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43 mix By RICHARD DUNSTAN Examiner Staff Writer Rev John Speers of Barrics Irinity Anglican Church owes the spelling of his last mime to an apparent kidnap and murder which took place more than till years ago lhe entire Speers family is probably descended from Scotsman who fought for lion nie Prince tharhc iii the rebellion of 1745 and fled to Nor thern Ireland alter the Young Pretenders forces were crush ed by King George lls troops at Chilloden An aged greatallot whom Mr Speers second cousin Toronto Star senior editor Borden Spears tiiote the different spelling lived briefly as teenager turns out to have been the sort of woman no man could leave alone when she was younger lhese are Just few of the facts and conjectures enclosed within the lSttodd pages of the Speers Family Album resear ched and written by Rev John Speers and published by Giant Print Ltd of Barrie WANTED TO lit IT have wanted to record the story for long time Mr Speers says Its an in teresting story and think if hadnt gotten it all down it wouldnt have been obtainable in few years lhe task began in 1975 With work on collection of poetry featuring an eightpage epic poem which embodies more than two centuries of history of the Speers and related families Mr Speers an avid poet as youngster had largely given up writing poetry except for special occasions but in 1975 he returned to it with vengeance wit Ii ta An iin tory Ive turned till he explains how and It want to say anything Id better say It soon Writing the epic look smile research into the family luickgroiind Was found out more had to change the epic lint wtiat wally set Mr Speers up for extensive research was the realization that tlie verse would not have sufficient meaning for most lamily iiiemhers unless ac coinmiiied by more prosaic III loriiiation such as lamilv trees SIX IIiNliltAllONS So ttlitt was year of writing and phoning long lost relatives dclvnig into ttic Ontario ar chives and generally leavnlg no stone unturned iii an effort to trace the six generations descended troin Solomon Spears who came from toniity lyroiie to Canada about 1812 Mr Specis also dug up and iii cluded in the album informa tion on the Cassidy family his paternal grandmothers people The result is about 50 pages of verse including the work of 1975 earlier poems and Mr Speers own translations from Irish Gaelic about 40 pages of genealogical material in cluding family trees another 40 of newspaper clippings and old family photographs con tributed by relatives far and wide and variety of other in formation Ihe book available from Giant Print or from Mr Speers costs $10 and the author says he will have to sell most of the press run of 500 to recover his research and printing costs lhe size of the press run mat ches the number of Speers CaSSidys and other family 35 members Mr Speers estimates are nearly enough related to be interested in the album Mr Speers says he tried to make the book as vivid and per sonal as possible and instead of merely listing names has recorded all he could find the aniusmg and the tragic about each person recorded IIIESPEIJJNG For example there is the matter of the spelling At one time it was Speirs but most of the family had settled on Spears by 15 In that year fiveyearold Iara Spears Mr Speers fathers sister disappeared while walking home alone from potatopicking expedition She was never found alive or dead Mr Speers says evidence suggests she was murdered by neighbor but relatives of her lather Thomas John Spears who came ol staunch Orange stock believed relatives or friends of the girls Catholic mother the tormer Eliza Cassidy had stolen the Protes tant child to be raised Catholic Thomas Johns brother threatened to change the spell ing of his surname to repudiate Thomas John for keeping papist wife in such CII cumstances but Thomas John beat him to it switching the to an and standing by his wife Speers doublee it has been in that line ever Since monument to tragedy bigotry and loyalty all at once And greataunt Rachel the irresistible lemme latale Its nice to have had one scamp in the family says Mr Speers They were all so ter ribly wellbehaved Spes Family Alum no lk calmly now about having breast removed NEW YORK AP Betty Rollin can talk calmly now about having had breast re moveda straightforward term that she prefers to the euphemism mastectomy But it was different 18 months ago when the writer network correspondent for NBC News and former columnist for Look magazine learned that the lump was probably cancer First you cry says Miss Rollin who has written book by that title describing what she went through It spilled out she said dis cussing her decision to write about the experience was so stunned by the event just star ted to write things down to make some sense of it The journalist in me began observ ing me experiencing things It Your car just depreciated $640 wasnt only awfulit was also fascinating and the writer in me kept noticing the fascinating things Betty Rollin the person felt sad but Betty Rollin the writer went to the typewriter she adlt ded It was difficult to tell whole lot of stuff about myself dont love having people know But she came to the conclusion that it was worth it feel very good that its an honest book and as such its bound to help other women also it makes me feel far less isolated with my problem DIDNT HIDE IT Even before she wrote the book she made no effort to hide the fact of the surgery She re ports that men tend not to want to hear about it and shift uncomfortably in their chair Dear Readers HAPPY NEW YEAR Serves you right You should have quu when you were ahead You were ahead of course just before you started Not everyone admires total abstinence however One fellow expressed sympathy for the bluenoses when he said It must be horrible to get up in the morning and know thats as good as youre going to feel all day was saying Happy New Year And now few cheerful thoughts to help get you through the next few hours Your car has just depreciated $640 Everything in your closet is last years The resolutions for 1976all those promises you made to yourselfto lose wei ght quit smoking get organized talk nicer to your motherinIaw walk at least mile day save SOMETHING out of each paychequthey never materialized But 1977 is going to be different Youre going to get places on time clean out those drawers catch up on all that back reading write those letters and acknowledge every Christmas card with handwritten message Dear Ann Lenders am only teenager but have some thing to say to that person who complained about longwinded telephone talkers She signed her letter Calluses On My Ear Doesnt she realize that just listening to person can be big help Even if you dont say anything but yes of course oh sure you bet or you dont say so Many times Ive heard my mom spend nearly an hour on the phone and not say any more than that One day asked her why she let certain gabby old lady talk her ears off Mom said That woman needs somebody to listen to her She is very lonely She needs to know that somebody cares Listening to her puts me behind in my work but its worth it learned lot about living that day and now that Im older know what Mom was talking about Maybe if you print my let ter it might educate somebody who doesnt have mother who understands people as well as mine didLittle From Tarrytown Dear Little Heres your letter and my thanks for writ ing it What it boils down to is sacrificing little time to be kind at wonderful way to start new year CONFIDENTIAL to Capsulize It For Me Sweetie Eat less Drink less Walk more Give more Stop worrying about things you cant control Resist the temptation to get even Love the child who is least lovable He is the one who needs it most but that women have been synlr pathetic although shc detects an Imgladitsnotinc at titude read the papers and know the awful things that happen to people hated it but how could feel this wasnt fair still c0nsider myself fortunate rson Its liability but not as bid as other liabilities like beingstu id or ugly Miss ollin 40 has since been divorced from author Ar thur Ilcrzog but says the oper ation led to the divorce only lll directly felt suddenly in hurry to be happy Were all going to lie but maybe was going to die sooner than other folks LEFT IIlSIIANI She left her husband to live with another man an arrange ment that didnt work out Things like guilt cori vention sense of honor justice morality suddenly fell in the face of my sudden need to have really instantly hap and marvelouslife shcsai Miss Rollin doesnt exclude the possibility of marrying again and adds that the publication of her book has solved the problem of whether or when to tell potential husband As for how it has changed her life she says The corny things are really true If youve had semi bruin with death it does make you value life more you wake up and feel grateful to be alive you pay more at tcntion to pleasure and less to small difficulties and irritir lions She says she cant tin dcrslazid women being afraid of StIItXIlllllIliIlltill or sccing doctor about lump not doing something that will save your life still Ililt lizitl moments when go to the bciich and tt women It tccny vtill bikinr still swallow hard ntl lm hypiichoiidriiical It Millitlllllli hurls think have cancer ol the left curlqu Asidc from that Im tilt really am LIVES St IIOOI lililtlli Kan tAII cr non Edwards 24 year old high school art teacher lives in school bill not in the school where he teaches ljdwzirds bought ii Soyizir old building couple oI years ago and con verted it into home He said he had to redo wiring and in stall an electric hcating system He said he drinks only tmltlcdwzitcr ERMA BOMBECK Playground supervisors By ERMA ROMBIXK As stated on several occa sions playground supervisors should receive combat pay There is no other job in this world where conditions are as hazardous the enemy so well trained and human life is treated with solittle regard My friend Esther and used to crouch in trench near the vent fan of the cafeteria to keep warm and talk of home Theyre awfully quict out there sighed looking out over field of children Its always quict before the battle Remember how quiet it was before the Frisbee attack last year How many adults did we lose in that battle Three counting Mrs Marsh who was tied to slide and left through the lunch hour My feet are cold and wet wish hac change oi dry socks You know what theyd do to us if we left our post dont you live us an extra six months out here Hey the kids are regroup ing Tell me it isnt what llliiiik it is Im afraid so lhcyrc lining up to play crack the whip You wanta go on this one Dol have to Do it for theGipptr You mean littlc Ronnie tiipr per who was airborne for It minutes and landed in corn field three miles down the road Thats the one Wait minute hesitated lhcyrc having chicken lights on the horizontal bars This may be trap to get its in the middle Esther held her breath You SAVE SPORT HIRTS DENIMS SAVESWEATERS BELTS SAVE SPORTCOATS VELOUR At 6613467 in to ca 15 in lt STANLEIGHS DENIMCCIIIIIIROYftlltMRS00IIEIiIllSTWlllSIIIJESIIINS VElVETSDlACUNAlSPLAIDSCDTTONSPULYSIERS SELECT FROM 12000 IN OUR EACTORY SAVINGS 6613467 MENS ANDQLADIEStEANTSU SPECIAL CLEARANCE GROUP MENS CASUAL PIECE SUITS 34 to 52Talls40to46 MINIMUM SAVINGS $50 $15 EACH OR FOR $25 in7 ev wmrsn suMMsirwizigiirszimpefmoun EA 0ItI BLOCK It0lllll 0f IIIICII MIC DUIIIRIN begin library dilly IOIIN Sllillltb WITH HIS FAMILY ALHI sofzfs ti lhe Rarric ILuiniincr 777 Holiday January It lift The local legend is all in now IIiI lli tlnudia liioy quietly thew tlnjvs Ilttlll aid chainsinokinp ind lIlillIIL ol Icsilsiillllljin tccisionili thinks about thi dmw Illll llt lwmiiii local lcl cud ltlllllllli tIlc inosl lllIilllitill lutein housi in oiithi in West iiilulm IllltI she was Iitttillllllt oin of Minpt tountin riclict itsidints lll tiltiioccss llttI lullih liil lit Ltlltf baby shc mill icccntly tlSttI to IltJlIlll tI oiI llliilidjli hours do llllmlll stopping but Im all lll non Ivi enjoyii in lilt though luscd to ply thc plain and IIIL lhcin old hymn like nobodvs Iillllll Approaching tlziudiu now is lllll lllIIltI SlitC IllItI scv Inst criil strokes lll the Ice may be right Ill tell you what we should do You manoeuvre around post those boys who are shaking down the second era dew loi Illt iiillk llitll lllll on beyond the group who are lIt stroying themselves on that illth of ice lhcn double Iitltk bythekids smhngovcrthcbars on the swings and act like youre going for the group thats putting eggs on the SIItIt orin dont fiddle with them Io for the crack the whip linc lot it got it said burrownig my head in my coat collar but what are you going to be doing Esther threw Iicrscll on the ground and clutched pathcti ciilly at my legs live me break shc sobbcd Ive only got INO weeks left here before Iioiit isk mcto gooilt lhcrcl SHAPE UP DEVELOP POISE GRACE EXERCISE COURSE IHURS NIGHTS 630 PM EXPERIENCED INSIRUCIRESS l2 WEEK COURSE $45 y4ii and now spends most of hci iimc smoking and reading lIit IilIiIt When interviewed she was sitting in room just off the lobby of lhc Hill Hotel known is lhc Alvon back in the rip roaring days when hundreds of miners mine to drink and don cc xx itli Iiiudias girls lolly Smith well remembers the Alvon He used to make frequent visits when he was Williamsonspolice chief Ive raided her many tnnc Iic said with It chuckle liverything she did was ille gal She paid off everybtxly the sheriff the state police every body The Alvon was rough place There were lots of girls working lIltIt and wouldnt how any idea the people killed III that club remember three wcrckillcd il onetime Hut hc added laudia wasnt all had She also helped lot of people liolks around here were down on her because of lIlt way she made her money hilt she didnt give damn She really made lot of motley Id my shes the biggest individual property owner in Miiigo ollll ly Well it wasnt always that way said Claudia when asked about her holdings was flat broke when came here back in ltlilS Iliad tohitch hikcmtotowii She tlllllt from nearby Col man Ky where Iicr late huslt band had run store on Peter Creek lle lied in 1930 she said Before that he ran Icneral merchandise store ant boot lcgging joint You had to do that back llieii or get in the soup line had lli kids liourof them were my own and the others Id picked up off the street was flat broke when got here she said pawned my rings and rented cockroach infested building and went from there to the biggest place in town when bought the Wil IIEIIIISOIIIIOltIIHItkIn1940 RELIEVE TENSION FEEL HEALTHiER BELLY DANCE STARTS JAN I977 CALL JUDITH BEIERL 7267M EVENINGS Baldie baldie baldie it still makes her wince MANCHESTER Conn AP Baldie baldie baldie schoolmates in Michigan called after her more than 25 years ago Once during fire drill child ulled the wi off and ex posed erbaldhea To this day Kaye now 36 winces when she says the word bald and doesnt even like to say the word wig She says her own maturity and the popularity of wigs have helped give her free psyche But the scars are still there She has never allowed her hus band of 17 years to see her bald head She wears wig to bed and will shop only in wig bou tiques where there is back room for her to try on hair pieces And she didnt want her real name used in story although she couldnt explain why MOSTASIIAMEI She doesnt know how many other women have the same se cretthat under the wig there Egyptian presidents wife wants civil rights law CAIRO Reuter Jinan Sa dat wife of Egypts president is known for her readiness to challenge sacrosanct traditions in deeply religious and con servative country Mrs Sadat has at times been as controversial as she is ele gant and eloquent She once publicly chided An war Sadat for his habit of wear ing his socks in bed Comments like that make her seem espe cially iavorite cause is womens rightsa sensitive subject in this largely Moslcm country She has said her cherished aim is to see civil rights law in Egypt to help protect women from polygamous marriages and from being easily divorced Theoretically the Islamic Code permits man to take up to four wives and divorce any of them by saying three times divorce you In fact polygamy is becom ing rare and alimony laws gen erally make divorce rather dif ficult N0 REVOLUTIONARY Mrs Sadats ideas are hardly revolutionary and she has been sharply criticized abroad as paper feminist But her thoughts on womens Ben Wicks comes across as the typical Canadian OTTAWA CPI Apologizmg for havmg pancake makeup on and for havmg to ask someone their name Ben Wicks comes across as the typical Canadian he writes aboutslull oI apologies lhe Britishborn syndicated cartoonist and comedian was seated in bookstore to auto graph copies of his new book Ben Wicks Canada was asked by publisher Jack McClelland if thought it was possmle to do book satirical look at Canadians said Wicks told him thought it was impossible Canadian is too boring too bland The best surprise was to re alize suddenly that Canadian is the only animal on earth who has two feet for eight months and four for the remaining four Wicks was referring to the condition of wearing two pairs of shoes at time during the wmterwatking shoes in side overboots His book takes satirical look at Canada from British perspective It contends that the only way to save this colony is to import British aristocrats to run it The World aristocratic Immigration and Training Society lWllS with headquarters in London is set up to do Just that Wicks says IWIIS has named him its Canadian director SOME UNAMUSEI lhe book illustrated with Wicks cartoons and photo JUST MOVED What you need right now is helping hand Ile sure to get in touch WIIII IIII Welcome Wagon hostess She can help you get to know your new com munity as quickly as pos 7261454 or 7286331 silile is no hairbecause most people are ashamed to talk about it The owner of large local Wig boutique however says that of every 100 women who buy wrgs from him one is completely bald Kayes hair fell out when she was four years old after she had suffered lowgrade fever for several months No doctor has been able to ex lain why She says she lanked out about six months of that time and doesnt remember when she first realized she was dif ferent But tears came to her eyes as she recalled that her mother found her standing in corner one day when she was crying Her mother said that when she asked what was wrong the child replied look funny dont Throughout school she was teased by other children and al ways felt Iike secondclass citizen For years desperately would dream that when woke up in the morning all my hair rights and educationWhen hear they are building mos que always ask if we can have school insteadhave ruffled feathers among religious leaders The elegant and stately Mrs Sadat says she prefers to steer clear of affairs of state She on ce said she was not privy to the timing of the attack across the Suez Canal in the 1973 war against Israel But her critics maintain she is politically ambitious They point to her close friendship with another first lady Mrs Imelda Marcos of the Philip pines who has become gover nor of Manila IS SHE AMBITIOUS Whispers that Mrs Sadat harbored an ambition to become vicepresident caused enough concern for President Sadat to deny them publicly Jihan Sadat was born 43 years ago to an English mother and an Egyptian father doc tor She married in the late 19405 when she was still in her teens Sadat was then an upandcom ing army officer in the final years of King Farouks reign before the 1952 revolution graphs from his Global tele v15ion program few years ago explains to the reader what it is to be typical Cana dian The Canadian male loves camping icehockey woollen sweaters With antelopesatplay and weekend cabins His female counterpart likes to work attend cocktail parties collect monies for symphony orchestras and enter hospital once year to have her hysterectomy removed Not every typical Canadian has enjoyed the book ane Minister lrudeau favorite target IS said to have loved it But not so man who chal lenged Wicks on radio hotline show to meet in back alley Its the only time Ive left radio station With beard dark wasthere Her parents who were not wealthy spent thousands of dollars on humanhair wigs doctors visits injections and heat treatments in the hope her hair would grow back FELL OUT AGAIN During early adolescence when her body underwent hor monal changes she grew some hair When that fell out she re alized it never would grow back and began to try to accept it When Kaye was 17 or 18 Methodist minister went to her house to talk over her prob lems telling her Youve just got to learn to accept it and say Yes do wear wig So what Now that look at it its so simple dont know why ever tried to hide it she said am in control of my life now You dont ever get over the scar of being rejected by other kids T0 the day die will never feel comfortable in this body She began making mark in public life with social work af ter the 1967 Middle East war Sinne her husband became president in 1970 she has been visible first lady in contrast to her predecessor the wife of Gama Abdel Nasser ESPOUSES CALSES She has espoused variety of causes including the welfare of poor students and family plan nin also attends classes at Cairo Universitys faculty of art anda less wellpublicized activitypresided over the fur nishing of two luxury apart ments for two of her daughters The Sadats apparent wealth in country as poor as Egypt is cause of discreetly voiced cynicism and resentment Mrs Sadat is careful to wear Egyptian clothes in public here although she admits to restocks ing her wardrobe on European shopping trips The latest gossip concerns the forthcoming marriage bet ween one of the Sadat daughters and the son of Housing Minister Osman Ah med Osman union linking two of the wealthiest families in Egypt glasses and high heels Wicks Other reactions came from woman who wanted capital punishment brought back JUSL for Wicks and some hotline callers who vowed their disap proval of his philosophy to the host ot the show saying they couldnt bring themselves to talk to Wicks personally His next goal is to hole up in broomcloset five feet square in Toronto and begin book titled Ben Wicks America He doesnt expect insulting the United States will create as much furore Insults or no insults Wicks book has already sold 10000 copies and went into its second printingatterlivcdays He sent copy to his parents in England said Sears New Custom Draperies Let Sears give your home that fashion look with unique styling in wide choice of fashion fabrics It is so easy to have light lovely refreshing new look in your room Come in and consult our experienced decorators Let them show you many Window treatments in chouce ol prints solids Sheers or easements Get whole new outlook 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