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BY JACK SCOTT

The fingers of. one -hand
would be more than enough, I
suppose, to count. the truly
memorable moments — of
television. That’s why I felt so
privileged to. have been
watching, quite by accident,
when one appeared the other
night.

It was a run-of-the-mill
drama show that you could
take or leave alone until a
very Short scene in which the
young wife announced to her
husband that she . was
pregnant. The dialogue went
something like this:

Wife: ‘It leeks as
- pregnant, Harry."

Husband: ‘‘Really? Are you
feeling okay?”

Wife: ‘Oh, sure.”

Husband: “Have you. been
to the doctor?”

‘Wife: “Yes.” -

if, i'm

The entire scene took —
probably 40 seconds: It was
played with a restraint neigh-
boring on sheer ennui. Yet
I'd the urge to cry ‘‘Author!
Author!” for it was truly an
historic moment on the magic
lantern.

Come to think of it, there’s
been no medium -- literature,
radio, movies or the stage -- in camera is involved it trucks in

which the announcement of a
blessed event has been treated
realistically until this one
chanced along.

The classic situation, as I'm
sure you know, involves: the
little lady in a graceful bit of
dizziness. The. husband
Springs to assist her to the
nearest. easy chair. If a

compared with $983,660 in the corresponding month of last year

Five-Month Totals Given
On New Construction

Sidney building permits issued in May were valued at. $194,370,
making a total of $536,020 for the first five months of the-vear. Com-
parative figure for the same period of 1969 was $671,876. :

Central Saanich construction declined in May to a value of $95.76,
: Total
permit value for the first five months declined from $1,420,560 in 1969
to $860,403 this year.

North Saanich permit values for May totalled $36,800, as against
$271,660 in the same month of 1969, Figure for the first five months is

A Blessed Event In Television

on the husband’s. face. to
register Growing Awareness.
‘‘Martha!’’ he breathes.
“You're not you're. not
“Yes, darling,’’ the make-
_ believe wife breathes back as
the stage violins start to sing.
“Yes .... Daddy!”

Another variation of. the
scene has the little woman
knitting wee booties until the
oafish husband . gets the
message.

In either case, be it swoon or
sew, the father-to-be becomes
a comic, even endearing
figure. His solicitude, his. alr
of wonder at what he and his
little glue genes have wrought,
his dewy-eyed worship of the
mother-to-be—are all played
for those tiny, heart-warming
chuckles that so often produce
instant nausea.

$671,656, a moderate decline on the total of $705,597 recorded for the

corresponding period of 1969.

Continued from Page 4
First I would like to ask you,
are we going to have a swimming.
pool in Sidney? If so where will it

be situated?. How > much water

will it take to fill it? How often

will the water be changed? Will it

be town water? To have a public

‘swimming pool there would have

to be someone in charge of it all
the time “also someone to look

comforted at last Sunday's
Sanscha. Hall party by. the
courtesy and personal. welcome
of Mayor. Stanley’ Dear and the
Aldermen; ‘by. the kinds words,
the lovely singing of the

‘Claremont School Choir,. the
“strengthening fare of the Sanscha
_Susies ‘and the beautiful flowers

after. the heating plant. I would...
like to know who is going to pay”
-for all this? Entrance to use the .
‘pool would never begin to pay for.

“it. Do you think the water used for
‘that purpose ‘might just cause a

and remembrances’ from. the

citizens of Sidney.

I would like to. say how deeply !
feel that we older citizens do need
such help if we are not be quite
cast aside like litter. from the
‘past...disrespected and useless

'- because we can find no chance of

_ little friction when home owners.
are. on .restricted ‘water. _ use.

- already this” summer?
The -same “might - apply. to

usefulness.
- This morning I walked along

7 First St. to see how our new broad
- grass boulevard and flower beds

skating rink as well especially. if”
-itvis artificial ice, it would - also,

Editor: --but_ half A

pened to the. bowling ee

“ down: from lack of. ‘patronage.: ib

‘believe | ‘the | same: thing: « will
~ happen. to ‘the proposed projects

My greatest reason. for asking :

are faring in this dry spell. They...
look as neglected and withered as

-- many of us do: My own little:

e garden does not. compare: with -
the:
population will r never use. ay of

- all these questions. is really” to”
- find out how much all this is going:

for it,

io a The Rivigw 8
“APPRECIATION

“old age pensioner. :

., Fam only one of hundreds. of
“seniors who were cheered ‘and ©

those that’ some eighty-year-old
‘tend: ‘Are there not: hundreds | cof
active: ceulars living” ina

Ms few. “flowers. grown, ‘bys senior
citizens, to show that they too.

‘Editor, The. Review, Sir;
CENTENNIAL: PROJECT
olt. was interesting: to.read your
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undertaking» for
-probably doubtful that sufficient

- tary” basis: over and: above - the
"proximately some $7,500. Based.

led to understand their centennial
~ pool is not self supporting and has

“struction ‘of a hall for. ‘old: age

fem what is sometimes a chard), _-Project for'a much greater need.

‘to cost and who will have: to ‘pay -?

ae ; soft ‘the. volunteer: centennial
Georgina E. Harrison 7

he 2489 Bevin Avenue:

heated swimming pool as a B.C.
centennial project costing for the
first phase an estimated $75,000.
On the front page of the second
section you reported the senior
citizens aim to build a hall for the
Old Age Pensioners and the
Silver Threads. - : .

It would appear: that: the first
proposal. isa very expensive
which .it™ is

funds can be raised on a volun-
government.

grant of...

ap-
on the Colweod experience I-am:
consequently raised the mill rate.
of the area for tax purposes.

~ On’ the. other hand the con:

“pensioners and. Silver: ‘Threads

people and. for the large numbers:
of. people ‘of an older age. living i in.
the area on:a fixed” income, 1
would feel” that. such a. “project.
would have. much more ehance of.
success and would also supply a.

“= [L-do not wish to be at all critical

committee but I would suggest to
“them: that. ‘the: construction of a:

“hall for. use, by the. Old. Age'|

Pensioners’ and, the Silver
‘Threads might be : taken. into:
consideration as. : viable,
alternative, ae

as Sy, we Barclay.
- 11070 Chalet Road.

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CAR CLUB. FLOAT
‘Editor, The: Review, Sir:
Tam’ surprised that 1 failed to

to the success of the Sidney Car
Club Float in the Vietorla Day
Parade, ~

This. float, in Oriental Theme,
was built by members of the club,
“ftearried Mise Mermaid and was
san excellent advertisement for
Sidney. Day,

“Teel sure that this information:
‘is. of. interest. ta’ the) general
‘publigs oes ete ey
eet Robert ‘Turley:

“see, in the Review, any reference

The real wonder of it is that

such a standard when,
life, it just never happens that
way. :

Ive been making a small.
informal survey among some
husbands and wives of my
acquaintance’ and’ find’ a
depressing lack of theatrical
values. in= that
realization that a new thunder

around the house.

that the husband’s discovery
is never ‘made by. his wife
getting an attack of the vapors
“by a direct announcement,

on the other hand, is just about

that 1] admired:

- are:dh). “Are. you. kidding?”’;
Bes (2)! “That? s going to. Keep. us

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the scene should have become :
in real:

moment ‘of .
of little feet is to be expected.

It would seem, to begin with, —

- or. by. the..tell-tale clicking of .
knitting needles, but. simply |

‘The reaction of the husband,

exactly as it was in the scene -
: “Really? Are.
a you feeling okay?” .

~ Among ‘other’ memorable 2
> Hines. revealed in my survey.

from the summer camp this
year’; (3) ‘Will it be in time
for this year’s income tax?”
and (4) the simple laconic
‘rejoinder of a self-satisfied
husband “who smugly ob-
served. ‘'Well, honey. it
figured.” ,

There's no evidence
whatever to suggest that a
single, living husband ever
began to treat his wife ike a
case of eggs and, indeed, the
usual playwrights’ picture of
the fragile, delicate mother-
to-be is lamentably short of
verisimilitude. In real life she
is more apt to be wolfing chow
mein and banana splits than
knitting bitsy things.

So, at last. we have a‘blow..
for truth from where we least
expect it, the. television
screen, and credit must go
where credit is due, so I told
my wife along, long time ago
when she made her. an-.

RETURNING © to Vancouver
Island to open an office in Sidney
Professional Centre on June 15
for the. practice of internal
medicine is Dr. Darryl Foerster
who comes originally: from
Nanaimo. His father, Dr. R. E.
Foerster was, for many years,
director of the Pacific Biological
Station at Departure Bay. It was
at. Nanaimo that. the son first
practised in medicine. He then
‘went to Mayo Clinic in Rochester,
Minn. for specialized work. The
past ll-years he has-been. in
Penticton where’ he. was

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