The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

May 20% 1966 SUGAR AND SPICE oS Am TUM Tey THE NEWS it's Been A Tough Week We've been a pretty lucky crew around our place this year. All winter, friends, neighbors and relatives have been coming down with everything from the ordinary stuff -- pregnancy and insanity -- to exotic items like oriental hepatitis and whooping mumps. We haven't had _ so much as a sniffle. It was too good to last, and we got the whole bundle this week. Nothing serious, physically, but mentally and emotionally, a shattering period. First it was the dentist. Kim's was her regular' six-month check-up. It's a breeze. She waltzes in blithely, has her gums frozen, and the dentist pumps a little concrete into a pin-hole you couldn't see with a telescope. It's a little different for fa- ther. I also go regularly to the dentist. Every three or four years. When I have a broken tooth or two, and have wild, stabbing pains from several of the other old stumps, and have postponed my appointment about six times, I go down for my regular check-up. Sweating, trembling, and con- demning all dentists and their inane questions to the murkiest depths, I sit there trying to tear the arms off the chair. Too gut- less about needles to have the freezing, I go through the ago- nies of Prometheus as the poor man prods about among ihe snaggles of porcelain, looking for a piece of genuine, human tooth he can drill. And then there's always that excruciating moment when he steps back, with some kind of chisel cocked in his hand, shakes his head more in pity than in sympathy, and says. "Hmmm." Visions of the blood, the pain, the ignominy swirl through my head. Well, that's the way the week began. Worse was to come. I've f been suffering from a _ bad shoulder for years. I know. Ev- erybody has one. Or a bad back or a bad hip. One week, the doc- tor says it's an inflammation. On the next visit, he says it's an old injury aggravated by tension. Next trip, it's bursitis. Next, af- ter X-rays, it's a calcium depos- it. If I had half the calcium in my teeth that I have in my shoulder, I could be one of those grinning-ape models in the toothpaste ads. Anyway, I finally decided to do something about it. Or my wife did. She didn't mind my groaning in my sleep. It was the cursing, every time I rolled onto that side, that upset her. She was worried about my soul. I wasn't. But when it got to the point where I couldn't pour a bottle of beer any more, with- out weeping, I realized that man cannot exist on pain pills alone. I've mentioned what a yellow streak I have about needles. The doc said, as he took out this ele- phant-syringe, loaded with cort- isone, "You'll feel a slight pin- prick as the needle enters." The cold sweat. stopped flowing. Nothing to it. ; Then he started to lean on the needle. Have you ever had a pin- prick with a crow-bar? The only comparable experi- ence I've had was one time in a veterans' hsopital. I was wheeled into this room for "tests." Flat on my back. Two nurses held a hand each, one on each side of the the bed. Decent of them, I thought. Comforters. As I was smiling at them, in turn the doc rammed this huge . hypodermic in my chest and shoved down. Then he started to suck (marrow out of my breast- bone, as it turned out). In the next three seconds, those nurses . wound up on opposite sides of the bed, without touching the | floor. I was told later that I had been a volunteer for a research project. Well, I won't bore you with a lot more sick detail. Suffice it to say that my wife and daughter went to the eye doctor. Kim, who wants glasses like she wants a hair lip, got them. My wife was sore as hell because she paid 10 dollars for the ex- amination, and didn't get any glasses. Just to cheer us up, we phoned Hugh on Sunday. We knew he was starting to write his final university exams on the Monday. Wanted to wish him luck. A croaking wreck whe sounded more like Edgar Allen Poe's raven than our jolly boy, informed us that he'd been sick as a dog with the 'flu for three weeks. BASEBALL (Continued from page 10) coaching and officials are concerned, we will not have a fastball or baseball league this year. This is an appeal to parents to show the same inter- est in having a baseball season as do their children. Page 11 ALCOHOLICS STUDY SEMINAR ) (by Buck) A seminar will be held in Terrace Bay at the Recreation Centre on Thursday, May |2th at 7.30 p.m. in the large meeting room. Mr.Cliff Bennett, Community Consultant for Alcohol and Drug Addic- tion Foundation, will be the panel moderator, accompanied by three other members. The theme for the seminar is AN ALCOHOLIC IN A COM- MUNITY and the purpose is to see the alcoholic in relationship with other individual and community agencies. Thisséminar should be of great interest as it will include discussion periods and several viewpoints from panel members. LADY BOWLERS PERFORM WELL AT LAKEHEAD Seven ladies, members of the Terrace Bay Bowl- ing Association, travelled to the Lakehead on Sunday to participate in the Dominion Motors Ladies Bowling Tournament. Those concerned were Mesdames Edmunds, Coupal, Fraser, Milks and Hall of Terrace Bay and Mesdames Moon and Smilsk of Schreiber. The five-pin tournament took place at the Play- time Lanes in Port Arthur with thirty-seven bowlers from as far away as Marathon. Eight games were played beginning at 11 a.m. and continuing until after 5 p.m. Going into the eighth game Marie Edmunds was out in front but first and second places went to Lakehead bowlers with 2060 and 2059 totals. Marie took third place with 2031 over eight games. Myra Smilsky was eighth and Dot Coupal 14th. Three high single prizes. went to the Terrace Bay bowlers. Marie Edmunds with 294 - Dot Coupal with 250 and Althea Fraser with 244. TWO UNION OFFICIAL DIE SUDDENLY Members of Local #665 will be saddened to know of the recent death of two well known Union offi- cials, President Emeritus John P.Burke who passed away in Florida on April 22nd. The funeral was held in Fort Edward, New York on April 29th. Frank C.Barnes, who served on the Internation- al Union for more than twenty-six years, died in Mesa, Arizona and was buried there on April 26th. CERTIFICATES TO BE PRESENTED MAY 10TH The presentation of certificates to the students who entered the contest sponsored by the Oddf ellow and Rebekah Lodges will take place on May l0th in Schreiber Town Hall at 9:00 P.M. The public is cordially invited to attend. The winner of this contest, David Shivas, will travel to New York this summer to visit the United Nations. NOTICE - Miss Margaret Pineault of Tony's Beauty Shop will be on holiday from Saturday May 7th un- til May 20th. The Beauty Shop will be closed ex- cept for Thursdays when Tony will accept appoint- ments in Terrace Bay.