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"Huron.: county maintains; a pos-
ition as one of .the high, "special-
ized agriculturalareas of the Pro-
vince," county : agricultural rep-.
SUGAR
AND SPICE
by Bill Smiley
HE WAS. FOREVER ENGLAND'S/1'
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With his superb sense :•of'. Um- most men are retiring from. life
ing, . Winston Churchill chose tb' and the :struggle.
die during a rather dull winter • I . saw the old fire-eater once,
period, when It was possible.: to and .-was.: almiost trampled oto
attract the attention of the`en "death: in the process.' 1t was on
tire world without , fear of 'any ,p Normandy; .in:
an airstrip in: Norman the
one stealing the scene, fromhim, summer of. 1944, a few weeks of
It was time to ; go. There IS ter the invasion.
nothing more' pitiable than • a : We were drawn up :on • parade
great man reduced to dotage .and. :in the : dust and : heat, : officers; in
senility. He was ,spared this. "'frdirt, other ranks in the rear,
„Despite the avalanche of anec and we " stood there, guttering.
dotes ' and eulogies -and reprints curses,. for half an hour. .. .
of his speeches, 1 ' don't think Suddenly a little ; two-seater
•
Bre was deep . and widespread scout plane popped over the hor-
sorrow
row at his demise, • Certainly, icon and ' j squatted ' 60 ' • feet < in
there was none . of the heart -in front.. of us. The pilot climbed out..
throat grief that accompanied the ' We could see ills air -vice -mar-'
death of . President Kennedy. ,. shall's stripes and grumbled. our
It was more of a nostalgic sad- disgust for: all brass. Then the
ness, ' a sense of the loss Of an :.in- back . cockpit opened and a vast,
sti�tution.; One can imagine ' the cherubic ' visage, ,with 'a cigar in:
English
Queen Victoria
this when • it,: beamed at us, ' •
died after 60 -odd He came out of the thing like
n9 '
years on the throne:. a, baby whale coming out of ` a
Quite a man was Sir Winston.' chicken's .egg. He stood on the
And just that. Not a superman, wing, grinning. He stuck up two
but•. a man;fingers in the world-famous V
And that was why he was able sign, but with just ;a suggestion.
to seize and shake and straighten of ..the ..service -man's" naughty
the -hearts of the free world, with gesture> which' ,looked much the
his courage and his tears, his de- same but ' meant , something : quite
fiance and his prayers, during :different
those days, when. Europe, : and the Then he waved, an embracing;
world, were threatened with "a wave that said, "Come on in dlos
thousandv;yrears of ,darkness. er." Our total complement of of-
, Most .of us have several ele- flcer pilots was almost wiped . out
ments in our, character. ; Church; when the rear . • ranks surged.
ill was a kaleidoscope of the col- through, around and over us, to
ours of life: ` He was, reactiona-, cluster within ' touchingdistance
ry , and . 'reformer, he was earthly of the old' warhorse: '
realist and. poet, he was ' dream- .,He talked for five minutes, tes, ear-
er & .doer, . he was selfish & self- thly • vocabulary. " Caesar employed
less; he was arrogant and hiun, " whenaddressmg his legions. And
ble. He was;-. part pirate, ; part .then he was ' off, the ; incredibly
prophet; part imperialist , and foolish °and ;gallant • old man, hop-
part imp. He was ruthless, but ping to another airfield, : risking
he wept easily He was a bund' his skin to have a look at us and
red. other.things, : just, •• as contra; let 'us ,have a look: et him
dictory. _ . •And: -human he 'was! .Mx favour
I: was, 19 when the::. "phoney ite story is. the, one involving Lady
war" . ended,' and. the Genian le-
gions smashed through Belgi
and life suddenly became .every
real: And: I shall never forget the
thrill, the : sense .: of hope and of
resolution, that ' surged ; through
us when the ''lion's . growl rasped
oyer the Attlantic. on `.the ':air
waves, :"We shall never surren-
der." :It's: difficultto realize that
he was 65 `then, an age ..when
resentative "D.' :H 1Vliies said ; in
his report ' to : county . council at
its . November 'session.
' "The 1963, statistics indicate,''
he said; "that Huron ' :was, first : in
poultry. on ' the farm and ' first in
cattle on . the farm. The ; county
• was :second to Perth in,swine on
the farm-• and second po Kent in
acreage .of, all field crops. From.
this'~ pit can be realized' that our
farmers are :keen business men
and are producing' at a very high
level."
(In' a discussion of ARDA, the
chairman of council's agricultur-
al : ,committee, : Reeve Stewart
Proctor of Morris, said "We
should be proud ' that . we have
very little marginal land in Hur-
on.,,)•
Mr:
-Miles departed from his
prepared report to put, in a good.
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Astor, the ,hard-nosed; asptongued
old .'` aristocrat. She : became ` .en
raged. during an arguiment with
Churchill, and' fired what she
thought was the.parting shot,
"If .you ' were my. . husband; I'd
poison yourcofff ee, To which
;the . great man replied promptly
and politely,.. "Madarne,- if you`.
were my. wife, I'd,drink
We shall/' not see ..his. like again.
word for;. the purebred cattle men
of the; .county.
"After all," he said„. these are
the . top men , in this ' county: If
they were not, they would not
likely be in .the purebred busi-
ness. We think . this is one• step
ahead of . the man who 'is not
making: any plans for a. breeding
program. We have, .need of . this
type of man; and: • theyshould
be supported in. breeding and oth-
er programs to the extent : that
they pass information on to . the
other hundreds of farmers in the
County. ' You may have a only ,;20O'
purebred Holstein breeders in the
'county, and probably 500 who, are .'
breeding livestock, and . it is im-
portant that they be able to ,' set
the 'pattern for the remainder..
"When ' you are reviewing the
grants in the future --we seemto
go. over. , this every three or four
years—you may. spend ' consider-
ably . more. If I did not • think this
a good project 1 would not rec-
ommend it to your agricultural
committee.',. .
Mr. Miles said 15 farm 'pond
proposals. had been passed on ,to,
Toronto for grants of 50%.
"We are having .farmers move
into ' Ashfield,. draining.. the'land
a n d using it for productive,
crops," ,he ,said. "1 think . it is
no secret tt a move for a
grain elevvatoir`' is under way' in
Ashfield+
The; rolling mill for working met-
a s
et'alswas :first described by Leon
arde da 'Vinci.
'Carbon arc •welding• was invented
in 1885.
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Open In Summer
The Provincial •Park > at Pointe
Farm will'' be ,in 'operation: for'
the . suzniner of :1965; < according
to • construction . ' foreman :. Clifford
Bates.
The 503 -acre park, is , located
;,� miles north,kof ,Sunset Beach
near .,Goderich °` 7 At its ' fully ' de-
veloped stage Point Farm Parka.
will be able to accommodate
4,000 .persons daily. About 206
campsites will be.. ready'. this
Construction of ;reads' to the
beach and picnic ; area: is being
carried, out. by Sandy 'Compile
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Hon .Ltd. of Goderich.•
Present construction • also in
chides foundations for, three com-
fort stations A maintesiance build-
ing, Ranger station and park 'of-
fice are to, be . 'completedin the
spring.,
• The camping area is a conven-
tional ' layout of streets. Tents'
Will have ' a 50 -foot frontage ,and;
trailers mbre than 100` feet. Each
site will be separated by a buff-
er *ie of unoccupied land ''on all:
four sides. A" parking lots for more,
than 400 .oars, will rbe provided.
More than .4;000 .trees ;have been
planted at _ the park. .
Already students ha v e been
quick. to take • advantage of ' the
new source. of employment the
• park will ,provide for the summer
A shipboard day is, divided ' .into months, They are ' applying . for
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BrownueNews
2nd LUGKNO W PACK ..
(By Dona Wagner)
The Browniemeeting opened
With Fairy Ring. .
Dona . ' Wagner was 'Toadstool
Fairy. Inspection was.: for shiney
pins.andGold-
en
Golden Bar " girls . ld-
;�,
en Hand'' girls worked on knitting.
The rest :ofhe Brownies.
tworked
on, nature. Pow -vow, , was ' held:
Chines were: sung.
LUCKNO,W : MEN'S BOWLING
and triple .of 889 ;; Oldsmobiles 0
points, : Fords 4 points Silver-
woods 2 ,points, Dodges 2 points;,
Melts . 3 .points; Pontiacs 1 ' point.
• Team Standings: ' Buicks 35,..
Pontiaes:; 34 Dodges 34, Sillver-,
`34,, Fords ,31, , Oldsmobiles
ames of 250 and over' Jack.
fisher '334, : 280 and ` 27.5.; Donald
MacKinnon : 290 Bill '• Stewart '302,
and 255, Roy Finlayson 261, Fred
Young 264, Freck Button 261. ,
Gem diamonds are :being :dr'edged
from the .ocean bottom near.
South . African .Shores;
Tuesday, • January 26, 9p m. Group : d
Jack ,,Fisher captured both high. James:. Buchanan .was the . only
single and triple honours this life -bong : bachelor to be Pres'i-<
week with a, single : sin .game 3
. of. 334 _dent of the '.U:S
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