University of Western Ontario - Occidentalia Yearbook (London, Ontario Canada)

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CLASS OF '47 IT's FALL FAIR TIME again at Birr, and above the shouts of the happy children resounds the intonations of Avron Fink. This budding merchant is selling popcorn to all the young boys and girls under 12. The little chap with the lollypop is young Merton Cichocki, joe's eldest. What a day, what a day! It looks as if most of the class of '47 is at thisiFair, the biggest Birr has ever had. The giant midway is our first attraction and who do we see but Norm Sansburn in charge of amusements, selling ribbons. The ferris wheel is stopped now, with two people swinging in the top seat. Looks like one is Russ Romeo Nightingale. Bong! Some mighty Birrite has done it again! Gazing upward, we find that it is not the mighty muscles of Birr's first citizen, Mayor Bill Chesty Haight which have rung the dinger, but a golden slipper which had zoomed through the air. It appears that Ferne VVilson still is too enthusiastic in the kick-line. Ferne is with the Coulter-Brooker-Wilson trio, on tour of the larger VVestern Ontario fall fairs. And there's Manager Hal VVillis, former Professor of 18th Century French Folk-Dancing at Strathroy Academy. He disappears into the tent to open another case of size sixes. Ferne's kicking certainly uses up a lot of shoes. This turns our attention to the adjoining attraction, the wheel of fortune where we find Frank E. C. Bessent still trying to make up the deficit on the 1946 Oxy, with the help of the new Beechie-VVheel-of-Fortune Brake, a product of the Eightball Corporation Cpoolrooms in Arva, Komoka and Lucanj and invented by its president, xl. A. Beechie. Right next door we find the Reverend Alvin Mclntosh droning solici- tous barkings for his target-practice game. Those successful on the first try are rewarded with an illuminated pamphlet, In the Steps of Cranmer by Bruce Palmer, General Propagandist of the World Committee of the Canterbury Club, those who come close to hitting the target receive a tract, f'The Spiritual Life of the Praying Mantis, Annotated with Photographs of the Missions in the Belgian Congo , by the Reverend Harold Colvin. On our way to the track we meet John M. Evans, smiling as he carried off the blue ribbon for Thunder Bay scantlings, and shouting congratula- tions to his old pal, Alhe Mitton, who was top man in the A 8t P Pepper Sorting Contest in the Graham Building Qnamed in honour of the 4th secretary of the Canadian legation at Punaj. Proceeding to the grand- stand to avoid the blistering sun which had been ordered by VVeatherman Joe Kallio, we see great numbers of Bank of Canada notes Csigned by VV, Robert Beacom, former president of the Investment Dealers' Association of Canada, who states in a footnote on all bills of denominations over 99 cents, I owe my success to three things, no wine, no women, and the practical Business Administration course at VVestern .l These are being rapidly thrust into the hungry mitts of Dusty Selections Rhodes, a fast-talking race-track entrepreneur. Peering up into the dizzy heights of the Birr Memorial Coliseum we at last locate a seat, which offers the bene- lice of a discarded Birr Evening Recorder . Trouble Brews in St. Thomas , says the headline, and we read on to find that that poverty-stricken city in the year 1967 Q19 years after VVindy Dollar came backj is torn with internal strife. Cameron Casket Co's. sales have been upped 300927. It appears that a young Erastus Borbridge, a sax player, his father a local dentist of questionable talents, famed as the discoverer and only user of the Anaesthesia Conmusica Downsa Technique, is leading the Elmvale Street gang against the ruthless Dollar tyranny. Assisting him is athletic Duff Cunningham and young 17 RSOX- 033,222.9 .... cp 4 T . ,KK I 'li T.l ' 5 . . X :I . ' ilu ' . 5 xx G K - 5 Ili -qfgigeiy 4+ N lrlr'tev'e , t if - wrt ll fa, x, 5 7 QQ Y- ,li WI SS I J 5 X 1 5,1 SJ ' 9 :1W0fo.9lQo2 ' -Q55 ooFQOfQ Q Gwen Q? W is .. S Kgs, 10.63 all jf vi TrfTKlix

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'Z' ' HCM! A. Mcl.M!l'Y Honourary President of Class Arts' '47 gi

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n xrfa 'iw X K 1 f fr ' A .F ' G J! 711-1-Q' n , gl I f I Q 4 - Qt if Cl rua ' V ll' ks.. Q gf N Ar ,X lx X Q7-in ff: rw , sf! Kg o Fc -EE '9'2q pU E 2 ff 3 2 T2 5 Q f WWW, i 'uv ,T kin f 'rxwifft' f fl K 4 J P 15 9 af- .7 X--3-Til i i ., t r v l i A Y , Nr 5 5 'V X X91 ya W Olvk of Q1-'ifxo vft olaiaoii-3. L Q ,', - - , r 1 - '.i . - 0 V 1f56' ' fi if I K .,cby,xiG7 , whvfg 7-c . A - 1932 i .9 5 r li, 7 H' ix? Red Douglas, both promising football stars like their fathers. Tl1e local bugle Calso owned by Dollarj is reported as saying that a VVestern reunion was held in the VVCTU rooms after the unveiling of the tablet to George Drew, one-time Premier of Ontario, by John A. I am the Law McNee, Federal Minister of Justice. The former Bonnie Lindsay, wife of the author of Bogue's Short History of Middlesex County in Relation to the Cultural Patterns of the Oneidas CComplete and Unabridged in 5 volumes, boxedj was present, and tea was poured by Jean Campbell. Dainty bird-seed rolls were served by Jessie Freeman. I Here's a short note by our Bluevale correspondent: George Thomson, manager of the Bluevale Creamery, gave an interesting talk last night to the Bluevale Board of Trade on the use of dactyllic decameter in the ex- pansion of poetical expression. Mr. Thomson also pointed out that this was the first creamery in VVestern Ontario to employ a psychoanalyist, Professor Donald Huyck, M.A., D.Bov.Sc., who concentrates his efforts on ridding Jerseys of their inhibitions, in an attempt to produce contented cows. Refreshments were enjoyed after the meeting. Another Item: HA. J. Barker, still sending his bills to the USC, was recently elected M.P. for 'Le Bloc Populaire' from Saint-Vincent-de-Paul. He has already threatened to fortify his town unless Ottawa gives in and takes the tax off cheese. It's rumoured that he may be next Prime Minister of Quebec, and he has the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop P. J. Whealen, of Montreal. On the financial page we notice that Bim MacDonald, local broker and industrial typhoon, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Moojuice Milk Bottle Company, producers of a new type of artificial ice milk bottle which keeps the milk cool, and saves washing bottles. Ex- cellent for Picnics , is their slogan. All the milk is supplied by the VVeldon Farms, of which D. B., Jr., is manager, operator, curator, chore-boy and milk-maid. Mr. Weldon's herd, surrounded by swarms of warble flies, beetles, bugs of all descriptions, is famous throughout the township. Fraser L. Thompson, local counsellor of the London Cigar Manufac- turing Company, like its president P. A. Pensa, is apparently a very busy man. In a half-page advertisement, illustrated with photographs of butts in various stages of consumption the Company is trying to prove that the cigars are actually made of tobacco and not from discarded floor mats as claimed by Dr. Herbert Blades and Professor James Longheld of the De- partment of Research of Phoney Merchandise, recently established at the Lucan High School. Norma Sybil McCreery, Ph.D., Ll.D., F.R.E.S., F.R.S.C., was ap- pointed head of the Department of Economics at Western University, the first woman professor to occupy such a post. She attributes her success to a thorough knowledge of Logan and Inman, 'A Social Approach to Economics' and R. G. D. Allen's 'Mathematics for Economists'. Her most recent accomplishment has been a lecture to the local VVomen's Institute. on 'A Demonstration of the Tableau Economique to show the Flow of In- come Through Caradoc Township' . J. W. Johnston, Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- tiary to Eastern Bechuanaland, has returned to Ottawa for a ten-year leave of absence. Said Mr. Johnston, running his fingers through his thick, black curly hair, before a press conference attended by six dictaphones, three television transmitters and the Ottawa correspondent of the Bessent- McCormick Publications, 'I feel that our policy in the present situation is adequate'. tlt seems that Mr. Johnston has found a rare African beetle which, when the left ventricle of its heart is removed, and dried in three tubs of French champagne, two tubs of aviation gasoline, six quarts of 18 ' ' -' '- Mwnvm.s-:wusruiQ1cmvvwuunmnm f-wwf