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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1961-02-02, Page 5• • • • • • • • • • • • - • . • • • CONSTANCE NEWS QF THE WEEK Sympathy is extended to Mr. and Mrs. David Livingstone in the loss of their daughter last Thursday. The child was buried Saturday af- ternoon from the Ball and Mutch Funeral Home in Clinton. Mr. and Mrs. Williain Dale at- tended the funeral pf the late Mr. Lloyd Craig and two sons ,et Au- burn on Friday afternoon. Mr. Charles MacGregor, of the OAC, Guelph, spent the weekend at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ross McGregor. Mr. and Mrs. William Jewitt and Mr. and Mrs, Frank Riley at- tended the reception at the Com- munity Centre, Seaforth, Friday evening, honoring Mr. Ivan For- syth, Huron County Warden for 1961, and Mrs. Forsyth. Mr, and Mrs. Borden Brown, Joyce and Elaine attended a fam- ily gathering Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Brigham, of Hanover, in honor of Mr. Thomas Brigham, who cele- brated his 93rd birthday. Miss Wilma Dale spent the week- enol-: with her friend, Miss Ly>ada Papple, near Seaforth. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Van Der Molan,'of Guelph, spent the week- end with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Whyte. Mr. and Mrs. Percy Huth and Mr. John Ferguson, of Clifford, vis- ited Sunday' with Mr. and Mrs. Ross MacGregor and family. Mr. William Dale was in palermo on Tuesday tattooing American bred Guernsey heifers which he sold to "Lazy. Pat Farm" of Pal- ermo, and to Mr. Fleming, of To- ronto. The 30 heifers were ship- ped directly from New York State to Toronto district farms. He also attended the meeting and banquet of the Ontario Guer sey Breeders' Association at Guelph on Wednes- day. Last year doctors, nurses, physio- therapists and technical represent- atives of the Canadian Red Cross Society served in the Congo, Mor- occo and Chile. SEE OUR WIDE SELECTION OF CARDS for that "Someone Special" for Valentine's Day ! We. 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NIGHT TILL 9 P.M. t - • News of Dublin Dublin Manager Tells Institute About Banking The regular meeting of the Dub- lin WI was held at the home of Mrs. John Nagle on January 24. Mrs. H. Pethick presided. Mrs. Ed. Dean read the minutes. The roll call was answered with "Ways to keep your home safe." Mrs. I4. Britton gave the motto, "Do not resent growing older, many are deprived of the privilege." Mrs. W. Smith gave current events. The guest speaker for the eve- ning was Ed. Dean, Manager of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Mr. Dean spoke on "What a Wo- man Should Know About Banking," He described various types of ac- counts, banking by mail, travelling aids, sending money, stocks and bonds, safekeeping and borrowing. Mrs, A. Whetham thanked the speaker. An auction of home baking was held, Mr. John Nagle ably acting as auctioneer. The proceeds will be used for charitable donations. Lunch was served by Mrs. Kistner, Mrs. A. Looby and Mrs. Joe Dill. Congregational Meeting St. Mary's Anglican Church, Dub- lin, held their annual meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Allen, Cromarty, on Thursday, Jan. 19, the Rev. H. Donaldson presiding. The meeting was op- ened with a reading from the Scripture and a prayer for the parish. The 1960 slate of officers was "returned. The 1961 officers are as follows: W. Smith, secretary -treas- urer; F. Moore, People's Warden; C. Friend, Rector's Warden; W. Smith and D. Racho, representa- tives to Synod; Mrs. W. Smith, sup- erintendent of Sunday School, Ladies' Guild Meets . The Dublin Ladies' Guild of St. Mary's Church held their January meeting at the home of Mrs. Wm, Smith. The president, Mrs. Charles Friend, opened the meeting with a hymn. Rev. Mr. Donaldson read the Scripture, followed by prayer. Roll call and minutes were given by Mrs. Douglas Racho. A dona- tion of $5.00 will be sent to "CARE" and a box will be set up for the Lenten season. It was decided to purchase 12 dew prayer books for the church. Rev. Donaldson gave a very in- teresting talk on his training for the mission fields and his work in Paraguay, also showing pictures. The meeting closed with the bene- diction and lunch served. The February meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Stan Riley. Expositor Writer Is Most Widely Read in Canada Canada's favorite humorist, Bill Smily, whose column "Sugar and Spice" appears each week in The Huron Expositor, has won the dis- tinction of being syndicated in more papers than any other Cana- dian columnist. He is now being read in 111 newspapers throughout the coun- try. Smiley is 40 years old and says he feels every day of it. A native of Perth, Ont., he grew up there, and graduated from high school when he was too old to play on the football team any longer. He went off to University of To- ronto, and commenced a course in honer English. In 1941 he joined the RCAF, and trained as a fight- er pilot. He flew with the Tactical Air Force in Normandy, and was shot down on Friday, the 13th of October, 1944. He spent the rest of the war in a German prison - camp. Returning to university in 1945, he fell in love with a girl who has since become famous in Sugar and Spice. as The Old Battleaxe. A serious illness delayed graduation until 1949, In that year, he fell into the weekly newspaper busi- ness, and for the next. decade was editor of the Wiarton, Ont., Echo. During that period he began writ- ing, just for fun, a column in which he said' exactly what he pleased. A neighboring editor, George Cadogan, of the Durham Chron- icle, asked if he might use the column. Soon half a dozen edi- tors were doing the same. Stead- ily, the column increased in popu- larity. A year ago the problems of dis- tribution became so big that Smiley contracted with the To- ronto Telegram News Service for pational syndication of the column. Since then, its circulation has in- creased steadily. Last year, Bill decided to try something new, went to teachers' college, and is currently regaling the students at Midland, Ont., high school with his own peculiar brand of English. He claims that teach- ing is about as restful as working in a steel mill. The Smileys have two children, Hugh and Kim, 13 and 9, who have provided a lot of material for the column, in the past. Readers of Sugar and Spice are sometimes infuriated, often amus- ed, but never bored, as they peruse the prose of a man dedicated to looking at life without benefit of rose-colored glasses, In a corner of his log cabin, the mountaineer struggled with a pen- cil and a piece of paper. Sudden- ly he looked up and exclaimed, "Doggone if I ain't learned to write." His wife walked over and peer- ed at the lines scribbled on the paper. She asked., "What do it say Ezra?" "I don't know," he answered, "I ain't learned to read yet." TSN'T THAT YELLOW CONVERTIBLE A DREAM, FATHER 7 _AND ISN'T ALVIN TUST SIMPLY "OUT OP THIS WORLD"? TaMdIoR2• __BUT HE WILL. BE IP HE DOESN'T . SLOW DOWN . OFFICIAL CLAIMS PRODUCTION MORE NEARLY IN BALANCE Although it is too early to be sure of the ultimate result, the deficiency payment 'system of price support for eggs seems to have brought production into a more realistic relationship with demand, A. D. Davey, of the Can- ada Department of • Agriculture, told United States poultrymen re- cently. He described stabilization policy in detail including the old offer -to - purchase program !or eggs and the deficiency payment program which superseded it in October, 1959. Although each program assures a minimum level per dozen — the offer -to -purchase program estab- lishing a base and the deficiency payment program an average for the year — the former program could result in higher returns to producers due to the seasonal pat- tern of prices above the base or average set. The important fea- ture of the , deficiency payment program is that it permits the pro- duct to be sold at prices that more truly reflect supply and de- mand and gives less incentive to production expansion. Production expansion became a very serious problem as related to the Cana- dian Stabilization program for shell eggs. It was decided to support the price of eggs at 33 cents per doz- en at the producer level, this be- ing comparable to the former 44 cents at wholesale level under the old support -by -purchase program. The deficiency payment would be equal to the amount by which the national average price received by producers fell below the support price over a 12 -month period, start- ing October 1, 1959. Payments were limited to a maximum of 4,000 dozen Grade A Large and Extra Large eggs marketed by each registered producer in that period. Mr. Davey said charges were made that the large producer was being discriminated against. The fact was the department had to find a way of reducing the aver- age price of those producers who, because of their large scale and highly efficient operations, were mainly responsible for the big in- crease in egg output. By limiting the payments in this way it was assured that the total paid to the large producers would not be en- ough to raise significantly the av- erage price per dozen they receiv- ed. Support To Those in Most Need As the large-scale commercial producers were the ones who had expanded most it followed that they were least in need of price support. On the other hand, those who had the greatest need — the small producers — were given the largest measure of support, The quota eligible for deficiency payment was related to a flock of say 500 birds from which would be marketed eight dozen grade A Large size eggs per bird per year. Some felt that this basis was low but, after one year of operation the preliminary records show that the national average production per bird is a fractionof one per cent below the figure of eight doz- en eggs of this grade. Another criticism was that the quota fixed would encourage the small producer to expand up to the limits 'for which he could re- ceive support and thus defeat the very object in mind. In fact the small producer had just as much support under the offer -to -purchase program as he does under the de- ficiency program and if he had wanted to expand he could just as well have done so under the old program. One year's operation seems to bear out this thesis, said Mr. Davey. It was also claimed that the de- cision to make a uniform defici- ency payment to producers regard- less of regional differences, was inequitable and that those pro- ducers in lower market price re- gions should get larger deficiency payments. Such price regions, said Mr. Davey, are the result of differences in geographic location in relation to retail outlets, dif- ferences in time of marketing and differences in bargaining skills, etc. It was not intended that a price support program should iron out these normal differences which have always existed. Registration of producers was essential to the success of the price support program. Only one registration was allowed for each flock although many inquiries were received from families wish- ing to divide up their flocks to secure more than one registration. New Generation of Producers Mr. Davey commented ,that,. many producers found it difficult to adjust to a deficiency payment system. During the previous 10 years they had become accustom- ed to a program that placed a floor under returns to^the trade— a floor which was extended to the producers. Before that period there had been 10 years of war and post- war contracts. By 1959 there was . practically a whole new genera- tion of producers and produce dealers who were strangers to the concept of a year-round market governed by supply and demand. They only knew the fickleness of a strengthening or a strong market but were unaccustomed to a slid- ing market that had no safety net pegged in at a certain point. Not surprisingly, therefore, with • •the first sign of surplus eggs appear- ing late in the fall of 1959, there was a tendency for buyers to run quickly for cover. In the words of one produce -dealer — there was more panic than there was actual surplus of shell eggs. The price of eggs dropped to extremely low levels and it was decided to make a deficiency payment for the first three-month period of 1960. On October 1, 1960, the end of the first 12 months under the new deficiency payment plan, the na- tional cumulative weight average fol Grade A Large eggs paid to producers was 2.4 cents per dozen below the base of 33 cents set for the year. Assessing the effect to date of the new method of price support for eggs, Mr. Davey said that few- er chicks were hatched for egg production replacement in late 1959 and the first six months of 1960. However, more old hens were kept over for laying purpos- es in late 1960 and for early 1961. The net result has been that the total laying flock is slightly lower than for the previous comparable period. The volume of eggs being marketed through registered grad- ing stations is also less and whole - ;ale egg prices are stronger than they have been in the two previous years. "We consider that the deficiency payment program_ offers mere chance of success than could ever he achieved under a program that guarantees a market at a fixed price for any volume of product marketed, and will interfere less with normal industry develop- ments," he concluded. A sweet old lady missionary who went about doing things for the clown and out, noticed a burn stand - 'ng near a cigar store. As the days went on she saw that he was al- ways there. She determined to ilo •omething for him and immediate - 'v thrust an envelope in his hand. On it she had written "Godspeed," mrd in it she had enclosed. two dollar bills. The next day she was surprised to see the man on her doorstep dropping a letter in her letterbox. She opened the, letter and read: "Godspeed won and paid 28 to 1. Enclosed find $56," WANT TO PLACE NEWSPAPER AP SAYING "YOUNG MAN WANTED,". lI- rt Hensall Unite Church -HO** Annual' Holds- Annual' Meetin6 The annual congregational meet- ing of Hensall United Church was held Monday evening. Elected oto Board of Stewards were William Mickle, Verne Alderdice, Ross For- rest, Ross,Corbett and John Heal; Church Trustees: Elgin Rowcliffe, W. R. Dougall, Harvey Keys, Lorne Chapman and Lorne Hay. Four new Elders will be elected by the congregation in the near future. In appreciation of services as superintendent of the Sunday School for the past three years, Mr. Clendon Christie, who is re- signing, was made the presenta- tion of a religious book,by Rev. C. Winlaw. Bloss and Cecil Pepper secretary and assistant secretary of the Sunday School, who are re- signing, were presented with Bibles. Rev. and Mrs. Winlaw were made the presentation of a floral ar- rangement of flowers, the address read by Jim Taylor and presenta- tion by Mrs. E. Rowe. Rev. Currie Winlaw presided for the meeting, attended by over 100, and James McAllister acted as secretary. A pot -luck supper preceded t h e meeting. "I've walked over hill and dale, through forest and stream, over rock and rill, just looking for you," he sighed. "Oh, my darling. And now that you've found me, what are you going to do?" 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