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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1962-01-04, Page 3At Your Store HOUSE OF BARGAINS LTD. Clothing for the Entire Family Peel Free to browse Around Come In And Check Prices No Obligotion And Quality ISAAC STREET' ,,, C1.11.1740N PHONE HU /4735 „ Horace Delbrklge, reporting for the cream producers; L. Elston Cardiff, MP for Huron and assistant secretary to the Minister of Agriculture of Can- ada; Russell Bolton, RR 1, Seaforth, wheat producers representative. Simon Hallahan, Blyth, fluid milk; Harvey Taylor, Brucefield, for the bean board; Aif. Warner, the hog producers marketing board. ,Charles Thdrnas, Brussels, the poultry producers; Alec McGregor, Kippen, for FAME; Lloyd Lovell, Kippen, the sugar beet producers. This view of the conference table shows President Elmer Ireland, left; Past President Warren Zurbrigg, and a past president Wilfred Shortreed, and Andy Simpson. Facing the camera are Murray Gaunt) CKNX, Wingham, and J. Carl Hemingway, Brussels, Federation fieldman. (News-Pecord Photo) Thor S,, 40e, 41, 1 9tP,—Clieten News-Record Page 3 Beef, Cheese, Milk, Sugar Lloyd Lovell, left, pays serious attention to what Bob McGregor reports to the meeting con- cerning beef sales and the future of farmers. Both men are from Kippen. From the left are Lorne Rodges, of the con-. centrated milk group; Barrie Walters, Goderich, fluid milk and Andy Simpson, RR 1, Listowel, of the cheese producers. (News-Record Photos) At PARK Theatre Goderich The NOW — Thurs., Fri., Sat. January 4-5-6 An amazing thrill show_ "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" In 'scope and color with Joan Fontaine MON., TUES., WED. — January 8-9-10 Adult Entertainment Shirley MaoLaine -- Lawrence Harvey and Jack Hawkins An entertaining cast presents' a sophisticated romance in Technicolor "TWO LOVES" THUR., FRI., SAT—January 11-12-13—Double Bill Haya Harareet and Stewart Granger The new and 'beautiful Israeli star in a British adventure drama. "THE SECRET PARTNER" also — "HIGH SCHOOL CAESAR" with John Ashley and Gary Vinson Coming — "FRIENDLY PERSUASION" An All-time Classic I.D.A. SPECIALS — January 2-6 — 200 $4.95, 3 for 1DAVITES 6 $fol rl 7.848c, TOILET TISSUE — Reg. 2-29t HALIBUT LIVER OIL CAPSULES 100's 250's 500's Reg. $1,13 Reg. $2.29 Reg. $4.29 86c $1.11 $3.21 MINERAL OIL, 16-oz. ,,,,, , ,,,, 48c MILK OF MAGNESIA, 16-oz. 37c COD LIVER OIL CAPSULES Reg. 98c 73 c HYDROGEN PEROXIDE, 8-oz. 26c A.S.A. TABLETS, 500 ...• .................•, 67c SACCHARIN TABLETS, 1/4 gr 500—Reg. 55c 1000—Reo, 79c 41 c 59c 1DAMALT Reg. 79c Reg. $1.29 Reg. $2.39 59c 96c $1.79 BATH EPSOM SALTt 5 lb. ,..„ 33c WOODBURY SHAMPOO—Re o, $1,25 79d- NOXZEMA, 4-0zi ....... ..... „ 99c F1 B. PENNEBAKER ADMIRAL PHCAD SERVICE Dial HO /-6626 Clihtont Ont, EVY YOURS TRULY HAYED &NAM Albert Bacon, president of the Huron Hog Pro- ducers, follows the dis- cussion closely. Yews-Record Photo) to operate the board and 77 cents to use to dispose of beans, and attempt to keep the price favourable. In 1960, 70 cents of this went back to the producer. Last year the full. 77 cents was returned. Mr, Taylor reported that surplus 'beans were sold to Eng- land. There was a good bit of the 1961 crop of beans 'held over. He said that if there were some way of the board getting control of 10-15 'percent of the beans in the fail instead of waiting 'to spring, it would be of advantage, and would strengthen the domestic mar- ket. Mr. Taylor noted that with canners renting land' for peas, this would put more land into bean production. A good deal of sugarbeet land went into bean production in 1961. This leads to more surplus, Also, pointed out Mr. Taylor, that 77 cent , fund is an um- brella over the dealers' 'heads, too. They can gamble on that, and if they can't sell, they can dump the beans onto the Board. IFieldman Hemingway asked if the board had been criticized for having too much. money. No. He asked if the bean bawd had the right to go on the market and buy over the floor, No, there's quite a bit of grumbling if that is done. If you could compete on the market floor, could you not get that 10-15 percent of the beans in the fall? Mr. Taylor said, "Well, We couldn't put them up. We can handle 100 thousand' bushels of beans in our London plant, but we could not process enough to have them ready at Sarnia at the right time before shipping closes for 'the winter." Russell Bolton reported for the wheat producers. He apol- ogized for being late to the Meeting, noting that he had just came from the doctor's office where he had his nose x-rayed' following an •accident in the stable •that morning while he was de-horning steers. Mr, Bolton noted' that the plan was similar to that used by the white bean board', There was nine cents 'deducted', and five cents' 'had been returned to the preducees. Some difficulty had been experienced this year with sproetted wheat, "and, said Mr. Bolton, "we had erred in not negotiating a price for anything lower than No, 3 wheat. The result was that lots of farmers sold their sprouted wheat for a low price, Some as low •as 95 Ly•ric Theatre • Exeter TWO SHOWS NIGHTLY — 7.30 and 9,30 THURSDAY FRIDAY - SATURDAY January 4 - 5 6 "GOLIATH AND THE BARBARIANS" STEM REEVES and CHELO ALONSO in Ocil'oe and 'Sbcipe MONDAY , TUESDAY WEDNESDAY January5 , 9 10 "STRANGERS WHEN -WE MET" KIRK 'DOUGLAS andRIM NOVAK In DOW And ''ScApi3 Rest:tidied tOr t)6xttiri years of ago end oven` taming ton 'Scope & Color BACKACHE When kidneys fail to remove mese aolde and wastes, backache—tired f Doling— dlatUrbed rust often may follow. Dodd's Kidney Pills atimulato kidneys to normal duty. You feet better, sleep bettor, work hotter. BO Commodity iroups. Weil Represented Fdral Commodity ,Group Heads Nieet. With Elston. Cardiff, MP (continued From Peep One). et. !In An orderly fashion, and not in a. haphazard way." Concerning public !ettetlen, Mr, McGregor noted that eree show that receipts are .4e, but there are many eempleints 'by producers that the method .iS egg costly, Mr, 'Cardiff reported on Seine difficulties be hadin -getting all of the cattle delivered that the had bought at the auction, Horace Delbridge, cream pro, dueee representative said the group was greatly alarmed at the possibility of enough' prep- sure on the government that butter sebetitetee might be eel- owed similer to butter, The producer group maintains that yellow is butter colour, Mr. Delbridge noted that the one cent a pound paid for pub- licity on sales during one month by the cream producers was much less than that paid for publicity by other products, He commented that the Ontario Cream Producers Association this year is asking for a con- sumer subsidy. Mr. Cardiff commented that the surplus milk in the fluid market to come beck into the butter making, helping to produce surplus butter. - Simon Hallahan said he did not believe that more than 20 percent of the fluid milk goes into butter. Barry Walters,, RR 1, God'erieh, of the fluid milk group noted 'that if a quota for a producer is 1,000 pounds then the dairy requires 40 percent more than that from 'the pre- Omer. The 1,000 'pounds is; paid for at fluid milk prices, and' the 40 percent additional is at a lower price. But the producer must be ready to provide the additional 40 percent or he loses his quota sales. Mr. Cardiff suggested that all milk should be pooled mid all of it sold on the basis of the same price. Lorne Rodges, representing concentrated milk producers noted' that the past four years had: been 'busy ones, with . 20 negotiations and' 15 arbitrations in that time. He said that. 22 percent of the milk used! in concentrated milk comes back from the fluid milk market. He said that work was going forward on a milk marketing plan:, on a quota system to keep surpluses to a minimum. He 'be- lieved quotas are the only way 'to prevent the' same problems that the broiler industry has, Barry Walters and Simon Handier', Blyth, combined 'to give the report of the fluid milk producers. Mr. Hallahan 'felt that the surplus milk going into 'the concentrated inilkffeld was not too large a, problem to face. Mr. Walters said ..there were many problems to straigh- ten out, but a lot must happen before the marketing plan is brought to the producers for their vote. Wilfred 'Shortreed, Walton, reported for cheese producers, noting the production of ched- dar was up three million pounds to a total of 112 million pounds last year. He expected' larger production in 1962. The Blyth factory had made more cheese in 1961 than the previous year. Andy Simpson, RR 1, List- owel, who also sends his milk to a cheese factory, noted that the cheese-maker at Moles- worth had been on the job for some time and was doing an excellent job, winning the 'Brit- ish Empire prize for three years in a row. The 'cheese industry is in a better position than some of the dairy branches, said Mr. Simpson. "There was 'a larger request from Great Britain than we could Supply, (We were 11,000 pounds short). Sometimes it's better to be in under supply, but it hasn't changed our price. any. "There must be some attempt at evening up the price of milk. Ohe shipper I know with milk going to Toronto, ends up with results loWer than average. The dairies are asking for so much surplus, it looks' as if they are trying 'to even out the cost of milk. They talk about. a milk peel. I. don't know what's a- head, I'm sure." Simon Hallahaii commented that it was impossible to ship to a big dairy without high- test milk. They must be buy- ing 'the surplus cheaply, and. selling it to the goVernMent at 64 cents a pound butterfat, diitFt dbSTS. tAl.lim5DooreHRZATFEA/Rp?tcitiltkc!,GpS AND Carl. l iemingway, fielddie4 fer the ,.Federation; asked why the deiry groups did not insist on haying the contents of a niargeeiee hex listed. on the outside of the package, When a consumer htiye butter, she ketwe whet she buys, but when she buys margering, she 'does not know, Warren Zudarigg noted that the different eget of differeet, types of margarine must in- clieete different contents. Mr. Cardiff felt that some was mode of corn oil, considered the best for some people, Barry Walters. said, "They claim some margarine costs only from 'three to seven cents a pound to manufacture," Harvey Taylor, Brucefield, reporting for the Bean Board, noted that a deduction of 85 cents a hundred of beans' was deducted each year, eight cents cents, Now it is being bought at $185. !bushel, The trade mixes it with' No. 1 to make a No. 2 wheat to sell." Mr, Belton eaid the 4oriau etlen. wanted to erranee for authority to buy tip wheat earlier and get it out of the ,country, but they were .hemp- ared. for lank of storage. Lloyd Lovell, Kippen, report- ing for the sugar beet group at the south of the county, noted that the Canadian GeVernment had now established a sugar beet policy for the first time, It was based on $440 peT red weight guarantee' on sugar coming into the country, over the past ten year average. Mr, Cardiff noted that there was very little criticism of the plan, but it didn't satisfy the. producer. However it is a start, 'and there was opportunity to go on from there. We couldn't raise the price of sugar, for the consumers would be down our back. However, we must have locally-grown sugar in case of an emergency. This is supplied by the sugar beet pro- ducers, and they must be sup- ported in this. Charles Thomas, Brussels, second vice-president of the Huron .County Poultry Produc- ers, noted that the group re- quired 7,500 signatures (repre- senting 15 percent of the pro- ducers) on a petition asking for a vote on a marketing plan. Kerrey Gaunt, Wingham, representing the Junior Farm- ers of the county, noted that 1961 was one of low ebb for the group as far ae member- ship is concerned, tint 'that this ran in cycles of 3-4 years, and the annual meetings would. soon be coming up. He also brought good wishes from CICNIX. - Alec McGregor, RR 2, Kip- pen, spoke 'briefly concerning a move in the south of the county toiward a marketing board for turnips. He noted that FAME is one of the biggest jobs farm- ers have tackled. He said he would like to see the govern- ment more behind' the coop- eratives. 'Simon Hallahan asked if a co-operative could get too big. Mr. McGregor said that far- mers must retain control and create competition, but that there seemed no limit on the size, Carl Hemingway spoke brief- ly in support of FAME. He said there had been complaints about the lack of speed' in get- ting under way, but noted that there had never been a corp- oration of any kind in Ontario that had been able to obtain as much share capital as FAME has done already, He noted that the talking point for FAME had been to obtain better prices. Now, how- ever, it is even more import- ant, and he felt that if the farmers did not move quickly in five years they would not 'have a marketing place. The broiler industry is , gone—they can't even' 'find' a place to sell -broilers. "The renting of land' by pro- cessors takes the product right out of the hands of the farm- er," said Mr, Hemingway. "Hogs and cattle are, going out on contract. These huge opera- tions are entirely out of the hands of the farmer, Going in- to FAME is the only way to stay a farmer." To make the farmers feel a bit more happy with their lot, Mr. Hemingway quoted rates of pay in a Seaforth factory at an average of 90 cents an hour, with foremen receiving $1.15. "That gives a man $1,872 a year to keep a family. We can't complain at those prices." Mr. Hemingway noted that the people striking at the Royal York Hotel had' been getting 67 cents an hour, and only a few could' look forward to get- ting tips. He noted also that in 1945, labour involved in manufactur- ing farm machinery had gotten oneethird of the money paid by the farmers when they purch- ased. By 1960, labour was get- ting only one-fifthof the money paid for the manufactured pro- ducts, Simon Hallahan spoke the feelings of many of those pres- ent, when he said, "I'M not near as sorry for myself as when you started to speak."