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ON THE SCENE Don Cain mstalling one of
“the last automatic sets, while Bill McHugh:
hack at the Central Office testa to insure that

ringing, dial tone and busy signals meet the
requirements, Kitimat changes over to dial
telephone Saturday night,

By SCOTT TYRER .
‘Canadian Press Staff Writer
Since July 30, fans have been

watching nine Canadian Football
League teams compete in var
fous: combinations with varying
.| degrees xt success. .

Nov. 30, the gridiron greats
will flalsh the season at theGrey
| Cup festival — that anntal de-
bauch ‘under the guise ‘of a foot-
ball. game: that Toronto. Globe
and Mall sports wrtlar Dick Bed-
| does’ calls “The Great.C
Drunk."

‘One ‘wonders if alcoholic con=
sumption isn't. necessary, With
temperatures dropping to, tfnot
below; the freezing point, inten-

sified by a moist. breeze blow-

ing: through the Canadian Nate
ional . Exhibition. stadium from
Lake Ontario, any: source of
warmth is appreciated —: par-
ticularly if taken internally.

Why must football fans —- those
| Who. are rich enough or influent
flal enough to get seats’ — endure
-|about.two hours of frigid agony?
‘Is Jake Gaudar, CFL commis.
stoner, a sadist? °

The™ players are all 1 right. {¢
They're out there running, block=
ing and getting caught "in. 10-
man traffic jams. With all that
physical contact, the exchange
of body heat is ‘enough to keep
them toasty.

a en Canadian drunk’?

gular ‘eleateu. football footwear.
vould cheer the rescheduling.’

But what about us frecze-
dried spectators?

COULD END EARLIER.”

Might. {¢ not be more humane
to start the season earller or
shorten It go the Grey Cup might

Think of the benefits:

Pass receivers’ completion aye
erages would probably rise. A
bali thrown into. semi-frozen |.
handa 1g less likely to stay there
than if those hands-haya been

warmth, .
With the temperature ‘more
predictable earlier In the year,
muddy, frozen or flooded felds
would be lesa-Ikely, -
Coaches could no longer blame’
an 82-1 loss. on a bad field:
The changes’ would probably
please police as well. With fang
ho. longer: compelled to jump
around or fight to avoid solid
ified blood, they might be more
manageable.
The benefits go on. However,
there are Ssecvantages. oo,

Cleaning’ companies might pro-
test, after losing the business of of
cleaning hundreds of mud-coat-
ed uniforms.

Running ‘shoe. manufacturers
would lose the endorsement of
CFL players forced to use their
products on rock-hard eridirons.
Mind yon, the producers of ree

be played .in.. Indian Summer’.

basking in.” Indian Summer’

But .after all ts said and done,
effort,

anie atroggle onthe television and
for those’ fortunate few ~ the
ticket holders — thetemperature
is a good excuse to bring along

Wash the. ushe. of. goin to a
football game. if you can’t haf a
-coupla beltsh outa your. bottl’s
juishe?

_ Czech back to

cosmic ray study

' CALGARY. . (CP)
weeks after. his arrival: from
Czechoslovakia, -Paul Siska pick-
ed up where he left off in cos-
mic ray resedrch, ‘The English.
speaking physicist: started work
88 4 research asatstant at the
University of. Calgary and will

Spring, .

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apple-bin race
SALMON ARM, B, C, (CP) —

Firemen here have challengedall
comors-to a race during the 1969
Cherry Festival, Craft for the
race must be apple bing, powere
ed by outboard motora, The bins
measure four-by-three feet and

are used for shipping apples,

maybe the move is net worth the
Most Canadians. watch the tit-.

a bit of alcoholic refreshment.

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