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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1971-12-16, Page 17WINCHELSEA Correspondent Mrs. Wm. Walters Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Mit- ten and Diane visited on Sunday in Monkton with 'Mr. and Mrs. Rueben Pelhke. Mr. and Mrs. George Fray attended the Usborne Council Banquet on Thursday evening tit Thames Road United Church and later to the township hall for euchre. Prizes went to Ladies' high, Alma Etherington, low, Ola Batten; lone ha:nds,ShirleyCoop- er; Men's high, Floyd Cooper, low, Paul Kerslake. Mrs. John Coward and Mrs. Elson Lynn attended the Hort- icultural meeting on Tuesday evening at the hall in Kirkton. faerillogf ir y These whines '72 Polaris Snowmobiles PROM $649 Available at HAUGH EQUIPMENT 1 mile East of 13RUCE4`IELI) PRONE 5270138—SEAFORTH GRAHAM ARTHUR " MOTORS EXETER. — mel'AR19 Trade-in 170 Ski Doo, 20 H.P. 4 .1 SPECIALS FOR THURSDAY — FRIDAY — SATURDAY Libby's Fancy — 48-oz TOMATO JUICE Stokely — 14-oz: HONEY POD PEAS Taster's Choice INSTANT COFFEE Bick's Sweet MIXED PICKLES Je11-0 — 3-oz. JELLY POWDERS Dream Whip DESSERT TOPPING Hostess — 69c POTATO CHIPS " 2 for 690 2 for 37ii 4-oz. 1.05 32-oz. 530 9 for 990 4-oz. 590 10-oz. 590 SCHNEIDER'S SPECIALS For This Week Schneider's Sandwich — 8-oz, SPREAD ROLLS 4 for 1.00 Schneider's Sausage MEAT CHUBS lb- 410 Schneider's Fried CHICKEN BREASTS • • 11/2-lh. 1.49 PRODUCE OPEN ALL DAY- WEDNESDAY Golden RIPE BANANAS California — 113 NAVEL ORANGES Red EMPORER GRAPES lb. 10 Doz. 690 lb. 390 COME, CHECK OUR COMPETATIVE PRICE'S LIMITED SEAFORTH PHONE 527-1320 GINGERICH SEAFORTH PHONE 527-0290 There's something special about an electrical gift —because it's the gift that works. Through the years ahead, it'll be a constant reminder of your thoughtfulness. When, you go gift hunting, think electric. SEAFQRTH PUBLIC . UTILITY COMMISSION D'Orlean Sills, Chairman Dr. Roger Whitman, Mayor F.C.J. Commissioners Walter S'Cott, Manager. Sr FRANK KLING Geo. A. Sills & Sons Heating, Plumbing and Electrical Supplies PHONE 527-1620 SEAFORTH ozzt4z,;:(mftcyo:crzwacm(mEsrazim(Ti CHRISTMAS BLYTH ONTARIO I gaSAX143zAsoZ7zZ5ziA3z5/1z9ZzZlzAS:Z. X:911=iMiUrziiteSSIzZYIATZE11:AYZEMECR Ict ;i 1 STORE HOURS 1 i V il l V ; V V ' Open Sundays - 2 to 6 P.M. I V, • W 1 And Every Night 1 i PI ' w g w, 1Dec.20 t©_ 24 Till 9:30 w w i g 1 1 1 `Thy earth and bury plastic drains quickly and scientifically, an operation which is already being performed on many farms. The day will come when electrical heating conduits in the ground will allow summer crops to be grown as late as December. The ideas may sound fantastic, but research is already undrNm. It is urifote that the farmer continues to be maligned by controversy, myth and misin- formation. Canadian farmers are among the world's most pro- ductive and efficient food pro- ducers. But what is more sig- nificant, is the importance of a /Ce'aktly agricultural economy. Agriculture and its directly related enterprises generate 42 per cent of Canada's gxCrss • Corresponcient Mrs. Robt, HuIley Unit 1 of Cavan U.C.W. met * at the horns of Mrs. Eric Ander- son. The president, Mrs. Bob Dalton presided and opened the meeting with Christmas hymn "Away In a Manger" and a read- ing entitled the First creche. New leaders were appointed for the following year. • President- Anna Dolmage; Secretary- Il- ene Thompson;; Finance- Dor- othy Dalton and Marg Riley, Marg Riley being the convener. The sides chosen for the penny contest are; Mary Riley's team- Mrs. Betties, Irene Gri moldby, Mrs. Beurman , Carol Ann Viv- • ian, Lila Storey, Agnes Scarrow, Minna Scott, Delphine Dolmage, Margaret Cuthill, Margaret Hul- ley, Helen Storey, Maja Dodds, Margorie Anderson, Ilene Thom - Did You Know? - Canada's lowest temperature ever, 81 degrees below zero, was officially recorded at Snag, • Yukon on February 3, 1947. - Canada's highest temperature, 113 degrees F, was officially recorded at Midale and Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan, on July 5, 1937. ill - Less snow fails in the Arhtic than practically anywhere else in C anada. - Canada has added two words to the weatherman's dictionary - chinook and blizzard - A desert is a place getting less than W inches of rain a year. Parts of British Columbia are • desert by this definition. - Daylight saving time was in- vented in Canada. • - The windiest place in Canada is not the corner of Portage and Main in Winnipeg, butCape Hopes Advance in Northern Quebec. - Despite talk of April Show- * ers", April is not the rainiest Month in Canada - in fact, in most parts it is one of the least rainy. - The most northerly weather station in Canada is at Alert on Ellesmere Island, 600 miles from the North Pole. - One hundred years ago grammar schools were required Is by order to take daily weather ebservations. - Despite the old saying, the fact is that it is never too cold to snow, - Tornadoes do occur in Canada. Regina suffered severe damage from one in 1912, and Sarnia was heavily hit in 1957. ,„ • - The highest weather, reporting station in Canada is Hailstone Butte, Alberta at an elevation of 7,785 feet above sea level. - Canada has two modern ships which maintain a regular weather reporting program 600 miles west of the British Columbia coast. Ladies Aid Meets 70 11 There were 20 persons pres- ent at the Ladies Aid of First. Church, on Tuesday afternoon when Mrs. Ed. Andrews presided over an interesting meetinz Mrs. Harold Agar bpened the meeting with two suitable poems and Mrs. Wm. Wa ddell rdad the scripture lesson followed with prayer by Mrs. R. E. McMillan. A duet "Once in Royal Dav- id's City" was sung by Mrs. Waddell and Mrs. R. K. McFar- lane with the audience joining In the last verse. Mrs. Lorne Lawson intro- duced Mrs. Pype of Londesboro who gave a demonstration on Christmas decorations and -bald the ladies how to makeem. Mrs. Ed. Andrews close .the Meeting by- reading the se version of the 23rd psal also the Scottish version of the same psalm. Lunch was served by Mrs. Lorne Lawson, Mrs. James Keys' and Mrs. Howard Agar.,1 111 beef as he got 18 years ago, yet his costs for running a beef feedlot have increased 110 per cent in 18 years. How come, too, the meat that is worth those few pebbles on the farm gets,, to be worth diamonds at the supermarket? Unfortunately, when prices increase to food consumers, it's the poor farmer who gets the blame. A classic example, is the recent increase in the price of milk. Farmers got a paltry 1/4- cent per quart increase. When it got to the consumer, the Increase was as much as three cents a quart in some areas. Let's talk for a minute about the big changes in agriculture, the. changes which place the farmer 'on a par with the big businessman. Research, mechanization, weed and insect control, credit, gene- tics, fertilizers, better com- munications,, better marketing, new food products, advances in soil and water conservation are all major components in the revo- lution. 'And it is just beginning. Can you picture a remote- controlled tiller-combin e that rolls along tracks bordering a 100-foot wide field? It moves down the field's five-mile length and threshes the wheat. At the _same time, it prepares the ground for the next crop. The harvested grain is funnelled into a pneu- matic tube that carries it to storage elevators. A similar m3.chineqolis along an adjacent cultivated field watering the soybean crop, while a jet-powered helicopter tra- verses a third strip spraying in- secticides. Decisions about planting and harvesting will not be made after consulting an almanac. The con- sultation will 'be done with a computer. Before the turn of the century, the average farmer produced enough to feed and clothe four persons. This figure has now jumped to 43 persons. The farm of the future will, be managed from a control centre whose closed-circuit television permits him to monitor his tiller- combine at work and scan the cattle pens at the' same time. A ticker tape will provide him with the latest prices and a com- puter will print out weather fore- casts. Orbiting satellites will pinpoint crop diseases and sensors in the soil will tell him when to apply water to his crops. Other machines will slice the figure has dwindled to tb bOrbood of seven per cent. Planners say it will .continue to dwindle until about four per-cent of the popplation is providing food 'for the rest of the country. It will become Increasingly difficult for this hard-working minority to communicate with the rest of the population. Farmers must learn to get their story told. They must make the sophistaicated urban dweller understand what Is happening on the farm front. The city brother must be made aware that what is happening to his country cousin is of vital concern to everyone. Fartners,"then, must lead the way in the fight to maintain and strengthen agriculture.They must become public relations men. They must learn the steps that are necessary to get into the mainstream of big business, especially in advertising and pro- motion. It is a big challenge. But farmers have met and conquered many challenges since the first sod was broken by wooden plow- shares centuries ago. 1,11.,OP 411 FIRE INSURA CE opmfm.,,.. Main litre. Seeforth Phone 327440o Margaret SharP, Fe., >K'eta -Tarvasurer FIRE, EXTENDED coiromGv, WINDSTORM, THEFT,- PRom.. DAM,AGA umourY, N r. — COMPLETE FARM• COVERAGE, inclullitIg MOO* ery and Livestock Floaters. — URBAN PROPERTY -- 'WO now OftVr COMP9S0* Dwelling Insurance es Well as FrOltie0W4 surance. —,SUMMER COTTAGES, TRAILER MOMESI, CHURCHES, HALLS. AGENTS: JAMES KEYS, RR 1, Seaforth; V. J. LANE, }*R5, Seaforth; WM. LEIFER, RR I, Londesboro; SEI.WYN BAKER, R.russelo; HAROLD SQUIRES, RR 3, Clinton; K. J. ETU E, Seaforth: DONALD G. EATON, Sea!Orth Ph.. 527-0240! Expositor Action Ads Winthrop (BY Robert Trotter in MID, the magazine of Midwestern Ontario) Farmers are accused of being chrenic complainers. The general ,,public has the misconception that a farmer is an uneducated slob dressed in bib overalls, an old straw hat and rubber boots, who steps across a dirty manure yard twice a day to feed slop to the hogs. Farming has become one of the least understood occupations in this province. A successful farmer today is not just a tiller of the soil. He is a mechanic, a welder, a carpenter, a book- keeper, a weathernien, a geneticist and a shrewd business-' man. He is everything but a public relations man and this is where misunderstandings begin. Many farm marketing boards are spending a great deal of money on advertising and promotion, notably, the Ontario Milk Maiketing Board. Unfortunately, the farmer still remains a misunderstood man. In Ontario especially, farming is fast becoming an automated business. Hog-farmers, for in- stance, feed a few hundred pigs by pushing a button. The old- fashioned bank barn will soon be an exception rather than a rule. It's a highly scientific busin- ess to-day. And just in case you think the farmer is living off the fat of the land, take .a gander at a few of these statistics compiled by 'a research group in big-brother- land across the border; - the farmer, today gets only 2 U/2 cents for the wheat in a 35 cent loaf of bread. - the cellophane wrapper on a bunch of carrots costs more than the farmer gets for growing the carrots. - the laborer who unloads a carload of pears gets more money for unloading that single carload than the farmer gets for growing the pears. - a laundry gets more for washing a shirt that the farmer gets for growing the cotton that went into that shirt. The beef producer is now getting the same price for his District Farmers Fag0 inaeasing Chalien- national product. As emo oyers, farmers pay wages that elp the economy. There are 427,000 people employed in Canada as independent agricultural pro- ducers and they hire an additional 215,000. And for every person directly employed on the farm, seven others are kept busy providing supplies, storing materials, pro- cessing, selling, delivering and merchandising agricultural pro- ducts. Canada's fast-growing urban majority are, obviously, content to remain blissfully unaware of what is happening on the farm. Most city dwellers are so far, removed from the land that some children actually think a cow's tail gets pumped for milk. Twenty years ago, farmers made up about 22 per cent of the population in Canada. Today, that For Complete' INSURANCE on your HOME, BUSINESS, FARM CAR, ACCIDENT, LIABILITY OR LIFE FOR FREE:— Your 1972 calendars and Victoria and Grey Farmers' Almanac Are Yours for the Asking at JOHN A. CARDNO Insurance Agency, Phone 527-0490 — Seaforth Office Directly Opposite Seaforth.. Motors pson, Marg,McClure. Dorothy Dalton's team- Betty Harris, Gail Shroeder, Norma Riley, Anna Dolmage, Mrs. Peth- ick, Doreen Dolmage, Beatrice Campbell, Grace Pethick, Laura HCggarth, Pearl Doha age, Joyce McClure, Pearl Dodds, Marion McClure, Brenda Thompson, Mrs. McSpadden. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Allan Camp- bell the first Tuesday of the mon- th. Mary Riley and Dorothy Dal- ton are on the lunch committee. The roll call was answered by a favorite Christmas Hyma. Dorothy read a poem entitled "It isn't the Church, It's You". Beatrice had the topic on' The Sounds of Christmas" and a poem on "Friendship". Hymn, " Oh Come all Ye Faithful" and pray- er by Beatrice closed the meet- ing. Unit 2 of the Cavan U.C.W. held their Penny Contest supp- er in the basement of the church. Casseroles were enjoyed. Olive Little and Gail Campbell being the leaders of the teams. Crok- thole was enjoyed., aau gifts were presented to Mrs. Thomas Price and Mary Little. Both ladies have moved to their new homes in Seaforth. Cavan U.C.W. held their Chrisfmaa meeting at the church on Wednesday evening last week with the opening hymn "Oh Come all ye Faithful" being sung. It was agreed that $-25.00 be sent to the C.N.I.B. Mrs. Axtmann re- ported for the nominating comm- ittee. Officers are to be install- ed at the January meeting. Cavan ladies will help the for- mer Zion McKillop ladies in their commitment with regards to the Korean boy they were supporting. Mrs. Geo. Case presided for the program, opening with hyitin 1 0 Little Town of Bethlehem". The Christmas story from Luke was read by Mrs. Wm. Church and she also read a poem, "Long Ago, Three Wise Wm." The topic entitled "The Muted Drum" was given by Mrs. Case, who also gave a closing prayer. While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night" was sung and Mr. Reuber pronounced the ben- ediction. • EAFORTH UPERIOR TORE Seaforth PHONE 527-0990 We Deliver yiy 1.