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COLBORNE CHRONIC LE Successor to The Colborne Express (est. 1866) and The Colborne Enterprise (est. 1886) Vol. lfno! 39 Thursday, November 6, 1969 7c per copy -- S3.00 Canada -- $4.00 U.S.A. and Abroad Assorted Witches Hallowe'en was quieter this year in Colborne than other years. The same report comes from other towns. In Colborne. it may have been due to the successful night supplied by the Arena Board and Recreation Committee who provideu many of the usual trick or treaters with free skating and Tlie^ wera reparts from three local families that their children had received apples containing embediVd straight pins and needles. This contemptible 'trick' was first reported in Toronto last year and a crime that Police are invrjrtigat-eing. Anyon? convicted, could •receive a maximum ten years. Scout patrols and Cub Packs cubs officially became Scouts. Many parents attended the occasion. The Flying-up ceremony, conducted by District Cub Master Chuck Lundy, assisted by leaders was held alongside the Youth Centre. Scouts and Cubs formed a circle around a large bonfire. The Cabs said their goodbyes to the pack and leaders, then crossed the circle to be welcomed into the Scouts by leader, Alan Le-month. The new Scouts, Ronnie Dale, Alan Mills, John Koomen, David Feckham, John Griffith, lilly Sayers, Ron Hill and Danny Griffiths are seen with their former Cub leaders, Cathie Wa-skowec, Tom Redegeld, Bob Pocock and Scout leaders, Fred Greenfield and Man Learmonth with District Cub Leader, Chuck Lundy. Following the closing prayer, coffee, soft drinks and hot dogs were served to all. C.N.I.B. Canvass Rotary members will be collecting for the C.N.I.B this week This is in reply to an appeal from the district representative hat Rotary assist in C.N.I.B work. Please give generously Cub Prayer New Scmits T| r search of adventure and ith the desire to see some-;hing of this world, Heinz ":ucke, at the age of 20, started trip around the1 world. This on August 22, 1960. Heinz stopped long enough in borne for 'The Chronicle' to picture of htm and :hat about his journey on bike irough numerous countries [see map of route covered) At the time of his arrival in [exico in 1968 he had visited '2 countries in five Continents. I'ilted four passports, the fifth lost and the sixth one |issued in New York. He cover-3,750 miles by bicycle and ap-. roximately 93.7F0 miles by [ship, plans, train and car. Average daily distance is app-to 70 mites but bad roads iften slow him down. His psrs-nal record covering the Syrian « is 12 hours. "Vy ambition and intentionto jomplete this round the world trip has been so strong that lot even illness, bad roads and s adventures could leter me", he wrote in a book- Proposed Route let published in Mexico to help with expenses. He contracted* typhoid fever in Persia, pneumonia, in Egypt and was also beaten by soldiers there. In Soviet Russia he was locked up and iff Algiers, selected as target by bandits. Bei-.E without water for two days, lo- - Completed Journey sing his money and photographic equipment and having a few painful accidents on hi;; bike were added trials. He hopes to be home again in Germany in 1972. His motto? "Every blow that doss net kill me, hardens me.