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(By W. D. D.)
Understand they ’now have .an
device? which can be
qsedi to regulate .the feed intake
of cattle ,. . The device is clip
ped, to an, janimjal’s ear and is
adjusted to a predetermined a-
moiunt of feed , , . ■when each
animal has; eaten its share, im
pulses from the device would
activate 'and close off an elec
tronic valve (attached to. the
automatic feeder . , . Tf an
animal attempted to eat from
another feeder the valve there
Would not open, thus over-eat
ing would be prevented . .
The device was designed at a
college in northern- England . . .
We don’t believe it is in prac
tical use as yet . . .
Our informant has left some
details, delightfully unclear . . ,
such as: are tire impulses gov
erned by jaw movement — ip
Which case an animal with a
belief in 30 chews per mouthful
would have a pretty skinny time
of it; or perhaps by weight of
food taken in — in which, case,
the device should be attached
somewhere (below the stomach,
one would think, rattier than in
one ear . '. . But then, science
is a marvelous thing . . .
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Good news at the post office
. , . the doors open easily!
.Who did it? Well, the chap
Who works for the firm who
makes closers for doors', that’s
Who. His name is: Dudley, if
memory serves us right. . . and
he did the job on Thursday . . .
What did he do? Changed the
closers , , , They are an enclos
ed 'unit, .and the OhOs hoW lli-
btaUed are “recommended for
doors up to two foot six . . .
the ones Mr. Dudley took off
were “recommended for doors
up to three foot” . . . The size
of .the doors on the post office?
2’6“ ...
So whiat happened, was an
error in judgment . . . accord
ing to 'Dudley . . . the require
ment Was for 3’ Size closers
mainly because'they wanted to
be sure the doors would close
if we had a high wind ... He
doesn’t know Whether the new
closers Will keep the doors shut
in a high wind, or not ...
Why did .he change them?
Well, there was an uhdeterm&n-'
ed .number of telephone calls
from Ottawa, and from the
London office of the5 Depart
ment of public works on Wed
nesday of last ..week, to advise
Mr. Dudley and his company which supplied closers, that it
was time to get the door closers
changed . . . That was the first
word Mr. Dudley, or his com
pany had of the matter . .
Why this sudden activity in
Ottawa' and London abbut the
doors on the Clinton post, of
fice? Well, Huron County has a
member of .parliament by the
name of Robert E. McKinley..,
who represents the Progressive
Conservative party .. . . and
though this (is officially an op
position party ... apparently
it also is progressive . . . He
mentioned the problem of the
doors'to somebody in O ttawa...
and action was 'begun . . .
We are pleased to report that
the doors are now swinging
freely ... we do not expect any
high winds , . . and the Govern
ment of Canada and Her Majes
ty’s Loyal Opposition are now
free to get on with the Spencer
spy case . . . the budget for the
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Clinton News-Record
THE NEW ERA — JOOth'Year. , THE HURON RECORD
CLINTON, ONTARIO, THURSPAY, MARCH 10, 1966Ho. 10 The Home Paper With the News
1
Studebaker Cars
secretary-treas-
Friday Night
Clinton Lions Club are put
ting on ‘’possibly the last big
’ event” in the Lions Arena to-
; morrow (Friday) night. The
• skating carnival starts at 7:30
with a peewee hockey game
'followed by figure skating ex-
■ hibitions, prizes for fancy and
comic Costumes and races, A
turkey has been put up as a
door prize and there is also
a draw on two more turkeys.
(See advertisement on page
three).
Monday Afternoon Truck Fire
Fire on Monday afternoon gutted the interior
of a truck being used by Jack DeRuyter to clear
snow from the parking lot at Elm Haven Motor .
Hotel. The truck is owned by Roy Mann. Mr. De-.
Ruyter and a' companion were in' the cab of the
truck, when they noted flames coming through .
the floorboards. They were unable to put out the
fire, and called the fire department to the scene.
(News-Record Photo)
Stanley Township
Awards Gravel Tender
To Sandy Contracting
Sandy Contracting Company
Ltd., Goderich, was given the
contract 'for supplying 14,000
oil. yds. of gravel applied on the
road's, 'and 2,000 cu. yds. stock
piled, by Stanley Township
Council at their Monday after
noon meeting in Varna.
x Representative B, H. .Homan
Widower Ernie Vanderburgh
last week placed a two-line
want ad in this paper, and in
the GodteHch Signal-Star as well.
Since1 then pictures of Mr.
Vanderburg have appeared, in
ddily papers, in London. and
Toronto, he has been interview
ed for radio, and film showing
him in 'his home has appeared
on TV. -
Response to his advertise
ment has been good. By Monday
night he reports having 34. let- ■
ters, 12 telephone calls, and at
least one personal call in an
swer to his advertisement.
Mr. Vanderburgh, who is 68
and a retired bread salesman,
has at this moment another 20
answers waiting for him here
at the News-Record, and he’s
just not finding time to get in
to the office for them.
The wording of the advertise
ment? “Wanted — Wife and
companion for a widower. Write
Box 91, Olinton News-Record.”
His wife Greta died 11
months ago, and,Mr. Vander
burg hats been lonely. The ad.-
vertisement Was. placed at first
in confidence, but Hater he de
cided to talk to reporters who
contacted! him for details.
“I don’t know whether I’ll
ever find time to get married if
I have to keep- answering all
these letters,” stated advertiser
Vanderburgh on Tuesday.
attended the meeting, to speak
in behalf of his company’s in
terests in doing a good job for
the township. The Sandy firm
had the contract last year as
well.
Successful tender price was
77 cents and 60 cents.
, .Though. ..Btanjey ^.Town^bip
makes a practice of awarding
tenders to the lowest bidder, in
this case, they awarded to sec
ond lowest. Difference in the
total .amount tendered on was
$60.
Lowest bid was George F.
Elliott, Clinton, at 78c and 50c.
Other bidders were Joe Kerr
Limited, Grand Bend at 90
cents for both, . .
Deputy Reeve. Elmer Hayter
conducted the first part of the
meeting, until, Reeve Ernest
Talbot arrived. Grants were
made as1 follows.: Huron County
Historical Society, $10; Huron
Central Agricultural Society,
$35; Bayfield Agricultural‘Soc
iety; $75. ■
Warble fly control tenders
were opened, and Harvey Cole
man, RR 1, Zurich, only tender
er for inspector wias given the
job. Hulbert Cooper, RR 1,
Exeter, the only' tenderer for
spraying was given the job at
10 cents per head per spray,
Three tenders for- supplying
powder were received, with M.
Reid, Londesboro, the lowest at
40 cents per pound. Other ten
derers were Milton J. Dietz,
Limited, Winghiam, at 93 cents
for both and R. H. Jennison,
Seaforth at 44 cents and H.
Cooper at '43 cents-.
Council received word that
Everitt Smith, Seaforth had
been named Huron Construction
Safety Inspector, by county
council. - ■
By-law was passed to desig
nate as a through highway, the
“town line” (boundary between
Hay and Stanley Town ships).
This has been County Road 12,
and is being handed back to tiie
township. No change Will be
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Announcement last Friday by
Studebaker of Canada Limited
that they would permanently
discontinue the manufacture of
Studebaker cars' at the Hamil
ton plant, put Studebaker own
ers in the position of owning
an exclusive product.
Robert Dalrymple, Brucefield,
whose service station and Stu
debaker dealership has been run
by him and hois father before
him- for almost 27 years, has
just 2 ^-cylinder models left on
the lot.
Bob reports that the .company
will honour the full extent of
the warranty term, and they
have assured dealers that parts
will be available
years.
There has been a
flow of telegrams
phone calls from other, car man
ufacturers 'to Bob’s garage, of-
'ferihg’ franchises •'to him.’ He fe
considering them all, but has,
not made a choice as yet. ■
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Barbara Symons
Gets Honours
In Grade Five Piano
Barbara Symons, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Don Symons,
Clinton has received word that
she has passed her Grade 5
piano with first, class honours.
Examinations were held in
Stratford by the Western Con
servatory of Music, London.
Miss Lois Grasby is Miss Sy
mons'’ teacher.
At a senior citizens’ organiza
tional meeting on February 21,
Roy Cantel'on, a . retired farmer
was elected president; Anson
Coleman, another retired farm
er is vice-president and Mellie
J. Schoenhials, retired customs
official is the
lifer’
The group’s
mittee is Duff
Ellwood’and H. Mervyn Haniy.
Howard Crich was chairman
for the organizational meeting. .
’ The town council and1 recrea
tion committee have approved
funds to renovate a room in the
basement of Clinton Public Li
brary as a senior citizens drop-
ih centre.
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Farm Conference
executive' com-
Sturdy, Ernest Farmers Seek Answers
for seven
continuous
and tele-
At Exeter School
. The Huron Soil and Crop
N$ws, published annually by
tiie Exeter Times-Advocate, was
-distributed last week to farm
homes throughout Huron.
The 18-page newspaper an
nounces the first Agricultural
Conference for the county, to
take place in South Huron Dis
trict High School in Exeter this
Saturday, March 12 from 10:30
a.m. throughout the’ afternoon.
. Farmers are invited to lect
ures on high moisture com,
drainage, workmen’s compensa
tion, Canada pension plan, farm
accounts, swine housing and
economics, farm sprayers, beef
economics. • . ■ .
The conference replaces the
county seed fair.
The condition of -bean mar
keting in Ontario' continues to
resemble the ice-,berg that is
nine-tenths submerged below
water, despite numerous at
tempts to sort the situation out.
The ohly direct communica
tion with this office, strangely
enough is from J. A. Irvine,
president- of the Ontario Bean
Growers Ltd. —- the company
which Was Wtediby 'the'Ontario-’
Farm Products Marketing
Board on February 24. Mr. Ir
vine head's ithe three men. put
in charge of the company by
the new marketing board, which
•itself was named by the Ontario
FPMB.
Mr. Irvine states: "The1 board
of directors of the Ontario Bean
Growers Ltd. 'are presently
studying ways and means to re
turn the company and all its
assets to the bean growers of
Western Ontario. It is hoped
.that this can be accomplished
prior to harvest time 'for the
1966 crap. The present board
will be pleased -to relinquish
control to . na - febftier-elec'ted
board as: soon as the necessary
details of transfer can be work
ed out.”
This statement was received
by the News-Record on Satur
day, March 5. There has been
no announcement made to. this
Explain Bean Takeover
Demands Farm Union
Tuckersmith Council
Tuckersmith Township Feder
ation of Agriculture asked for'
a grant of $750 from the town
ship council, when that • body
met in Seaforth Town Hall' last
week. Spokesmen for the Fed
eration were John' Broadfpot
and John MacKay.
Councillors' discussed the ad
vantages of 'a broader member
ship base as opposed to a flat
grant from the township, but
Mr. Broadfoot recalled this had
been tried and there had been
a problem in carrying on a.
campaign at the’grass roots in
the early days of the organiza
tion. It meant that F of A of
ficials were spending -much of
their time soliciting member-No Snow
Members- of the Huron County Egg Market
ing Committee are, from the left, seated, Gordon
Blanchard, RR 4, Walton; Robert Broadfoot, RR 1,
Brucefield; Ken Moore, Egmondville; Mrs. GoVen-
lock, RR 5, Seaforth; James I» McIntosh, RR 3,
Seaforth; Hugh FTyniij RR 1, Londesboro; standing,
Egg Producers Elect Their Committee
y *
Gerald Vandenhengal, RR 5, Seaforth*, William Mor
ley, RR 1, Granton; John Henderson, RR 5, Sea
forth; Robert Armstrong, RR 2, Auburn; John
Lockhart, RR 3, Blyth; Robert St, Maria, RR 3,
Seaforth, These directors- were elected at the annual
meeting here last week. (Wews-BconZ Photo)
ships, and had time to do lit
tle else for the organization.
Agreeing with Councillor For
rest that all ratepayers' in Tuck-
ersmith were not farmers and
therefore not directly involved
in the organization, Mr. Broad
foot said at the same time the
farming element contributes to
the welfare of everybody in the
township.
'Council read tiie Finlayson,
drain report, prepared by En
gineer E. H. Uderstad, covering
works in lots 18 to 21,conces
sions 3 and 4, LRS, and set a
court of revision for April'5.
Problems arose following the
reading of the McCully drain
report when those in the area
suggested there would not. be
advantages, from - the work in
keeping with the cost. Discuss
ing the matter with council and
the engineer, A. Timmerman,
John Sinclair and Charles Eyre
recalled action that had been
taken in' connection with the
drain since it was first-con
structed in 1928.
Certain work had been car
ried Out in 1946 and a proposed
scheme in 1954 had been aban
doned after some repairs Were
completed. Mr. Uderstad, fol
lowing an hour and a half dis
cussion agreed the matter could
be adjourned. until the next
meeting of council and 'in the
meantime he would have a fur
ther look at certain of the lev
els which it had been suggest
ed did not properly reflect the
actual situation.
Council endorsed a resolu
tion protesting a proposal of
the CN.R to abandon passenger
service between Stratford and
Goderich aiid discussed With
Andrew Crozier charges Cover
ing the provision of a deed for
a' Street in I-Iarpurhey Which
Mad been closed at his request.
A grant of 8100 was approv-
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Huron County directors of
the Ontario Farmers Union
last week took action to dis
cover more facts about the Ont
ario government's .recent take
over of the Ontario Bean Grow
ers Marketing Board and the
Ontario Bean Growers Ltd.
■ The motion passed at the
county meeting here in Clinton,
will request the provincial ex
ecutive of OFU toi request the
Ontario Government for a full
report within 30 days, explain
ing why the take-over was
made. ■
Edgar Rathwell reported to
the Holmesville Local 219 at
their meeting Monday, with re
gard to this decision.
► Ken Tyndall, president of the
local chaired the meeting. Mr.
Rath well reviewed' a brief
which the OFU had presented
to the Ontario government and
considerable discussion arose
regarding Medicare, s'ales tax,
milk and traffic laws relating to
the operation of school buses.
Plans were made for the- cir-
oulation of petitions for the
mass delegation going to Tor
onto. ta support of demands for
better farm prices.
Mrs. Robert Taylor read an
article, ‘‘Parable of the Corn”
and Mrs. Edgar- Rathwell con
tributed a poem which, she her
self had composed, “This Week
Ha's Seven Days”.
Several family memberships
were turned din during the lunch
preparation ' by faithful
ladies.
office by the Ontario. Depart
ment of Agriculture1, nor by the
Ontario Farm Products Market
ing Board.
On Sunday the Roy Jewell
TV show interviewed Bob Allan,
Brucefield, president of the for
mer bean board, but'Mr, Jew
ell stated that his attempt to
air both sides of the question
had been in vain ,» .
'■”? “If is d'iffiwiFfo find respon
sible persons willing to make
factual statements at this
point,” said Jewell.
He did ’ announce the gist of
Irvine's message, and quoted a’
member of the new board as
stating the 77 cent levy would
be. held in trust, and would' be
returned to (the farmers, at the
customary- time -of-year.’-
Also on Sunday, BobCarbert
touched on the subject ■ over
CBC-TV, but had no live in
terviews.r He • expressed hope
that “time Will heal the wounds
caused by unilateral action of
the government’’, and concluded
with “the crux of; the' question
is whether the Ontario Govern
ment should retain control of
the marketing board' poiyers —
ah'd most responsible persons
believe that it should.” ;
On Monday,*a closed.confer
ence on'' the matter was held
by Agricultural Minister Wil
liam Stewart, when', he and
Herb Arbuckle, chairman of the
Ontario Farm Products Market
ing Board and Everett. Biggs,
assistant to the minister, at
tempted-to explain the govern
ment. position.
The mieieting ‘ was closed to
the press. In defence of this
the minister said it was so
members of the various, boards
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Clinton Team Wins Zone Bowling
Last weekend* the Clihtoil Legion bowling team won the Zone Cl cham
pionship for the third consecutive year. Front row, left to right, Alex Riley,
' Harold McPherson holding the Molsons trophy, .Leu Arnston; back row, left
to right, Bill Coffel; Dave Hackwell, Molsons Brewery representative; Cliff
Sundercock and Jim Armstrong. fVews-Becord Photo)