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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1961-03-16, Page 7TO THE EDITOR. Seaforth, March 6, 1961. •Editor, The Huron Expositor: Dear Sir: On behalf of our Tub- erculosis Association, I wish to thank you and your capable staff for all the support over the past year. We especially appreciate your assistance during the Mass Survey and the Christmas Seal •campaign. It will be of interest to your readers to know that the contribu- tions to the campaign amounted to $12,403.79, an increase of $240.00 over last year. While money is necessary, the constant search for unknown cases is what will de- termine our success. Only the 'maximum use of case -finding facil- ities will help us to reach the goal of a tuberculosis -free county, This is why you hear us talk about tuberculin testing and chest X-rays —the only way to find these un- known cases. By presenting this situation be- e fore our county, you perform an important health education service for our citizei s. Your readers will be interested to know that the International Un- ion Against Tuberculosis will hold its bi-annual meeting in Toronto Sept. 10.14; 1961. Few countries have tuberculosis under control as "well as we have in Canada, a fact for which we are very thankful: Our county people are invited to attend this meeting where sixty- six countries will be represented. Again, we thank you sincerely for 'such fine public service in helping us bring the facts about the tuberculosis situation before oche public. We can only do what the public helps us to do by their contributions to the Christmas Seal Campaign. Gratefully yours, HARVEY A. McDERMITT, President, Huron County TB Association. By C. A. DEAN, M.D. MEDITORIAL : Cockroaches have been disease carriers for many years and despite all our modern anti -cockroach artillery they continue to be a problem. A !knowledge of some of their hab- its, likes and dislikes can help us battle these pests. Cockroaches prefer spending . their lives in tropical and semi- tropical areas although they have travelled with man to most parts of the world. They establish head- quarters in warm, dark places such Inas in kitchens, pantries, bath- rooms, hollow trees and sewerage system. For food they like starches — cereals, baked goods, book bindings, labels on , bottles. But they also feed on beer, cheese, leather, wallpaper. And, of course, they crawl over all manner of Roth. The cockroach multiplies by de- positing eggs almost anywhere. In about one month they hatch out into the young or nymph stage and grow to maturity in from three to 12 months, depending on the spe- cies. Prevention can minimise or eli- tninate these disease Weeders. Good housekeeping is especially important in this respect. Careful food storage and cleanliness pre- vent accumulation of even tiny amounts of food, grease or filth. Since roaches can be carried into the house in food parcels and bev- erage cases a careful check of :hese is a must. Cracks in walls and openings around doors, pipes and other utility connections can provide a harbor and should be repaired. Many insecticides are available and can be used in various ways to control roaches. In heavily in- efested places, professional pest control service may be needed. KNO WHAT YOU'RE GETTING! When you buy Jones, MacNaugh- ton seed you know you are getting 'what you pay for. All Jones, Mac - Naughton. seeds are true to var- iety, carefully cleaned and tested for germination. Jones, MacNaugh- ton handle only seeds—for many years they have been Western On- tario's leading seed specialists. ''When you buy from a local firm you get service . . . satisfaction . . saving.s! This year ask for Jones, MacNaughton seeds. From your local Dealer, or Jones, MacNaughton Seeds Exeter Phone 664 Crediton Phone 3-W London Phone GE 2-2258 rr CF -104 SOON WITH RCAF—Here displaying its RCAF markings, is Canada's newest contribution to NATO defence forces in Europe—the kiF-104 Starfighter. Capable of flying bet- ter than twice the speed of sound, the needle -nose Starfighter will replace the Sabres now fly- ing with the RCAF's Air Division in Europe. Meet Your Match (In Hydro News) With modern miracles being .in- troduced today, tomorrow and yes- terday, few of us take time to reflect on the complexities of mir- acles that are centuries old. One of these miracles has re- mained unchanged since the day it was discovered . . fire. Ap- preciably changed, however, is the instrument that makes it, the ac- cepted, so -simple -we -don't - tbink - about -it match. Look at a match . . . a sliver of wood with a neatly arranged colored bulb on one end . . weight, a fraction of an ounce. It's disposable. We never pause to reflect on how it was developed. Matches themselves did not come for centuries after fire had been put to use. In fact, it was not un- til about 150 years ago that ven- dors hit the streets of London hawking crude, evil -smelling mini- ature torches which were the fore- runners of today's modern match. These were really only splints, the ends of which had been dipped. in sulphur, They, were manufac- tured in the home with every mem- ber of the family having a hand in it ,and they were sold to match girls and boys, Who hawked them to the sports of the era. Most of us will recall the famous "Match Girl" story of our childhood. These homemade spunks, or matches as they were called, smelled so badly that storekeep- ers wouldn't keep them. But by this time the basic research for the chemical match had begun. The year 1805 saw the introduc- tion of a mixture of phosphorus wax and oil. This was placed in a corked bottle, and, whet' fire was required, the sulphured splints were dipped into the bottle and ignited by rubbing on the cork. In the same year, another fire bottle was developed by Chancel of Paris. In this one, asbestos was saturated with sulphuric acid. The sulphured splints were tipped with a gum containing chlorate of po- tassium and powdered sugar loaf. To light it, one dipped the tip in sulphuric acid. Obviously, these were cumber- some items to have around the house, much less in the hip pocket of a gentleman's britches. The• first friction match was in- troduced in 1827, when a druggist named John Walker, of Stockton- on-Tees, produced a splint with sulphur tips. The only problem here was that they were inclined to go off with a loud pop, fright- ening nearby ladies out of their bustles. The first phosphorus friction match was invented by Dr. Charles Sauria in 1831, at the College D'Darc Dole. (Jura). Meanwhile Europe's match brains were per- fecting a non-poisonous red phos- phorus "safety" match. Canadians, too, were dependent upon these crude methods of mak- ing fire. Then, in 1851, in Hull, Quebec, Ezra Butler Eddy began manufacturing matches by pains- takingly dipping splints by hand. This was the beginning of the great Eddy Match Company, which is the only manufacturer of wooden matches in Canada at the present time. The match industry, because of its fantastic productivity, is diffi- cult to assess insofar as volume is concernedbut the Eddy opera- tion at Pembroke, Ontario, produc- es many millions of matches ev- ery day . about an even split between wood kitchen and pocket matches and the popular book matches which were first intro- duced in Canada -by Eddy in 1928. Belying its simple appearance, a match is a complex instrument, built with painstaking care, and thoroughly tested for quality and safety features. When you hold a match( if it is a kitchen match, you are hold- ing a piece of white pine from somewhere near Nelson, B.C., which has strength, straight grain and no knots. That neat, two-col- ored head consists of bulb glue, quartz( sulphur, ground glass, starch, plaster of paris and potas- sium chlorate, to name a few of the chemicals involved. All of them have been mixed with the care of a new bride baking her first cake. How a match is made out of a tree trunk is an interesting story. Let's look at a kitchen match from its birth. Splints for the kitchen match are made in the first operation of an awe inspiring automatic match machine. Blocks of white pine are fed into a trough and splinted by a powerful punch process. Splint- ing is aided, of course, by the very quality of the wood. This same operation jams each splint up and into a hole on a giant, perforated conveyor belt (this accounts for the round end on the kitchen match). Thoroughly lodged into place and straightened up, they are dipped uniformly into the head composition, which is contained in under -slung trays. A maze of twist- ing belts, up and around and down again, all moving at uniform speed, ensure that the heads dry com- pletely and uniformly. Once thoroughly dry and ready, they are pushed out of the belt, automatically collected, straighten- ed and packed. And if you've ever wondered why a box of kitchen matches is packed with the bot tom half of the heads pointing one way, the top the other, it's be- cause the tightly packed box would bulge on one side if it were not so. Matches for the smaller pocket- size boxes are produced in a sim- ilar manner except that the splints, made from Ottawa Valley poplar, are manufactured by a separate process. The poplar logs are peel- ed on a veneer lathe, and the re- sulting sheets are chopped to the right length and thickness on machines capable of producing several million splints per hour. They are fedinto the match machine for dipping and pack- aging. In making book matches, spe- cially treated paper strips are S ARS SPECIAL I SAVE $425.00 NOW ! 2 Only New 1960 Envoy Special Sedans 1957 Vauxhall Sedan 1075.00 1957 Chev. Pick -Up 1075.00 1955 Buick 4 -Door Hardtop—A.T. and Radio 975.00 1955 Buick 4-Door—Radio 875.00 1954 Chev. Sedan 495.00 1950 Chev. Sedan 65.00 1948 De Soto Coupe 65.00 PRICED TO CLEAR — No Reasonable Offer Refused — Seaforth Motors Phone 541 , Seaforth Staffa Man is Fatally Injured Frank Mitchell, RR 1, Staffa, and formerly of Brussels, died in the flaming wreckage of his live- stock -laden truck following a vio- lent crash with anotheee transport on Highway 5, about Umile-east of St. Ge6rge, near Brantford, Thursday night. About half of the 100 pigs being carried by the truck died as a re- sult of the collision, most either fatally injured or burned to death. The victim was driving an east- bound truck owned- by Ruston Transport, Russeldale. The vehicle turned onits side after the im- pact, spilling blazing gasoline, dead and dying pigs over the high- way. The other truck narrowly missed a bridge over a small creek at' the scene, plunged down a 10 -foot embankment, ripping out a farm fence, and ended up in a field about 150 feet from the' highway. Its driver escaped with a shaking up. St. George volunteer firemen were unable to remove the driver from the flaming truck until about 11 p.m., 90 minutes after the crash. Traffic was held up for about two miles in both directions at the scene of the fatal crash. Firemen extinguished the blaze before it consumed the entire truck; how- ever, they said, the cab was gut- ted. Mr. Mitchell is survived by his wife; three sons; two brothers, and a sister. Funeral services were held Monday at the D. A. Rann Funeral Chapel,'Brussels, with in- terment in Brussels cemetery. punched out by a` press to resem- ble long combs, A dipping process similar to that used for wooden matches is used, and they are dried, chopped and automatically stapled in book match covers pro- duced by the company's art and printing departments. So that, in a nutshell, is the story of the match—a suggestion of the drama and ingenuity which underlie the amazing transition from a great tree to an every -day convenience. TO TIIE EDITOR Teacher Chairm:an Revives Memories 240 W. Park St., Lapeer, Michigan. Editor, The Huron Expositor: You know, there's something bothering me that I have to clear up. A year or two ago I wrote that Andrew Scott, the popular teacher at the Tuckersmith school, just east of Brueefield—that he us- ed to take the afternoons off to run the Tuckersmith nomination meeting in the Dixon House hall, and he was about the only one wbo could make the Tuckersmith politicians of that era, behave. Well, later, I had a letter stating that they believed I was in error, but no other name was mention- ed. Last week another party wrote to recall this incident, and sug- gested the name properly was a "Mr. Murray". Last night while gazing out the window into the street, suddenly the name "Harry Horton" came to me. By golly, I believe it was Harry Horton who used to teach near Chiselhurst, who used to come to Dixon's Hall to regulate those otherwise wild nomination meetings. Also, I think I remember him (or was it An- drew Scott) being chairman of Farmer's Institute meetings in the same hall? You know the older I grow the more confused I become in such matters. Really, at times I think myself I'd put both socks on the same foot mornings if it wasn't for the definite habit I've had for almost 70 years of putting a sock on each foot. I've been putting on socks a little longer than I've been smoking a pipe, Now, let's see! Why yes, either Jack or Bill McIntosh would re- member. They've lived in Tucker - smith all their lives. We, on the Stanley side, never carried on as vigorously at nomination meetings as did those Tuckersmith guys anyway. Oh yes, now and then at Varna's Hall, "Sandy Mustard, Billy. Glen, Jim McDerniid, Tom Fraser and Jack MeNaughton us- ed to "get into it", but still and all it was the Tuckersmith chaps who really carried on nomination day—and it seems to me, at times, anyways, the old Farmer's Insti- tute day. Oh, I'll tell you who may remember too, Sam Whit- more. Why, yes, of course! Sam would be in his 20's about the time I have reference to. There was a grand man, Sam Whitmore! I think at one time he was reeve of Tuckersmith. That's since I left Brueefield. But I re- member Sam best when he taught in Sunday School at the old Metho- dist Church at BrueefieId. He was not only a sincere Christian young man, but he had all the qualities of leadership ever there. As a younger boy, I often attended that Sunday School on Sunday after- noon, and it was always a plea- sure to be there . with Sam. It seems to me he was Sunday School THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Insures: • Town Dwellings • All Classes of Farm Property • Summer Cottages • Churches, Schools, Halls Extended coverage (wind, smoke, water damage, falling objects, etc.) is also available. AGENTS: James Keys, R.R. 1, Seaforth; V. J. Lane, R.R. 5, Seaforth; William Leiper, Jr., Londesboro; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Harold Squires, Clinton. OFFICE — Main Street, Seaforth BRITISH ISRAEL -- The Bible's National Message We believe that the Celto-Saxon peoples are the descendants of God's servant race and nation. Israel: that our ancient Throne is the continuation of the Throne of David; and, in view of present world conditions, that a general recognition of this identity AND its implications is a matter of vital and urgent importance. 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