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WHAT QUEER THING IS THIS? In fact, it's corn. Corn specially
coated to allow for planting in the fall, survival over the winter
and germination in thf spring.
The corn has . been covered with protective substances that 'act
like a winter coat to the seed. This coating is made upof several
layers of material. Loam and talc are used as the staple binders.
Sugar, glycerine and propylene alcohol act as the plasticising agents.
Hydrogen peroxide - which gives the material its own oxygen - add
menthyl cellulose in an alcohol solution as a hardener, have both
been added. Once covered, the corn starts to look like a small, smooth
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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, February 26, 1970
Robert Nixon Is Endorsed
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The enthusiastic endorsation which
Ontario Liberals gave Robert Nixon at
the annual convention of the Liberal
party in Ontario in Ottawa last week
was not only an acknowledgement that
he was the, leader of the party, it Was
a recognition of the consistent manner
in which he had gone about rebuilding
the party since his election as leader in
January, 1967.
Certainly he emerged frdm the gath-
ering with an enhanced confidence and
as a, stronger leader. He will enter the
legislaturei, in what well may be the
last session of the present parliament,
firm in the knowledge that as the lead-
er of the official oppositiOn, he has the
support of the party he leads,
His assurance was seen too,...pn the
closing day of the gathering when he
moved to the attack, in a fighting•poli-
deal speech.
' His theme was the evident move. by
Premier Itobarts to avoid discussion of
provincial issues, on which the Con-
servatives are particularly vulnerable,
.by attacking the federal government.
Imaginative Plan for CFB Clinton
What's This All About? 00
raisin.
There's an added winter wrap as well, made from a polystyrene
material. it can be split open by frOst but is impervious to water.
Once the frost splits the coat, growth can begin.
How the frost splits the coat and how the seed survives once grow-
ing in the cold are not yet known. Nor is it certain what happens as a
result of very mild or very severe frosts; but the Ontario Department
of Agriculture and Food is presently conducting tests to find out'
the answers to these questions. (Photograph by the Ontario Depart--
meat of Agriculture and Food).
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FROM my WINDOW
By Shirley Kellar
m.
In the months that have elapsed
since it" was announced CFB Clinton
would close next year, much effort has
been directed at finding an alternative
use for the base.
Tuckersmith in, which the base is
located, nearby Clinton and Huron
, County together with agencies of gov-
ernment at various •levels, each have
explored action that might be taken to
make use of the facilities, The County
Council, at a recent meeting, agreed to
set up an 'organization devoted to that
end.
Continued study of the problem, it
was hoped, would bring solutions and,
perhaps this is what has happened.
any event Conestoga College peo-
ple have come up with an imaginative
proposal that is comprehensive, new
and different.. , -
Recognizing the complete "and bal-
anced facilitieg on the base 'make it in
fact a well appointed small town and
community; the Conestoga proposal sug-
gests it would be ideal for a living and
learning experience. -
In other words an opportunity to re-
habilitate entire families:
4Experience gained in the Ontario
Manpower Retraining Programme in-
dicates vthat upgrading of the 4 wage
., earner of a family is often less success-
ful because the spouse and children are
not upgraded 'as well. There are strong
indications of a need aitiong the disad-
-vantaged to seek to help' the complete
family as opposed to selected meMbers
of the family. The Base has all of the
facilities "needed fora complete family
.training programme. Furthermore, the
programme would be .a source of 'infor-
mation to assist persons engaged in ed-
ucation, welfare and other social plans."
the proposal says.
Identifying some broad classifications
of need the proposal mentions consis-
tently on welfare, families without reg-
ular wage income who may be' dislocat-
ed by housing renewal projects and the
person 'on parole who needs assistance
to. adjust to his family and to find a
Sir:
For those who perhaps do not know
the amounts' that have been spent' in the
past to improve the site of the proposed
dam and flooded lands In Hullett these
figures may be of interest. I lived in
the area for over 50 years and have
drain by-laws tif the township which con-
tain the names of land owners and indicate
what it cost them for drain work. People
in the Townships of Grey, McKillop,Hullett
and Logan and town of Seaforth spent
money to improve land and drain what is
known as the Kinburn swamp. The area
is composed of that portion of the river
and creek branches to which the by-laws
refer as A, B, and C. and which empty
into the river just above the proposed
dam. •
The councils , of the past all saw fit
to improve the land.
The earliest known drain , work was
in 1894 at.ii cost of about $9,000.
In 1916 Hullett council passed by-law
NO43- for land improvement and borrowed
913,134.80 to improve the drainage
system. The total assessment at that
finis Was $25,634.50 based do a report
prepared by the late John Hager OLS and
dated at Mitchell Ocotber 24, 1916. The
contract was let, and a coal fired steam
new way.
The education programme which• is
seen is one of perhaps one to two years
duration for each family. The daily
programme must be full. Traditional
educational approaches will not achieve
results but there is now a wealth of ex-
perience among persons working in the
education of adults. There is plenty of -
evidence of the success of innovative
education in the training centres in this
prbvince Conestoga suggests.
"Training programmes financed un-1
der the Federal Adult Occupation Train-,
ing Act and provided by the Ontario
Manpower Retraining Programme have
placed emphasis on the need to help the
total person. Provision is made for the
physical,• mental, • learning and social
health of each person. The concept of
seeking to provide foi not only the com-
plete family but also the complete needs
of the family should "be paramount.
This means the involvement of several
departments of the Provincial Govern-
ment, municipal governments and ag-
encies. The main thrust will be in the
learning process but success cannot be
achieved without involvement of many
other resources." it adds. •
There is of coursethe paramount mat-
'ter of cost but Conestoga points out
that public and private funds are now
being expended to support disadvantag-
ed families and says it is not whether
these will be continued • but hoW they
will be applied. For example, the propos-
al adds, it should• be to the advantage ,
of a municipality to expend welfare
funds to support a family at the, Clin-
ton Base as opposed to keeping the fam-
ily in the municipality and perpetuat-
ing the welfare payments without hope
of change year after year.
There are difficulties 'certainly in
bringing into operation such a propos-
al. There are problems of cost, of res-
ponsibility, of divided jurisdictions -to
overcome. But perhaps it is in just such
a new and different suggestion as this,
that may lie the long term use of the
base. It merits consideration.
MARCH 1st,'1895.
There died on the farm of James Walk-
inshaw, Hullett, a few. 'days ago, a peacock
which had proudly strutted on that farm for
22 years, being one of a pair presented to
him by Robert Henderson, Tuckersmith,
Wm. L. McLaren of Cromarty has
purchased from Wm. McAllister, the noted ,,
pig breeder of Varna, a very fine Berk-
shire sow, ten• months old.
A runaway occurred on Main.Street of
.;this town. Miss Fowler of. Harpurhey
was, driving her niece to school and in
turning , the corner at the Royal Hotel,
the runner 'of . the cutter went up, on a
snowdrift, spilling the occupants out on
the road. The' horse ran as far as
R. Willis store and fell.
' The first train from the west on
Monday was stalled in a drift, four miles
out of Goderich.
A white ash tree was cut down in
Sproat's bush, Tuckersmith, which mea-
sured '72 feet from stump .to irst
limb, straight as an arrow. It was four
feet in diameter:
Two lively green frogs were found
• hopping around on a snow bank on David
McGill's farm, East Wawanosh. He was
cleaning out a well and it is supposed
that they were thrown out with the dirty
water.
FEBEUARY 27, 1920.
S. J. Hell of McKilloP' has sold his
100 acre farm to Ed. Kleber for $7000.
Ed. Weston of Hayfield is putting in
new floors and painting some' rooms in
the Commercial, making a great improve-
ment. '
On .Tuesday a pleasant time was spent
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred yipond,
the occasion being a presentation to them
from their neighbors' and friends prior
to. their leaving for. their new home on
concession 6 , Hibbert, where they have
purchased a fine farm.
, Thos. Consitt of Seaforth, moved
onto the farm on the Parr Line formerly
occupied by his nephew Roy Consitt.
There passed away th,e last of, the
pioneer settlers of the Bronson line in
the person of John Tough at the age of
84 years. lie was born l'n Banffshire,
'Scotland. 'He came to Canada on the
sailing vessel "The Renown", taking
seven weeks in crossing 'the ocean.
Sugar making • will 'soon be the order
of the day, but gathering sap until a
good thaw comes will be some workindeed.
W. C. Montgomery, jeweller and op-
tician of Hensall, has 'added a modern
and" splendid instrument for the testing
of eyes For glasses.
Considerable grain is being brought
to the Hensall market, despite heavy
weeds.
MARCH 2 , 1945.
James Robb'; 80 year old. Seaforth
resident and hiwsister, Miss Jape Robb,
vigiè taken lo Scott Memorial Hos-
pital .buffering from the effects of coal
gas' with which they were overcome.
They were two of Seaforth's oldest resid-
ents both in years and point of residence.
The Brucefield rink has ,been a bo,sy
spot all winter but the carnival sur-
passed all expectations when a record
cruwd turned out to contest •and be on-
lookers.
This winter was never invented for
the rural mail- courier. Zero weather,
blizzards filled or icy roads, when there
is neither sleighing nor wheeling in some
parts 'of the routes and snow piled 'mail
boxes on all of them do not add much to
life's pleasure.
Hensall South Branch of the. Red Cross , ,
held a quilting at the home of Mrs.
Oliver Rowcliffe. There were 10 ladies
arid one quilt was completed.
The Seaforth Public Utility commis-
sion has let the contract to drill a deep
well on the lots east of Victoria Park to
g W.D.Hopper.
and he said, "If you had that excrescence
on yaw nose, you'd call it a pimple."
• The other was a ginger-haired Brit,
ish Major, a surgeon. He was going around
the bend because there wasn't •enough
surgery to keep his hand in. When he had
removed all possible appendices and
tonsils, on the slightest provocation, he
spent most _ of his time sidling • up to
peqple and asking if they'd been circum-
cised. We used to hide when we saw hiM
coming.
When our kids came along, both Were
delivered by a -wonderful doctor, Frank
Williamson.' Four o'clock in the ,morning
meant nothing to him. He'd be there, quiet
and calm and rational, in a flash. He grew
roses. •
When we came here, we had Hill Neill.
4He had a theory that people needed only'
four hours sleep a 'night. He grooved on
tropical fish and tape recorders, didn't
give a hoot about money, forgot to bill
you, but was always compassionate and
on the job when you needed him. '
Now our family ''cloctor is a quiet
Englishnian with a complete lack of the
affectation that the odd little-tin-god type
doctor assumes. He has a propensity
for Christmas carolling outside ,your
house with his Wife and children, and has
learned- to play a creditable trumpet.
I've been curling with n a doctor in
his 70s' lately. I enjoy ,his stories about
the old days, when he used a dog team
to cross the bay,' hoping there wouldn't
be a gap of open water when he got to the
other side. He's 'a courtly gentleman.
When we picked up our' daughter at
the hospital recently, we met another
species of the breed. Youngish, tough,
red-eyed from lack of sleep, -he todk
two hours, including his lunch hour, to talk to us, without recompense. He cared.
'And one more. An eminent city specia-
list, who is married-to an oldfriend of my
wife, took time froth his busy schedule td'
didn't even Know us.
Check on Kim and alleviate our fears.""
A pretty fine bunch, the Dees, in my
experience,
Last week was appliance 'week at
our house. You don't. know what applian,=-
ce week is? You're lucky.
Appliance week is When everythinggees ,
wrong and needs a repairman,. . . and
last week was • a real pip at our abode. •
First of all, it was the television...My
husband .is far from technically Minded.. .
He's a great carpenter, a - pretty fair
paperhanger, a good painter and a won-
derful spring housecleaning assistant, but
when, it comes to things electrical he's way •
outclassed.. •
kid you not when . I tell you he has •
only recently, ,learned to turn the aerial to.
our television set. 'Filet's right. He could
turn the machine on when it was hockey
time' and off when the noise ,got on hi-S..
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ji
ust' a3 yEhtryng,:s.
hollered for someone to come to his aid.
That's why I didn't get ex,cited when
he bellowed the other night for someone
to come to adjust the television. Usually
our three-year old runs in and stops the
picture from flicking upwards or turns out
the squigley lines, but it was late at night •
so someone else was' needed:
I didn't budge. Let him experiment a •
little, I 'thought.
It wasn't long until 'my spouse •was
upstairs preparing for bed.
"The television's shot," he stated.
. I still. wasn't,. excited, I figured, I'd.
.go •down in the morning, turn it- on, .
adjust. a fe* knobs and the set would be
fine , I was wrong. The television was in,
need of. , repair so we sum.mohe.d the
fellow with' the' big suitcase full of ex-
pensive-little tubes. "
Upon examination of the set, the ,
repairman found it necessary to take
the thing back to the shop . . . and Since
our TV is incorporated in a radio and
record player combination', we lost every-
thing for a few precious hours that really
mattered to our children.
The same day as the television broke .
down, my washing machine began making
strange churning noises. A quick sniff
around the laundry told me\si_annething was
getting warm. Just then, the machine
ground to a halt,
I looked in. The water hadn't gone
out during the spin cycle. I figured there '
*et be something blocking the pump.
Now if my husband was handy with
things mechanical, I'd simply tell hilt
and he'd be able to put the machine back
in working order. But knowing my husband
and anything more complicated' than a '
flashlight, I'd better• dell a serviceman.
The serviceman I called must be a
good one . He's booked up solid until
the first of the week. .
While I was wringing out,. by hand. the_.
last of the washed and rinsed ut still sop-
ping wash, my three-year old mechanical
genius had a go at the clothes dryer. ..
He* discovered that if you turned the
knob on the door just the right way, it would
wind right „off '. . . and if you pushed the
little screw into the door it would make a
beautiful grinding sound as it threshed
around in the machinery and it would be-
come imposSible to open the door on the
dryer to stop the tumbling actidn.
It was' while I was finding the com-
bination to the trouble which plagued
our diyer that my youngest brought me
his record player.
That. record player wasn't an expensive
piece of. machinery in the first place, but
since our littlest son has been using it
every waking hour of every day, it has
depreciated fast. Right now the turntable
is on an odd tilt and 'when a record is
'played on ,it, everything sounds like a
bunch of bagpipes being tuned up for the
parade.
"Can the man' fix this too," was my
- boy's question,
"Probably not," I admitted, "but we
can pay him to :try."
TroublO does seem to travelin batches
and I'm lookingforward to better days. I'm
wondering though, if when I get all my
bill's together for the repairs to my ap-
pliances, if I will be able to enjoy my
new found freedom until I've made up the
loss with hard earned dollars and cents.
4,17,411,0441.4.."
To The Editor
Re.calls Cost of Hullett Drainage
powered dredge went right down the middle
of the river. Coal to fire the boilers was
dumped at stated places along the river
drawn there with horses.
On May 9, 1935 by-law No.5 was pre-
pared based on a report of the late.•
Geo. A. McCubbin OLS of Chatham—In-
ddently the cost in 1917 exceeded the
estimate by 24%. The cost of No. 5 by- •
law was estimated at $72,000, The
outlet liability was determined to be
'Seaforth $70.00, Tuckersmith $102.00,
Grey $665.00, Logan •$1,583.00, McKillop
$21,216.00, Hallett $3,673.00 for a total
of $27,310.00.
Those who think the kinburn swamp is
a mass of wilderness filled with reptiles,
snakes and frogs should have driven up
concession 5, lot 12 - 13 last year and
seen one of the best crops. of grain in,
Ontario. That owner spent thousands
of dollars to bring the land into cultiv-
ation.
Wonder why in this so called demo;
erotic country of ours the above townships
and especially the rate paYers of Hullett,
were, not consulted before all the papers
had announced ilia news . from Queens
Park.
Lorne Lawson
It's an 'unpleasant but undisputed fact
that most of tit In today's material society
envy those who are making more money
than we are.
I'm as guilty as anyone else, simul-
taneously knowing that it's silly. But
there's one breed - the doctors - that
makes a whole lot -more money than I
do. And I have no envy; nothing but ad-
miration.
we've met some new ones in the past
couple of weeks, and they have confirmed
my long-held opinion that their's is a
noble profession.
I know, I know. There are some rotten•
apples in every barrel, There are some
doctors who are intetested only in the buck.
There are others who wouldn't take a night
call even •, if you were dying. There are
the specialists who work office hours only;
and knock off $45,000. a year. (Tried to
get an appointment, with an eye doctor
lately? Takes months.)
But the vast majority of tia-day's
doctors are just as dedicated as their pre-
decessors, work just as hard and long,
and are just as interested in healing body
and mind. And proportionately, in terms
of to-day's living costs , they're no better
off than the doctor of 50 years ago.
First doctor I ever met, I guess, was
the one who delivered me, and our ac-
quaintance was casual. Just a whack on
the bum from him and a squall of protest
from me.
When I was a kid, our family doctor
was Dr. Bagyard. He was a massive man
with a massive calm. When he arrived,
at any hour, you felt as though God had
• just taken over ,,gad everything was 40.K.
In the winter; he charged about the country
with a device of his own creation, a sort
of snowmobile built from as Model T Ford;
In summer, his, favorite recreation was
hitting fire balls to the. outfielders in
our pro-baseball-t. He could hit thetn
half a mile,
In prison camp, I met a couple Of
dandies. , One was doll-black, six-feet-
six-and reputed to be the son of an African
chief. I went to him in some pertprhat100,
SUGAR and SPICE
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