Arvida High School - Yearbook (Arvida, Quebec Canada)

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35 A SAILOR My brother has always wanted to be a sailor and he is one now. The first company he worked for was the Saguenay Terminals. When he worked for that company he didn't go on very long voyages. He only went to ports in the United States and around Africa. He worked for that company for about a year and then quit because they worked in bauxite and he didn't like that. It wasn't a very clean job but it wasnit bad. When he went to Africa he brought home a stuffed alligator and a big sea shell. He said that the water was full of alligators of about fifteen feet or more all around the boat. After he quit working for that company he started to work for the Atlan- tic Shipping Company in Montreal. The name of the second boat is S. S. Cliffside. On that boat he started in Montreal and went to Hali- fax. From Halifax he went to France, from France he went to about five ports in Spain. When he left Spain two stowaways got on the boat and hid in it. At the end of three days they showed themselves. When the captain saw them he asked them if they had robbed any banks in Spain and other things. They said that they hadn't. He also asked them if they had killed any people, if they had ever been in prison, and many other questions. They always said that they hadn't done any- thing but the captain did not trust them so he talked on radio to the place in Spain where they had come from and asked if they had done any harm there. The police in Spain and other people said that they hadn't done any harm. The boat was in the Mediterranean Sea now and the captain didn't think it was worth while to take them back to Spain. When- ever they came into a port the captain always put handcuffs on their hands so that they wouldn't run away. Later they didn't handcuff them any more but let them work on the boat just like any other of the men. My brother is on a different boat now but he still writes letters to the stowaways because he was their friendg they always talked together. My bro- ther can write and talk in Spanish so he writes letters to them in Spanish. He can talk fifteen languages or maybe sixteen now so almost every country he goes to he can talk the lan- guage used there. From Spain he went through the Strait of Gibralter through the Mediterranean Sea and to Port Said in Egyptg from Port Said in Egypt he went through the Suez Canal through the Red Sea and to Bomby, India. Before they got off they had to get about fifteen different kinds of vaccination because there are many kinds of diseases in India. And also on the boat they have to eat certain kinds of food all the time. For travelling around in India there would be a man with a little buggy and you would get in it and he'd pull to the place you wanted to go. You'd give the man fifty cents and he would really be glad. My brother went to almost every country and he's got all kinds of money. Most of the people are very poor in India. Some men have fifteen wives if they're rich. If they aren't very rich they have five to ten. In some places you have to walk quite a long way and the people who are poor follow you about two miles if you go that far because they see that you come from Canada or the United States and they know that you must have some money. My brother was walking along a street in India and there was a whole crowd of people following him because they wanted him to give them something. He gave one person his pen, another some pencils, and the rest a few cents just so that tney'd go away. Later another person wanted some- thing and he gave him a button which he had and the person went away really glad. At the end he only had his shoes, pants, and shirt left on him. From India he went to the Philippine Islandsg from the Philippines he went to the Hawaiian Islands. When he was there it was around the month of January here and while it was so cold that we could hardly go outside, he wrote a letter and said that he was going swimming. From the Hawaiian Islands he went to Cartagena and Colombia in South America. He said that they sold fifty pounds of bananas for a quarter there. tTo be continued on page 627

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34 Iiiterarp Section JUNIOR SECTION I would Like to speak to you to-day for a few minutes on the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, the capital of our country. I have been there several times and each time I go, I see something new. They are built on Parliament Hill and con- sist of the east block, the west block and the main building, all facing on a central square. The tower is famous and is called the Peace Tower. In the tower is a large book called the Book of Remembrance. In it are the names of all the Canadian soldiers who died in the two World Wars. At the top of the tower is a carillon of fifty-three bells. They are played like an organ on special occasions. The clock strikes every quarter hour and can be heard a couple of miles away. The tower is 365 feet high. Behind the main buildings is the library. It has many thousands of books and has a copy of every book and paper that is published in Canada. It is the only building of its kind in the world. It is completely round and you see the very top when you stand on the floor. The floor squeaks when you walk on it because it got soaked when the buildings burned in 1917. The ceiling in the Senate is gilded and the walls are covered with paintings of pictures in the first war. There is a special throne for the Governor-General when he opens Parlia- ment. The ceiling in the House of Commons is made of one big piece of linen made especially in Ireland. There is a press gallery at one end for reporters and a vistors' gallery at the other end. Anyone is allowed to go and listen to the members of Parliament. They keep gold bricks in the basement and my uncle, who works in the Government, has counted them. The Mounties guard the gold and they also stand at all the doors. People like to take their pictures. Visitors usually end their sightseeing with a trip to the top of the tower. You have to go part-way up stone stairs and then two different elevators. At the top is a narrow bal- cony with a high stone railing. You can see for many miles. You can see the clock working and hear the bells strike. Everyone who goes to Ottawa should be sure to visit the Parlia- ment Buildings. DAVID HARTWICK, Grade VI The topic I have chosen today is What I Would Like to be When I Grow Up. When I grow up I would like to be a doctor because doctors have interesting jobs and they are always busy. I would like to own my own hospital and things like that. To be a surgeon it would be necessary to have had every contagious disease, like scarlet fever, pneumonia, etc. I have always wanted to see inside of a person. I'm also not afraid of blood as some people are. When they see a deep cut they faint. There is another reason why I want to be a doctor. It is that I would have a 1962 con- vertible Cadillac. CLIFFORD BOLAND Grade 6 MODERN CONVENIENCES I chose the topic of Modern Convenien- cesl' because I think you all should know how lucky we are. For instance, think of the air- plane. Long ago, when people travelled, there were long portages, wild animals to beware of, and Indians were always near. Now we should be thankful for it, but when a plane is delayed for a few minutes, people get angry. Sometime when you hear someone getting angry about that, remind him how long it would take him to get to his destination in the earlier years. But my problem is, will tra- vel ever be faster and more comfortable? HALFORD WILSON Grade VI

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36 TOBY - AN INTERESTING CHARACTER I have a peculiar friend named Toby. He can make a lot of noise in spite of being only a year and half old. His ears are three times the size of mine, his legs are a little over a foot long, but he can jump three feet high without any trouble, and you should see his collar! It's as black as coal He cut his leg once and we had to have Dr. Richter in or else he would have bled to death. The doctor had to take him up to the hospital so my mother gave the doctor a sheet to wrap him up in. She gave him a white sheet but he brought baek a red one although there was a tight tourniquet on his leg. When they got him up there they took him to the operation room. He bit Dr. Richter and also got ether in his eyes. When they brought him home again he had a big bandage on his leg. He had to leave it on for four days but it began to swell so we had to take it off. When the swelling went down he took out all the six clips he had in his cut, and in a month he could run and jump as he used to but there is still a scar a quarter of an inch deep. Who's Toby? Why, that's my dog! BILLY GILLIS, Grade VI SCULPTURING To sculpture you have two razor-sharp chisels and four sculpturing knives, some mo- deling clay, or some plaster of Paris if you can't get modeling clay. When I sculpture I take the first and second chisels and shape the clay roughly resembling what I am going to make. Then I take the biggest knife and shape the clay more like what I am making. Next I take the second knife and make the forehead, etc. Then I take the third knife and make details such as the I eyes, nose, mouth, hair and ears. The last knife I use to smooth the neck and anything with not much details, or else I would smooth them away. I have practised a lot, yet I am not perfect. It will take me many more years of study and practice. . BILLY STARR, Grade VI AN INTERESTING CHARACTER I am about to tell you a little about a very interesting character. I have chosen as my subject Terry Sawchuck, goaler of the Detroit Red Wings. I have always liked hockey and I admire T. S. because he is one of the greatest goalies ever to play hockey. T. S. is only twenty-two years old. He is the big reason why the Red Wings are running away with the National Hockey League Race. He has big hands and fast reflexes and a real gorilla-like crouch. In fifty games this season he has scored ten shutouts and allowed a miserly average of 1.86 goals scored against him per game. Goalie Terry Sawchuck does not believe in guess- workg he has forty stitches in his face to prove it Although I have never had the privilege of seeing Terry Sawchuck play, I look forward to the day and never stop hoping. JOHN EBERTS Grade VI