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eat act ceeeee Some people just can't get seem to get enough! As if the winter isn't long enough already, avid snowmobilers attack the green grassy fields in the Can't get e a ot be snowmobile summer months. Sallow's Bait and par oS feta dee nough! Sports Centre in Victoria Harbour on Highway 12 was the scene on Sunday afternoon for one of the first summer races of the season. Staff photo EE the bookworm Non-believers will enjoy Messages from "the other side', things that go. "bump" in the night, disturbingly prophetic dreams - psychic phenomena are. enb- dlessly fascinating, even to non-believers. The Spiritual Frontier won't make a believer out of a skeptic, but that is not William V. Rauscher's purpose. An Episcopalian priest, Rauscher believes that psychic phenomena are not only real, but are infact a primary medium for conveying God's message to man. He relates his own and others' adventures with the psychic world, in a manner that reminds one of Allen Spraggett's "The Unexplained"' series. This isn't surprising, since Spraggett assisted in the writing of the book. The Spiritual Frontier covers almost every psychic manifestation that one can imagine - if that's the right word. Rauscher's adventures include communication with the dead, apparent reincarnation, _polterg- eists, ghosts and haun- ting, possession and exorcism, _precognition and telepathy. The current wave of demonomania inspired by PHiCe ae MCC OCS tans frightens Rauscher. "I believe too deeply in the realff/ of evil to take lightly the possibility of possession by someone or something with vile in- tentions toward man ... those young people are playing with fire that may burn far worse than most of them can imagine." Much of The Spiritual Frontier is devoted to the latesArthur Ford and to the messages reported to have been received by Bishop James Pike after his son's death. There are also chapters of faith healers Olga Worrall and Kathryn Kuhlman. Rauscher is a former president of. Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship and a member of _ the American and British Societies for Psychical research. The Spiritual Frontier is interesting and stimulating reading. If you're a skeptic, you can stretch your wits figuring out rationales for - the mysterious events recorded in the book. If you're a believer, you may find yourself dusting off the old ouija board. Dwight Boyer of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, addresses himself to mysteries of a different order. He is the writer of the Great Lakes books - True Tales, Ghost Ships, and Great Stories of the Great Lakes. Strange Adventures of the Great Lakes is the latest in the fascinating series - fascinating at least for those of us who live on the shores of the great inland sea. Boyer writes with such knowledge and affection for the lakers and the men that sailed them in them. And he describes his ships with irrestible verve: "The Gunilda, a thing of beauty, was bustling along with a bone in her teeth and her brightwork glittering....' begins one story. When the' Wolverine, the US Navy's first iron hulled vessel was pulled to the scrap yard after 70 years of service, 'she began to show a dash of spirit...when she was finally pushed up on the mudbank, she petulantly kicked the towing launch up with her."' Boyer explains the Great Lakes tradition (particularly strong in Canada) of hiring qualified friends, neigh- bours and fellow town- smen to make up a crew. So, when the Anna C. Minch (the only ship on the Lakes to bear a woman's name) broke apart and sank in 1913, she took six men from Collingwood with her. Seven of her crew were from Midland. Now, the Minch's metal wind- pennant, plucked from the sunken vessel's forward spar, is in the Huron. Institute in Collingwood. And there's the won- derful tale of the Aztec, shrouded in impenetrable fog. Her Captain an- chored her near the en- trance to the St. Mary's River, nervous because he couldn't hear the blasting of the fog whistle on a nearby Lake Huron lightship. (Unknown to him, the horn was under repair). When the fog lifted, they found the steering pole of the Aztec fouled in the rigging of the light- ship. Dwight Boyer is a master story teller, and anyone of any age who is interested in the romance and challenge of shipping on the Great Lakes will find Strange Adventures on the Great Lakes ab- sorbing and entertaining. 14 Flavours - Diets, too! $ 2°9 24-10 oz. Returnables (That's 11.2c per bottle) Midland - Hwy. 27 & Hugel "eee MT nn: es ee un As a rule, man's a fool, always wanting what Is not by Ron Jones As a rule a man's a fool When it's hot he wants it cool When it's cool he wants it hot Always wanting what is not. That insight into life was part of the 'philosophical side of education that students of a Tay township one room school were exposed to when such scholastic institutions were common place a few years ago. While it could have been a prophecy of the trial and error classroom experiments that followed the rural school system it also depicts the lifestyle adjustments people seek, now that owning rural property or '"'a Farm" has become the in-thing. When the parents of to-day's primary school children were attending (then) high school, farming was a despised occupation - teachers would ridicule aspirations to agriculture. It was acceptable of course if one was to go on to an agriculture college but at that time a very small percentage of those graduates actually returned to the farm. Generally well meaning teachers felt duty bound to lift the students, particularily the gifted ones, to a more rewarding occupation than farming. How times change! Whether it was the Young men on Soil and Crop tour Two young men from the Elmvale area will be representing the North Simcoe Junior Farmers on the 1975 Soil and Crop Tour. The tour is being held from July 21-25 and in- cludes visits to com- modity markets, fifteen practical farms, and food processing facilities. The tour begins at Guelph and from there goes on to the Regional Municipalities of Halton, Peel, York and Durham. The purpose of the tour is to provide an op- portunity for young farmers to make an extensive study of modern principles of soil and crop management as they apply to overall farm management. | Toronto waterfront This year two giant-size. films alternate by popular demand. "North of Superior" Heres ; what summer... isall about! Ninety-six acres of family fun. entertainment and excitement on three islands on the Browse in the boutiques. Enjoy in exciting variety of meals. snacks and drinks in over twenty licenced Pedal a boat around the islands or take a real helicopter ride. Tour the famed naval vessel] HMCS Haida. promise of profits from uncontrolled sub- division of rural property or the increasing threat of calamitous world famine, urban people now seek farms for status symbols, most retaining their urban employment and income of course but a few actually attempt to support themselves by farming their land. Farmers too are changing their views. Not many years ago at a farm meeting in Simcoe County a question was posed concerning the eligibility of persons to vote en a farm issue. A man in the audience abruptly solved the problem. He shouted "Who in hell would claim to be a farmer if he wasn't?" Even to-day some older farmers bad mouth their occupation to no-body's credit. Not surprisingly their children can't leave the farm fast enough. Ironically the grand- children of the disgruntled farmers like those second and third generation urbanites of to- day may also at some time seek out the soil. Notably now there is a large increase in the numbers of university educated young people who actually return to take over the home farm as well as many urban raised youth who would like to begin farming if they could only swing it financially. Just who is a farmer and who is not is a question that has stumped various levels of authority particularly in the last few years as governments have accepted the principle of ° subsidization of agriculture for the purpose of equalizing income between urban and rural peonle. rather than allowing tarmers to demand. * fair returns from the market place Urbanites have found that by maintaining a cow or two on their rural acres or by ren- ting all or part of their holdings they become by law a farmer and eligible for grants and subsidies designed to support and encourage bona-fide agriculture endeavours. Some have even manipulated government assistance for their rural lifestyle with paper cattle - a practice of buying and selling livestock on paper only to show the financial involvement of agriculture required to obtain certain types of assistance, Others of course do actually maintain livestock year round and make a serious and creditable attempt at farming. Farmers view the "'city farmers" with mixed feelings. While often considered a curse on agriculture because they tie up farm land that could be used for expansion of existing farm operations their inexperience in such duties as maintaining line fences, controlling weeds, etc. has meant additional responsibilities for other land owners - their existence has brought economic op- portunities in other forms. For the retiring farmer a '"'city buyer" generally meant selling for much more than his land was worth. Often the naive intruder also found himself the proud owner of someone else's culled livestock or worn oul machinery. Few city transplants who have owned their farm for long are heard to repeat the urban comment that farmers "are poor businessmen". The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, two years ago, established a com- mittee to advise the government on how to define a farm. The committee has reported to the minister but no legislation has been presented to date. Farmers have generally resisted licencin or registration fearing bureaucratic contro! over their activities. Recent disucussions with officials involved in reassessment of Ontario properties (there are over 30,000 "farms" in Southern Ontario of 30 acres or less all eligible to benefit from "farm value assessment") indicates that much of Ontario agriculture assistance or otherwise con- sumer subsidies benefit a relatively select group of consumers. It would seem given the provinces intention to trim spending and the higher profile that genuine agriculture must assume as con- sumers turn from the products of a frivolous commercial industrial economy that those men "wanting (to be) what is (they are) not"' should at least be required to finance their adventures without the assistance of public money . And now alook at the local news. When it comes to local reporting of the news, habit with most people; it's part of the teen-agers reading a newspaper every week, no other news medium can match thorough report on all local news. Where's the fire? Who got married? Who won last week's football game? All this, and a complete report on your City Council, school board meeting, or a possible bond issue, is news in your community. And, your local newspaper re- ports it. seven dass a week 10:30 a.m.- 1:00 a.m. (Sundays to 10:00 p.m.) Sept. 6-Oct. 13. park open Saturdays. Sundays and Thanks- giving only Theatres open: 11:00 am. Last show starts 9:00 p.m. tidmission: Adults $1.50. juniors $1.00. children .7S¢ or free with parent(limitoffour). Ontariosenior citizens free. (Except during CNE) FOR INFORMATION: Write: Ontario Place Corporation, 8 York Street. Toronto. Ont. MS5J 1R2. Phone (416) 965-6332. - Y experiences in Theatre | with Czecho- 2 slovakia's beautiful "32 Strings" one week. aN and surprising "Big North. 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Newspapers deliver the local story CANADIAN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION REPRESENTING THE COMMUNITY PRESS OF CANADA People believe strongly in newspapers for several reasons: newspaper reading is a jature Golf Course. d si A Crown Corporation of Fs the Government of Ontario. Ministry of Industry and Tourism. Claude Bennett. Minister.