Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 14, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press february for people 17 Stewart Jackman left and Barbara Buldys practice rope Chippawa still bastion of tradition despite unlikely location and appearance cadets lining up for ships come in All Chapes and sizes and one of the oddest must be the hocs Chippawa landlocked at 51 Smith near the Assiniboine River but thousands of Miles from the nearest despite its appearance and the Chippawa with an expanding and energetic sea Cadet pro Gram is still a bastion of Navy tradition where the alerted to Crisp Navy terms and can deceive the Welcome aboard the As part of the combined Canadian armed has lost its distinctive uniform although not its Pride As the senior soon the sea Cadet corps will follow but for a Little while longer will continue to Wear the recognizable trappings of the Black and White created in 1930 the Royal Canadian sea Cadet corp John travers Cornwell is the oldest and biggest corps in once the biggest corps in the British the John travers Gorr Well How numbers 248 and is one of three corps which use the hocs Chippawa fair it became inconvenient to Parade All the cadets at one a spokesman for the Chippawa Ead Rof the corps meet at the Chip Pawa one evening a week and one morning or after noon on either saturday or the experience of operating in a Navy unit Many cadets Are taught sailing knot first map and Compass Rifle Range and playing in a marching survival training is an important part of the program in addition to the prac Tice aboard the they get the Opportunity for som outdoor during the summer cadets a two week trip to Navy base on Vancouver where they get ther to put the theory into we put the sail Back into someone the enthusiasm the 13 to 18 years is evident in activities and not least in the opposition to the proposed uniform Navy traditions have changed the years but not that Short hair discipline still parades under the White Pillbox chief Petty officer first class Peter the highest ranking said his five years in the corp has developed his personal discipline and leadership Quali you cant treat everyone in a uniform the he some men and women Are More while others Are but in a time of crisis they All have to act in unison to make things to get them to do that have to be treated Dif a student in the department of geology at the University of feels that his years with the corp have helped him define his own inner know exactly what ill do in a time of stress and How to Deal with myself and he the biggest adjustment Hes had to make was in 1975 when about 80 women were enlisted into the but make it he there right along Side of the boys in All the classes and they Wear the same uniforms and dont expect special he Petty officer first class Pat who won an award As the top individual Marksman in a recent Cadet shooting is pleased with her place in the its not common to see women in Navy but were Here and we like she miss who plans to attend nursing school when she completes High said the corps has Given her an Opportunity to occupy her time Here Ive Learned a Many practical sides of ill never forget the years when she won her shooting event one of the top military Cadet wanted to know who fellow him i sure surprised when he found out i was a she the Cadet corp is super Vised by officers in the naval were proud of the Young people Jack Templeman were especially proud of the Black and White traditional Navy uniforms but there now hard to the cadets themselves care about the Navy Trade and if that Means a Shorter they reckon it Worth the the hair is a bit longer than five years chief Petty officer Dorrin but the hat has to look the uniform is import if kids want Long hair More than they want Navy then that their a review Orford quartet extraordinary by Ronald Gibson tugboat left has pushed recovery Barge next to leaking Barge containment Barrier is under Tow behind while coast guard Cutter right oversees coast guard tests Skimmer to lick up Oil spills at sea Christian science Monitor Mary land new procedures and equipment for contain ing and vacuuming up Oil spills from harbours and the High seas Are being put into action by the coast new Skimmer equipment was tested recently on Waters Jost off the naval Academy Here in an the coast guard used a a float ing Barrier Cafield the High sea state Oil containment pumping and a Pontoo Ned High seas Oil recovery system to clean up after a simulated a recovery the vessel into which a real spill would have been was also on the scene for the a Small vessel towed the floating containment bar a flexible wait kept afloat by around be then the suspended Between two larger were Post owned Tefick of the and Stow it safely aboard the recovery Barge before it could spread or be washed helicopters were used to tote the recovery the new method eliminates the Sticky problem of what to do with the Oil Sata a meet absorbent materials formerly used to sop of say coast guard so having passed the Ansa Polis test in arid december flying the equip ment was airlifted late in the month to new England for use in the attempted recovery of million Gallons of Oil spilled from the liberian Tanker Argo merchant off Nantucket even this latest i Oil spill cleanup technology was on Able to operate in the rough Atlantic which pre vented effective cleanup of the Argo merchant the new equipment can operate in seas of to five in winds of to 28 and i a rents of to two explains a coast guard official the Muriel Richardson auditorium of the Winnipeg Art gallery was Well filled to hear the Orford string Quad let in recital on sunday afternoon under auspices of the women musical we venture to say that this was about the finest quartet playing that Winnipeg will Ever Here was a Cana Dian string quartet of inter National playing some really great the program opened with the Haydn quartet in f minor opus 20 this is one of the Sun so nicknamed because the parts of its first edition were adorned with the rising Sun and these quartets were to have a significant influence on Mozart quartet this serious perhaps one of the most tragic Ever written by has an opening movement of great the Lovely variations of the and the pathos of the last a fugue with subject and counter sub Jet sounding simultaneous were beautifully reflected in the this was a prophetic opening for this pne the Bartok quartet opus 17 was next it represents a change in Bartok his melodic lines had been influenced remarkably by hungarian peasant so that modal Scales were free ing him from the major and minor systems we All know so this had changed his harmonic out the first with its dreamy unrest alternated with passages of great the second movement with its insistent rhythms of the country was a great contrast and the Lento with its sad rhapsodic was beautifully when the writer played the Viola in a quartet that Practised this mask is the Noddle we revelled in its primitive they seem quite so much for the final work was the Beethoven quartet opus Here the authority of the playing was most impress what could be More Beautiful than the grandeur of the adagio with its sub Lime variations the Scher Zando third movement had a playfulness that seemed to belie the plight of a composer who could not hear what he was writing because of the same was True of the finale with its extraordinary As we listened to this and other we pondered the problem of perfect if we assemble four very talented matched in tone and bal and rehearse them for five or 10 years and if we assume that they know the music and the composer in we still Haven got a it requires a disciplined inner off Mumuni and this is what the Orford string quartet and what makes it so in sunday was a Day to remember it help you put your Home together love see the Quality furniture made in our discuss the latest ideas with our Interior learn about the big factory you savings the people at National understand that having a Home of your own 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