PAGE 2, THE TOWNSMAN, Thursday June'1é, 1977

}WHAT'S HAPPENING

Persons who wish to list
information in this column
should telephone TAB at €38-
8195 before 12 noon on
Wednesdays

Second Thursday of Every
Month. :
Old Age Pensioners Monthly
Meeting - Senior Citizens
Rm. 2 p.m.

Kiwams Club meeting 6
p.m, Terrace Hotel every,
esday.

LONDON (CP) — With
the Queen’s silver jubilee
observations well under
way, some Britons are
inclined to recall another
royal observance where the
radio commentary drew al-
most as much attention as
the event itself. That was
the time 40 years ago when a
BBC broadcaster
announced the fleet was all
“lit up.”’

The date was May 20, 1937,

and the event was the

--Rotary Club Méeting 12 to
1:30 p.m. Gim’s. Every
Monday.

Whist every Tuesday night
Senior Citizens inn. ‘at
-Arena. .

- Centennial Lions Meeting -

every Thursday - 12 p.m: mw
an Inn

- Kinsmen meeting - Ist &
3rd Thursday - 7 p.m.
Terrace Hotel. |

- AA. meeting, - Terrace
Hotel. Every Sunday 7:56

p.m.
- Alateen, Alanon meeting at
the Skeena Health Unit.
every Monday

- AA. Meeting at Knox
‘United Church every
Monday 8:50 p.m.

- Kinsmen Bingo every ard
Wednesday of every month
at the arena,

-Mills Memorial Hospital
‘Auxiliary Thrift Shop open
from 11 am. to 4:34 p.m.
every Saturday. Sandee

venue up from ee
.Printers.

+ 0.0.R.P. (Ladies of the —

Royal Purple) 2nd & ‘4th
onda

y .
- Loyal Order of Moose
Lodge No. 1920 - 6 p.m.
every 2nd & 4th Tuesday
_The Terrace Shriner
Lodge 18 meet the first
Tuesday of every month at
7:30 p.m. at
Restaurant.

+ Shrine Club Bingo ev
last Thursday of the mon
at the Arena Banquet Room
beginning at 8p.m.

- Kinettes monthly mee!

is the 2nd Wi 4 a
every month in the Sand-
man Inn at 7:00 p.m.

IN TERRACE

Gim's.

ied
_ third Saturday of eac
‘ month at § p.m. at the

- Thornhill Calorie Counters
meet

p.m. New members
welcome from Terrace ‘&
Thornhill.

- Weight Watchers 7 p.m.

y, Knox United

Church . i.
- Inches. Awa
Tuesday Skeena Health Unit

8pm. 7
Council meeting - 2nd & 4th

Monday, Municipal Hall.

- Independant Order of
Foresters. Meeting

Slumber Lodge.

-Thrift Shop every Saturday
from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

- Children’s Storytime every
Saturday at the library at
1:0 p.m.

WOODROOFE’S GOOF

Naval faux-pas embarasses BBO

‘review of the British fleet in:

ithead in honor of the

ronation of King George
VI just eight days before.

As Britain's sea might, all
ships dressed in lights,
passed in review, Britons
and listeners round the
world were startled to hear
these words from a usually
staid BBC announcer:

“At the present moment
the whole fleet’s lit up. And
when I say lit up, I mean lit
up. It's lit by fairy lamps.

THEATRE

ry [ [. __PASSES

‘Hidden somewhere in the ads

in the entertainment section
are two Terrace phone numbers.
Find them, and if one is yours you've won..

£

Pick up your tickets at. the Herald office,
3212 _Kalum_ St.

that it
' Woodroofe’s career was

Tillicum Tutu Mheatras
Led

4720 LAKELSE AVE.

‘es

PHONE 638-8111

June 15 - 18

dune 19 - 2)

.
Lies My Father Told Me |
. Mature .

“Summer Run”

}

'~ghow bug in
; growing title available since

June 18

MATINEE 2 P.M.

With Six You Get Ege Roll

June 1é - 18°

Robert Redfard

June 19 - 25

7&9 P.M. NIGHTLY
9 P.M. ONLY ON SUNDAY

“The Sting”
CARRIE™

Paul Newman

we

~ C= noises e 4

Py

We’ve forgotten the Royal
Review. The whole thing is
lit up by fair: jamps. The
whole thing is fairy land. ...””

In a short time the BEC
switchboard in London was
also. Hit up—this time by
listeners asking whether it
was the Royal Navy or the
announcer, Cmdr. Thomas
Woodroofe, that was lit up.

Woodroofe, who ‘had
retired from active service
but remained a member of
the naval reserve, was
known then by his old navy
title. It is also known that
the afternoon of the review
he had visited some of the
fleet wardrooms with old
naval companions.
BBC APOLOGIZED

The BBC issued so many
apologies over the affair,
was thought

over. There is little doubt
that he was reprimanded
but he was back on the air a
short time later and on Sept.
30, 1998, he broadcast a lucid
description of then Prime
Minister Neville
Chamberlain — returning
from the famed meeting
with Hitler in Munich.

That was the historic
occasion when Chamberlain
waved a slip of paper and

‘promised “peace in our

time.”

But the BBC evidently
holds no grudges. The
broadcasting organization
this year issued two long-
playing records wit
recorded highlights of its 50-
year history and the
Woodroofe “Ht up”
commentary is faithfully
reproduced.

eyery Tuesday,
Thornhill Eiem. School. 7:15'

every’

Terrace Answering Bureau
638-8195

f

-Kermode Four Wheelers - 8
p.m. lst Wednesday of each
month in meeting room of
the Sandman Inn.
-B,P.O.E. (Elks Lodge) ist
& ard Thursday of each

Tmonth.

Terrace Blueback |
Swim Club are having a
general Meeting on June 22,
1977 at 8:00 p.m. in the
Senior Citizens Room,
Terrace Arena.

Woodroole died in Sussex
several years ago. ;

Appropriately, the sound
history of the BBC opens
with the chimes of Big Ben
from London and
reproduces some of the ex-
periments conducted by its |

irst engineer, Peter
Eckersley.
Then follow broadcasts by

the Savoy Orpheans and the
Savoy Havana Sand,

playing for dancing at the

Savoy Hotel; Sir Harry
Lauder singing I Love a
Lassie; a short story by
pioneer broadcaster A. J.
Alan; the first British disc
jockey, Maj. Christopher
Stone—and a commentary
by Bob Bowman of
Vancouver on a
heavyweight boxing match
between Britain's Tommy
Farr and Joe Louis.

Sweet smell of success —
for clover growing champ

NEUDORF, Sask. (CP) -
Louis Wendall said that
when his sweet clover won
the reserve championship at
the Regina world grain show
in 1993 every weller in the
city wan im to buy a
memento with his $175 prize.

Wendall told them to
forget it but the win left the
his blood. He
: almost every grain-

- In March, the crusty, 81-
ld farmer went to
Brandon, Man., winter fair,
Hine on a he was
grain grower on
i Prairies. He won the
world wheat championship
-at the Royal Winter Fair in
Toronto last year.
Wendall's son Leroy now
does most of the work on the
small Wendall farm on.the
north side of the Qu'Appelle

ey.

The senior Wendall, who
was born in Neudorf, says
farmers who assemble large

farms are hogs.

"I can’t see the need for
such big farms to make a
living,"’ said Louis, who has
300 acres under cultivation

and proudly boasts that he
hag never on welfare.
He said farms of about
2,600 acres could support
four or five families and that
the government should buy
out big farmers and put
young farmers on the land.
The white-haired farmer
laments the way grain
shows have been ignored
and discouraged by
provincial governments,
Wendall, a former
councillor in the rural

the municipality of McLeod and

an unsuccessful Social
Credit party candidate in
ovincial elections, said

e Canadian Western’

bition in Regi at-
ras visitors: from around
the world but: Saskatche-
wan—the- wheat province—
has no grain exhibits on

y. :
said the prize money in
1933 was $2,500 for cham-
onships in oats, wheat and
rley amd cne competitor,
Herman Trellie of Alber-

- tanwent home with- $9,000,

Today, the prize at the

Brandon fair is $100.
Wendall was the Western

Canadian champion in

” producing

wheat and cats and the
reserve champion in barley
and rye grass at Brandon in
1976, but he has been barred
from all other fairs.

He said officials at
smaller fairs told him he
was a professional exhibitor
and his participation
ed other growers
from taking part.

Wendall’s technique for
show grain is
painstakingly exact. He
selects and cuts several
sheaves from a field and
covers them until they are
ripe. Then he uses rubber
shoes to separate the grain
from the chaff.

“My show grain never
goes through a machine or
combine,” Color, uniformity
and weight determine the
winner at shows and it
detracts from the grain to
pick it from a swa in the

___Garnet, the birthstone
for January, ranges in color

from purplish-red found in: - -
India, Ceylon and the United *.. :--

States to green in Russia,