¢ Fi ae B4 CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 3, 1983 Reunions — the past revisited The Cuidichans—' served with you in strange places, in peaceful days and in the stench of war, it has been H/Majer Rey Durnford, DSO, CD The drums were roaring again and-the pipes sang their eldrich challenge to the evening air of July 9 when 200 Seaforth High. of the met at the Seaforth A ies in Vi The occasion was the ‘40th anniversary of the Allied landing in Sicily on July 10, 1948 — the beginning of the long and bloody trail which led to the downfall on Nazi Germany. The reunion began for me when an article appearing ina Vancouver daily caught my eye. It gave the time and the place of the reunion and featured the grandly mustachior features of Bob Peeblers, reputedly the most upwardly (and downwardly) mobile soldier in the Canadian army in World War Two. As a confirmed crowd avoider, I would have several years ago avoided this particular event. However, the pleasurable memories of the 1956 grad reunion, all had a drink in hand (what do you expect from a Scottish regiment, particularly when the first drink is on the house?) and almost all were standing in small groups in JOHN CHARTERS’ Reflections & Recollections into focus — Davy Fulton, sipping ginger ale and looking much older than when I last saw him in a hospital bed in Italy next to mine. He was lying on his stomach very unhappy for a shell fragment had gouged a large chunk from a-more tender part of his anatomy. Bob Peebles, looking | while comm- ittee moved through the crowd making last minute preparations, and sounds of the pipes tuning up came in small bursts from the drill hall outside. In all of that mass of greying and aging men I could see not one familiar face. After a minute or so, however, I'was joined by a slightly younger looking man, also a stranger. “Can't a soul,” he said,"»and saw that you were alone so thought that you were in the same boat and could do with some company.” 34:3!) He had come from Fernie, he said; and like me this was the first time in 40 years that he had been back with the unit. He had lied about his age on joining up, he said (which explained his somewhat more youthful appearance) and had had his 19 birthday when the fighting was well on into Italy. In crowds, two it seems consitutes a critical mass, and very quickly we were joined by othera— John McLean, my old by the receipt of several more copies of the same article by friends and relatives, left me little choice — I phone Lieutenant Colonel John McLean, my former company commander, and told him I was coming. 5 Soon, I was looking forward to the July 9-10 date an Bunny was working overtime to get all the details of her library cleaned up so that she could me. The and one of the organizers of the reunion; Lee McBride, recently retired Cominco ‘attorney; Smokey Smith, V.C., of New Westminster and Alan Gray of both Trail and New Westminster, who reminded all and sundry that I was probably the only officer in his knowledge: who had used his pistol in action (we preferred a sten or a Tommy gun), to which General then Lt.-Colonel Bert nagging future worry of “how does one recognize anyone after the passage of 40 years.?”, faded against a busy present. The registration form had indicated “dress informal” for the Saturday night (stag) banquet, but old habits die hard — (spit and polish had been the order of the day in the Seaforths) — so that everyone turned up in a navy blue crested jacket and grey trousers or in semi-formal attire — with one exception. He was a successfuly cowboy from a small town in Alberta — so small in fact, he said, that when a new, young couple arrived the town had a 33 percent population explosion. It is a very strange feeling to find one's self in a room with 200 men, once friends or at least acquaintances, and to find for the first few moments at least 200 strangers. Almost replied, “Possibly in the Canadian Army — I don’t think I ever took mine out of its holster.” Thad just started talking with a man who had been one of the company cooks and he was telling me how a shell had exploded in the very centre of his kitchen, killing one man and wounding several others of which he was one, with shell splinter through his hand. H said: “I was so mad I didn’t even feel it.” “Why mad?”, I asked, “Didn't you feel lucky?” “Lucky, hell,” he said,” I had just spent two hours cleaning up that whole damn kitchen and they: blew it entirely apart.” % Just then the pipers started to play us on our way to the messhall and we sat down quarters Company, .A, B,C, D Companies, the pipe-band And #0 one: By this time other faces rere beginning to cote e be} much d more than his picture had indicated and a certain Vancouver councilman and lawyer much in the news, sat nearby. ; ‘There were the usual speeches-some good, some not so good, sonie toasts, including the Gaelic toast which is given by the pipe major who tops it off with the traditional good stoup of scotch whiskey. The young waitresses scurried about, nefvously at first but soon relaxing and joking with these men old enough to be their grandfathers, as they brought on fresh bottles of wine and food and conferred with the tall white attired cook. ‘The bank played, the TV crews scurried about and got entangled in their cables (I was surprised how young they were) and various diners jumped up and down sceking autographs across the room of almost forgotten comrades. It was a noisy, exhuberant, at times rowdy affair, but there was as well a thread of sadness for the presence of the living was, paradoxically, a reminder of all of those others who could'never come to this or any other reunion — ever. The meal? Adequate — Italian style-by caterer Tony De Benedetto (who else?), but as‘ Leigh McBride murmured;” They should'come to Trail to the Colander and really learn how to prepare ‘Italian style’.” Sunday, the second day of the reunion was family day and church parade’— and drizzly and cool, of course. Families and platform dignitaries sat along the length of the drill hall, while veterens and pipe band formed up in the parking lot outside. Three sharp orders by RSM Ireland and we were marching into the drill hall led by the pipe band playing the familiar and r march, the'Braveo' °° sharp commands (the R.S.M. was still in good voice after 40 years and his salute still just as “quiffy” as Montgomery's) and we were drawn up in parade formation in front of the stand and guests. A few more courtesies, a quiet word of command and in a according to tompanies — Head- * Forty years less a few months slipped away. Sicily had been taken after bitter fighting through the valleys and the enemy had leaped to the mainland across the Benatar! Mossina, and with elements of the Imperial Seaforths we were holding a drumhead service for our cone comrades in a quiet place, not far from where we wo launch our assault on the mainland which we called “Happy Valley.” When the pipe-majors played the lament, “The Flowers of. the Forest” and the “Last Post", echoed among the surrounding hills there were few dry eyes in “Happy Valley” for the memories were still fresh and deep. This day was difference — a social occasion, almost, and while the memories were still there, and I doubt that when. the Honorary Colonel of the Regiment, Lieutenant-Governor A P. Bell-Irving took the salute at the marchpast, he saw many tears, ‘This was another day. In any case, Bunny said that we marched as if we had been practising (in spite of some muttered groans from owners of gimpy legs, my own included). Joan wanted to take the pipe-major and one of the drummers home with her, so it was obviously a very successful parade. If any traces of sorrow were left it was quickly swept away in the entertainment part of the program. The Italian community turned out en masse as performers. An Alpini (Italian mountain soldiers) band alternated with the pipe band in playing marches and traditional airs, children and adults, male and female, marched, sang and danced their way into our hearts and thoroughly enjoyed themselves at the same time. With the last chorous came the call to lunch, together with the realization that it was still cool and drizzly and we were cold. A quick reconnaisance revealed that the children had taken over and our condition would likely continue here for some time. A rapid evaluation, a quick look around and a couple more visits with old friends and we were off to a more distant and warmer place to savour the day in comfort. . Just one thing bothered me a little. One of my last visits was with Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Clark (whose brother featured in a story of mine some years ago). He said, “Sure I remember you-at Rimini. You took out a patrol and came back scot free and I took out the next patrol and got it.” I keep wondering if he was blaming me. In any case on looking back, I remember that I made a career of never being where I was expected. I guess he didn’t thank you gentleman. And it was a great reunion. From teacher to camera woman TORONTO (CP) — Carol Betts is a better camera- ” woman than a skier. But when she found herself at the top of the Swiss Alps after a long day of filming the Canadian women’s ski team, the only way out was to ski down with the camera. She was almost at the bottom when she realized she : s: wasn't. going. to. make: it. Her fall, prompting howls of laughter from the expert skiers, was made more 5] by her contortions to keep the camera out of the snow. Fortunately nothing was broken on herself or — more important — on the camera. It’s all more or less in a day’s work for the camera- woman-producer, half of Betts-Partington International Prod L FP is the other half of the company that sometimes employs up to 40 freelancers on a variety of projects. The five-year-old company specializes in sports films Betts says; partly because that was the first type of film they did and how they earned their reputation. Their series on auto racing can be seen on CBC on ft until SPORTS Betts has come to prefer working with sports figures. It is a straightforward world where it you let them. do their work, they'll let you get on with yours, she says. “Athletes don't like people who grumble and can’t keep up. But they have a lot of respect for you if you follow them around uncomplainingly.” Betts, who gives her age only as “early 30s,” says her school years were that of a typical young girl. School guidance counsellors downplayed her desire for a career in ‘journalism, telling her "English majors were too smart” to become reporters. She listened to them at first and became a school teacher. But when she found the work was literally making her ill, she took up photography. In the late 1960s she snapped at the chance to buy a second-hand, 16-millimetre camera. Despite being told point-bland by news directors that they didn't hire women, she started doing weekend features. MORE DIFFICULT NOW It worked out, she says, simply because she had the ideas and they needed the "person-power.” It is more difficult for a freelancer to start today because the equipment is so much more expensive. Betts says she enjoys the wheeling and dealing involved in being a producer. But she likes to work the camera herself sometimes, not only because she can have more control over ihe quality of the production, but simply because she enjoys “What is the point of having your own company, if you can't have fun?” she asks. Well, at least it is fun most of the time. Betts is petite . By CHARLES HANLEY At the last minute, a $411-million shuffle has dealt Beall a esd ae in the world debt crisis.But around the » the players are growing edgy about this dangerously explosive game they cannot end. - Last year, after Mexico brought on the global banking emergency by missing its loan payments, Western governments and bankers predicted that worldwide economic recovery and falling interest rates would lift the debt-loaded poor nations out of their slide. But the recovery remains weak in much of the world, interest rates are stepping upward and private banks are increasingly reluctant to make new loans to developing countries, For the money men of New York, London and other financial capitals, a frightening prospect remains — a big debtor country refusing to continue paying its debt. In Brazil's teeming cities, angry voices are calling for just such a move. The dimensions of the world debt crisis have grown since Mexico disclosed its flight last August. ONE $700 BILLION Developing nations and Soviet-bloc governments now owe Western banks, i Gambling with the world's banks Monetary fund, the Western-dominated institution that acts as the world’s emergency lender, jumped in with quick cash — and tough guidelines. In Brazil, for example, the IMF granted the government a $5.9-billion loan to help it catch up on its $90 billion in foreign debts, biggest in the developing world. But in return the Brazilians had to raise taxes, ‘double gasoline prices, cut government spending, and reduce runaway inflation. ‘WITHHELD PAYMENT When Brazil failed to meet all these IMF targets, the IMF withheld a $411-million payment due in May. That money was needed to repay another $400 million emergency bail-out the Brazilians obtained earlier from the industrialized nations’ central banks. In mid-July, Brazil's government again gave in, agreeing to a still-tougher conditions — that workers’ djusted to wage P usted inflation, be held below the inflation rate. The IMF then came through with the loan instalment. But the political cost is unpredictable. Braszilian workers are rallying under the slogan “IMF get out!” And rioting has rocked industrial San Paulo. Prominent Brazilians, including a former finance institutions about $700 billion, one-third of it due to the U.S. government and U.S. banks. Two dozen of those countries — from Brazil, to Poland, to Nigeria — have fallen behind on their payments. They owe a total of $250 billion. The reasons for the crisis are complex: Poor nations borrowed heavily in recent years to buy oil and other imports whose prices were driven up by inflation. The redoubling of oil prices in 1979 kicked the world economy over into a d The an open break with the IMF and a moratorium on debt payment. si Brazilian officials heatedly reject this option. But the possibility, however remote, sends shudders through the If one nation freezes its debt others might follow, threatening the stability of the world banking network. E , “The snapping of domestic resilience in Brazil or Mexico could threaten the system,” says William Cline, a bankers that would severely affect the Venezuelan econ omy. In Argentina, weighed down with $40 billion in foreign debt, the labor movement demands sharply higher wages and lower prices for public services — steps that would violate Argentina's emergency-loan agree- ment with the IMF, National el: heduled in V and Argentina later’ this year could make the debt question still more volatile. Domestic politics in Latin America is not the only uncertainty. Although the U.S, economic recover is stronger than many expected, elsewhere the climb back from recession is slow, International economists foresee only 1.5-per- cent i for in 1983, not enough to revive the market for the Third World's . e: DETERMINED BY US. At the same time, the debtor countries are still paying double-digit interest rates, levels largely deter- mined by U.S. policy. Commented Ichiro Isoda, president of Japan's Sumitomo Bank: “U.S. interest rates ‘should be lowered by another two per cent or three per cent . . . to help reduce debt burdens of Third World Nations,” Instead, rates have edged up one percentage point in two months. A third threat: A and other banks are retreating from the developing world. In the first three month of 1988, commercial banks loaned a net total of only $500 million to Third World nations, iP with an average $16 billion per quarter itute for 1E ih DC. aid developing countries suddenly could not sell their crops and other raw-material exports at prices and in amounts they needed to pay for their imports. On top of that, interest rates skyrocketed, making loans still more costly one after another, developing countries announced they were broke. The international OTHER DEFIANCE: . t Flashes of defiance can be seen elsewhere in Latin America, the most heavily indebted region. eayat In Venezuela, which may need IMF help with its $28-billion foreign debt, President Luis Herrera Campino declares he cannot accept d by 1 in. 1981, international bank statistics show. The developing countries need tens of billions of dollars in new loans to pull through the crisis. Most analysts say the next step toward pulling the world back from the debt disaster would be U.S. congressional approval of an $8.4-billion increase in the Us. to the IMF. _S CASTLEGAR NEWS, August3, 1963 BS” Full Gospel group meets this month Singer list Gary Thomson will be the keynote speaker at the Full Gospel Businessmen's banquet being held at the Fireside Place, Thursday Aug. 11 at 6:30 p.m. Thomson travels full-time in his faith ministry. He is married with two sons. 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