B2 A By BURT Ctineaterna Publisher News/Mirror A strong appreciation for past and artistic ability ayen't confined in the beautiful Boean Valley to its newer resi- By “One longtime resident who exhibjts a love for our country with a talent for putting it on public display is lanky, raw- tioned Al Winje, = 65-year-old retiree. s2. A former welder and mill- voright (and an avid gun col- leétor), Al has constructed a prairie thrashing crew scene out of metal pieces on a chunk of property bordering Highway 6 just two miles south of Slocan City. The meal sculptures were put together after Al reminded his wife, Agda (a former Slocan City mayor), their 10 grand- children “have never seen a threshing machine, while we grew up in that era.” {A threshing machine dif- fers from a combine in that grain is brought to a threshing machine while a combine is self- propelled and goes to the grain.) In the photo at bottom, the metal man is pitching the grain sheaves into the thresher's feeder. A chain would draw the sheaves into a cylinder where the grain was stripped out of the headg. Ftom that point on, the rest of the machine would sort out the grain from the straw and the chaff, which would both be d intoa, CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday,’ May’ 24,1979 A Glimpse Into the Past Tribute to Prairie Threshing Crews ] (People & Places. 7 AL WINJE . +. Paw-boned and weathered Alsays these piles of straw and chaff would net only pro- vide cattle with feed in prairie winters, but would provide them with protection as well, The cattle would eat into the large straw stacks, giving them a mushroom appearance. These days, with no straw stacks, prairie farmers have to build fences to give their cattle ‘ion against blizzards and pile on a ground. icy winds, On top of the thresher (see photo top right) is a separa- tor man with a monkey wrench and oil can in his hands. The separator man's job was to keep the separator in working order and to look after the belts, The photo of lone metal fig- ure is that of a farm girl bringing out tunch to the threshing crew. Most threshing crews, Al says, had a forenoon lunch as well as an afternoon lunch because of the hard work, with farm wives competing to provide crews with the best possible meals in order to entice them back again in following years, The tractor (shown bottom right) is a “1728 Twin City,” vintage 1924, brought out by Al Winje from the prairies, A belt will soon be installed to show how the tractor made the sepa- rator operative, The thresher shown here was gas powered, although steam was the earlier operative: power. The ab ed late last summer by Al and the separator man and the farm girl were added this spring. After the grain was sepa- rated from the straw and chaff it went up an elevator and was discharged into a wagon with a grain box on it. And Al will be- bringing out a wagon from the prairies sometime-this year. As well, as soon as he can Awarded Hairdresser Released by Beautiful Reasons Hair Styling Ltd. The 1978 Canadian Team of hairdressers, as well as world-renowned hairdresser Lawrence Irasaki, were fea- tured guest artists at the recent Harrison Hair Show, at Harrison Hot Springs, attended by hairdressers from through- out the province. : The entire staff of Beauti- ful Reasons Hair Salon in Trail were enrolled in classes on new perming techniques, hair cut- ting and makeup, with owner. Bryce Aker and Judy Pas- qualotto both entered in the “total look” competition. Judging included 50 per cent for hair design and 50 per eént for total fashion look (thakeup, clothing, accessories ahd poise). One-half hour was allowed on stage for the final look to be completed, with some pre-work allowed (ie. setting, makeup). > The Harrison Cup and $100 was awarded to Bryce Aker. Using Lori Oddy of Castlegar as a model, he created his winning design of a delicate French roll, swept to one side and adorned with a daz- zling array of ornamental jewelry. 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A devoted free-enterpriser and a charter member of the Slecan Valley Lions Club, Al Winje spent some part of each year on farms for 47 years, A tribute to the past and a reminder of our heritage, the tableau — built for his grand- children — attracts scores of tourists and Sunday drivers who stop each week to admire it and click their cameras. News/Mirror Photos by Burt. Campbell CX500 — WATER COOLED — DRIVESHAFT DRIVE Rider rave about it its low maintenance C.D.I, and ‘controlled-flex Comstarss wheels, MARKIN EQUEMENT Snowe Un : : : AGRICULTURAL Loccing N! ELSON. BC. 3193 Wiese oer Di Lie 020974 a ‘Rodents were Cause Of Dinosaur Demise -It was not the cold that caused the dinosaurs to perish. Or the heat. Or the fact that their brains got too big. It was the rats, the shrews and a myriad of other tiny rodents which finally ate them out of house and home, accord- ing to Dr. Beverley Halstead, a reader in geology at Reading University in London. 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ROYAL BANK aah A TN TA ES REVO : aa HY s Mrs. Dot Doyte of Neléou is the winner of the Royal Hudson Photo Contest spon: * sored by. the Kootenay Boun- dary Visitors’ Association, CA cheque ‘for $25 was ated to Mrs, Doyle for her n! ribet letter, accompany- sh ia winning photo, Mrs, “t ret these photos of the Royal: Hudson’ in the early morning about seven: o'clock | near ; i the, Taghum’, ‘Railway “Royal Micon Content ‘brid ge after low heading towards Castlegar, “Since I had grown up, in Revelstoke (a railroad ‘ town) and) living near: the “CPR station, it was always a beaut ful sight to see these majeatic engines steaming through the Selkirk mountains, “It. was ‘a truly beautiful aight to see that early morning | as the Royal Hudson, under full‘ steam, headed towards Castle- gar, and this tried to capture with my camera.” Gan-you' Believe #17: It only bean a month since | last t's saw !The Wizard:of Oz"? on Television ‘and already lam: havirig withdrawal symptoms. Us90 the ‘Tin'Man’s, face Brick Road: In, ‘Witch In.eve ‘only dne 1D,: In. avery oll can, - ‘the Yellow y: kitchen wax bulld-up,’ and the Wicked. fore. where. 1 am trying to cash a check with: Since:‘!The. ‘Wleard, of Oz"' was filmed In 4939, ‘It has been pn television 21 times. Do you know what that means? It means Doroth: and dre currenti ot! hes | have come back Into atyle lx times y: ig + Etake nothing away. from tine ‘myatical land of Oz. itisa beautiful ‘children’s story. that should be sean by generations for years to.come. Tam only: saying that after nearly a quarter of a century of, Viewing it, you get a little strange. The first time | saw the movie, | was beside myself with the horror of the tornado hitting Dorothy's simple farmhouse © In Kansas: How | shrieked and screamed [n auepense. when | saw her little bed turn and spiral toward the unknown. | By the elghth time | had seen it, | was able to Ignore Dorothy's screams that the sky Is falling In around her and, In fact, left.the room to check a cake of yeast In the refrigerator to see if it.had expired.. By the, 16th time | saw ‘The Wizard of Oz,'’-! did a * ourlous thing. lV actually applauded when the tornado aucked up Toto and yelled to the Wicked Witch, ''Go for itl’? (don’t . know why I did that. My kids have a polite way of putting It. They say | am “over the rainbow"’, no longer have a childlike faith in goodness, or want to see anything trom 1839 that looks better than | do. That Just Isn't true. | love the classics and hope they'll.” be with us fora tong time. But somehow, | dread the day when.''Gone with the Wind’? le being shown for.the 97th time and as | watch Melanie writhe In the pain of ehiabirtn while Atlanta is under. rslege, | yell at the set, ‘'You think you got troubles ‘now, buckboard back to Tara!'’ Bunkle, walt: untit that ride. In the y 5 Sp.m, Come and relax In our comfy upholatered chairs and booth: 352-5358 Cllp this Ad for a complimentary coffee and dessert -with your dinner this evening. SPORTS 2 Tae 2 ed This, the Year of the Child So this is the Year of the Child. Well, you can have it, And them, Our: society is breaking up fast, First, in the 60s, the teenagers took over. They‘ got into drugs: and politics’ and violence and dropping out and communes and health food and free love and ripping-off the govern- ment, and ‘driving | their Parents 10 drink and depres- sion. Then we got into Women’s Liberation “Movement. Raucous and intelligent women trying to upset a perfectly ‘good system. that has been working wells a the whole, for: about ° years. We should telat eg given them the vote back in + !21, or whenever. ” They have. wrecked family life, population growth, and the. economy: by their — ridiculous. demands. They have.’ psychologically castrated their husbands and turned the occasional kid , they had into a whining brat who. thinks that love and whatever else’ he wants are more important than a good whack on the bum. They have Sent the un-~ employment rate soaring by sailing into the job market in their hundreds of thousands. Just because they have high skills or a university degree, they think’ and: say, quite openly and without shame, that they should . be: con- sidered on the same level as, or even higher than, a Grade 10-dropout male who can barely tie his shoelaces. Sheer arrogance. They have wrecked the educational system by refus- ing to remain baby factories. - This has caused rapidly fail- ing enrollment in our schools and a lack of jobs for male teachers, whose wives are among the worst examples of tiny families and hitting the job market. And ‘now it’s the year of the. kids, There are series on child-battering in thé.papers, articles about one-parent children, and even child sym- posiusms in which the little turkeys ase asked: to. com- ment on how their parents shoutd behave, what's wrong, with the world, what freedoms they should have, and any other inane question a smarmy, patronizing inter- + viewer can think up. ‘We are smothered by stuff from ithe media’ about children: day-care, centres, inner city schools: (slums), special _ education, . gifted chitdrén, obscene T-shirts for kids. And what good is all this going to do the kids? Not much, They" Ll'g0 right on do- ing » what‘ they’ve -always done: dreaming, fighting, playing: being the happy, morose, belligerent, shy, cruel, gentle, brilliant, slow, and. utterly delightful litle animals they’ve always been. In Canada they'll be over- fed, over-spoiled and over Bill Smiley ¥ here, In Africa they'll ‘be over-starved, over-populated and over there, And in both places’ they'll be over-loved with that. welrd, , irrational love of children’that prevails . throughout the world, civiliz- ed or uncivilized, Oh, a few laws might be passed, and many resolutions . approved. But the drunken mother or father who beats a child will go on doing so. The ultra-permissive parents will go on turning out monstrous teenagers. The ‘over- protective parents will.go on turning, ‘out: still more monstrous teenagers. “But the great mass of kids in this Year. of the Children will be much like every other generation: curious, resent- ful of things that they don’t understand, ready to fight to death for ideals, gradually conforming and compromis- ing to the realities of life, and going on to become mon- Strous parents themselves. Now I. don’t speak from the seat’ of the Old Philosopher; or any such hypocritic elevation: I recent- ly had a. visit. from) my Grandboys. 1 speak first- hand. be lt was Easter weekend, and we're still . scraping chocolate off the woodwork and picking up squashed jelly-beans and ripped rab- bits’ ears. But It was a ‘great week- end, That marvellous - alchemist, Time, has "* wrought a great’ change in them. They are becoming personal friends, instead of sibling rivals. ‘The destruction was down about 800 per cent. True, Nickov kicked a ball into a collection ‘of Doulton figurines, but nothing was broken, I-took the ball away, and he didn't even have a tantrum, However, he's only two and has a grin that. would disarm the devil, And he said something that so’shook me that [ went down in a faint, sand my old lady had to pick me up, I'd plunked a peanut- butter and honey sandwich in front of him, and he said, “Thank you, Grandat,"' as casually as though ! were a waiter. I'd never heard either of them say. ‘*Please’? or “Thank you" before. They didn't sprinkle even, one can of powder, mixed with toothpaste, on the hard- wood Roors. They. didn’t break a single window. They didn't anoint the TV with cold cream, They took off their muddy boots when they something of the sort, they ig ops ints Po ED Ah prop came in, instead of marching , over the Indian rug. * And when I said, “Don’t wreck my. typewriter," or. or something of the sort, Maybe this Year of the Children has something go- ing for it, a whole lot more than Sixties Sulks or Women's. Lib Nerve- Wracking. But when fs the Year of the Man? I hope I'm around long enough to enjoy it. ‘You can have the last word on the last thing in your life. Your funeral. tect your family from the stress of deciding your final arrangements. Plan ahead fore the possibllity that you could ues edly die, You can specify a imple ignified funeral, burial, cremation memorial service. And it won't cost your: family unnecessary expense, It's your funeral. So have your wishes recorded now. Join the B.C. Memorial Society and take a off your mind. For the sake of the family you love.” Memorial Society of B.C. 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