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Lived 2. Earl Mo In New During his 25 years as a girl, ~woman and wife, he worked as a kitchen maid in a hospital, as a spinner in a textile plant, and as a pla@e"inspeetor in a pen fac-- Much to Learn The Goderich area resident has to learn how to wear men's gloth-- ing, lead instead, of follow while dancing and forget a habit he had of reaching for a 'bobby pin as a scratcher whenéver . his . cats itched. -- en --eteeant "Otherwise," be said, "p feel better and bappier now than ever, because I'm really living under the right sex and don't have to worry about that innermost set-- ret fear that baunted me all my life. 5 ooo emnns AMC. ."I have been a man in reality' all my life, I never was a woman. However, I have been: in society as a man fof only two months and it's a wonderful relief to know 1 am finally where I belong. I have, had several dates and have gone| dancing and I hope some {day: to marry. When and 'if I become a | father, FIL be the happiest man | in the world." M Health Excellent gl (One of the younge! mem-- bers of the Morland family 15 the principal of a copyright story published dast Friday iD The . 'London / Free: PreS® through whose kind permis-- sion the story is reprinted in The Advocate.) By RAY TIMSON R London Free Press Staff Reporter Copyright, London Free Press Earl Morland, who ived . as Pearl Morland for 25 years until doctors discovered he had been raised in the wrong Sex, reports "it hasn't been too difficult? to readjust himself. xfn:;rlry. YVheu s nap tfecommenna;---;:I'EiS is where I firs! NCC*" _a tfir' P 13? the hepolss" .doctoré talking about me to my in the world." | t Health E _mot.her. I started to cry, say{ng es f ol fce"et"t i °o) hee t s61 wanted to be a girl t m _ es s » d al be one, to clear the air about his actuaii Pyssad wiould alwess y condition and to possibly obtain No lglsme on Parents / assistance in-- fine'ng a suitable| * "I wan it understood that t job. 'Although he i in excellent don't blame either of my parents. health "and has considerable | They had raised eight children strength, he said he does not want bef?re ree, and had no reason to to toil at an;;a arduous laboring be'l'xzfvte thIer;: ;\tati};bee;l a T]:tak: job right off the bat. er e e hospital an "Rather," he said, "I think 1 returned. home, everything that would like to sell. cars or sports-- Was'saxd there was .forgqtten. I Boods or something like that. Or carried on playing with ginls and 1 might like to drive or chauffeny really thinking again that I was somebody. I always have liked :ngui'trzg:g:g'?hai ?rlxisst l'goi;llgshe; driving." f ; fatem lucky in school and got Since his discharge from a Lon= mss versf don hospital Easter Sunday, for ::ggl;"a':g "'ielfl tf) ?};"fik"".he't'h: the last of several operations 10 / gactory for approxima(ze]y u;ight prepare him for his proper place years. in life, Earl 'has had one 50'?'--1 «Feeling that I was getting into A 't'hree-week. stint at ga'xldenmg, a rut, not having seen much of A Recoonome for alelly fac--! the county, L leff and went to 1 d in ecmenecian en on an; landscaping (Residents of PAF®L °_ . three or four decades 280 will recall the Alex Morland fam-- ity, who lived north of Pais-- ley, near Rae's bridge, thS" in Brant 'Township. Nr. Mor= land was employed with the Paisley Creamery-- The older members 'of the family | at-- tended school in Paisley.: _ Was Kitchen Maid has considerable > paisiev about T feel «But none of the jobs X©W®I . PS peals to me," he said. "I 1'xkedf| NS im;]rneu "~P wl my pen factory joD best. How-- my father was t00 ever, L received only spginemig (farm alone. °C h wages then, and now that IT'm moved to a house a man I just don't know what where I joined th to pursue." ® only there. a C Earl, who stands about five when my fathe feet six inches. and weighs 170| That left mother pounds, completed Grade IX o 3 R first form high school. A good Jome'd 6 looking young man, he is gifted #About six n with an extremely friendly per-- father . qle'% the sonality. q Goderich girls' s (Mas . . feamente go-- tC . How was the tragic MIsWCC made? #It happened on the cold and stormy night of February 1 1930," Earl related. "I was brought into this world by a doctor from Pais-- ley on the six concession . of Su.ss Township in Bruce Couns ley on the Six Bruce Township . ty. Because of a it was hard to tel a boy or a girl. cided I was a £ called me a gitl, for 25 years. Tor 200 JESID: «When I was seven mY brother Wallace and sister Grace and I were out playing tag when I fell and broke my arm. They couldn't seem to do anything with it at the Kincardine General Hospital and I was advised to go to the children's hospital in London. «This is where T first heard doctors talking about me to Y mother. I started to cry, saying that I still wanted to be a girl, ES ECA CA cesuredime that POEASPRERT OR CINE Farl chose London to start his new life because of a fondness he always had for the city and also because he has three brothers and a sister living here. He is stay-- ing. with his married sister. \Everything is working out well and it really hasn't been 100 dif-- ficult. t Alo ds Gepeod n ronietaie SOUEIOU® 1 " think I'm just about over the' immediate shyness I felt," he said. "T enjoy meeting people now, even friends who knew mc as Pearl, MHSE Morumeihas\ been wondeL--~ new MIG DECCC always had fo1 because he has a sister living ing with his ) Oroadea friends who knew me and everyone has beet ful to me. I am nOW 1 EDt dn in Mc «Feeling that I was getting into a rut, not having seen much of the county, I left and went to work in a hospital in Tondon. 1 was the only one of. the family Moai SCn me. I am now 26." chose London to st rip in Bruce Coun~ £ a slight deformity ) tell whether I was ir1. The doctor de-- a girl, my parents irl, and a girl I was jobs really @B--|not married bY that RESuant ow i sc rols tragic mistake, Joined Girls' Team "About Six months after my father died the manager of the Goderich girls' softball team agk-- »d me to go to Goderich to play ball for him. He had a job fo: me and I went in 1952. After the sall season was Over and we had won the Western Ontario cham-- pionship I worked in a factory there during the winter. I played ball again in 1953 when we won the championship for the _second time. -- Work ~was getting scarce, however, and I returned to Lon-- don to work at the same hos-- pital. Wc s do t dare e t me ie Sha #[ was there only: 2 when I went back to play ball again, and wear I got married. T started to work --at a new plant built i Goderich, and I was still working there on December 17. when -- entered hospital for my -- first operation. After the bassball se son was over I had started tc aofice that the hair on my fac was getting heavier. I mentionec it to my husband and he suggest-- ed --I consult a doctor. I took time off work and consulted & doctor, who called in a colleagut and after several appointment. decided on the operation. : _ 'pifficult Break «you will never realize how hard it was for me to pull ow and leave my job, my ex--husband and friends to start a new life. All MRA ncotmne of these persons were exceptOn» ally good to me during my. tim« in Goderich. E ©oognt TE Do ons "The doctors and nurses at the hospital were -- wonderful, too. The Goderich softball team sent me a check. The--curling club sent a cz_ard, and all kinds of friends -..'nt' greetings and flowers. I don't think I have lost aby of. my former. friends. f ©I left the hospital on January 3. 1956, and frankly I was quite ' Euty shy at but soon got over it. I returned to the hospital on March 11 for three weeks and was released on. Easter Sunday. I started taking out girls then and felt right at home doing it. I had a lot of fun." irried Jby that time, | ant her was too i1l to tun the ilone, so he dold it ant to a house in Kincarding T joined them, They were fi;ere a couple of w.ee\o. ay father passed . away taf mother and me alone. ft the hospital on January , and frankly I was quite meeting peorplgfog a while, o *A se :. W «t agh 2 nly a few months ic to Goderich to and in that same exception-- buexch Knox '(hu'rchl 'Dd'mdgéd By Fire After Lightning Hit Building Monday Night | WEDNESDAY, MAY i During / the 'height 'of Monday \night's severe electrical and rain Istorm, lightning struck Knox United (Church on: Goldie Strees, and set [fire to the frame woodshed at the 'rear of the structure. The bolt hit 'the corner 'of the sted, scttiag it on fire, and then punched a swall 'hole--right though the brick wall of ithe church, 'knocking. smail. itag-- 'ments. of mortar and plaster oi to" the floor of the auditorium, _ --al The fire was seenalmost ima / iately by the chtirch minister Rev. E, S. Linstead, who, was watching the storm. from a. window cof the manse, 300 feet east of the church. The fire 'brigade responded to the wlarm, and although . hindered. in 'their efforts to lay hose lines wy the 'driving downpour, were able to get \two high--pressure streams of wntefli '-playiug on the blazing shed, and | within 30 minutes, the last spnrkif_ \was extinguished. e Onily the fact that the alarm was) given. so quickly,.and that the fire= | men responded so promptly, saved) | the 70:year--old church from tbtxfl"or'} partial destruction, And while the}| heavy rain was of hindrance to the\" firemen in faying hose, it was of | immeasurable help in slowing fhe' spread of the flames. When the first line of hose began thrc_)wing "1 water, the woodshed was a roaring mass of leaping flame witich was ) threatening to get in to the organ | loft to which the shed was attached. [ Flames did break out on the wall | and floor of the organ motor ruom, but were 'extinguished. within see-- onds. The cornice of the organ loff high above the shed, also cauglts fire, but was similarly put out very R quickly, . The most dangerous threat 'to the safety of the church deelop-- | ed when the fire began to eat into the basement kitchen. through the heavy door opening into the wood-- ' shed, Firemen entered the basement / and with a single line of hose, were / able to stop the enroaching blaze | without any great trouble, J Botal damage to the building and contents will probably amount to between $2,000 and. $2,500. . 'The woodshed is a total Toss, Damage to the pipe organ, confined to the motor and pump room, was light, with some of the lead air piping and a portion of the electric wiring /' having been heat and water damag-- | ' ed. pos woal B ;'