Dear Ann Landers: Since I wasa little girl, ! planned on saving my
virginity for marriage and walking down the aisle inguhlle gown
and bridal veil.

Tm sorry to tell you that it won't be possible now because last

_ Recollections by Gerald Wright

He’s Bushed They Say

t was ‘about Dam.-by. the
luminous dial of my wrist
watch when the volce awoke

It was coming from the other
side of a thin board partition
in the rough summer cabln on

week my fiance and I went alittle further than we meant to and. Ir the shores of Lake Winnipeg.
“am -nolonger a, virgit ‘

in.
‘The problem I am writing about is this; I always heard and

read about how wonderful sex: was and I was looking forward toa
thrilllng experience. Instead, It was very uncomfortable, In ont
, had no pleasure whatsoever—just a lot of pain.

T'm afraid to try {t again and my fiance is ashamed of himself

‘for hurting me. He doesn't know what to make of it, He isa very
thoughtful and considerate person and oo worse about this than

* please tell me what to do, Harold has been with a couple of

other girls before he met me and he says he never had any
problems with them. I need your help, Ann. In fact, we both do,

Thank you.

—No White Gown and Bridal Veil For Me

Dear No: Firat, go ahead and wear the white gown and bridal veil.
Ifonly virgins bridal be
out of business,

Second, make an Specie with a gynecologist for an
eda T

Perhaps

‘isnot uncommon. And please ask the doctor to suggest a lubricant
to help alleviate the discomfort young brides sometimes
experience.

Good luck to you, dear, and happy orange blossoms.

°
Dear Ann Landers: I'm a grandfather | in my late 60's who needs
some sensible advice.

“Wa. oMy son-in-law fs about to divorce my daughter after 30 years”

of marriage: I myst admit the fault Iles with my daughter. Sho has

a terrible temper, 4

.tangue, and can be very nasty. She has

neue
had fights with"! oth aides “of the arias and allenated every
neighbor she has ever lived next

My son-in-law, on the other hd gets along with everyone,
im.

All the relatives are very fond of hi

Tfeel I ought to tell my daughter that her husband Is about to

walk out on her, but I don’t know how to broach the subject. I'm
afrald she'll tear me to pieces.

‘An early reply can do a lot to save this marriage, —Dad

Dear Dad: Don't bet the rent. That marriage has probably been in,
trouble for a long time. Furthermore, it’s between him and her. So
MYOB, Daddy.

Dear Ann Landers: Did you read in the newspaper how a court
decided in the case of.that Connecticut waitress who refused to

shave her legs because

e men who. wail

required to shave theirs? Apparently she considered her boss's
request “sexist.”

‘Well, honeybun, to law, the owner of an

can fire a hairy-legged lady on the grounds that the bois has "the
right to set grooming standards.

Obviously someone involved in the case wrote to you before it

got to court, You said the woman should not be forced to shave her
fegs, and suggested that both men and women who waited tables
should be required to wear opaque stockings. What do you think

now?

—Just Askin’
2 The same as I did before.

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tables weren't,

“*A great many studies have
been conducted on the sub-
ject, the volce was saying.
‘Then it stopped and there was
a thumping sound like some-
‘one moving a bed, as the voice
went on, great many stud-
les inde

‘A snort from the bunk be-
side mine told me my brother
Bill had heard the voice too.
He was shaking with silent
laughter,

est.” he whispered.
“Don't pay any attention. It's
just old Buckles, He always
talks to himself. He's what
they call bushed, Been down in
eT Manitoba for’ 20

- Too much for him I
think, You'll meet him in the
morning.”

It was the end of my first
summer as a worker with the
Canadian Sunday School Mis-
sion In Manitoba. With my
brother Bill who had been
through it-all before, 1 had ar-
rived late at night at the mis-
slon camp for. the short con-
ference which would wind up
the season's work. ~

At intervals all through the
night T kept waking to hear
the same rumbling voice on
the other side of the parti-

tion. By breakfast time 1 was

pretty curious to meet the
‘owner of the voice. My broth-
er introduced us.

John Buckles was one of
those people whose age can
never be guessed accurately.
His gray, nearly-white “hair
looked as though it might have
always been that color.

He wore a faded shirt, and
although it was still August,
a tiny fringe of winter under-
wear showed above the open
neck. His heavy tweed pants
were unpressed and he wore
an old sweater coat.

His broad square face had
tured, to the. color and tex-
ture ‘of leather under the work-
ing of wind and sun..It'was the
kind a face you see on a farm-
er, a lumberjack or a sailor.

His voice was low, rumbling
and distant, but his accent
was that of an Oxford don.
‘When he spoke he kept repeat-
ing certain phrases. “Delight
ed to meet you,” he said. “De-
lighted. Delighted I'm sure.”

He had. the disconcerting
habit when anyone spoke to
him, of turning his head away
from them, then squinting at
the speaker out of one corner
of his eye. When he spoke to
elther an individual or a
group, he would often close his
‘eyes altogether.

Buckles was the kind of chap
‘who bafftes you because you
sense that the person you see
Is not the same as the person
inside his skin.

‘The conference ended in a”

couple of days, but the mem-
ory of Buckles stayed with
me, puzzling and al times al-
most haunting me.

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me chance to salve the puz-
ale didn't comié for more than
ne ib 1. was back with
the mission again and the new
superintendent, a stranger 'to
me, called me Into his office,
* “We've decided to put you
down In the southeast to re-
Place old Buckles,” he said.
“We're pulling him out. He's
gone completely queer. Every-
body thinks he’s crazy. He's.
hurting the work. of the mis-
ston.
weeks later I took over

a

the home of a friend In the bush

country. He was belng shoved

out and he knew it, but he
relleved.

explain.
story.
When he was finished,
could have wept, for beneath
the strange exterlor of this old
man was a broken heart, crush-

It’ Was a pathelle

ed hy his longing to become
* something he never could be —

successful missionary.

There was only one thing
which gave him a little en-
couragement, he told me. It
was a quotation from some [a-
mous missionary whose name
I have now forgotten; “The
Une between success and fall-
ure Is often a very | delicate
one,”

Collision
Victims Taken’
To Hospitat

A head-on collision Friday
afternoon at 3.45 on Highway
3, 25 miles west of Castlogar,
‘saw a Nowport, Wash,, couple
and a Castlegar man taken to
hospital with Injuries,

. Frank Lawrence Yergens,
suffering chest Injurles. and

‘Katherine Yergens with multi- °

ple injuries, ‘were taken to
Rossland Hospital, while Collin
Thomas Maddocks of Castlegar
was taken to Castlegar and

District Hospltal with hip in- °

juries.

3 Mr. Maddocks, whose ae
Ford had

eat ‘rth the intention of re-
th

During the nights I could
hear him rummaging around,
talking aloud and answering

elf.

During the days he talked
and I listened, For 20 years he
had travelled the 7,500 square
nies ct southeastern Manito-

th a bicycle, on foot or
hte hiking.

Tt was ihe policy of the mis-
sion that workers got a stipend
of only $35 a month and retled
for food and lodging on the
hospitality of the farmers. ~

he talked, I sensed the
frustration and — disappoint-
ment the old man felt at his
own failure. He told me of the
high Ideals and hopes of his
youth which had misfired in a
way he couldn't understand or

e mission's
image there, correcting all the
mistakes made by Buckles

. and turning all his fallures' in-

tosuccess.

T hadn't been there a week
before I realized how absurd
all my highsounding plans
really were,

It wasn’t so much what Buc-
kles told me as a little experi-
ence which occurred as I walk-
ed down one of those lonesome
bush roads with’ nothing but
poplar trees and fence posts
for companions.

It was a bit of a shock just
at the moment it’ happened,
and yt think Chew al along
It was com!

I sete realized that I
was talking loudly and clear
ly —to myself.‘

fanaa was! charged ‘oth
falling to. confine his vehicle to
the right side of th road except
for:passing. The Yergens’ 1970
Chev had $2,000 “damages,
RCMP reported.

Police say that Mr. Mad-
docks was coming from Grand
Forks and was following a
‘semi-trailer unit, the wheels of
which were creating a snow-
storm behind it, so Mr, Mad-
docks pulled over, into ‘the
westbound lane, colliding head-
on with the Yergens’ vehicle.

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‘The Barrett government sald that money would never
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; South Slocan Guild Members
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Members were invited to.
attend a tea in aid of the_
non-denominational Monday_
School when the Church Guild °.

year at the home of Mrs. Ina
Dunsmore in South Slocan.

| Claridge’ read an
interesting letter from former

member Ivy Stone.
‘Throughout | the » winter,
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RCMP say that both the
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‘Mr, Jessop is reported to
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y.
Mr. Hendrickson offers

ing a $10-a-week raise. Five of
nine smokera on the payroll
have put thelr cigarettes aside.
Tf they take up the habit.
Again, they'll lose their raise:
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Eight tables took part: in
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sion of the Joy Keillor Bridge
Club with the following results:

Firat, Rob Wadey and Tom
Cotton; ‘second, “Dan -Green-
wood and Judy Sheppard; and

third, Don Richards and Wayoe
reaver.

Firat, etoules S hivehead
and Ben Schneider; ‘second,
Elia Bruce and Sharon Parisot- ’;
to; and third, Mary Stewart:
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_ therei is away tovote.

Absentee: Saas: that if you are
-absent from your own electoral district or
polling division on Election Day, but still in
British Columbia, you can-vote. In certain
greater Vancouver and greater Victoria

electoral districts-voters may not‘cast absentee E

ballots within their own electoral district.

On Election Day, go to the nearest polling
station and request a special Absentee Ballot.
Remember, you must be on the Provincial
voters list for:your electoral district to-be +
eligible to vote. You vote for the candidate*
of your choice'in your electoral district.

To assist the local election officials, give
them the name of the electoral district where

you are pstereh or ask for assistance to
locate the name. The election officials will have
a list‘of candidates for all electoral districts.

- Polling stations will be open throughout the

province on Election Day, December 11,

‘between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., Pacific.

Standard Time. In areas on Mountain Standard
Time; polling stations will be open 9:00 a.m,
to 9:00 p.m. As an absentee voter you can
vote anywhere in British, Columbia. "“,/
*In the Victoria electoral districts and the

‘ Vancouver electoral districts, two members are
elected. Voters registered in these districts may
vote for two candidates and will be advised
at the poll.

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