OLDTIMER KEEPS ON TICKING....Feank Corp, 401 years-cld teday, examines one of the grandfather clocks be tilt. ““You’re making 2 big fuss over mothing,”’ be says of the interview. [elisworth Dickson photo] By G WRITE 2 Frank Corp is 101 years old today. | an enn He is alert, more so than most men years younger. His voice is deep and clear as it booms from behind his full tuft of grey moustache to greet the North Shore News photographer-repor- ter team. " “Pm a bit deaf,” so please _ “don’t mind if I shout. I can’t . hear how loud 1 speak.” Apart from the loss of _ Sight in one eye, and being hard of hearing, Corp has ‘withstood the test of time ; according to the nurses at _Lynn Valley Lodge, 1070 Lynn Valley Road. Corp, who claims to be a descendant of the Vikings, lives in a compact room like some 90. other senior citizens at the lodge. He was born in Cardiff. South Wales, in 1875, moved to Vancouver in 1912, and later in 1941 settled on the > North Shore in a home at the ‘top of St. Georges Avenue. | oVe * “I DON’T GET HEAT” On June 13, 1973, Corp moved into his new home in the lodge. “‘I chose this room even before the building was completed. I pet the carly sun, the late sun, but not the heat,” a prin creeps over his surprisingly unwrinkled face. ~- i Plant Consultants ee ee tainsdieanesunpenr teoeeeaememe aameaneitnmmmemmmmeialain An easy chair su; his 6-foot frame, and behind him are two grandfzther clocks ing him on either side. He said of the clocks, which he built himself, *‘They are really nothing...I just did it for the pleasure of it.”’ His room is crowded with books. On one wali near his bed is a collection of World War I medals. Overhead hang nime birthday cards suspendedona piece of string stretching diagonally from the tip of one grandfather clock across the room to an attachment on one side of the closet near the entrance. In a scrap book titled **Among My Somvenirs 1875 to 1975,°" Corp keeps mem- oirs of his early days in the Canadian Air Force, later the Royal Canadian Air Force. CHIEF MECHANIC ne | was chief mechanic in Dorothy. provides a unique individual ser- vice. Complete in-home care and bonded super- vision of plants while 987-6633 . airpianes to okay them for take off. I think that had a lot to do with my deafness now.”” Leafing through his files one finds photographs of him as a carver. He designed the church tower, carved the altar and pulpit, and built the cross stand for St. Martins Church at St. Georges and Windsor Avenues, N.Y. could see better, I would doa fot more. I can’t see the fine lines. I guess it’s about time I quit. JUST OLD AGE “I’ve been to my occulist ...he tells me my optic nerves ¥ ~ Specializing ‘desk is a BARB JORDAN. i've just opened a new shop in | North Vancouver and I would’ like to invite all my friends and regular customers to call or drop in and see me at: HEAD’S 2 THREAD'S Formerly Hal Vogler’s Hair Styling 992MarineDrive North Vancouver 987-0655 are healthy. There’s no eye infection, or anything like that. It’s just a case of old — age,”” Corp says. Before his sight began to deteriorate last year, Corp usedtebe a voracious f particularly science sub- jects. “‘My favorite was always aircrafts.”” On his of “B.C Outdoors’” and “‘TV Guide.”” “*I can still walk a mile, but stowly.”” he assures his visitor. His favorite televis- ion propram is “‘To Tell the Truth.*° To unclutter his room at the lodge, Corp recently gave away boxes of his books. But he had another reason for domg so: “*{ thonght I'd be gone, but here I am, still hanging on.”” in perms. for We ‘ecommend . and use REDKEN PRODUCTS ify you’re planning to: attend University next year be prepared. to sit an English language.test in the spring. Dr. Pat McGeer, Minister of Education, has announced that the tests will ‘determine where students are placed in first year University and college English language studies.”’ - There is no reason for anxiety, however, because it will have no bearing on whether you are . admitted. “Grade 12° _performance in schoo! remains the basis for acceptance,”” he said: .- The test will _ identify students who are competent to take regular post-secon- dary English courses, those - who require suppiementary instruction in composition, and those who require instruction in the use of English as their second language. 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