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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1960-01-22, Page 2.Since 1860 Serving the Community First 'uhlisheci at ;SEArORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN"BRos., Publishers ANDREW 1'. McLEAN, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada (ih advance). $2.50 a Year United States (in advance) .. $3.50 a Year SINGLE COPIJ S — 5 CENTS EACH • Authorized as Second Class Mail. 1'ost Office Department, Ottawa Melnber of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association •. SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JANUARY 22, 1966 Throne Speech Leaves Muth Unsaid The Speech from the Throne which Parliament heard last week was more subdued than were previous ones presented under' the present Government. • There was not only a lessening in the vast optimism which had char- acterized previous statements, but the Government adopted a novel way of dealing with matters about which it had no policy. It ignored them as was evident when the Speech made no reference whatsoever to defence. There was a mild reference to the favorable economics prospects for 1960, but even this is an affront to Western Ontario farmers who find themselves in the most discouraging financial position they have known in many years. ---, The sure-fire remedies for all prob- lems of an agricultural nature about which Prime -Minister Die f enbaker made so many impassioned promises during the elections of 1957 and 1958 have been forgotten.Now the Gov- ernment appears to_have discovered that the difficult -es facing agricul- ture are not so easily solved. The Speech has this to say: The securing to farmers of a fair share of the national income; through the maintenance . of prices of farm products, has received constant at- tention and continues to be a matter of prime concern to my government. Our farms have .yielded surpluses which have necessitated a revision of existing measures to stabilize,.., farm pricestoensure that their basicpu..r- pose is achieved without the wasteful accumulation of surplus stocks. This was the program that the for- mer Liberal Government follpwed with greater success than is attk4 d- ing the efforts of the present regime,, as increasing numbers of farmers are pointing out. The Liberal gov- ernment, of course, didn't encourage the surpluses by, inconsistent support policies made necessary by extrava- gant election promises. The Diefenbaker government dur- ing the present session must expect to be asked for explanations on these, as well as_other matters, be- cause,of the difference between promie -and performance."' Cow. Comfort The possibility of foam rubber mattresses for milk cows, which an -En-gl-ish:-dairyman- -says make- .the cows produce more milk, will hardly cause surprise in Wisconsin. Of some Wisconsin farms it used to be said that the cows had more comforts than the farmers' fa.rniliee did. For long it has been . standard practice to. provide Wisconsin cows with . their own automatic drinking cups and with, steel stanchions which allow free and comfortable move- ment. So why not a foam rubber mat- tress for her? After• all, many a creature who may be contributing less to the world's welfare ;issleep- ing on one these days.—(Milwaukee Journal). TULT J.TJ.TLTLT iT LT .LT..L VE $6.00 PER TON. BY BUYING AND TAKING DELIVaY O YOUR FERTILIZER REQUIREMENTS IN JANUARY ' $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ We Sell C -I -L SUPER - FLOW FERTILIZER — Precision Granulated -- Won't Harden When Stored — Free Flowing — Even Distribution When Sowing FORA TROUBLE --FREE SEEDING THIS SPRING, JUST SAY ; I'm Buying CA I L • Sup?. - Flow" $ $ $ $,. $ $ $ . $ $. $ EXAMPLE OF OUR SPECIAL PRICES ON FERTILIZER: 2-12-10 - $43.00,. Per Ton— F.O. JB. Mi11, CASH and January Delivery We Offer You the Same Special Prices On All C -I -L SUPER - FLOW FERTILIZER $ $ $ $ $ $ $ `.`The Early Bird Gets the Worm" -- Likewise, "The Early Buyer Makes ' Extra Profits" ORDER TO -DAY AT j YJ '1410 TE '775 it NOTCH FEEDS LIMITED e Most Value For the/Farmer's Dollar" • 171 T SEAFORTH F -SU -GAR AND SPICE By W. (Bill) B. T. SMILEY Went to see a Tarzan movie with the kids the other night. I looked forward to the evening. I hadn't seen Tarzan aetion for night onto 30 years. "Well, was like going- back to see an old sweetheart after 30 years, and finding .the slim, pretty wench .turned into a gross, gap- tootfied old bat in a soiled blouse. I don't mind telling you, I came out of that theatre shocked, be- wildered and disillusioned. No ex- perience (in. recent years has so ex- plicity 'confirmed my creeping suspicion that the world is going to the hogs. - ow, 1. was not so naive as to think I'd be' seeing the same Tar- z,an as the one of my childhood; or that the story would not be jazz- ed up a bit for the hard -eyed little hooligans - mho haunt the movie houses today. But this Tar- zan was no more like the one l• watched' in my salad days than Marilyn Monroe is like Mickey Taman was an, influence of al- most overwhelming dimensions, when I was a kid. We read all the Tarzan books. Every Saturday afternoon at the matinee we saw two reels of a Tarzan serial that left Us liirrp with excitement and fear, as our hero struggled in the eons of an anaconda, or went tum- bling over a. mile -high cliff as the. episode ended. But we didn't worry all week until next Saturday. We I dreamed about him. I suffered innumerable contusions and sprains trying to swing through a maple tree the way he swung through the- trees of the jungle. In the privacy of The Sandpit, I practised calling the apes as he did. Before going to sleep at night, I fought my Way silently but indomitably, through hordes of black warriors, with nothing but mY knife and a last-mmute assist from Tantor the Elephant. My Tarzan was a mature, man, with craggy features, wearing a shaggy animal's skin,. his straight blackjiair almost to his shoulders. The Tarzan in this movie the other night was a baby - faced pretty -boy wearing a tailor- ed leopard -skin, and he had OIL on his carefully -curled hair. Mr. Tarzan swung -through the jungle, froin tree to tree, in great, swooping arcs that had your heart in your throat with envy; This jerk the other night made onty one swing on a vine, a little hdP of about fourteen feet. My Tar' ,zan was a friend of most of the animals- in- the jungle. But he didn't hesitate to stab an or- nery lion to death, or crack the neck of an owly gorilla. This beach athlete the other night couldn't kill -anything but people, and he shot at them With arrows, from behind a tree, if yoo can believe man. He cooldn't even speak Eng- lis.h. ,When he was with the girl,' she'd try to teaCh him. The words would, be flashed on the, screen. She'd say: "'Vie Jane. You Tar- zan," and he'd repeat: "Me Jane. You Tarzan." • And she'd giggle prettily and say: "No. Me Jane.. You Tarzan." And .he'd finally, get But he really wasn't interested in Orli, and at that time, neither, w.ere the kids. We'd scuffle...and' grab eacIr4thers hats and horse around until the "love" part was over, and our hero was back in action, churning across the river with the crocodiles -snapping at his heels; and us sitting on the edge of our seats, teeth and fists clench- ed, pulling up our heels in ,sym- pathy. This locker -room bum, the other night,. was simple enough, but he wasn't Proud. He had about -as much dignity as Elvis. Instead of striding- throngh the jungle as though he owned • it, he skulked around like a juvenile delinquent lookin& for an old man to beat up. But what got me was the Plot - In the old Tarzan films, animals were, killed, but only in self-de- fence, or for food. In this epic we saw the other night, there were, no less than five horrible deaths,, all people. One got an arroW through the heart. A beautiful girl was -impaled on stakes in a pit., Another. fellow was pushed down a mine shaft. A fourth was shoved over. a cliff and landed flat On his back on a rock. Even Young Kim, caae-hardened 1138 many .a Saturday afternoon of... cowboys ,and Indians cutting eaCh other down, flinched at the sight of a man stumhling ,into quicksand 'and' sinking, screamixrg horribly, mit of sight. In my day, the movie -makers. didn't have• to rig up trouble' like that for Terzan's enemies. • He took care of it himself. There he'd be tied ta a stake, the native war- -dors dancing around him, shaking torches in . his face. Old ''Tarz would just rare back, bellow his ape call, and. •iri a few minutes hundreds of his brother -apes would pour over the palisades and chase the black fellows, while- a horde of his elePhant friends trornpleg down the whole Watusi " Maybe I'm lust getting cranky and old. But when savagery and Vigorous violence are replaced by sadfsm and psychopaths, I think it's -time the crocodiles finally caught up to Tarzan, and finished him off, once,and for all. (Prepafed ' cur Research Staff of Encyclopedia Canadiana) 111111111111111111111111111111,1 What Was Sea Porest Plantation? •This was the name of Newfound- land's first "formal colony, found- ed by John Guy in 1610. The seat of the colony was what is known today as Cupids, then dalled Cup- er's Cove, In addition to homes built for his 3S colonists, Guy built , a fort enclosed by a stockade with a beady of three guns. In 1611 the first Anglican clergyman to come to Newfoundland arrived at Cupids. John Guy returned to his native city of Bristol about 1614 and eventually became its mayor. He was suceeeded at Cupids by Capt. John Mason, who later be- came the founder of the state of New Hampshire. As a unit the col- ony lasted only 18 years, but de- scendants of the original settlers are still to be found in Cupids. Today the settlement, ,which is on the east side of Conception ' Bay about 52 miles west, of St. John's, depends upon fishing and farming for its existence. Which Was the First Newspaper Botween Winnipeg and the Rockies? The'Saskatchewan Herald, which was established at Battleford, Sask., in 1878. The town of Bat- tleford lies on the south shore of -the North. Saskatchewan River, across the rivq from North Bat- tleford, now the larger of the two -communities. The Battle River joins the North Saskatchew,an at this point. Battleford was the capi- tal of the old .Northwest Territor- ies from 1876 to 1883. Who Established Qiiebec's First In 1764 William Brown, aSsisted by Benjamin Franklin's brother-in- law, William Dunlop, brought a press out from England and set up in Quebec City the first. rint- ing- establishment in the provin Brown was g Scottish lad whp ha been sent out to America in 1753, at -the .age of 1,5, and apprenticed ASIJ)unlop in Philadelphia. In 1760 Dunlop sent Brown,to Barbados to establish' a printing shop there but the state of his, health obliged him to abandon this enterprice in 1763. A few monlhs after coming to Can- ada, Brown, with Thomas Gilmore, began publication of the bilingual ,Quebec Gazette, which Was to con- tinue npublication under several owners' -until 1874. •Brown died at Quebec in 1789, having amassed. what was for those days a large fortune. Where Was Newfoundland's First- Ptiblic Library?, SEEN IN THE COUNTY PAPERS ,-Fingers Crossed Dio doubt the town fathera are creeping around with all their fin- gers and toes crossed when they think of the wonderful breaks handed out by the weatherman this year. At the same time last year the entire year's street bud- get was in jeopardy because of the costs of snow removal. This yea; the same costs have been about nit—Wingliam Advances -Times. Thick Upsets 'While sanding strets in "Little England" early Wednesday morn, ing, the town truck skidded into, the ditch at the corner of Walker and Matilda Streets, ending im on its side. Damage. included the front •fender and a. broken wind- shield. Though the truck was only travelling about eight miles' an hour, there Was no way of con- trolling it, once it began to slide. A wrecker was needed to ,nut it back on its wheels And the sand- ing operation began once more.— Clin ton News -Record. Tax Arrears If. all property owners in arrears for Goderich taxes Were sttddenly to.pay up, the result, apart frbro severe shock to the colleetors. Uteuld be to nip several mills off the current tax rate. Mr. Sessop's year-end repert to council shows $15,000 uricollected_for the years 1956 to 1958; -inclu.siye.- This total includes a substantial amount of interest. For 1959 there. is some- thing like $56,000 ad yet nmcollect- Need Larger ' Should SHDHS have a larger barn in order tit expand its prac- tical agricultural projects or should it erect storage facilities only and teach its agriculture hi the class- room? That's one of the 'questions facing the hoard in connection with the five -room addition whieh it will build this year. The present barn, slightly damaged in the New Year's eve fire, will have to, be torn down or moved because the new classrooms will' be erected on the east end. -Menillers diSeussed the problem at the board's' inau- gural titeeting• Menday night, but turned it over to a committee for further , study. Sifted this is -an ithportant agricultural district, one might, expect ' there would be strong suppoit 'folv larger barn, ducted° at the Sehobi in the past. At Harbour Grace, on Concep- tion Bay on the island's east coast. In 1815 the colony's ,firs,„ public town also has the disti ction of being the site of New ndland's first runway for aircra t. Several early transatlantic-. lights started from Harbour Grace. The town -is Pne q)f the oldest and most his- toric in the -province; th first set- tlers- on, the' site arri ed about 1550. Al one time, ea ly in the 17th century, the pir te Peter Easton had his headquarters here. FEDERATION NEWS By J. CARL HEMINGWAY At the ,Marketing an Co-opera- tive C,on.ference held the 0.A:C., Guelph,' there s one period spent on "etimmunications", that is, the transfer of information. Prof. Dent, who conducted the lec- ture, showed very clearly that quantity and accuracy of informa- tion diminished amazingly in pro- portion to number of people pass- ing it on. A McDUR OTTAWA REPORT OTTAWA—Ten Years age this month the fereign ministers of seven CommonWealth countries met La Colombo, Ceylon. F,rona this conference grew the Colombo Plan and a new era in Canadian. foreign aid. Until then We had concen- trated on European recovery af- ter World War II. Since then we have poured more and more aid into the—development of the econo, mies of poorer countries. Today foreign aid is being seen increasingly as ' an alternatiVe to defence -spending if headway can be made en disarmgment. And even -Vitinitit disarmament, the foreign aid bill is grovying in re- sponse to a Soviet economic -of- fensiVe aimed at bringing the un- derdeveloped and tnicemmitted countries' of Asia and Africa into thel Communist bloc. At about $60, 000,000 annually today, the -bill for foreign aid is more than triple that of 10 years .ago,..,,although still a drop in the 'bue,ket,compared the $1,700,000,000- .we Are spending on defence. It is well-known that defence spending, besides"providing us with armed forces and their equipment, is valuable to the economy in pro- viding jobs, wages and technolog- ical development. Less well.known is the fact that foreign aid has. effects on the home econontY of Lie giving nation that are ajt least as valuable. If we are heading in- to an era of more foreign aid and less defence spending, what will it mean to the home economy? , The answers lie in a recent sur- vey of the past decade of economic developMent did% For purposes of the Survey., all other types of aid were excluded: military aid; as- sistance to refugees; and disaster aid following floods, typhoons, fam- ine and so on. It was found that the bill for economic development aid over the. 10 fiscal years 1950-51 through 1959-60 wa,s '$342,030,000. This was ,given.under the Colombo Plan; the West Indies As"sistance Plan; the (for Commonwealth countries .not included in the other two); ' and, in three United Nations programs. But, the most striking result of the survey Was the disclosure that 90 pex cent of this maii-ey‘had been spent IN CANADA. And, after al- io ances had been made for the encan and other foreign com- ponents in Canadian products, 81 per cent was pure CANADIAN CONTENT. In other words—ax4 probably-- seldom realized— foreign economic aid -is spent at It's spent on wheat, flour, metals and, lumber which are shipped to meet shortages ,the recipient countries. It helps get rid of our • surpluses, But it also helps eco- nomic_ development' in .the recipi- ent countrieS because they agree to spend—in their own funds—the equivalent. of the Canadian value of the ,raw materials they receive. At present these , "counterpart funds", as they are called, are be- ing largely, used by India, Paki- 'stan and Ceylon to build technical schools, vital to, their econtinic Canadian economic aid is spent on locomotiv,es, aircraft, hydro-. electric equipment and farm ma - In recent articles in -local papers ,teporting on' the Conference's con,) :elusions with regard to the future of th,e family farm and the part to be played by Co-operatives do not agree with my impression -of those conclusions. The conclusiofis arrived at, ai far as ram conceni- ed, were as follows: First, the -family farm will con; tinue ibdefinitely and will prosper in -direct proportion to the ability and 'initiative of the family. Secondly, the size ,of the family farm will continue to increase at a somewhat lower rate, than in the past 20 years. This, to me, is creating no great hardship. I am more inclined tO agree with an, other farmer attending- the course when' he stated that he^"couldn't "-shed any tears for his brother wh6 was forced to leave the farm and is now earning $900.00 per month in the city. Further it has been amply prov- en that the smatter -the Percentage of the population that is 'required for the production of food the higher the standard of living of thoSe people. This also applies to the standard of living -of -those in agriculture. This does not mean that farmers are making a roper income; far front it, but keeping the family farm small and a large percentage of population on the farmls not the answer. If it did, then we, shouldrfOree a large percentage,of the urban pop- ulation to return to the 50-apre farm. I have no desire to give up the present farna..home with a bath for the farm hoine with a path of former years. First Fireman, on 75 -foot aerial ladder: "Quick, what -do do Second Fireman on'75-foot aerial ladder: "Good heaVens4 thitught chinery, It has provided JobSratat industry to Canadian plants, which' might have lain idle, in order to, build the groat dams and irriga, tion schemes in India .and Pala, stan which -are,,,giving new hope fon Mdttstrial and agricultural de-, velopmenf to millions. Canada's chronically depressed shipyard in- dustry just recently received two plum Contracts to build ships for the West Indies. Canadian economic aid is also spent on foreign traiaees W130 come to Canada and Canadian ex- perts who go abroad. This is call- ed technical assistance, as distinct from ca,pital assistance. Foreign trainees learn herel.abeitt Cana- dian methods and equipment and may well favor them when they return home. Canadian experts who go abroad are missionaries of --Canadian technieal know-how 1rd equipment. This' leads us to the second ma. jor effect of our foreign -aid spend-, ing on the home economy, „Besides providing jobs and wages for Can. adians, foreign..aid is also opening up the vista of .triore trade. This, country, small In population and domestic market, depends on trade and foreign markets to stay prosperous. The aid program is our biggest bid to win recognition for Canadian products .and know. how in the immense markets of the underdeveloped countries. The rub, is that Canada is now a higlycost economy. But if these counthes can be brought to ap. proadh the •Canadian level of pros- perity, they wW be important fu- •ture. customers. -Already, in the 'purchase of a few locomotives here, a .few planes there, and in the hiring of Canadian engineer- ing firms in another place, this trade -generating, aspect (14 foreign aid has been demonstrated. So if taxpayers must look for- ward to seeing their money going increasingly into foreign aid, they need not feel that_this govern- ment' initiative in trying to settle the issues of war and- Peace is- a - straight drain on the Canadian economy. It isn't. Canada derives plenty of economic, benefits from foreign- aid right now, and can look for more as trade develops - in the future. Capital Hill- Capsules The extent of government in- volvement in Canadian business life has seldom been better dein- onstrated than at present.' Who shall be allowed to venture and - hope to ,gain in the multi-million- dollaf fields a gas export and pri- vate television is being decided by , government boards: the National • Energy Board,' in Ottawa hear- ings; an& the Board of Broadcast Gevernors hearings in the. major centres across the country where second (and private)"'TV licences are to be granted. Federal cabinet ministers' have hardly tried to keep "off -the re- ' cord" their elation at the selec-- lion of Hon. Antonio Barrette to succeed the popular and' construe- tive Paul Salive as Premier of Quebec. The- government dreaded the possibility of Attorney -General Antoine Rivard or some other rig- id provincial autonomist in the in-. transigent mould of the late Pre- mier-Duplessis getting the job. IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned -from The Huron Expo tor of 26, 50 and 75 years ago. From The HurOiT Expositor ' January 18, 1935- J. G. Anderson, who purchased the Goderich Street,Ilax mill pro- perty from the town last spring, and who has -since been operating it, has purchased from the Royal Bank the 'flax 'Mill on South „Main Street. He expects to have his new mill operating in a short tithe. --Monday. was the first meeting of',Varna ,c_ouncil in 1935. The old officials retain their seats and the council have "arranged to have a new floer put hi the hall: This 'has- been a•long-felt want, and we are glad to,know the new floor will be laid as soon as possible. Members of the Seaforth Bad- minton Club held a most success- ful tournament on Tuesday, even- ing, when over 30 plays took part in the genies. . team, the Beavers, won , and lost during the ,past -week . Ort Tues- day they went to 'Mitchell and won 3-1, but lost ,on home ice to Gode- rich on Wednesday night, 3-g. • Township councils held their in- augural. meetings • and members took' the declaration of office on Monday. Mckillop council fs the same _as last year, all members having been returned by acclama- tion, while Tuckersmith has one new •cmincillor. The annual meeting of Seaforth orticultural Society was held in Carnegie Library (m- Tuesday eve- ning. The absence of the late 'president, Mr. William Hartry,_was keenly fejt. Officers for the year were elected at the meeting. Prom The Huron Expositor January 21, 1910 The storms of the past feii have interferred with the regular- ity of the train and mail. service. A passenger -car got -off the track the other day near the station at Kippen, but fortunately no one was Mr. George Nott, one of the old 'residents of the west end, Tueker- smith, diet With a fatal accident in Clinton on Wednesday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Nott were driving when the herses became unman- ageable, upsetting the rig and throwing' the occupants out. Mr. Nott Was 'killed almost instantly, while Mrs. Nett escaped uninjur- Mr. James Scott had a narrow )escape the other day., He was Iffain Street,' When , a trick was WWII off the,. top of the building, and came within an ace of hit- ting him on the head7-1/ad- it struck him, it would have serious- ly ,injured him. ' The Choir of Seaforth Presbyter- ian Church, under the leadership, of Mr'. J. L. Yule, has been en- gaged to give a concert in the Presbyterian Church here on the evening of Friday, Jan. 28. •In - addition to the choir, the service§ of an elocutionist will also be se- , cured. This promises to be a ieal- • tre at. From The Herron Expositor The trains on the line running through Hensall, coming from the ` north, have been very much be- ' hind during,the past week, owing to the heavy snowb storm. At the recent annual meeting of Melville Presbyterian Church, Brussek, reports of the officers • were given and office bearers were elected\ for 1885. Messrs. Thompson, and Arm- strong, have just received an im- ported Clydesdale stallion, twaand a half years old, weighing* 1,600 pounds, and called "Honest Jim-, mie." Brussels market is still booming and ahead of„,all the neighboring tottits. One of its buyers last week "' launched out in a new Mei. viz.: buying pork on- the Seaforth mar--- ket by telegraph. Mr. A. D. Dinicanson recently sold to Mr. Robert Graham, Brim- sels,Ng Suffolk sow, tfie dressed weigb,VW -Which- was 510 pounds,. and for which he realized the sum of $31:501,- Mr. Duneanson said he could easily have made it go 600 had he kept it a few weeks longer. The first meeting of the new Brussels council was held Monday -evening, when officers were apc Cracks Hip James McLeod, of Kinloss is in .a. cracked hip bone, which gave way under. his weight last week. He wag taken to the hospital on Saturday. Jim y in his 90th year, bin has been enjoying. good health, and 4 in his usual good spirits despite_tlie-hip condition. He is a 1{itiross -township- native, and for some tittle has- made his head. quarters at the -Carruthers Home in Kinloss.—Lucknow Sentinel.. One-eighth of . all the „wood cut Otinada Is the fuelwood -used • • •