WHTIBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 28, 1987, PAGE 5 cards. Every day now .von e walk down the main street of Beaver. Ont. <pop. 5.770) and your ears raffle to the rat- tat-tat rattle-rattle sound of hammers. hammers building things. What the hammers are building, mainly. will one day he the New Lone Star Saloon -once it gets finished. which some doubt will ever happen. Readers may recall that construction on the New Lone Star began early one Sunday morning. and the racket and all got me. Lucas Letterpress. out of bed early and down- town for a political rally. From that tact. one may have deduced that the New Lone Star would be rebuilt by now Ha! The Lone Star is being rebuilt, you may recall, because of the Free Trade poker game. which Sam Ewessofeh claims he won big. (The old Lone Star was burned down a couple of Canada Day's ago because it weren't a fittin' image for Canadians. saloons and the old west being American symbols. So the residents of Beaver, nothing il not patriotic. particularly when full of free beer. hurned the place down.) After the old Lone Star was razed: few places in town were left to hold the Free Trade Poker games at. so the poker was played in a lot of unlikely places. with varying decks of cards. But history wiil keep for another time. In fact, ITam now working on a book on the Free Trade Poker Stakes. one entitled 'The Beaver Approach (o Frée Trade: We Give a Dam.' But'back to the main street. Daily. the outline of The New Lone Star becomes more clear. One can almost see the bat wing doors swinging'in the wind. see strangers step through the door, chomping on pepperoni sticks. pan- chos draped over the left shoulder. Those with vivid imaginations see a revamping of gun laws, say something like those of Florida. so we best fit the image. (And a pox on those who say those bat wing doors will never get u's through a Canadian winter. They just don't appreciate the power of good old American know-how. that's what.> WITH OUR FEET UP by Bill Swan Rat-a-tat-tat As I say, the shape of the New Lone Star grows each day. But overnight it seems to change. too, so that ['rom the main street it still is difficult to picture the finished product. Good old Bent Broadaxe. leader of the Beaver Amalgamated Workers (BAW) claims that the New Lone Star has aiready been gambled away at the Free Trade Poker tables, and that Mayor Johnny Cannuck, the one with the brQad chin and narrow shoulders, should call an election right away and let the voters decide. Mayor Johnny Cannuck says this is nonsense. that he was elected mayor by the people.of Beaver to run the place as he sees fit. and if he happens to lose the town in a poker game, that can't be helped, can it? Besides which, he says, he didn't lose, he won. Razor Strop, who also ran for mayor last election. claims that if he were elected mayor he might not pay Johnny Cannuck's gambling debts (or is it gamboling deh- ts) and would take back whatever Sam Ewessofeh won at Whitby town crier..... FROM PAGE 1 An added honor was his election as secretary of the 30-member Ontario Guild of Town Criers. He had previnusly been elected to the Guild's board of directors in Amherstberg. It was in Amherstberg, in August, where Martin placed seventh out of 17 entrants in the criers' provincial champiorship. "I got down there and here are these guys doing voice exer- cises!" recalls Martin of his first taste of big league crying. "It made me realize how much effort goes into it." The provincial winner, Frank Knight of Scarborough, is described by Martin as a "professional" crier who offers his talents as a voice-for-hire for organizations. Knight didn't attend the inter- national competition in Halifax, but Ontario's third best, Chris Wyman of Kingston, did, and again finished third. Martin attributes his win in Markham and impressive result in his first Ontario competition to his ability to sustain a cry and not allow it to "trail off." That ability is one of his strengths and also one of the most important factors in judging. Martin says a fraternity exists between criers as they meet at events and competitions. And they enjoy superb hospitality wherever they go, as the locals provide meals and lodging. The Town of Whitby pays Martin's mileage expenses. Martin recently added a cape to his perfectly tailored crier's costume, designed by Irene Dollimore of Oshawa, which evokes the period of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Appearance is important at events, but Martin's greatest asset, of course, is his powerful voice which booms greetings from Mayor Bob Attersley and Whitby residents in whatever community he is in. Martin hopes, in future, to organize a criers' competition in Whitby that will bring together Ontario's best. Santa parade scheduled for Dec. 5 The Santa Claus parade in Whit- by. held by the Whitby Jaycees. will take place on Saturday. Dec. 5. Gord Attersley and Bob Stanley of the Jaycees are co-chairmen of this year's event for which there will be a $10 entry fee. The parade will start at 10a.m. ai Car demolished on tram track A Whitby man has been charged with failing to remain after he left his car at a CPR crossing in Newcastle Monday night. The car was hit by a train. Police say the car became struck at the crossing and when the man saw the train light coming at the car. he got out of the car and left the area. He was picked up 1/2 hours later hitchhiking on Mill St. in Newcastle. Charged with failing to remain and intoxication in a publie place is Peter Wheeler, 32, of 9 Bonneta Crt. Police say the 1976 Mercury was completely demolished in the crash. Damage to the train is estimated at $2,000. No one on the train was hurt. St. John's School on Giffard St.. proceed along Dundas St. to the four corners and then go wouth on Brock St. to Rotary Centennial Park. For more information Stanley at 668-8988. cali VALERIE'S WHITBY'S NEWEST BOUTIQUE Something for all the family with prices to please you...... * LADIES WEAR * * BABY AND CHILDRENS WEAR * * COSTUME JEWELLERY * * GOLD JEWELLERY * * BATH AND KITCHEN BOUTIQUE * * QUALITY MACHINE KNITWEAR * 118 JOHN STREET EAST PHONE: 430-1265 cards. Broadaxe goes him one better and says.that he would take back ail the poker chips and cancel the building per- mit for the New Lone Star. that we don't want to be known as a town of saloons. Mayor Johnny calls this ail unpatriotic and smali min- ded and those who have a vision of the future appreciate what he has done at the poker tables. Everyone won, he says; Sam Ewessofeh won ail the hamburger joints on Beaver's main street and Mayor Johnny won a lot of poker chips. Broadaxe says that's fine, but poker chips are worth buffalo chips after the poker game is over. and for them to be worth anything the game has to be stili in progress. Razor Strop, the one with the staccato, machme-gun voice, whose two blue eyes eyes often focus on a single point until he looks like Ulysses' Cyclops. repeats that he might give back some of the poker chips. maybe. So the three of them, mayor Johnny, Bent Broadaxe, and Razor Strop, spend a lot of time standing in the middle of the street snapping at flies and preaching to anyone within earshot. , Meantime, every day the hammers rattle away, and the NeW Lone Star saloon grows out of nothing. One day we could see the outline of the rooms, and the kitchen. and some ever opted they liked what they saw. but the next day the two-by-fours were pulled down at Mayor Johnny's suggestion, and new rooms added until we're not sure anymore from day to day just which rooms the Beaver Bell-Ringers will meet in. It's ail very confusing. And what we here at the Fiat Tail don't know is whether or not The Beaver Fiat Tail will be able to rent a room at-the New Lone Star and gamble away buffalo chips with the best of them. We're not sure we want to. If we do, we won't have any problem finding buffalo chips. That is, ever since those bulls down at the livestock market ail crashed through the floor, you can get ail the bull chips and hamburger you want. L -da