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dh Page 4, Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, June 26, 1985 "Terrace Bay The Terrace Bay-Schreiber News is published every Wednesday by: : Schreiber Laurentian Publishing Co. Ltd., Box 579, Terrace Bay, Ontario, POT 2wo. . Telephone: (807) 825-3747, ' GENERAL/ADVERTISING MANAGER .............;... Vivian Ludington tae. So See REE SS BS Irene Folz Gg i PRODUCTION MANAGER.............................00-. Mary Melo Keeping the Record Straight by IRENE FOLZ Due to the interest of our "Did You Know" July 12th issue, I decided to do a little research on our comment about the POW camps. First off, to let you, our readers know, our little bits of trivia are usually taken from histories that are written about our com- munities. However, I must confess that this particular comment was by guess and by golly with a little help from the MNR, and a little help from one of our "older" citizens. But because of the phone calls, comments, and visits to our office, and because of the discrepancies that arose from these conversa- tions, I was prompted to investigate further. I acquired a book, which by the way cost me a "nominal fee", on the history of the community of Marathon and to my relief, because of the "nominal fee", it contained the informa- tion I required to keep the record straight. According to this history book, the commissioned German officers were held at Neys camp, and the non-commissioned officers, merchant seamen, and enlisted men, numbering 300, were held at Angler camp. The big escape was from Angler, where 28 men tunnelled out. Of the 19 that were rounded up the next day, 2 were wounded, and 2 were killed. Three more were found near the camp, two were found in Medicine Hat, Alberta, and the last four were found in a boxcar at Heron Bay one week later. Did You Know from the first Riel Rebellion when a Colonel Isbestor landed troops at the Schreiber beach. In response to the comments about the five graves, two held Germans that died while in the camps, two held the German escapees that were killed, and the fifth held a Japanese prisoner and all of these graves have been moved. That Schreiber was first settled in the early 1880's as "Isbestor's Landing", which is said to originate I hope that this information sheds some light with all of our readers, and keeps the record straight. Arthur Black long Wally So Long Wally Well folks, this is it -- my absolute- ly last column scratched out in the greater two-thirds of this province known as The North. By the time you're wrapping potato peels with this edition of the paper, we will be bucketing along the Trans-Canada, heading vaguely east toward God knows what, laden down with two kids, Angus the wonderdog, a psychopathic cat named Lassie, plus whatever was lying around after the moving van left. Moving. The dirtiest six-letter word in the English language. And I'm doing it. Right -- as John Len- non suggested -- in the road. The last few weeks have been strange ones for us, as we prepare to leave a place that has been home for the past decade. It occurs to me that the North is not so much a location as a state of mind. Living in Thunder Bay ---or Marathon or Schreiber or Geraldton or Sudbury -- is not the same as living in...Barrie or Kingston or Fergus or Milton. Dunno why, exactly, but I know in my guts that it's not the same. We are going to miss a lot of things when we move south. And it occur- red to me last night that one of the things that I'm going to miss most can be summed up in one poignant, five- letter word... Wally. Walter Assef. Now where am I go- ing to find another mayor like that? Walter. is a phenomenon that could only occur in The North. A man with two major claims to world attention: that he once sang with Danny Thomas __and that on another occa- sion, he patted Her Majesty's fanny. There are those who would deny the latter occurrence. There are others. who would produce photographs and TV camera footage to prove it. No matter. It fits. Walter is a sawed-off Don Quix- ote who has tilted at everyone from fellow aldermen to 250-pound journalists. All five-foot-two-inches, one hun- dred and twenty-five pounds of him. Walter is a man who called Steve Fonyo "Terry". Four.times. He's a man who once glorified his metropolis as "the primate capital of Canada" (Huh?) He is also a man who once offered to meet a fellow Councilman in mor- tal combat after the official City Hall meeting was over. Tinfortinatelyv the fellaw-coinncil member was confined to a wheelchair at the time. Ah, I tell ya, they don't make mayors like that anymore. I know. I've been combing the Canadian history books. Merle Dickerson came pretty close. He was mayor of North Bay for quite a while there...and gained a certain notoriety after being charged as a found-in during a raid on a gambling joint several years ago. As I recall, the news of Mayor. Dickerson's terrible predicament served to increase his majority in the next municipal election. That's what I like about The North -- it doesn't make any sense. Mind you...my research into mayors turned up some pretty: in- teresting stuff. Let me throw a few quotes at you: **Economy -- at any price!"' 'I shun publicity wherever I can find it!"' "] get up at 5 in the morning, no "? matter what time it is! "If somebody's gonna stab me' in the back, I wanna be there!" "We have to settle this thing once and for all! And for the time being!"' You know who said all those weird, whacky and wonderful things? A man by the name of Allan Lamport. Mayor of...Toronto, a few years back. Maybe I'm not going to be so lone- ly down south after all. Editor's note: Arthur will continue his column for Lakehead Living from his new home in Southern Ontario.