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Stifiday visitors w Mr. and thi
Mrs. Delmer Melding r were
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph f darer of
Guelph, Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Jeffrey and family of Dashwood, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Meidinger and
Miss Sue Walker of Zurich, Mr.
Anthony Meidinger and son Mark,
Mr. Patrick Meidinger, Miss
carol Lenahan all of London;
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence McNichol
and Dianne of Clinton.
Francis Meidinger spent the
weekend with his friend Danny
Nash of Seaforth.
A Simnel
TEA and
BAKE SALE
' will be held in
St. Thomas' Church
PARISH HALL
Wednesday,
April 11th
at 3 p.m.
Everyone Welcome
Town & Country Club
Bowling. League
ANNUAL
DANCE
Brodhagen
Community Centre
SAT., APRIL 7
9 to
"NITE LITES"
All welcome 18 and over
Admission $1.50 per
person
Refreshments,
kilbarchan
notes
By Mabel Turnbull
Congratulations to Mr. Russ
Hays who had a birthday March
23rd. Russ is a, veteran of the
First World War. He was 79.
On Thursday the St. Colum-
ban C. L. came and entertained
us. Bingo was played. Among ,
the winners were: Bill Elligsen,
Steve Dobley, Eddie Box, Carrie
Edgar • , Russ Hays and Mary
Allen. Prizes were given to the
winners.
Mrs. J. O'Leary read several
poems by Edgar Allan Poe -
"Annabel Lee", ''God is standing
there with you", "An Appointed
time".
A sing-song followed accom-
panied by Mrs. Lew O'Rourke
on the guitar. Familiar songs
were chosen such as; "He's got
the Whole World in His Hands",
"Let Me Call You Sweetheart,"
"My Wild Irish Roshe." A
social hour followed with lunch.
Mrs. Carrie Edgar of Listdwel
thanked the C.W.L, with their
president, Mrs. Roy Swart for
their kindness.
An Expositor Classified will
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CASH BINGO
Legion Hall, Seaforth
FRI., APRIL 6th
8:15 p.m.
15 Regular Games for $10.00
THREE $25.00 GAMES
- $75.00 Jackpot to Go -
TWO DOOR PRIZES
Admission $1.00
Extra Cards 25e or 7 for $1.00
(CHILDREN UNDER 16 NOT
PERMITTED)
-Proceeds for Welfare Work-
- Auspices,Seaforth Branch 156,
Royal Canadian Legion, Seaforth
QUEENS
SEAFORTH
FRIDAY
and
SATURDAY
THIS WEEK . . .
Entertainment'
CAL PIPER
Country &'
Western
No
Sat. Matinee
In the Huron Lounge
Centralia 6th o‘en. house
attracts large attendance
"We're very happy with this students all o gakie a number. of
year's attendance" said J.A. food ,demonstrations and Miss
MacDonald, Principal, at the con- Diane Walker from Thorndale
elusion of Centralia College's was selected as the top demon-
sixth annual Open House display. strator by the Ontarie Dietetic
Ontario's newest Agricultural Association. Her prize was pre-
College, located at Huron Park, sented by Mrs. Doreen Wilson
has been growing steadily since from R.R. # 1, Springfield.
its inception in 1967. This year, Agricultural displays were
Open House included a wide supported this year by three
variety of displays and exhibits, cross bred calves loaned by S.
explaining various facets of the Brand of R.R. # 5, Forest. They,
three courses at the College. along with a welding demenstra-
With two-year diploma programs tion provided action for interes-
in Animal` Health Technology, ted students and parents. Many
Agricultural Business Manage. other displays focussing on the
ment and Home Economics there agricultural course and farming
was a lot to see. in Ontario were also present.
A highlight of thelW0tday The Junior Year Hematology
Open House was the fashion show. display was judged the best in
This year Mrs. Gisele Riberdy the' Animal Health Technology
from Tilbury was selected as Building. Dr. R. Moore, Ani-
top student for her performance mals for Research Branch with
in the show. Miss Ruth Skinner the Ministry of Agriculture and
from R.R. # 3, Exeter presented Food was judge. The live sur-
a prize to Mrs. Riberdy on be- gery demonstration was also a
half of the South Huron Women's highlight of _the Animal Health
Institute. The Home Economics Technology displays.
Kenneth Coleman, president of theSeaforthOptimistClub, presents trophies to Don Tottzel, left,
and Ted Podsadecki, both of R.R.1, St. Marys, who won in the men's open class in the canoe
race. (Photo by Oke)
Huron follows trend
as farms disappear
Country and Western Entertaitunent
SATURDAY
the 'Red Knight Room
Elgin; Gordnd Don Fisher
, WITH AUDREY KERR AT THE PIANO
- Ladies' and Escorts Room -
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
ALBERT GRAIG and
ART (SHORTY) FOUGERE
TASTY CHICKEN WINGS FOR SNACKS
- AMPLE FREE PARKING -
COMMERCIAL HOTEL - Seaforth
Don't forget
the 2nd annual
Optimist
Millionaire
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Saturday April 7th
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SEAFORTH DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL
Friday, April 13
Dancing 9:30 - 12:30
Music by
Bobby Downs
and His. Orchestra
Admission - $5.00 Per Couple
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Miss Jennie Hogg is visiting
friends in Toronto.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Cole-
. man have arrived home after
spending the past six weeks in
Sebring and Homestead, Florida.
Mrs, Adam Dodds of Listowel
visited her sisters Mrs. John
Hillebrech and Mrs. Rita Orr.
Guests of Mrs. J.M. McMillan
on Tuesday were Mrs. Neville
McMillan of Collingwood and her
sister Mrs. Morley Hurley of
Toronto.
Mrs. Earl Bell and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Bob Lake, were recent
weekend guests with Misses Bess
and peg Grieve. They also
attended the funeral of the late
Mrs. J.A. Munn.
Mrs James MacKague and
Mrs. Harry Brown of Toronto
were in Seaforth attending the,
funeral of the late Mrs. J.A.
Munn.
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MAINLY
BRASS!
Mixed Bowling League
DANCE
SAT, April 28th
Seaforth
Community Centre
Country and Western Music
by GERRY SMITH
and FRIENDS
Dancing from 9:30 till 1 a.m.
Tickets $3.00 per couple
Refreshments Available
SEAFORTH SNOWMOBILE CLUB
Spring Dance
- AT SEAFORTH ARENA -
FRIDAY, APRIL 6th
_ Music .by
'THE BLUEWATER PLAYBOYS`
Dancing from 10 to 1 a.m.
- Tickets $3.00 per couple
Tickets available at the Seaforth PUC and the
Imperial Bank of Commerce
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CANDLELIGHT
RESTAURANT and TAVERN-
- FRIDAY and SATURDAY -
The Cavaliers
Ladies' high single and triple
Ann Nobel 240 and 690. Men's
" high single, H. Kramprs 28'7;
Triple R. Beuermann 688;
MIXED DOUBLES
Team standings: 1st Bouncers
121; 2nd Strikers 100; 3rd Lane
Leapers 86; 4th Head Pins 77;
5th Gutter Balls 71; 6th Aces 70.
weekly highs: Ladies' single,
and Triple, Hazel McGonigle 253
and 657. Men's high single and
triple, . Carl Vanderzon 28'7 and
688.
Season's highs; Ladies' sin-
gle, Betty Seymour 291; Triple,
Barb yeesenberg 675; Average,
Barb Wesenberg 185. Men's
single, Larry Wesenberg 347;
Triple, Bill Desjardine 830;
Average, John Coleman 223. ,
MIXED DOUBLES
• playoff points standing: Gut-
terballs 17; Strikers 14; Head-
pins 13; Aces 10; Lane Leapers 7;
Bouncers 3.
COMMERCIALS
Maple Leafs 5492; Travelers
5453; Speedies 5435; Canadian
wings 5382; Superstars 5285;
Diamonds 5132.
Y.B.C.
Team standings- Swallows
2,631; Chickadees 2,246; Robins
2,003; Peewees 1,887; Budgies
2,559; Canaries 2.389.
' C.Y.O.
Team standings: Speeders
4,359; Lucky Charm 4,786;
Motherd 4,722.
TOWN PLAYOFF A TEAMS
St. James 3,579; Thursday
Nighters 3,230; Egmondville
3,225; Legion 3,199.
BOWLING B TEAMS
Thursday 7 o'clock.
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THIS WEEK
AT THE
ROYAL HOTEL
MITCHELL
FRIDAY
and
SATURDAY
In the
CROWN ROOM
"The Revolts"
Dining room open on Sundays
from 12 noon-2 p.m. and S p.m.
to 8 p.m. tin the evening.
unnumummummmim.
(Goderich Signal Star)
"By the old wood
was hung,
Our stories told,
was sung,
We though we'd
farm,
But the chances
million to one."
That's not word for word the
way Bob Dylan wrote that verse
of "Train Goin' West'', I've taken
the liberty of splicing two verses
in one, but the theme remains
the same. A lament on the rapid
disappearance of small farms
that to many, only one genera-
tion ago, were a way of life. A
lament aimed particularly per-
haps to the disappearing family
farm.
As more and more such farms
are said, to slip into the oblivion
of larger units, corpOrate inter-
ests or even' under the asphalt of
urban areas the public faces a
barage of nostalgic stories, tele-
vision scripts and documentar-
ies, as well as news stories, be-.
moaning the loss of a way of
life called, "The Family Farm."
Some make futile cries for
help, from Provincial and Fed-
eral governments toward saving
such agricultural units, some
shrug the whole thing off as a
half true situation blown out of
proportion and nearly everyone
agrees its all happening some-
where else, like out west on the
prairies.
According to the Canadian
census however, the situation is
neither out Of proportion, or hap-
pening somewhere else. It's
happening in Huron County, as
well as everywhere across Can-
ada, and they seem to have the
figures to prove it.
In an advance bulletin re-
leased by the census peopleHur-
on County lost a total of 352
farms in the past five years
alone. In 1966 there were 4,565
farmamOtierating in Huron but
by 19'71 that figure had dropped'
to 4,213.
Farm land is disappearing
as well. It is just not a case
of two smaller farms having been
joined into one since1966. Some-..
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where Huron County also lost
9,078 acres of agricultural land
in that same time period.
Howich, Stephen and Turn-
berry were the top three town-
ships in farms lost. Stephen led
the way as it dropped no less
than 43. Howick was second
losing 32 and Turnberry third
having lost 28.
Ashfield lost the lowest num-
berf havingarmsinth onlyeiv f faellyeenarbypesreivoedn.
Colborne lost 2'7, Goderich
22, Grey 19, Hay 11, Hullett 17,
McKillop 16, Morris 15, Stanley
13, Tuckersmith 27, Usborne 8,
wEastosWh lawenosh 21 and West wa-
ao Each of the Townships also
showed a drop in farm acreage
in keeping with the over all drop
shown by the County figure.
g
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ulch decreases are nothing
ne for Huron County however'
A good example of this fact would
be that in 1867 the year Canada
became a nation, Huron County
boasted a population of about
80,000 people. Today that fig-'
u5re10.s just slightly more than 2,00
Since the urban areas of Huy-
on County have for the most part
'maintained a steady population
increase over the years it stands
to reason that much of the 28,000
drop must have eotne inthe rural
areas. It's been a slow and stea-
dy decline over more than a cen-
tury and according to those re-
cent figures it shows no signs of
stopping.
Mike Miller, who works with
the Department of Agriculture of-
fice out of Clinton says the situa-
tion may not be as bad as the
figures seem to indicate although
he does agree there have been
some reductions in farm numbers
during, the 1966 to 1971 period.
"The census figures given
take into consideration any unit
which markets more than $100 in
a year," he explains. "If one
looks at the figures for farms with
sales of over $5,000 the decrease
is much smaller and, then even
smaller with farms showing sales
°toyer $10,000 per year."
The $5,000 figures which are
available to show that the de-
crease trend is not nearly so
critical. As a matter of fact
every single' township shows an
increased number of farms in this
category, ,the increases are small
usually involving one or two units,
but in some cases as many as
10. More a sign of stabilization
than of increase but a healthy
sign never the less.
Combining the decrease fig•
ures from the general census ani
the break down figures of ttu
$5,000 sales category the result,
still come out on the negative
side, but only slightly. It woul
appear the downward slide in
farms , and farm acreage is fin
ally skidding to a stop.
Most of this decrease Mr
Miller feels are retirement sit
uations (to be expected) an
should not be taken with a grea
deal of concern.
"The trend is not as bad a
the overall farm figures seem t
show," he stressed. "As w
come down to the farms ove
$5,000 sales real trend ca
be seen more clearly. -The tren
in this part of the country 1
beginning to level out." .
'Mr. Miller explains that tt
acreage decrease could be ac
counted for through "Honda
Acreage" like reforestatior.
Some land, he says, is also
to ARDA from those figure:
"ARDA would own sever:
thousand acres in the count
which farmers are renting."
"The loss of population
rural areas is probably turnip
around 'as well," he said. "W
are getting more and more pec
ple Moving . to the county to liv
bur id tb tarm.''' '1'
areak 'are' showing
rising percentage of rural non
farm people," he adds.
The family farm too may b,.
"Alive and well and living In
Huron County."
"Figures show," Mr. Mille:'
explains,"that' only two percei
of the farms in Huron are owne
in corporate structures and those
are often father-son operations
who incorporated for tax and suc
cession benefits."
Mr. Miller did concede the
because more farms are on
good economic basis at the mo
ment more young people may t
deciding to stay on the farm tha
will at a later date, but he ad
ded that he was hopeful the sit
uation would, continue to stabali:
itself over the next few year:,
All is not perfect in the field
of Huron County agriculture bu
things are improving. There ar
still problems to be correcte
but the downward fall of farm
and farm acreage seems to b
slowing up and even stdppini
Maybe we will seethe rollin
countryside covered with farm:
and even family farms, for a fe
years to come.
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24. Knock
26. Johnny
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28. Pro-
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30. Re-
scind;
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EGMONDVILLE LEAGUE
Team standings: Spitfires 126;
Bombers 97; Gliders 87; Jets 79;
Rockets 79; Rockets 79; BlueMax
73.
Men's high single, Randy
Gridzak 291; Triple, Brian Barry
711; Average, Gord Nobel 231;
Ladies' high single, Betty Smith
286; Triple, Betty Smith 623;
Average, Betty Smith 202.
HURON RURAL LEAGUE
Team standings: Beavers 40;
Chipmunks 36; Groundhogs 32;
Tigers 30; panthers 29; Cougars
22.
Ladies' high single, Blanche
Hoegy 228; Triple, Karen Hoegy
565. Men's high single, John
Brennan 258; Triple Geo. Love
688.
ST. JAMES LEAGUE .
Team 'standings:Bowl-lets
105; Peanuts 103; Archies 93 1/2;
Tigers 89 1/2; Strikers 67 1/2;.
Scorpions 64 1 /2 . '
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