HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-03-27, Page 11Fs for ,early boaters;
te snowmobilers
sun has crossed the
Qr into the :northern
sphere so tecinnleaily, spring
• Bat what happens to the
el' is anybody's guess. The
applies to lee on frozen
and rivers; For ice travel,
Ontario Safety League
s this is the moat
herons period of the year.
• dy,, repOrts of drownings as
sult. of breaking .through
spring ice are reaching the
ue's office.
Item are two groups of
le who are particularly
erable. to the . hazards of
g ice, one is children and
ther, seowmobilers.
is perfectly ,natural for
ren. to want to get out and:
on warm spring days, but
Ontario Safety League warns
parents to see that their
ren do not wander out on
overed surfaces of ponds,
•
or rivers. This is the period
year when ice can be
ycombed and worn thin by
r currents to the extent that
not strong enough to even
ort the weight of a child.
nowmobilers seem to think
just because they travelled
g a trail all winter on the ice,
still just as safe as ever. The
rio Safety League states this
a tragic fallacy. The warm
in March honeycombs ice
ces and melts snow allowing
water to seep down into
e crevices and quickly
riorates the ice beneath.
is the most treacherous of
e -hazards. Snowmobilers are
ed from now until break-up
to mdse ice surfaces only after
earefnl checking and with advice
from local people who hale as
intimate knowledge of ice
eonditionS in their .area.
In most parts of Qntario,
winter sports activities . are
drawing to a close and the
outdooraman is beginning to
think of boats, motors, and _open
water. Between seasons is a good,
time to get your boat and motor
ready for the first fishing
expedition. If there is any time
of year when a seaworthy hull
and a motor- in perfect working
condition is important for
safety, it is during the first.
weeks of the "boating season.
when the water is cpld and ,the
weather uncertain.
The Ontario Safety League
also reminds the early boater
and fisherman that clothing isa
most important item for safety
as well .as comfort. Warm
underclothing and wind and
waterproof outer clothing
combined with a
government -approved lifejacket,
firmly secured and strapped over
all, makes an efficient survival
suit. In this type of clothing
with the support of a good
buoyancy aid, a person can
survive for up to two hours even
in ice-coldwater, The League`
warns that it is the .combination
of warm clothing and a lifejacket
that is effective. Without the
buoyance of ,the lifejacket or the
warmth of the clothing, survival
in cold water is seldom possible,
The record of spring boating
fatalities proves .this statement.
etailer says ads on TV
ay be wasteful expense
i
he best way to accomplish
etive advertising is through a
tter program in our
spapers," T. H. Chadwick
divisional merchandise
ager of Belk Bros.,
rlotte, N.C., said at .a session
the U.S. National Retail.
chants Association's 58th
ual convention in New York
recently.
oting a trend by retailers to
e advertising "all over the
A in television, radio,
• bards, newspapers, and mail,
dwick questioned whether
type of advertising policy
really. wise. "Are you really
ing to your custoreers with
r message?" he asked.
e said he could see no harm
sing mail pieces to fill up the
,ht limit of charge envelopes,
he stressed, "I do believe
the bulk of advertising
ars should be spent in the
spaper.
'This is the only medium
will bring daily traffic and
s into your store or
artment," he declared.
iting a recent survey which'
nd over one million people
ing a newspaper on an
gage weekday, with 81% of
nt saying that they would feel
without a newspaper,
idwick said it may be foolish
retailers to spend budgeted
ertising dollars in other ways
[ch will not reach their
ential customers with either a
Ing message or image -building
Dhadw"ick said the theory
newspaper advertising is.
ort -lived and that nobody,
nobody, reads yesterday's
ers" is true, But, he said, the
per most Often produces
Its because it is alive."
`Theoretically," he
tinued, "other media does
more slowly, but it never has
'hot -off -the -press' aliveness
your paper does. And isn't
• what we are really selling?
t-off;the-press' aliveness in
item's fashions? And isn't
the customer always asking,
'What do you have new today?'
And doesn't the newspaper
shout back the answer? Isn't
there somewhat of an urgency in
every page that says: `We've got
it, but you'd better get right
over here, kind of appeal?"
Another fault of many
retailers, he said, is to blame the
newspaper and the store's own
advertising staff when an ad does
not pull the desired results.
There are -many excuses; hetsaid ,
such as: the ad was lost in the
paper, or the position was bad.
"So many times we seem to
forget," he said, "that the
newspaper provides us with the
audience. It's really up to us to
select the item and the price that
will move our audiences• into
action."
"For any type of advertising
to be effective, you must make
long-range plans and ask
yourself: What do I intend to
promote and what am I trying to
accomplish at this particular
time?" he said.
On the other hand, he said,
too many retailers think of
advertising as being just one ad
at a time rather than as a series
of ads that will accomplish what
they have set out to achieve —
whether it is to create an image
or to pull traffic or just promote
newly arrived merchandise.
"Somewhere between our
objective and our results,"
Chadwick said in summary, "is
the place where our effective
planning does the job which we
are striving to do: that is,
relaying our message to our
customers briefly and concisely,
maintaining the image which we
have projeeted for our store, and
telling the customer that we
have the merchandise which
they are looking for and at the
price they desire to pay. •
"That is why I say to you as
retailers: a newspaper ad is the
adrenalin that makes a tired sales
curve spring to life and shakes a
sleepy economy awake."
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Clintpn Pw •.l e0prc , Thursday, March 27, 1969 'I
Abthaugin basically nnoderp
prdena are built around plants
N4t aert_'flowersfo, rmtheeextiusren,
distinct advantage in choosing
thswe which,, as well as
po$ nq these desirable traitor
ale Iso enwfragne.
The 4ceptdowed oC floithwer andralecaf
than greater of stalgnc impact
plants we see,
and nothing can be more
enjoyable than the brief waft of
delightful fragrance that arises
when a plaint Is casually brushed.
as One poses by.
In this _article then, 1 shall
, briefly mention a few fragrant
trees and shrubs than might
fol the .£,iasis for a garden of
fragranCe.:.
In the arboretum of the Plant
Research Institute one of the
best of all :flowering trees, the
rnagnificent.•Bechtel's crab apple,
Inas large flowers two and a half
inches across, which, over a
period of 'ten days, emit a
roselike scent.
Its very showy, double pink
blooms, not only make the tree
Roman Catholic' "aggiornamento" hit town .last week as 20 roving a most a.so makeeractait wowcrab appin, but
worth growing for
U.S, end Canadian theologians brought the preaching phase of scent alone. ••
Renewal '69 to Huron County. Father Jerome Stowell, above, a English writers have deseribed
Passionist priest, gave thespecial renawel sermons;in St Ml.Fhaal'.s. , tis scent as:.syggestiye of ytolets,
Church, Blyth, and,in St. Joseph's Ghui!vt� <;.elintOR*, whira:hi'a*: ,. t bat!,10e Jt, �'s ,ti �,.:ttke .toe:
Protestant clergymen participated in the services. The ministers ni'ostpungent of moss roses.
were the, Rev. A. J. Mowatt of Wesley -Willis 'United Church, the The, oleaster or Russian olive
Rev. Grant Mills of Ontario Street United Church and the Rev. R. (Elaeagntts angustifolia) has each
U. MacLean of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. year an abundance of fragrant
yellow blooms, which, half
bidden by silvery leaves, exhale a
sweet perfume,
Like the crab apple, this tree
is also worth growing for its
other attractions. It makes a
lovely silvery -foliaged tree that
stands out admirably from a
red -brick house and grows no
more than thirty feet high.
The littleleaf linden, which
many arborists are using for city
streets, is, when in bloom, one
of,the most fragrant of the larger
trees.
Its fragrance, although
attracting scores of bees during
flowering time, does not stupify
them in the same way as other
lindens do. •
Among the nearly. 400 delegates to the annual assembly of the
Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation :in Hamilton
from March 19 to. 22 were Herb Murphy, Goderich District
Collegiate Institute, left, and Bob Smith, Central Huron
Secondary School, Clinton. . .
Marching to .0 silent drummer,
never hearing crowd cheer
MILTON - Alvin George, 15,
streaked across the blueline and
fired the puck into the lower left
corner of the net.
He ' was about to raise his
stick signalling the goal when he
realized, the goalie hadn't even
tried to stop it. It was only then
that he knew he had been
offside crossing the blueline.
Alvin couldn't hear the
referee's whistle because he is
deaf. But his deafness doesn't
stop him from playing loft wing
for the pigment Chemical
bantams in the Milton Minor.
Hockey Association;
Alvin is one of 20 students at
the Ontario School for the Deaf
here who play in the league,
skating alongside boys with
normal hearing.
But for Alvin and his friends
from the school no cheers are
heard from the crowd when they
do storey they hear no linernate's
call for a pass, nor a warning
before they are crunched into
the boards. Sometimes they wish
they had eyes in the back of
their heads to compensate for
what their ears might have told
them.
For them it is a silent game,
However, their lack of
hearing is no handicap to their
ability on the ice nor the playing
field es the school's athletic
retard attests.
Their pride and joy is the
shiny trophy they won as
champions of the Central and
Western Ontario Secondary
School Association E track and
field meet.
to every rade, they start a
step behind their hearing
counterparts. They have to wait
until they See the puff Of smoke
front the starter's pistol before
they break from the starting
line
The Beavers, the school
football team, Went lite divistoii
title last fall b , t lot he
title ast but,- �, .,t.,
championship in a playoff game
that went into overtime.
Communication is not as great a
problem in football because the
' plays ' ` follow pre -arranged
patterns. Naturally no audible
signals are called. The
quarterback stands with his heel
raised and starts the play by
dropping it on the ground.
Playing sports with students
who have normal hearing is part
of the school's total therapy
program which isdesigned to
enable students to make 'their
way in a world of people who
bear and talk.
Farm number down,
acreage increases
Farm numbers in the U.S: are
still on the downgrade and the
trend is expected to continue.
There were an estimated 3,1
Million operating farms iii the
U.S. during '1968, and 'the
U,S.D.A, preliminary estimate
has the number during 1969
dropping to about 3.0 million.
During the past 10 years, farm
numbers have declined about
25%. Total land in farms is
dropping, but the decline is
considerably slower. Land in
farms has declined 5% since
1959, Average farm site . has
increased front 188 acres in
159 to an eatirhated 377 acres
in 1967.
Clinton personals
Mrs. Prank Cumming and
Gary Of 129 Mary Street
returned home after spending a
week With Mr, and Mrs. Ken
Cumming and fatally in 'NO
Mountains, Quebec,
Mt. and Mrs, Cam Ptekett d
Beaver Lodge, Alberta ate
visiting with her parents, Mr. and
WMits, tee Carter,
Among the fragrant shrubs
are a few that emit fragrance all
summer and not - just when they
flower.
a These are perhaps more
desirable for planting near the
ehtranceto tlie'horn h ""*"
" The aromatic shrubby
wormwood (Artemisia), for
example, is an interesting plant
when placed where people may
have to brush it slightly as they
pass.
Similarly, the Carolina
allspice (Calyeanthus floridus)
can be planted at a strategic
place in the garden, where
visitors, given a leaf to crush,
will soon detect a fruity scent,
much like pineapple, mixed with
wine and camphor.
The flowers of the plant,
produced at the end of June,
look like rusty -red ineurved
chrysanthemums.
For centuries lilacs have been
admired for their scent. Many
modern ones, however, lack this
delicious attribute.
Some of the best fragrant
varieties are Lamartine, pink
single; Miss Ellen Willmott,
white double; Congo, deep
purplish,red single; Leon
Gambetta, rosy -salmon, single;
President Lincoln, blue single;
Ludwig Spaeth, • red single;
President Grevy, with blue
double flowers; and Elinor, a
Syringa x prestoniae cultivar.
The same care should be
given to selecting garden roses,
Among the best -scented hardier
hybrid perpetuals are Captain
Hayward, crimson; General
Jacqueminot, crimson; and Mrs.
John Laing, pink. These may not
be easy to find, but they are
listed by some specialists,
The best of the hybrid tea
roses are Crimson Glory, dark
red; McGredy's Sunset, yellow;
Fragrant Cloud, salmon -red;
Mary Margaret McBride, dark
pink; Mirandy, red; Chrysler
Imperial, crimson; Charlotte
Armstrong, pink; Red Radiance,
red; Mr. Lincoln, crimson;
Signora,, orange -salmon, and
Tiffany, pink.
Among the floribunda roses
are Donald Prior, pink; Geranium
Red; and Vogue, cherry coral:
Among the climbers are
Climbing American Beauty,
Paul's Lemon Pillar and Suttees
Golo.
The mock orange is, of
course, will known for its very
heavy scent, However, not all
mock oranges have this
fragrance, so you should choose
the common scented orange,
(Philadelphus coronarius) or
such varieties as Bouquet Blanc
or Avalanche.
Honeysuckles are also plants
which by erepute aresvery- heavily.
scented. About the climbing'
English honeysuckle (Lonicera
Periclymenum) or common
woodbine it has been said that
although the indescribably
sweet, spicy scent makes its
flowers a delight to the young, it
is almost too rich and sweet for
those of middle age or older.
The common woodbine is not
truly hardy in Ottawa but can be
pulled through the winters if it is
allowed to creep along the
ground under protective bushes,
preferably in half -shade. It is
quite hardy in southern Ontario
and of course it is a favorite in
the milder parts of British
Columbia.
The Korean Spice viburnum
(Viburnum cartes') is a neat,
four -foot shrub with exquisite,
white, strongly scented flowers.
The heavy fragrance is aromatic,
almost dovelike and similar to
the sweet jasmine (Jasminum
officinale) which along with the
Mexican orange (Chois ya
ternata), rosemary (Rosemarinus
officinalis) and the lily of the
valley shrub or mountain pieris
(Pieris floribunda), forms a
group of sweet scented shrubs
recommended for. Pacific Coast
gardeners.
Finally; two old` stand-bys.
deserve mention: the early
spring blooming flowering
currant (Ribes aureum), with
golden -yellow sweet -scented
flowers, and the meadowsweet
(Spiraea alba), which has an
odor redolent of wild pastures.
Cattlemen may harvest feed with saws
OTTAWA, March 21, -- Two
federal : government scientists
have developed a process that
willchange wood . into cattle
feed -- and a relatively cheap and
good feed at that.
So far they've worked only
with' poplar, but they feel
confident that they can extend
their success to all hard woods.
That would include maple,
birch, elm and alder.
They have been stymied,
however, in their efforts to do
the same with soft woods such
as spruce.
The two scientists are Dr.
David` Heaney, an animal
nutrition expert with the Canada
Dept. of Agriculture's Animal
Research Institute, and Dr. Fred
Bender, head of the chemistry
section of the la orest Products
I,aJ.oratory operated by the
Dept. of Fisheries and Forestry.
They have been able to
change poplar into a feed equal
in digestibility to medium
quality, hay by steaming it under
high pressure for 30 minutes to
an hour at temperatures ranging
from 300 to 390 degrees
Fahrenheit.
•In tests, they have learned
that the processed wood has a
digestibility rating of between
60 and 65 per cent.
Non{prbcessed wood has . a
digestibility ranging from zero to
15 per cent: Now they want to
process though wood to conduct
experiments with sheep.
Dr. Heaney says the wood
could take the place of hay or
forages; it would have to be
supplemented by nitrogen
(perhaps urea) minerals and
vitamins to provide a balanced
diet.
Home farhlers are already
using chipped poplar wood as an
ensilage but Dr. Heaney Says the
product that he and Dr. bender
have obtained' is Much better
than poplar ensilage, because
enetting improves the
digestibility of the Wood very
little, if at all.
What the scientists are
actually doing when they.
process hardwood is making
wood eellulose available to
Cattle, Cellulose and linin ere
the two major cbirirponenta of all
woods. Cellulose is also one of
the major components of all
plants, including cattle forages.
Wood cellulose, which consists
of long chains of sugar
molecules, exists in close
associatii+ni with the lignin. This
cellulose -lignin complex has to
be broken down to make the
nutrients available to animals.
The pressure steaming Drs.
Bender and Heaney use makes it
possible for ruminant animals to
break down and use these
cellulose chains.
The scientists have visions of
using wood to help solve the
problems of "a starving world, a
world that will likely see a
doubling population before the
end of the century.
"We have huge belts of
forested lend in the northern
and tropical regions of the
globe,"} says Dr. Bender. "These
areas are currently outside the
agriculture frontier because only
trees grow, not crops such as
hay, corn and grains. But, by
making wood an acceptable
cattle feed, We cats manage to
extend our agricultural frontier,
So fat no economic studies
have been conducted to
determine how much it would
cost to set up a farm operation
using processed wood. There
would be several questions to be
answered besides the central one
of how much it would cost to
set up, the buildings for the
livestock and the machinery to
process the wood, questions
such as "Would it be cheaper to
locate the operation in the
forested belt that extends across
northern Quebec, Ontario,
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta, or to ship the wood
South? bo transportation costs
make a wood -feeding operatioti
impractical?"
The scientists speculate that
their discovery could lead to a
variety of consequences:
-- Perhaps, because cow -calf
operations require huge
quantities of forages, cheap land
andrelatively amounts of
. , low .
the more expensive .feeds,
cow -calf nperations could be
located in the forest belt.
Suppler lents could be shipped hi
and the calves could be shipped
cut for finishingin the south on
higher -energy rations.
- Perhaps, as Melvin
competition for food becomes
more . keen, cattle could be fed a
higher proportion of wood -
which we as humans can't digest.
This could move cattle and
sheep farming into the forest
belt. Before this development
takes plaee, the world food
shortage would have to be much
more severe than today.
Production from wood•fed.
animals in terms of milk and
meat would be mirth lower than
levels currently achieved under
intensive feeding practised by
modern Canadian farriers.
-- Perhaps industries would be
the first to feed wood to cattle,
not because it's cheaper to raise
cattle that way, but because it
would be a convenient way to
get rid of waste products such as
branches and sawdust. There
could also be some by-products
of the processed wood that
could be sold, says Dr, Bender.
Wood is only one of the
"waste" products currently
being studied by scientists as
animal feet',_ Others include
bagasse, a fibrous by-product of
the Sugar +cane industry, and
straw'