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Weston Times Advertiser (1962), 23 Jul 1964, p. 10

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THE ADVERTISER â€" Thursday, July 23, 1964 â€" Page 1@ ‘A New Look ... . _.. At Education Yes, this week we‘re taking a whom are living in Scotland.| _ _ | . " _, 2» y u.. woil%n ons look at people rather than umr’m rest are scattered uound!f““l trip of 47 years with the educational systems simply beâ€"\the world "goâ€"getting" like mad |railroad was made on the Panâ€" cause they‘re very often much and dreaming of the day when orama. more interesting than‘ their inâ€" they can return to the land of| In 1939 Mr. Junke was on the stitutions. And one who finds their birth either for a vacation royal Train carrying King them devilishly so is an Ameriâ€" or for whatever is leit of meir‘cw,“ the fifth from Folette to can from Ohio who tells the|lives. And they not only hope, Toronto. He began working for Scots a thing or two about themâ€" but expect, to find it in the umc}the railroad in April 1917, on the seives in the Scottish Sunday condition that they left it ‘Canadian Northern as a brakeâ€" Post | It is a country full of austere| man. Well, I can believe him when he tells how skilled Scottish craftsmen turned down jobs at rates far in excess of what they were already earning, simply beâ€" cause it meant they would have to move not only body but souls, from the familiar surroundings they‘d grown accustomed to seeâ€" ing night and every day they rerurned from work. "It‘s for your own good, beâ€" lieve me," he says. The trouble with the man from Ohio who manages an American owned factory in Scotâ€" land. is that he simply does not unders:and the Scottish temperâ€" ament or. for that matter, the facts of life. After telling how they tusned down his generous offers of "better working condiâ€" tions with better pay" with reaâ€" sons such as: "I‘d miss the pub," "the wife wouldn‘t like to shift," "I‘m content where I am," he asks: "Where are your goâ€"getâ€" ters?" I‘m surprised he doesn‘t know. There are approximately 28 million Scots, seven million of TAVERN RESTAURANT DINING LOUNGE 2282 Lake Shore Bivd. W. 3120 LAKE SHORE BLYVD. SIMPSON MOTORS Enjoy An Evening Out IN OUR When good friends meet, they dine with us HOLIDAY SPECIAL! 1957 CONSUL STATION WAGON Ideal lowâ€"sost transportation . BANQUET FACILITIES FOR WEDDINGS BUSINESS LUNCHEONS PRIVATE PARTIES by Joy McAllister T Takes A Look Elsewhere ‘"TOWN CRIER" ROOM PICKFAIR at the organ console JOHNNY WINTON CL. 9â€"9635 MANY MORE TO CHOOSE FROM A GOOD PLACE TO DO BUSINESS It is a country full of austere charm and meaningful hutory‘! Its landscape has a grandeur of! design and unsurpassing beauty | and the seven million Scots who remain are built into its granite forms with dogged spirit. It is their heritage and their sufferâ€"| ance. Why should they move or change their way of life? "Back home I live in a modâ€" ern housing area. On one side of me is an Italian barber. On the other a Milwaukee plumber. In the middle me â€" a top exeâ€" cutive. But we are buddies. We like each other for what we are, not for what we do." Money is certainly not a good reason. Had they wished greater remuneration they‘d have joined their 21 million successful broâ€" thers across the world. But they chose to stay and, being the kind of people that they are, they will preserve for all time, and for all the millions of Scots abroad, a haven unlike any other elsewhere. And it is clear to see, from the Ohio man‘s story, that they are pursuing this purpose with their usual dogged deterâ€" mination. He compares his American environment with the one he is experiencing in Scotâ€" land: He claims that this is quite different in Scotland: "It was only when I moved into my house here that I realizâ€" ed how completely cut off I was. I‘m surrounded by doctors, lawâ€" yers, architects, â€" accountants. Each of us earns the same amount of money, almost to the pound. No plumbers, no hairâ€" dressers in my housing area. If ever I saw a way of building a barrier between men, this is 5t Mr. Man from Ohio, YOU built the barrier when you placed all that emphasis upon positions and possessions. The Scots too, like a man for what he is rather than for what he does. The only difference is in their attitude towards the man of position whom they not only respect but look to for leadership. They expect these men â€" docâ€" tors, lawyers, architects, acâ€" countants â€" who, I might add, have invariably come from lowâ€" ly environs rather than privilegâ€" ed ones, to live up to the educaâ€" tional resources provided for their superior brains. Therefore, these men â€" almost to a manâ€" are highly intellectual and wellâ€" informed. They are also better paid than their plumberâ€"brothers and painterâ€"fathers and so are able to live in more comfortâ€" able surroundings. But should the man from Ohio (they didn‘t give his name in the paper) find their company a little beyond his reach â€" after all, it takes quite a bit of reading and studyâ€" ing to keep up with themâ€"he @ 1962 FORD TWO DOOR SEDAN Original throughout, low mileage Selling price. 1961 MONARCH TWO DOOR HARDTOP Skylight blue, mechanically perâ€" tect. Needs paint only. ................ 1962 STUDEBAKER FOUR DOOR SEDAN Gleaming black, power brakes, power steering, one owner, low mileage shows temder o "*"* _ $1950 1961 METEOR TWO DOOR SEDAN . 1961; PLYMOUTH TWO DOOR SEDAN NEW TORONTO â€" _ 259â€"4687 Two tone with matching interior Methanics special. Clean interior, His last trip.as trainman on the CNR was made by W. J. Junke, of 19â€"37th Street, Long Branch,| Wednesday of this week. This| final trip of 47 years with the| railroad was made on the Panâ€"| orama. | But even there he‘ll find himâ€" self put to the test for he‘ll not be able to talk about his own achievements, but rather those of Robert I, the Bruce (1306â€"29), Liberator of Scotland, who led the Scots in a resounding victory over the English at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. And, he‘ll have to match Yankee roadâ€"building (which example he exhorts the Scots to follow), with that of the wall built by the Romans in the 1st century to keep the unconquerable Scots and Picts of the north from beatâ€" ing the gall out of the Roman soldiers governing the Angles in the south. Residents of Long Branch for the past 18 years, Mr. and Mrs. Junke are planning a trip to Europe in 1965. Two daughters, Audrey (Mrs. Watson) and Jean (Mrs. Hester) live in Alderwood and one son, Carl Voss, lives in Scarborough. There are eight grandchildren to liven the reâ€" tirement years of this exâ€"trainâ€" can always join the plumber and the barber at the local pub. He will, however, find attenâ€" tive listeners when he relates bis own stories of American hisâ€" tory especially the one about the Boston Tea Party â€" for there is nothing the Scots like better than hearing how someâ€" body put one over the English. But he‘ll have to exert much patience in return for the Scots are bound to go back to the year 844 when they were finally unitâ€" ed with the Picts under the first Pictish King of Scotland, Kenâ€" neth. \ Walk Carefully And they‘ll not only tell him all about the dastardly deed done Duncan King of Scots in 1040 by Macbeth the foul usurâ€" per, but they‘ll also show him the exact spot where it was perâ€" petrated â€" at Glamis Castle where time, tide and no man has ever attempted to build a road through its ramparts in the name of progress. Real Life Casey Jones Retires Lastly, but by no means least, he‘ll be expected to appreciate poetry â€" Scottish, of course â€" for there‘s not a fullâ€"blooded Scot who doesn‘t and they can ream off yards of the wonderâ€" ful stuff at the drop of a "dram" on the counter. You see, in Scotland, there is an old saying that the Scots still cherish: "When God made time, he made plenty of it." And when I return in a year or two on vacation, after spending almost half my life away from Scottish shores, I shall expect to find "plenty of it" preserved for me. EXCEPTIONAL YALUE $1500 $1465 ‘This morning I finally found my talcum powder in the box marked "chemistry set and aquarium equipment". This is part of the grim aftermath of moving house, of course, and I consider it an achievement that I even get to the office fully clothed these days. When we first started packing some weeks ago, we packed methodically and Ken carefully marked the contents on each box, but in the frenzy of actually moving, I just shot things into the nearest, empty bag or box and hoped for the best. The contents of two kitchen drawers (drawers that held screws, bits of string, broken pencils, clothespegs, popsicle sticks, kitchen scissors, etc.) were just dumped into a box and it will be months before I can find the corn holders. Now of course I am reaping the rewards of such sinful behaviour. However, I would like to point out that we moved on Dominion Day which was hot and humid and by late afternoon, I had abandoned my principles. Since this is a respectable paper, I can‘t repeat my husband‘s comments on moving, but we now realise that it doesn‘t pay to move a short distance, as we did. It‘s much easier to move from Toronto to Alaska than from New Toronto to Mimico. The longâ€" er the distance, the more likely one is to hire a professional mover who will pack everything for you, including the garbage, and enable you to arrive looking like the glamorous model housewives in the ads. But if you‘re only moving a few miles, you cry gaily, "We can do it ourselves. We‘ll borrow a truck and save money!" This is why I arrived at our new house, looking like one of Erskine Cnldv!ell's poah white trash. I was wearing dirty red shorts, and 7/dirty white blouse torn from under one arm to the tail and held together with a clothespin (everything else had been packed and I couldn‘t find a safetypin), my knees were filthy because I‘d been washing floors and my hair stragâ€" gled over my face. I was also scratching seven mosquito bites. Some people have a positive talent for doing things the hard way â€" and we are star performers. Most people move into a house that has been empty for a week or so, which gives time to redecorate and move in a leisurely manner. The house we moved into had tenants who moved out the day before we moved in; since the furniture in the house didn‘t belong to them, they left it behind and we found it still there when we took the first loads up on Tuesday evening. The owner of the furniture had arranged forâ€"a truck to be available that evening, but something went wrong, no truck arrived and the furniture had to be temâ€" porarily moved into the garage. This meant they had no time to clean the house. When we arrived with our own furniture and appliances on Wednesday morning, the owner‘s refrigerator and stove were still in the kitchen. At the other end, tenants were coming into our old house at the lake the same day as we moved out and they started movâ€" ing in (complete with four children) about 2 p.m. before we had finished moving out, so there was a conflicting traffic of beds coming in while tables and rabbitâ€"hutches went out and the children screamed and had to be saved from having the refrigerator dropped on them. I managed to wash all the bedâ€" rooms and the kitchen while the new occupier of our house sat around and complained about the damp stain in the porch and asked how much oil we used during the winter. I forgave her because she was eight months‘ pregnant and already had four children under 6. The moment of truth came when we had to move our large freezer out; when it came into the lake house some years ago, we had no front porch. Since then Ken had built a porch comâ€" plete with flower boxes, but he assured me that the freezer could be extricated if we took all the doors off their hinges, brought the truck onto the front lawn and ran the freezer up to the truck on a ramp. In fact, he pointed out cheerfully, it would go through the porch with %4" to spare. When they startâ€" ed moving it around, I went into one of the bedrooms and washed the floor vigorously, so that I wouldn‘t hear the howls of anguish. We had three teenage sons of a friend helping up and I just hoped the freezer wouldn‘t fall on one of them. I calculate that I must have loaded and unloaded the staâ€" tionâ€"wagon five times and made trips with it to save the men who were handling the heavy stuff in the truck. Towards the end, I gave up any pretence of packing and just dumped everyâ€" thing higgledypiggledy into the car which meant that at the other end I carried in such loads as a rosebush, a pot of jam and the bathroom scales, while some of our new neighbours sat on their porches and obviously felt that the neighbourhood was sliding downhill. The brighest part of the day was when the local florists delivered a box of flowers to me from Ken, who thought they would cheer me up. We moved a week ago, but we are still living out of boxes and the house looks as if a Boy Scout troop is camping in it. The kitchen is the only really functioning room and we are starting to redecorate the bedrooms. As we finish each room and it becomes habitable, we can move furniture and clothes and books out of the boxes which are now stacked in the livingâ€" room. Meantime, I hope to be preserved from wellâ€"meaning visitors and the return of No. 1 girl unexpectedly from Italy; she can come home in the fall, but we won‘t have her bedâ€" room ready before that. But the appleâ€"trees in the garden are laden with green fruit, there‘s a big fragrant patch of mint under the kitchen window, and a black squirrel lives nearby and plays in the garden, so all is not lost. Just don‘t ask me to move for another five years. ® _ 160 LAKESHORE ROAD EAST (Neer Mo. 10 Hgwy.) °_ I PoRT CREDIT â€" _ CR £â€"5284 1 l ‘ 1496 KIPLING AVE. N. (et Taber Rd.) 1 REXDALE â€" BE. 9.3149 t a o â€"~e s s se e e a â€"a a Talkingpoint... By SILVERT‘S CLEARANCE INFANTS TERRYCLOTH SILVERT‘S semiâ€"annual BIBS EASY TERMS USE YOUR CREDIT @4 1 4

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