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The RovingReporterBy DICK CAMPBELLIf any of you bright, eager members of the fair sex are planning a trip to Ottawa, my home-town paper advertises the ideal job. Volunteers arc being recruited to be hypnotied by one known as the Great Morton. The winning contestant will be put to sleep one morning while listening to radio station CKOY, and will spend the day dead to the world in a department store window. She will then be taken by ambulance to a local theatre (still asleep) where she will be awakened by the kiss of a Prince Charming. Now if I were a lass, that would be my idea of the ideal job.One disturbing thought does occur to me, however. Our own radio station CHAT offers no prizes or awards of any sort to people who fall asleep listening to its programs. Something should be done about this.—o—Yesterday was Fathers’ Day andit seems only fitting that it should have fallen on the longest day of the year. After all, it is little enough recognition that the down-trodden male of the species gets in this tired old world. Good it is that his one day of glory should be extra-long.'BiPrmKihitefrshfooiBituSivescwdiMintutrmwylt;siRrrrrrreaders of the Rrrrrrroving Rrrrrrreporter column will, I know, be enchanted to learn that Bhave a new typewriter sitting on my desk at home.Judging by the number of pretty girls I have seen ambling around Medicine Hat, the Rotary Club shouldn’t be having ,too much trouble stocking the South Saskatchewan with decorative mermaids. But what lass will be foolish enough to venture into the kingdom of lecherous old Ogopogo? Some cynical souls have doubted existence of the sea-monster. But their testimony is to be discredited. Such people will also be trying to make out there is no Santa Claus when December 25 rolls around.Today’s question is a very serious one: How can so-called Christian, democratic people greet the news of the Rosenberg electrocution with cheers and horn-blowing? There is little doubt that the Rosenbergs conspired to transmit atomic secrets to Russia, but this is no excuse for so-called ciyilized people to act like maniacal hangers-on at a lynching.The School Board, which meets tonight, has been sadly depleted by the resignations of W. A. Church and W. C. Niblock. The resignations are effective in July and September respectively, and the positions will be difficult to fill. Otherwise public-spirited citizens often hesitate to run for the School Board, feeling that the position of school trustee is the veriest sort of joe-job. It’s my belief that the School Board is even more important than the glamorous City Council, since the trustees have in their care the world’s hope for tomorrow.I, too, would like to sympathize with Bob Wright, a few local sportsmen and the defunct Phillies’ baseball team. The club had every conceivable bad break, and is to be applauded for lasting as long as it did. Perhaps the city could now make some long-range plans for a new and better baseball park on higher ground.Some of you male camera-fans might be interested in trying out a new game. It’s becoming quite popular and is known simply as “Photography”. The idea is to turn out the lights and see what develops.—o—Somebody (not the retailers) is making a mighty good thing out of airmail enevelopes. Almost identical bundles sell for either 20 or 45 cents, depending on an infinitesimal difference in weight. Most retailers would probably back a public boycott of the higher-priced (and no better) envelopes*
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Medicine Hat News
Medicine Hat, Alberta, CA
Mon, Jun 22, 1953
Page 8
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Kevin S.
CA 21 Nov 2020
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