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24THE WINNIPEG TRIBUNE, Thurs . June 21, 1962uiiiiintiiiMnninitiiuiiMiiiHHiiiiiMtinuittiiiiniiuHiiiiiiiiiiiiiMitiiMiitiiiiiiiiiiiitiuiiiHiiiiiMHiiMuiiiiiiiiuiiiiuiiiiiiititiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiuiiniiiiitiiitiniiiiiiimniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHtttiimHiiiiiiiiiiititiittiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiWATCH OUT, MR. MONTEITHHockey Flavor to the CommonsJACK ROXBURCH. . . Politician-FarmerBy Th« Canadian PressThe House of Commons maynever be the same after Jack Roxburgh takes his seat among the back-benchers. His boom-1 ing voice will probably be heard all over Parliament Hill.Roxburgh, veteran farmer, hockey official and world trav- j eller and neophyte politician, intends to have his say. And Health Minister J. Waldo Mon-teith may as well know now that he’ll be Roxburgh’s primetarget.The 61 - year - old Roxburghran on the Liberal ticket in Monday’s election in Norfolk constituency. Reached a few hours later by telephone at his home in Simcoe, Ont., he showed he had been well coached for politics.“It was a good, dec * fight,** he roared. “I was up against a good man and a good friend when I defeated Progressive-Conservative J. Evans Knowles. Someone had to win and I'm proud it was me.”Fine, Jack old boy, but that is hardly the stuff chaps on the sports beat expect to hear from the past president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association and a director of the International Ice Hockey Federation. Surely you’re going to get a word in for sports?That’s all he needed.“Look,” he said. “That House (of Commons) isn’t going to be silent for very long when I’m around. Sure, I’ve got tq get the feel of things and one of the first things I intend to do isget cracking about that sports advisory council.“I’m not beefing about the people on it but I want to know why Monteith was allowed to make the selections.“If the government had asked the different sports associations to make recommendations and then made its selections from that list, it might have been okay. After all, who should know more about sports than the men who run them0”So, Mr. Monteith, you’ve been warned.After this expected Roxburgh outburst he expects to have some more to say about amateur sports in this country. “I’m going to go to the various sports associations and find out what they need. Then 1 11 prob-ah'v havo comp recommendations to make.”Roxburgh, never known as the silent type, doesn’t intend to resign from the CAHA now that he’s an MP. “I have about another year and a half to go as president and I’ll be an active member until my term runs out.”He’s also an active farmerand his 50 acres of apple, peach, pear, plum and cherry trees will continue to get personal attention from this rugged six-footer who doesn’t look a day over 50.Just a couple of months ago he was up to his ears in work in connection with the Edmonton - Hamilton Memorial Cup playoffs for the junior hockey championship of Canada, but that didn’t stop him from spraying his trees.There was a hassle over television rights to the games. Heswitched games in die best-uf-seven series between three different arenas and his base ofoperations was his farm home.“I’ll be a politician-farmer,” he said, “and I’ll give the jobs my best shot.“First, though, maybe I should concentrate on Mr. Monteith.**M; cillllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllHllillUlllllllliliiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimm
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Winnipeg Tribune
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Jun 21, 1962
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