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URSDAY, MARCH 18, 1971

TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C.

“You'y ve. e. always wanted to
write: the. “Great Canadian. .

column,
printer; ‘the other day.

lying.
“Ha,” he said. “Every
wants to write a-novel."
“I'm not a Hemingway ora
Steinbeck ..more like a poor
man’s Eric Nicél,”! I replied.

After reading a ‘book like
Carinery Row: or Stephen
Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches,
I realise. my limitations, :

Ttold Joe, with my Sometimes
the novel big-time, but I’m

tippled Lark in my column.
Most
myself‘ included have always
wanted a column of their own.
Some. are. in-depth
interpreters * of the - political
some. urbane “and
witty; others: satirical: and
some; just plain gossips with
unfunny jokes at the end.
However, like its name, this
sometimes column that is an
always column now is i-
Nneonsistant as-. Terrace
‘weather. [ can be all things to
all men, Serious or light,
Satirical or oratorical. A real
goulash. :
You know what I like about
it? I'm talking to people. It’s

It's a conversation.and if you
don't likeit you can turn it off!

And, nobody talks back—at ~

least not until after its printed.
SATISFYING .

What first surprised me and
what now satisfiés me is that -
everyone ] meet tells me they
really enjoy it. It, gives’ that
little extra spice to the paper,
they say.

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s Novel and that’s why. you:
unlimber: your. adjectives in -
| your ‘all-the-time : sometimes -
" said: Joe, the :

- “Nope. Never have” I sud, ,

7 newspaperman in the world .

But i'm more than consoled, .
Colyinn, Maybe I can't make.
happy blurting away like a

newspapermen,

net an impersonal news story.

Just the other day in the

- pub, Stan Clarke coined a new -

name-for my wife. He now
calls-her “Mrs. Sometimes”.

Tean rib council in a satrical
way and it’s fun thinking- up
anties for the mayor and a-
_Idermen. At first I thought
. they might get a little uptight.
But no! They loved getting
panned.

“T liked that bit you. wrote
“about me suggesting I become
a plumber instead of a
mayor,'’ said Mayor Vic
Jolliffe, a former plumber,

Satire is fun. But. there’s

. always a message in it and the
. Message gets across without -

feeding tempers.

Some. folks “think 1 ‘make
extra work for myself, writing
this deathless prose twice a
week.. Work? Writing a
column is fun anda refreshing
change from. writing dead-pan
stories about six and. 10 inch

; ‘water lines and the Skeena

Bridge. .
NO NICOL '
_ Still I’m -no Eric Nicol, I

‘think he's terrible. because he

is probably the best columnist

in Canada. Foo on Pierre
Burten," too. And = Art
Buchwald. ‘

But I feel better when [read
trite gossip columns.

You know the type, eh? (Did-

you know “eh” is a truly

Canadian expression when °

used at the end of a
sentence?). Eh?
’ Anyway. They go like this:
“What well knowr
Vancouver entertainer was
seen with what well-known
Vancouver entrepreneur in a
dimly-lit corner of Basil's

Chop House, run by gracius -

Basil Cornmeal, talking about
* you-know-what! You guessed
it! mW

Frankly, no. I didn't guess
it, And what's Basil: got to do
with it? For all I know the

, “by Ron: Thody os
seseninaninetscenton apse: ectoeeasteshas

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eras

Like:

’ entertainer is Lulu Le-Tutu
who does “exotic dancing’ at
Some cabaret.dive in the
East-end and. __—i ther

entrepreneur is .a sharpy

‘mafia kingpin setting up a
you-know-what for. West End
businessmen. -

It might have other. items

_: ‘BLAH

(Big) Bill Bruiser, number
one tackle with the B.C. Mice
who bowls 'em over like a’ ten-
pin champion is said te be

considering a $2.1-million

offer te.play for the Calgary
Greagers but coach (Big) Bob
Kafuffle is .said to be

°. considering meeting the offer

and throwing in a party at

. Hugh . Heffner's .Playboy

bunnyhut along with the use of
a“bunny” valet for the rest of

the season. (Big) Bill really .
‘knows how to roll it over, eh

(Big) Bill?”

(The offer [s probably closer
to $25,000 clams and (Big) Bill
is a Liberace freak),-

Usually, the column ends
with a “Partin shot: -

“You know the joke about -

the three eggs? You haven't!
Too bad!'*

«Get it? “Two bad”, Yuk? -
Yeeh.}

However, I usually end my

_ column at bottom of the paper

which appears to be not only a
convenient way of winding up,
but itsaves on copy paper, and
if there is anybody who's a
skinflint about things like that,
i's my general manager,
Gordon (Gadfly) Hamilton.
In fact, he’s so money
conscious, a former employee
lost three fingers when caught
by Gordy reaching into petty
cash.

And, if I got paid by the inch
I'd wrile a longer column. But

-I get paid by the month so

goodbye.

TAKING AIM at what appears to be Herald

Editor Ron Thody’s Sometimes Column is

Morris Shaw who was taking pot shots during ‘

Caledonia Senier Secondary School's Winter -
}

Meditation i is key

to ‘natural high .

’ Alan: ‘Watts, the former
Episcopalian (Anglican in
Canada): minister and. an
inf]pential philosopher, believes
he has found a way to take large
audiences -directly into oriental
meditation through the
“mantra”...

During -the past four weeks,
Dr...Watts-philosopher, author,
teacher-and social critic - has
endeavored to instill. the
essence of her personal
philosophy.

On. Sunday, March 21 at 2
p.m., during the final program
of his socio-religious CBC
series, ‘Living - With, Alan
Watts’, he: attempts lo
influence his studio audience to
its first taste of “floating
consciousness”, the first step
toward - dissolution of the
isolated self and of identity with
all ereation the crucial
experience of - Hinduism and
Buddhism. That heis willing to
try it on TV is ‘extraordinary.

‘NEED FOR *VISION’

In his past programs, . Dr.
Watts has -discussed-a number
of -his-favorite topics’ what. he
considers the false isolation of
the self, the identity of

consciousness with nature and |

need:for vision and pleasure.
Now “he reconciles ~ the
Passiveness of Eastern religion

‘withthe anger a man may. feel |.

about-folly and injustice, :
He‘bélieves that Eastern

“| philosophies have much to say
ma. to the, technocracies..., if they.

are; not. too. busy warring and
polluting themselves todeath to
igen,” + ‘

If so, it seem | ‘proper’ fo:

conclude this CBC-TV series by
seding what the ‘instruments of
Dr. Watts’. philosophy. may be;
what methed It uses to. alter our
= consciqusness into 4 field ‘view:

of Man.as an organism. within

the pssetice of the environment, :

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B. reason, and.
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to deal ‘with an infirite, reality,
OF thig,. he lias ‘more. ‘to . SAY.”
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dimenstignal, .
woven , system. Ot, ying’
| spectra’ a ‘vibrations and 1 mari’
five senses are-atiuned only. to:
very. small banda’ of ° hese:

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Graduation

He gets’
moose--
with car

Wayne Walker of Terrace ran
into ‘a moose on his way home.
Saturday night, ‘

Walker told police he dimmed
his lights for an on-coming car
and didn’t see the moose,

The animal fell over the hood
of Walker’s car. Tt was killed,
police said.

The accident took place about
9:30 Saturday on Highway 16
east,

Walker was not injured and
no charges were made.

Backs into
parked car

A Terrace man was charged
with not using due care when his
car struck a parked vehicle on
Soucie Street Saturday
morning. ,

Chance McCarron of Terrace
told police he was looking back
when he struck the vehicle
owned by Patrick Phelon.

The two cars received $350
damages...

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with .not usirig due care and i

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ball.,.hlt the spot and wheosh...down goes the
mayor!---Staff Fhota.

Carnival Friday and Saturday. Perhaps our
editor has upset him. Or perhaps he's 8 really
drawing a bead on Thody. Considering the kids
nearly drowned Mayor Victor Joltiffe in a d-

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