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MACE UFF OTTAWA REPORT
PRAIRIE DROUGHT SERIOUS
OTTAWA -- Canada may be
in for another poor crop next
year because of tate severe
drought conditions this summer
on the prairies that left the
d with no sub -soil moisture
reserves.
There was very little rainfall
-this autumn across the West.
Snow has swept over t h e
prairies with freezing tempera-
tures. Unless there is an ex-
tremely heavy snowfall and
heavy steady spring rains next
year, the Prairie Farm Rehab-
ilitation Administration is pes-
simistic, claiming there is "not
much prospect" for a good crop
next summer.
Those who make a study of
soil conditions report that pres-
ent moisture conditions in
Western Canada indicate the
crop next year will again be a
very small one. It may only
amount to half an average crop,
or around 250,000,000 bushels.
Such a poor crop in 1962,
together with the large sales of
wheat now being made to Com-
munist China and Poland, as
well as to this country's regular
customers, will seriously de-
plete the country's surplus. The
Canadian stocks by 1962-63
could dwindle to 250,000,000
bushels or less depending on
sales that may be made in the
next six months and the size
of the 1962 crop.
The wheat crop this year be-
cause of the adverse growing
conditions across the prairies
has been estimated at 260,500,-
000 bushels. This is far lower
than the average crop of 497,-
000,000 bushels (over the past
10 years).
The Minister of Agriculture
is well aware of the adverse
PFRA reports. He acknowledg-
es that if there is' another crop
failure next year he will have
to curtail his efforts to sell
wheat.
However, he is hoping against
hope that the West will get en-
ough moisture in the next six
months to bring in another good
crop. He is pressing ahead with
his plans to seek out other cus-
tomers for Canada's wheat sur-
plus --a surplus that could soon
fade away, but for the wrong
reason.
The Minister was scheduled
to leave Ottawa Nov. 2 to at-
tend the Food and Agriculture
Organization conference i n
Rome. 'While -there he will seek
international support for Can-
ada's proposal for a World Food
Bank. After the FAO confer -
SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 2, 1961
Being Bigger is Not
There must be a degree of planning
within a municipality, and for that
matter, within an area, if abuses of
the use of property are to be avoided.
There, too, must be some means of en-
forcing agreed on plans if citizens gen-
erally are to be assured of the protec-
tion which only plans can give.
At the same time there is a ten-
dency in some quarters in the zest for
a completely planned area to ignore the
basic rights of the individual owner of
property.
The extent of the abuse is em-
it commented on an editorial sum-
ming up an appeal for regional
planning in these words : "Ontario's
long adventure in voluntary planning
co-operation between neighboring mun-
icipalities has not worked out, and pro-
vincial legislation is needed to ensure
that master plans are firm enough to
resist endless tampering by local boards
and councils."
Now there is a call to more bureau-
cratic control if we ever heard one
one, the Free Press comments. The state
of planning at local levels is something
of a problem. A man still feels when
he buys a piece of land that is exactly
Necessarily Better
what he bought and with it an ability
to makehis own decision on the use to
which h intends to put it. No longer
is this possible, the paper adds. •- .
The Free Press goes on to point out
that this situation is often discourag-
ing and disturbing to the land owner.
It is in conflict with the concept that a
man's home is his castle. On the other
hand, it is designed to protect that
man's home from depreciation by con-
struction of a glue factory in a resi-
dential area too.
"But now we're so enthused about
planning that we've got to make it big-
ger and call it regional. Evidently the
idea is to get the kind of 'co-operation'
that couldn't be encouraged between
municipalities on a voluntary basis."
"We're disturbed," the Acton editor
adds, "when we find an editorialist call-
ing for legislation 'to ensure that mas-
ter plans are firm enough to resist end-
less tampering by local boards and
councils' when the writer offers no sug-
gestion that the planners must first be
infallible and realistic. Tighter knots ,
of red tape rarely serve any purpose
other than to provide frequent injec-
tions of frustration."
You've probably noticed that
this column has taken on a lit-
tle higher tone of late. There's
a certain je ne sais quaff, a
soupcon of noblesse oblige and
a dash of summa cum laude
that wasn't there before. And
it isn't because I'm seared of
that lady in Beamsville who
reamed,_me out a couple of
weeks ago.
No, the reason for the new
note of gentility, the touch
of sophistication, is that the
Smiley's have finally arrived.
Years of struggle and poverty,
of hardship and privation, have
paid off. We have made it. We
have acquired the status sym-
bol, the nadir of nothingness,
the acme of asininity. We have
two toilets.
* * *
When I think of what we
have gone through in our pur-
suit of this pot of porcelain at
the end of the rainbow, I could
cry. Lots of these young newly-
weds nowadays move right into
a new home with a real bath-
room upstairs and a powder
room on the ground floor. We
didn't even have one toilet of
our own until our youngest was
old enough to be self-support-
ing in the bathroom.
Let's see. When we married,
the Old Girl and I took a furn-
ished room in the city, close
to the university. It was even
closer to the redlight district.
We shared a bathroom with the
eleventeen occupants of the
second floor. Every one of
these was a baggy -eyed slattern
in a dressing gown who spent
hours every day frying onions
over a gas fire on the landing
just outside the bathroom „door.
Right
on target
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fi
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ACC Pun CIRCCLAtlON —THE PIIVIER OF REAMER CONFIDENCE
Our next abode was a three-
room Sat in the factory district.
By this time we had a year-old
son. Don't ask me how that
happened. It's a ionng story,
Here we shared the bathroom
with only the landlady. She
was a bit peculiar, but not a
bad old skirt. She had a wall
eye, a habit of sucking snuff,
and a passion for antique furni-
ture. You had to climb over
an old settee and lower your-
self from an ancient china cab-
inet to get into the bathtub.
That bathroom brings back
fond memories. Once I was
giving the baby a bath. I had
soaped him, and he was as slip-
pery as a speckled trout. He
eeled out of my grasp, ker-
whunked his face on the tub's
edge, and bellowed. His mother
rushed in, snatched him, ex-
amined him, found he'd chip-
ped a tooth, and promptly tried
to break every bone in my head.
* • *
Another time, the same kid,
who could just toddle, got into
the same bathroom, and man-
aged to shoot the bolt, from
the inside. I know it's a classic
situation and has happened to
others. But if you want to know
what hell is like, before you
get there, try it.
Inside is the tiny boy, wail-
ing piteously. Outside are: 'his
father, telling the child who
doesn't understand a word of
it, or anything else, how to un-
lock the door; the mother,
screaming at the father to do
something before baby suffo-
cates (in a bathroom!); the
landlady, moaning, wringing
her hands, and imploring the
father to get him out but not
to break the lock.
* * *
I broke the lock, all the skin
off my knuckles, and the third
commandment, in that order,
but we got him out. From those
exciting times, we moved to a
small town, and life declined
into a series of dreary bath-
room -sharing, in various old
houses, with other young cou-
ples and their children, all of
whom seemed to have kidney
conditions.
Then came the great day
when we had a house all to our-
selves. The bathroom appar-
ently had been installed in hon-
or of Champlain's first visit.
0h, it worked. But you had to
take the top off the tank and
fiddle with the bulbs every time
you flushed the toilet. And you
had to wash with your stomach
against the sink, because the
extra weight of the water would
have torn it right off the wall.
* * *
You can imagine what hap-
pened. My wife went a mit
psychotic after all those years
of fruitless pounding on the
doors of shared bathrooms. We
wound up with a bathroom that
would not have disgraced a
sultan's boudoir, complete with
shocking pink fixtures, mother-
of-pearl toilet seat, and a $1,000
,bill at the plumber's.
But all that's behind. We've
moved into a house with a
downstairs johnnie, and there's
a new grace and elegance in
our domestic life, However, it's
taking a while to get used to.
We sometimes find ourselves
halfway upstairs before we re-
member it, and are torn be-
tween going on up or going
back down—a tough decision.
And 1 still find that the min-
ute I get established in one of
them—and it doesn't matter
which one—there's a kid beat-
ing on the door and pleading
in agonized accents.
By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER
THE BIG BOMB
The recent eclipse of the
moon and her reappearance a
few hours later is evidence of
the fact that she still exists, as
she has done from time im-
memorial. And the shadow that
fell .upon the softly luminous
orb may also be evidence of
the fact that no shadow was
ever cast by nothing, But we
feel that, good old earth under
our feet. And we may draw a
deep breath of relief when we
realize that the giant bomb of
the Russians has not quite
blown us all away into space.
But I would suggest to the
Russian dictator that if his peo-
ple make too big a bomb that
it is likely to blow all Russia
out of the frozen north and
leave no place from whleh to
jump off to the moon and the
stars.
This much will be certain—
only the announcement of the
bomb and the renewal of nu-
clear testing have blasted the
hopes of peace in a war -weary
world.
Just a Thought:
Problems are a part of ev-
eryday living and we should
meet each new difficulty when
it first appears. If we turn our
back and walk away, we only
delay the inevitable—facing up
to the situation and doing the
very best we can.
FOR
BETTER fl -,1
HEALTH/
ammes~,
By C. A. DEAN, M.D.
MEDITORIAL: Hardly a day
goes by that a new discovery,
of some sort, is not reported by
a medical researcher. Some
prove significant, many insig-
nificant. But it does show that
present day mysteries are be-
ing attacked with the hope of
eventual solution. I would like
to speak of some studies in pro-
gress at present.
As you might suspect the
largest amount of work is going
on in cancer and heart diseas-
es research. Most of the for-
mer is aimed at finding causes
(which' are still unknown), for
without them effective treat-
ment will go undiscovered. In
heart disease, researchers busy
themselves more with treat-
ment since we do know some
of its causes.
Many cancer experts feel that
viruses, at least in part, are
responsible for cancer and
there is some evidence that this
is so. However, many other fac-
tors, such •as heredity and
hormones, appear equally im-
portant in certain types. One
of the things that confuses
most people, I feel, is the idea
that all niers are alike and
have the same cause. This is
not true. Although there are
similarities, there are also es-
sential differences. For ex-
ample, lung cancers are not
like leukemia's. Treatment for
one is not effective in the other
and they occur in entirely dif-
ferent age groups. So there is
a lot still to be learned about
cancers.
Findings are brighter in
heart research. Most advances
have been in surgical repair
of heart defects. Even now
valve replacements, in animals,
have been done successfully.
Work is going on trying to de-
vise an operation to help coron-
ary patients. This hasn't been
done, as yet. Replacement of
the etire heart in the experi-
mental animal, I'm sure, will
be successful and it wouldn't
be too long after that before
such is tried in humans.
Don't forget that people will
judge you by your actions, not
your intentions. You may have
a heart of gold --but so has a
hard-boiled egg.
"You'll find this secretary job
fairly simple, Miss J. All you
have to do is look like a wo-
man, think like a man, and
work like a horse."
ence he will take time out, be -
Ore returning to Ottawa, to vis-
it Yugoslavia and Poland. He
had also planned on visiting
Roumania and Czechoslovakia,
but time will not permit as he
has to be back in Canada's capi-
tal for the two-day federal -pro-
vincial agricultural conference
starting ovember 21.
While n 'Yugoslavia and Pol-
and, amilton will seek to
promote t al of more Can-
adian lives and wheat.
Yugoslavia h been an active
buyer of Canadian livestock, but
it is doubtful that it would be
in the market for Canadian
wheat. Poland, on the other
hand, has been a steady cus-
tomer for wheat from this coun-
try, but up to the present has
not taken livestock.
Agriculture Minister Hamil-
ton has pointed out that the
surplus is down to just under
500,000,000 bushels. That
amount of wheat can take up
the slack of two bad crop years,
but it would not allow for a
continued aggressive sales pol-
icy around the world.
Mr. Hamilton is well aware
that if there is another crop
failure in 1962 it will mean by
the summer of 1963. this coun-
try would be scraping the bot-
tom of the wheat barrel. He
would have to slow down on
wheat sales in order to have
enough to supply Canada's reg-
ular customers.
Last spring the West faced
the growing season with some
sub -soil moisture due to heavy
rains in the fall of 1960. But
there was very little snow last
winter and no spring run-off.
That, coupled with very dry
conditions during the summer,
exhausted the sub -soil reserves.
Thus today the Prairies are
heading into a long winter with
no sub -soil moisture. If there is
no heavy snow this winter and
steady drenching spring rains
next year, the farmers will face
"very serious growing condi-
tions that would result in a
very poor crop," PFRA officials
have pointed out. Not only is
the water shortage bad for the
farmers, but towns and villages
on the Prairies have found
their water supplies at a very
low level.
* * •
Capital Hill Capsules
Premier Duff Robin of Mani-
toba travelled to Ottawa on the
weekend of Oct. 21 to address
a conference of Anglican lay-
men on "The Role of the Lay-
man in the Church". He took
time out to call on National
Resources Minister Dinsdale to
talk over `the prospects of Ot-
tawa` -assuming a large share of
the cost of the multi-million
dollar floodway project .with no
concrete results. The same
weekend Toronto Argonauts
were in town to meet the Re-
gina Roughriders in a football
clash. A reporter called the
Chateau Laurier Hotel to talk
to the Manitoba premier. "Is
Duff Robin registered?" be ask-
ed. "Does he play for the Ar-
gonauts?" the telephone opera-
tor asked sweetly.
* * *
With no conventional war-
heads' available for the Bomarc
"B"'s that have been installed
at -North Bay it appears that
Canada's highly touted Bomares
will be "duds". They will be
duds, that is unless the Federal
Government makes up its mind
to allow them to be armed with
nuclear warheads. And on that
question it still, after more than
three years, cannot reach a de-
cision.
IN THE YEARS AGONE
Interesting items gleaned from
The Expositor of 25, 50 and
75 years ago.
From The Huron Expositor
October 30, 1936
R. J. McMillan, Seaforth, for
twenty years county director of
the UFO Club of South Huron,
retired on Thursday, when the
club held its annual meeting in
The Mehl
r" ott'lt lye to etiastlee anent the e
* ip oft the aid lC}1oo ; bgsi#i
9 dal being
Hensall. Walter Scott, Hullett
Township, was the newly -elect-
ed director.
At a recent meeting of the
executive of the Seaforth High-
landers Band, Mr. E. H. Close
was appointed leader.
Believed to have been start-
ed by a transient, fire complete-
ly destroyed a large barn on
the property of Harry Martin,
near the recreation grounds in
Seaforth early Tuesday morn-
ing.
Reeve J. M. Eckert, of Mc-
Killop, was elected an execu-
tive member of the Municipal
Telephone System for"Seaforth
on Thursday.
The weatherman has sure
changed the nice sunny, warm
days of the past week into
some real cool wintry -like days.
* * *
From The Huron Expositor
November 3, 1911
Mr. John Taylor, of Tucker -
smith, had a. somewhat unpleas-
ant experience on Thursday
night of last week. The night
was very dark and when near
Grieve's bridge his horse be-
came frightened by something,
and making a sudden belt to
the side of the road, Mr. Taylor
fell from the buggy and the
horse got away with the rig.
Workmen are stili busily en-
gaged at the new post office
building here.
Mr. and Mrs, L. L. McFaul
left this week for Vancouver,
B.C., where they will spend the
winter with their daughter, Mrs.
Mullen.
Most of the farmers in this
vicinity have now got their
roots safely housed, except a
few turnips which have stilito
be garnered. These are growing:
90• Well aid mann farmers ate
loathe to dfbturh. theta aa long
as they can leave them in the
ground with any degree of safe-
ty
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Harvey,
of the second concession of
Stanley, have moved into their
new home on the Cudmore
farm on the London Road.
Little Jimmie Bengough, of
Hensall, had the misfortune to
fall off the porch last week
and broke his arm, which was
quite serious.
* • *
From The Huron Expositor
November 5, 1886
Mr. John Weir, of Seaforth.
has purchasedthe farm of Mr.
Hugh J. Grieve, in McKillop,
for the sum of $6,000.
Mr. William Pinkney, of the
Royal Hotel, has purchased
from Mr. James Scott, the ttvo
houses and lots on Goderieh St.
at present occupied. by C. Aitzel
and W. Henderson, for $1,200
cash.
At a meeting of the directors
of The moaners Mutual Fire
Insurance Company, held here
on Friday, it was decided that
hereafter the company will pay
the full amount of insurance on
contents, instead of only two-
thirds, as formerly.
Messrs. James Stewart and
Hugh Grieve shipped from here
on Tuesday a carload of fowl,
numbering in all 1,700 geese,
turkeys, ducks and chickens, to
New York.
The brickwork on the new
building of Broadfoot & Box is
now completed and is now one
of the largest building's in town.
Our old friend and neighbor,
Mr. A. G. Ault, has disposed of
his• grocery stock and business
to Mr. B. B Gunn, of Parkhill,
Who has already taken posses-
sierrand will; remove- his fatnily
here shertiq,•
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