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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." rt titikef, a trien'iber of the CFti Clinton pagasu4 Players, is 1 YfiO i§ the recent Goderich Little Theatre producthirn of it Hollow" Agatha b.�! atha Christi i � strep i1/(P. Crakes gave a ikrlli°ut, e'Va. e , ,. . ..t. le rfdr e b e rri nC p a as the 1rrSpectar froiii Sbotlancf u ire t rl during ri. a rl the lite r . . tient/01V � r ogatro'n steric with Lea NtoCailttn5 tlf 4odel`tkh Little `theatre. = Photo by Adrian, ,0000•110001. (hoose pkrnts for their frogranoe 'B'Y A .R, l3VCKt . X 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'