for turn they were met with two bright smiling faces carrying signs reading 1 m Caution I Care Clever people out College If the tacky and Is your cup of lea Elmo Williams of Chicago is the man to see Mr Williams is a tombstone carver His truck says Before you go Call Elmo Tombstones carved while you wait Elmo claims this service Is for people who want to sec what on top of their grave beore they die I- or mine something like In yellow pages I was around now you find underground PS Please don let your fingers do the walking Now that Just might be It S V or Is it I Off to Italy now where reputation of Latin lovers will never be the same iiivs author the 400page study of Sexual Behaviour of Italians called down his countrymen with basically they art bluffs Professor Caletli blamed sexual discontent he found on the Italian male calling It a national defect tlsk Imagine that Eat your heart out Toronto our next port of call where foolish people still pay four tunes to fortune tellers Mrs Nembland was defrauded of 725 after Sister Venesoa otherwise known as Mrs Butch told her to bring or else evil spirits inside her would rot her bones and cause cancer When will people learn that fortune in life Is only what you make it Most times the only fortune is the one being piled up at bank by the fraudulent old fortune teller Venesso husband returned the money and our fourtune telling friend was fined 500 and one day In Jail Now she all ready to go try It again on some other poor soul searching for elusive answers So much for justice Now before we leave you for this week the Mnrashl Sometimes Yogi has some word of wisdom to enlighten us with Remember that the world of Mr will not give you more You will still have only nothing but share it equally Really sounds like more good Till next week keep on smiling