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DOROTHY VIPOND Five Oshawa high school students will go to Quebec next month to brush up their spoken French. The five are honor students from O'Neill Collegiate and Vocational In- SN OSHAWA STUDENTS WIN SESSION AT LAVAL ALLAN RUTHERFORD stitute and McLaughlin Col- legiate and Vocationgl Insti- tute. They will be attending the summer course in oral French at Laval University which starts July 3. The stu- {1 YUOVT A OOOO DRO RODHO ENS PPPY PRP} 90 LDS TODD RRA AO POOP PAH PEH AT ALAN mri nunneinagi It Seems A Long, Long Trail {OHTA OPYOPRROINE YESHUA enero fe tY MARY DELVIN dents are: Dorothy Vipond and Mary Devlin from O'Neill and Christine Szulak, Dolores Al- len and Allan Rutherford from McLaughlin, Gladys Edmond- son, head of McLaughlin's HUARSNASEEOOATANAIETOOTNENONG.--ggghenias4s4suiidMUL When Waiting For A Lift By JOHN LeBLANC Jr, Of The Times Staff A long-haul hitch-hiker is a financial success in any land -- but at the end of the trail he's a physical flop. In Italy a bottle of wine in plain sight is a sure-thing ticket to somewhere farther down the line, On Canadian roads, the globe- trotter does the trick with a polished thumb and a prayer, plus about $5 in pocket-money for every 2,000 miles covered, Half the time on the road one eyelid feels like it should sleep and the other like it had been singed by an open soup-can lid. At the mission's end, he has an Indian-rubber head and his legs are as stiff as pogo sticks that seem to hit the floor hard enough that his head knocks the ceiling and bounces back for more. This Oshawa Times newspaper man knows. On May 14 he climbed down the ladder and joined the pau- pers of travel at the roadside with a determination to travel from Toronto to Saint John, N.B. and back on $20 or less. Financially, he was wealthier than most hitch-hikers with more than $100 in his pocket. The trip's length was short of 2,000 miles. It took $24.30, an elaborate spending for most any other road-runner, While $10 was parcelled out for food aiong the trail, the bal- ance went on two bus and two train hops. $8 OF LUXURY The longest public transporta- tion ride was a 390-mile return rail trip from Montreal to To- ronto when he scuttled the road- side thumbing station because of fatigue. That luxury cost $8. Though the time involved at just the roadside amounted to a | heaping 45 hours embroidered | by patience, the baggy-panted character of the highway shoul- der can be a success-in-a-min- ute story. He throws his thumb out in a mushroom cloud of dust that rises from where he plops his travel pack on the parched roadside dirt and calculates staying there up to three hours. Often, in a minute or less he will find himself lounging in comfort with a roof overtop, four wheels under him and re- newed determination. Then again, just the reverse can hap- pen. THEATRE TRAFFIC It did to me twice -- once on a remote stretch between Saint John and Fredericton, New Brunswick's capital, and again on the south-western outskirts of Quebec City. At 1 am. Victoria Day I found myself fresh out of luck between Saint John and Freder- icton, separated by about 75 miles. Nothing but drive-in thea- tre traffic went by for 114 hours. I was all set to pack it in and head for the drive-in myself but an ex-Camp Gagetown soldier, and family, changed my mind by offering me a lift to a Fred- ericton truck stop. After another three-hour wait and a near-lightning mail truck run into Woodstock, N.B. a radio navigator from the RCAF base at Summerside, P.E.I. steered me to Quebec Ciiy. Then the longest wait of all be- gan. For almost five hours I head- ed up a single-file gang of hitch- hikers that looked like an or- derly covey of pigeons at Mont- real"s downtown Dominion Square prominent airing-spot for tourists. Everybody was bound for Montreal, 150 miles. I took off my tie, did up my tab collar and black raincoat, and dug in. Finally, a French family mis- took me for a priest and stopped. I played along and got a lift to the doorstep of my downtown | destination in Montreal, Though total travelling time | was only 50 hours, [' spent 10) days on the trip, in Montreal. And I struggled up and down} the mountain a half-dozen times before realizing everybody else took a cab to make the grade, which starts looking like a 90- degree drop after trudging uphill for the fifth time on foot. HAZARDS GREAT The St. John River (with its estuary in the Bay of Fundy) is reputed to be thick with fish, especially salmon, but in my 20 hours at the shoreside all I caught was a sun-baked fore- head, a wind-swept nose and a circular toasting rack for a backyard barbeque. Hazards of the road are great. En route, two cars that pick- ed me up were to completely break down and one French- man (by accepted Francais tra- dition) was to miss a head-on collision by a whisker and de- clare off-hand: 'Plenty more power left in 'dis car." Briefly, the lesson {is this: Travelling on a projected thumb is the pinnacle of austerity, but the easiest way to build a self- made human wreck. --e ANCIENTS BUILT WELL Archeologists believe ihe lighthouse of Alexandria, built in 280 B.C., stood 500 feet high and 100 feet square at the base. a jump of roughly 10 ACRES TROUT STREAM RETREAT Scenic KENDALL HILLS Aree Half @ mile from @ peved rood. Wooded lote with @ fest trout stream. Lees then helf en hour from Oshewe, Only $5,000 -- $1,500 Down W. FRANK REAL ESTATE 21 Kin Se, Ww. 623-3393 foWMANVILLE CAA 14V4 KING ST. &. AY RESTAURANT Announces .. > NEW DELIVERY SERVICE For Your Choice Of Chinese And Canadian Foods Delivered Hot To Your Door Call... 725-0075 or OSHAWA ee HASAEAA LS SAANEETAA two of them | CHRISTINA SZULAK French Department said the students' fees will be paid by contributions from the Kiwan- is Club of Oshawa, Laval University, the Centennial Commission and the McLaugh- lin student parliament. '"Stu- By CRAIG BIRCHALL BALDWIN, Ont. (CP) -- The four-passenger Cessna slows to 70 m.p.h. and levels out at 3,000 feet over this dot on the map south of Lake Simcoe. The air whistles past the door- way on the starboard side of the high-winged aircraft. The door has been removed. It's your first parachute jump | and, despite jumpmaster Barry Brand's assurances thatall is | well, you're as nervous as every student who has gone before. You try to remembe every- thing you learned in nine hours of classroom instruction. There's practically no chance the static line attached to the aircraft will fail to pull your chute open properly, But you still review the procedure for opening your reserve chute in case something should go wrong. You step out of the doorway, grabbing the plane's strut with your hands, placing one foot on a step and the other on a wheel that has been frozen into im- mobility by the plane's brake, At-the command 'Go" from the jumpmaster you jump back- wards, your back arched and your hands and legs spreadea- gled. You keep your eye on the jumpmaster while making a six - second count: Arch thou- sand, look thousand, reach thou- sand, pull thousand, five thou- sand, six thousand. You go through the motions of pulling the ripcord but it's only a dummy. The static line does the job. You feel yourself floating to- ward earth, experiencing for the first time the serenity that DOLONES ALLEN dents come home from this summer course really quite fluent in French." Miss Ed- mondson said. During their six-week stay,in Quebec City the students will board with French families. Mn ML It's Really High Level Sport This Parachute Jumping Bit until now has been only words, And you get some idea of what has attracted the thousands of other Canadians to jumping since the country's first club was founded in St. Catharines, Ont., in 1947. At about 100 feet you hear in- structor Hugh Fellowes on thé ground shouting. to you to put your feet together for landing, Moments later you bump down with about the impact of a jump from a tabletop. This is the first of 10 static- line jumps you have to make as a student before graduating to the stage where they let you pull the ripecord yourself. It's also the relatively inex. pensive period of jumping, That's because the Parachute Association of 'Toronto lends you the chute and you need only a helmet, sturdy boots and coveralls. You take a rigid department of transport medical examinas tion and pay $0 for the intene sive training course (which cov ergs everything from the history of jumping to tree and water landings), There's also $12 to the Para- chute Association of Canada, @ fee that includes insurance against liability, landing on somebody's car, for example. Before you're allowed to jump you must write an examination and pass with at least 85 peg cent. Fach jump from less than $,000 feet--the height set for trainees--costs $2.50. It's $3 for the 3,000-5,000 'evel and $3.50 from 7,200 feet, the height usue aliy used by experienced jumpe ers. APPEARING TONITE The 'New MOTOR HOTEL THE "TWO HITS AND A MISS" in the "VINTAGE ROOM" VisiT OUR NEW DINING ROOM e@ SPECIAL 6 BUSINESSMAN'S SMORGASBORD DAILY