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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1966-04-14, Page 10Page 10—Clinton News-Record—Thur*., April 14, 1946 Matter of Principle Farming Is The Greatest J. Carl Hemingway V FAME Creditors Meet In Toronto April 21 dated June 30, 1964. Altogether 13,000 farmers and others invested in FAME. Receives "Bar” To Decoration Flight Sergeant J. J, R. Brochu was presented with the Bar to his CD .(Canadian Forces Decora­ tion) at a recent RCAF* Clinton Parade by Wing Commander B. R. Rafuse, Acting Commanding Of­ ficer. Flight Sergeant Brochu is NCO in . charge of Communications Operation Training at Radar and Communications School Clinton, and . well known as an ardent curler. He is 'also a participant in the Clinton Glee Club. With his wife Alice and five children, F.S; Brochu lives at 58 Winnipeg Road, Adastral Park, Clinton. (RCAF Photo) Ob yes! 11 know there are disappointments, pad weather, poor crops, ’low prices and cows OP pigs that finally decide thib jife 'is just foo much. But there are compensations! Why just this morning as I Was leaving the barn after "sloppen' the pigs’’ as the say­ ing goes, a couple of fine ladies chaulfeured by a handsome young man drove into the barn­ yard in a shiny new car. Now who but a farmer could take half-an-hour off just to listen to these enthusiastic ladies? Real interesting they were too. Why in less than a minute they were able to tell me what a terrible state the world is in and how that gentleman with the forked tail was making tremendous headway. It was so real that I couldn’t refrain from a quick peek over my shoulder to reassure myself that I wasn't proof of Darwin’s theory — or worse. I was getting real worried when good old farming came to my rescue. Where farming has gone these last few years I couldn’t be a farmer and go to heaven any way. When there’s no choice why worry? This attitude could, of course, mean only one thing. I just don't realize how vitally urgent the situation is. The ladies were greatly con­ cerned. Time is running out! We must act now! If we play it night in five years the end of our tribulations. Heaven is at hand! Alas the good farm experi­ ence brought me back to earth with the smell of $50 pigs in­ stead of those sweet-smelling $70 ones of a couple of months ago. How many times have you and I heard that in five years consumption would Catch up with production? Then the pop­ ulation explosion was going to create happy days for farmers. In' just another five years the land released for food produc­ tion by ithe extinction .of the horse would be all needed and. then 'some. Scarcity, would boost the farm income. But this time it’s true. Th<? Honourable (Joe) Green, Min­ ister of Agriculture for this fair land of ours has said so! It must be true! This week on TV Mr. Green stated most sincerely that farming will be better,. The Liberal government will see to it, during the next ten years, that farm efficiency improves to match that of other indus­ tries. Productivity will be in- preased, holdings will be ex­ panded, (by generous loans) and Happy Day! farmers will have respectable incomes. Wlhiait 'a pity that Mr. Green couldn't have been guiding the destinies of us farmers during the King Dynasty, the Sit. Laurent, Deifenibaker and Pear­ son years! If the had, I’m sure two young farmers within five miles of me wouldn’t have decided to give up good farms and' corn1 parattively good farm incomes and seek employment in jobs that would give them incomes effort they were extending. There are only two ways, whereby the farmer .can expect to 'receive an equitable income: First, by receiving a larger percentage of the consumer’s dollar, the farmer' could have a satisfactory income. Convers­ ely this can only mean that the handlers’ and processors must receive less', Second, food prices could in­ crease iso that a larger per­ centage of the consumer’s in­ come .would find1 its way into the farmer’s pocket-book. Poor Mr. Green will find the first distasteful to the m°guls Of ithe food Indus;tries and sec­ ond offensive to the consumers. Roth policies are poetically un­ sound tor his party: Not much wonder I wasn’t too much impressed by the prophecy of “Heaven on Earth” in five years, by eiithei’ the ladies, or Mr. Green. I’m afraid the odd-age pension will provide more practical comfort for a rewarding their ability and the I great many farmers. Notices in the .matter of the bankruptcy of Farmers Allied Meat Enterprises Co-operative Limited wore received by cred­ itors last week, indicating that the first meeting of the credit­ ors will be held on Thursday, April 21 at 2 p.m. in the King Edward Hotel, Toronto.. Wil­ liam H. Anthony, 6 Adelaide Street East, Taranto, is the licensed 'trustee in bankruptcy in charge. It is interesting to note that among the 70 unsecured cred­ itors of FAME, ‘to whom is ow­ ed nearly $60,000, are six weekly newspapers, and one radio station, plus1 the Rural Co-operator for the small sum of $1.50. There are. 30 names of indi- vidiuals, which appear to have been either directors or sellers of Sharps in FAME, to whom is. owed $28,512, in amounts ranging from $2.10 up to $5,495 to a William Anderson in Strat­ ford. And there’s a fascinating amount of $13,131 owing to the HEPC in Hamilton and Tor­ onto. How does one get to the point of ovding that much to the HEPC? Mr, AndOrsOn, along with Arnold Rife, Galt, is listed as a secured creditor.. The two men are owed $27,500 by FAME. Then there’s another list of preferred ctrediiitofS, totalling $5,749. And' the. 2,045 deben­ ture shareholders, who put in one million dollars. There is of course some in­ terest in the relatively small figure of $187.05, owed to the Clinton News-Record, for the printing of covers for the fin­ ancial Statement 'of FAME1, MARK STANDS FOR THE •I HEATING pH YOU J WOULD TRY^YOUaflHOITj ^THEBEST MONEY CAN fJ WARMEST <| BUY 1J BY DOROTHY BARKER f GENUINE TRIPLE r|\j CULTIVATOR WHERE i -5UPER ©FLOW s FERTILIZER ?! Mica** UUXMriD I’ve known time's when a newspaper 'had to sit on a hot story waiting tor confirmation while worrying for fear a com­ petitor might get the first break. Not even the Toronto daily .papers had an inkling of the co-operation it took be­ tween CNR construction gangs and management to conceal the fact ;a bed of fossils, reputedly 50,000 years old, had been dis­ covered when the cut for the company’s new hump yard was engineered just north of Steeles Avenue. There was a very good reason for the necessity .to keep tots fact under their construction hats. The cut is a steep one and the vision .of enthusiastic rock and toss'll hunters swarming over the project could have turned many a hair gray. In September of last year, ON revealed the fossil find which had been uncovered some three years before. The com­ pany 'hadn’t kept it entirely to itself. A small group of scien­ tists verified the authenticity of the discovery. Last fall, the bed was1 . in­ spected by about 25 geologists, botanists and zoologists from Europe and North and South America. But I am ahead of my story, tor ‘any reader will wonder how construction work- el's could have recognized a fossil bed. While CNR engineering crews were moving thousands of tons of earth in 1962 to build an access road into the freight classification yard' at Ontario Highway 7 and Keele Street, a Department of Mines party led by Dr. Paul F. Har­ row of Waterloo University, was exploring the area. They noticed that a cut across the top of the,hill had bared sev­ eral interesting earth strata. Geologists are like bird watchers, they have an instinct for locating what they are hop­ ing to find. Examining the ex­ posed surface a little closer they discovered relics of the last ice age when glaciers' push­ ed every living and growing thing before them. Dr. Harrow explained to a CN information officer that from the grassy top of the hill to the foot of the .cut is revealed .the geological history of the area tor the past 100,000 years. employee communications' pub­ lication, The GN Reporter. Dr. Allen Straw of McMaster Uni­ versity’s Department of Geo­ graphy was shown in a. news picture holding a fossil specimen for one of his pupils, Ian Hay, to examine. It also reminded me of the day I hunt­ ed! dinosaur bones in the Bad Bands, of Alberta near Drum­ heller. Fossil hunting is a fever that gets into one’s blood. At any age you can feel younger than springtime when you discover a mammoth’s 50,000 year old tooth, or the knuckle of an ichthyasaurus! 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Dr. Harrow explained, “It is1 a deposit laid down iby glacial ice. It may go back as far as 100,000 years, to the second ice age. Other layers' are from the .last ice age of about from 50 to 70,000 years ago aS clbs'ely as wo can esti­ mate.” He remarked that the find is an exceptional cut which shows comparatively complete sections. “The railway has been most kind in preserving it”, he said, in forcasting that he and his colleagues would continue to study materials from this fossil bed. I was reminded of a visit to the area by a party of scien­ tists, members of the Interna­ tional Association for Quater­ nary Research, while reading ,a further report in CN’s new Classified Ads Bring Qui Results r 1