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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1973-03-15, Page 10• n n n n n • n n n n n n n n n n ! IVORY DETERGENT LIQUID 32 02 79' FACIAL TISSUES KLEENEX FLAT roLD 3/95 n n I GRAHAM WAFERS 1r/j2% CKS 2/79 , n I MARGARINE BLUE BONNET 3 LB PKG 89' • • • • CHOCOLATE MIX DRINK NESTLE'S QUICK • n .LACK DIAMOND 8 OZ !CHEESE SLICES n n MAXWELL HOUSE INSTANT COFFEE 60z • • • PEAS, CREAM CORN, GREEN or WAX BEANS 14 OZ I STOKELY'S FANCY m CHOCOLATE MALLOW DEAL PACK 12 OZ LIDO COOKIES • I WAGON WHEELS n WESTON'S 14 OZ BREAD 'N' BUTTER 32 OZ !CATER! PICKLES n • SUPER SAVE DONUTS in • (We reserve the right to limit quantities) • • • • n n • • • n n • n n n n • • • Wienie SizzlersLB79c Side Baconi,B., 79c Bacon Squares LB49t Ham Sausage LB79t BONELESS TurkerRolls LB 8 9 t 10 LB BOX Turkey Wings $3.25 10 13 BOX Turkey Legs $4.25 ONTARIC Canada No. 1 Potatoes 10 LB BAG CALIFORNIA SIZE 138 New Crop Sunkist Oranges DOZ Canada Fancy Spy Apples ' FROZEN FOODS BIRD'S EYE BREAKFAST 12 OZ Orange Drink 'Awake' 2 LB 89' 2/8 5 5 1.27 4/95' 2/75' 49' 53' 4 Doz sl 79r• • • • • • 59 n • • n 8 LB BAG 890 n • • • • . • 3/98q • • • • • • n 10—CLINTON NEWS-REcORD, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1973 Ba matter of principle ield news' BY J. CARL HEMINGWAY St. Andrew's Church Beans Supper -will be Saturday It isn't often that I find myself short on words but the action of the Government to open Canada's borders duty free on beef and beef products makes my vocabulary somewhat inadequate. Perhaps I should have had a turn in the army, navy or lumber camps, by what I've heard, though I think driving a team of mules during my younger day might have been most helpful. How do you find words in the dictionary to describe a govern- ment that boasts a Canadian Bill of Rights supporting equal op- portunity for all and then removes the duty on the importation of beef and beef cattle and doesn't even suggest equal treatment from the countries to which we export? Then the department of Agriculture comes out with figures to prove there is urgent need to expand our beef production in order to supply the world demand. If the world demand is so great where are the imports going to come from to supply the so called Canadian shortage? Perhaps our government feels it will be neighbourly to remove the duty on Canadian imports so the U.S. can sell beef here free of duty and then buy it back and the U.S. government can collect the duty on the return trip, It is not a new situation. Back before 1962 or so the U.S, could ship poultry into Canada at 1 /2 the duty charged Canadian poultry entering the United States. After years of persuasion, our govern- ment finally made the Canadian duty equal as it has been on the other meat products up to this point. Why this backward step? There have been screams from consumers about the high cost of food for sometime now but statistics show that meat, which is now supposed to be the real villain, is still a much better buy than non- food items. The real problem that the consumer has to face, is the fact that food prices have been so far below the prices of other products for so long that an increase that even approaches equality seems very high. In the last issue of the Free Press Weekly it was reported that the fat steers in Ireland are selling at $70. per cwt. up. We don't hear screams across the Atlantic about it. The Irish, no doubt, are eating beef but I doubt that many of their middle-income group have from two to four bathrooms in their homes with two car garages and a cottage at the lake. Apparently in Canada, food can't compete with these other necessities of life, I can remember when we lived in a house with a path but I can't ever remember having less than all the meat on the table that we could eat. I could quote the Government "It's a matter of priority". The latest propoganda push about the high cost of meat comes from a member of the Committee investigating food costs. It is pointed out that the price of meat, beef in particular, is so high that the Eskimos and Indians and the poor just can't buy an adequate diet. The government is most compassionate and removes the duty which may or may not reduce the price of meat but if any imports are available from anywhere it will most cer- tainly drop the farm price of cattle. It is worse than ironic that this will lower the incomes of the farmer who has for years been in the lowest income group of the gainfully ,employed. In fact, many farmers have a net income less than many families on welfare. It would be sufficient insult to the agriculture community to be told by Government that they must take care of the poor in our rich land but their method of providing cheap meat for the poor also guarantees cheap meat for the rich which I really feel is the main objective. rve run out of words. Perhaps there are others who can think of better words to describe this action of government but no doubt the more appropriate adjectives will be censored. The price of food still seems to be the big problem in our economy with beef and pork prices getting all the attention. Early in the fall, eggs took quite a jump"' and it caught tbe.'atterition of the public for awhile. From last spring until last fall the small producer where we get our eggs told me the price received at the egg ggrading station .went from 22 cents a dozen to 50 cents for her A large eggs. However, in spite of the higher cost of grain and the extreme increase in the price of concentrate the egg market repor- ted a drop of two cents a dozen this past week. There was no com- ment on this from the consumers. Let us take a look at the price of meat and how the price has changed for the farmer and the consumer in recent months. Take the price of hogs as an example since I am more familiar with that line rather than beef which does follow the same pat- tern. In January 1972, I got less than $30 per/cwt. dressed weight for hogs and in December 1972 received less than $50 on the same basis so leth compare the consumer price on $30 hogs and $50 hogs. I can't give exact percentages for the mark ups for processors or retailers or the others who may come in between the producer and consumer but my totals seem to be pretty close to the right figure when we look at producer and consumer prices. Business works on a percentage mark up over costs, so let us say all the costs and profits for the processor amounts to 20 percent on cost price. The processor pays the former $30 for 100 pounds of dressed pork. He marks it up 20 percent and sells to the retailer at $36. To cover his costs and profits, the retailer takes the same 100 pounds of pork and to cover his costs, waste and profit marks the price up 30 percent and sells to the consumer at $46.80 at an average price of 46.80 cents per lb. The difference between what the farmer gets and what the con- sumer pays is $16.80. , Now let us see what happens when the farmer gets $50 for 100 pounds of dressed pork. The processor marks it up the same 20 percent and sells for $60. The retailer marks up 30 percent and sells at $78 or an average of 78 cents per lb. and the difference between what the producer gets and what the consumer pays is $28. Strangely enough, if my figuring is correct, the increase to the producer and consumer is exactly the same - 56 percent . I know that my costs have increased tremendously in the past year. Concentrate, which makes up about 20 percent of the feed ration has more than doubled and the price of feed grain has almost doubled, so that my net income .hasn't really gone up very much. It has gone up, for which I am thankful, but the April 30th deadline isn't going to be any problem. If this Committee investigating retail prices can explain why at costs almost twice as much to process and retail a hog at $50 per (cwt. as it does to process and retail a hog at $30 per/Cwt. it will have answered the problem of present retail meat prices. Years ago there was a strike in the steel producing industry and the price of a steel went up $5 per ton. Just after that a hardware merchant told me nails went up $20 per ton, Why ? It doesn't seem to me that the extra costs and profits for manufacturing and retailing that ton of steel should increase three times over the price of the raw product. Why should it cost almost twice as much to process and retail $50 pork than $30 pork? MARY'S SEWING CENTRE 17 ALBERT ST. CLINTON, ONT. AUTHORIZED WHITE - ELNA DEALER SPECIAL SEWING CLASSES ON LINGERIE KNITS and MEN'S WEAR. PRECISION SCISSOR SHARPENING USED MACHINES — REPAIRS TO ALL MAKES Mtn By Milvena Erickson Unit One of the United Church Women of St, Andrews Church held their March meeting in the Sunday School room, Thursday the 8th, with 17 members present. The meeting opened with the singing of a hymn. Devotions were led by Elva Metcalf assisted by Mrs. D. Haw, This was followed by a talk based on our study of India. The subject under study Was "An Indian Looks at the Christian Church." Three points of view, as seen through the eyes of Shri B.A. Paradkar, now studying in the University of Toronto's School of Theology, were presented (1) Was Christianity Imposed by Westerners? (2) What Right Have We - to propogate the Christian Faith? (3) How has Christianity contributed to life in India? Interesting discussion on these three points followed the presentation. The business part of the meeting was conducted by Jean Greer. An invitation to Zurich Emmanuel United Church, April 6th at 8:00 p.m., was received. The draw of the tickets on the Rug Kit will be made the night of the Bean Supper spon- sored by the men of the Church on Saturday, March 17 from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Birthday greetings were sung to three members, Mrs. Margaret Scotchmer Sr., Mrs. Logan Cleave and Mrs. Roy Scotchmer. Meeting closed with prayer and lunch was then served by the committee of three, Mrs. R. Scotchmer, Mrs. L. Cleave and Mrs. C. Merner. Trinity Management The Board of Management of Trinity Anglican Church met in the Parish Hall Tuesday evening, March 6, with the Rec- tor, Rev. George Youmatoff in the chair. Secretary, Mr. Philip Du Boulay, read the minutes of the previous meeting, which were approved. Mrs. P. Du Boulay, treasurer, gave her report, also adopted. Mle,-;Rectolaxeportect, that the electric heat bad' 'been corn: pletely installed in the Church and Parish Hall, and that the Church had been re-wired. Committees were elected to act for the coming year: Finance committee, Fred Hulls as chairman; Brig. Morgan Smith, Harry Baker, Gordon Graham, and Mrs. Greta Du Boulay as members. Property committee, Fred Hulls as chair- man, James B. Higgins, Kelso Fitzsimons and Milvena Erickson as members; Organ Fund, Harry Baker; Rectory Committee, Harry Baker and John Deeves; Parish Hall com- mittee, Fred Hulls, Harry Baker and Vina Parker; Chair- man of Sidemen, Kelso Fitz- simons; Liturgical committee, Brig. Morgan Smith, Philip Du Boulay. The Rector announced there would be a Great Chapter Meeting on May 13th; a South Saugeen Deanery get-together for a Dance and smorgasbord on May 25, and a very serious discussion on Church Union at the next Board of Management meeting on Tuesday, April 3 at 7 p.m. Historical Society Brigadier Fred Clift, acted as chairman for the Historical Society meeting, Monday evening, March 12, in the ab- sence of the chairman Mrs. A.S. Morton. Miss Ethel Dewar read her report of the previous meeting and treasurer Mrs. Joe Mayman gave her report. Both were adopted. Correspondence was received from Heritage Canada, regar- ding the preservation of heritage buildings in the vicinity. It was accompanied by a questionnaire to be filled in and returned. Brig Clift gave a resume of John Galt and the Galt family from a paper written by Hamilton B. Timothy. He ex- plained that John Galt was a writer, poet an entrepreneur and the man who conceived the dream of the Canada Company. Professor, Dr. Timothy of the UM.O.,London has done an ex- tensive study of John Galt and it is the hope of the Society that he will come and talk on John Galt, Mrs. Elva Metcalf, a councillor on the County Historical Society will present this idea at the next county meeting, and hopefully they will accept it and have Dr. Timothy relate his findings at, the County meeting. A brief on the Goderich Jail was presented and a discussion ensued. The feeling of the meeting was to Save the jail wall; if at all possible, They felt that a building with such a Historical significance should be left as it is. The theme of the meeting was the "Fishing Industry" and Miss Ethel Dewar presen- ted a very interesting account of '!Fishing In Pioneer Times," She told of the Indians fishing with harpoons, torches and spears and everything feasible for the taking of fish from the waters — even to using pet- ticoats for scooping up the fish when they were extremely plen- tiful, Some Indians sold their catches of fish which were sometimes 8 to 10 barrels of 200 pounds per barrel daily, for staple foods. Others sold their catches for whiskey and apples. So many fish were being caught that the merchants were en- vious and petitioned the gover- nment to licence these fisher- men, and in the 1840's this was done in the Goderich area. However the markets for the fish became less and so plen- tious were the catches that they were piled like cordwood and burned. Mrs. Milvena Erickson was then called upon to give a ' report on the Fishing Industry in the village of Bayfield, in a generalized way. She began by saying that she was par- ticularly pleased to have been able to do part of this assign- ment as her grandfather, the late James Sturgeon, had been a commercial fisherman for 66 of his 83 years and her father the late Willard (Byrd) Sturgeon along with his brothers and a grandson Jack Sturgeon had carried on in this tradition until 1960. Byrd Sturgeon held his licence until 1971. In the early 1900's .James Sturgeon bought all the fish from the other fisherman in the Port of Bayfield and shipped them via rail to points in the United States and to Onn's Fish Market in London, Mrs. Erickson covered the fishing grounds for the Bayfield licences, the International Boundary, the types of boats (fishing tugs) from the double ender skiff manned by two pair of oars, to the steam and gas powered, to today's diesel engines. She told of the draft of a boat, the length, width and height; how net pullers were used: the size of a steering wheel to net trays which hold six full length nets, each being 72 yards long; also certain types of nets and the construc- tion of these. How the nets were dried on reels after being used for the catching of fish and the types (varieties) of fish, commonly caught in the waters off Bayfield, their colouring, weight, the seasons and fathoms of water in which they were fished. Mrs. Erickson, also covered "Fish Shanties", then and now, • their construction and uses, and ended by saying, that many people should be in• volved in this project and should obtain information on all the families whose ancestors did commercial fishing in this area. When completed it could be compiled into a very great history of the major industry in the Village, Mrs, Violet Sturgeon, one of our senior citizens in the Village, demonstrated the "stringing" of nets, an art that she has been active in since she was 14. This was very much of interest to those attending, Brig. Clift then called on Mr. James Scott of Seaforth who showed a coloured movie he had taken in 1942. Mr. Scott had gone out on the fishing tug, the "Binnie S." owned by John and .Jack Sturgeon (father and son) with Doug Gemeinhardt, Byrd Sturgeon, Jack Sturgeon and the late Herb Sturgeon on board and had taken a coloured movie of these men, lifting the nets, picking out the fish, resetting the nets, cleaning the fish, even of them having their lunch. The colours in the movie were absolutely beautiful and explained more than anyone could do in mere words. The audience were so delighted that they asked Mr. Scott to show it a second time which he graciously did. During the' showing of the movie, Jack Sturgeon, did the commentary and told exactly what a day in the life of a fisherman consisted of. A display had been set up by Mrs. Erickson with the aid of Mrs. Jack Sturgeon and Phil Gemeinhardt, It consisted of a miniature fishing net that Mrs. Violet Sturgeon had strung for one .of her grandson's,-different types of webbing, a hand made wooden buoy and a partially constructed buoy, an ice slick, ice tongs, an anchor, corks (wooden, aluminum and plastic) load weights, honeycomb rock from the reef, which is on the International boundary line half-way across Lake Huron, a cork holder to hold it steady for drilling down the centre, newspaper articles, pictures, fishing licences, a clip- ping of the "Maymac" owned by the late Capt, Les MacMillan, constructed in Bayfield and a very lovely pic- ture of the "Helen McLeod II", owned by the late Louis McLeod, also constructed in Bayfield. The directors of the Agricultural Society have asked the Historical Society to put in a display at their "Old Time Country Fair" on Sept, 1 and it was decided that they would use the Fishing Industry display this year. Mrs. Violet Sturgeon will be displaying her talents again at the fair by demonstrating the art of "stringing nets." A very big "Thank You" goes out to Evelyn and Jack Sturgeon and to Phil Gemeinhardt for the use of their material for display purposes and to Mrs. Violet Sturgeon for her demon- stration, and also to Mr. Scott for his very interesting movie which certainly aided in making a good program. A lovely lunch was served by hostesses, Mrs. Robert Blair and Mrs. Fred Clift. Bayfield Figure Skating Club The weather certainly did not co-operate with the B.F.S.C. last Saturday. Russ Kerr did his utmost and managed to get a decent- looking ice surface but it was thin in spots and the executive couldn't take a chance for the skaters. The carnival was can- celled but plans are being discussed to hold it in conjunc- tion with the Lions Club car- nival next December. Mrs. Fran Brady, club pro, was presented with a gift of ap- preciation by Sharon Bunn. The two $25 merchandise vouchers were drawn by Russ Kerr and Sharon Bunn, assisted by Jeannette Huffman, the ticket convener. Mrs. Ray (Joyce) Robinson, Goderich, sister to Patti Lynn Greer, won the voucher for Grahams General Store and Mr. and Mrs. G. Wright, London, mater- nal grandparents to Bonnie Makins, won the boucher for the Village Market. The club executive extends a sincere thank you to everyone who worked so hard to get the carnival ready. It should be a "breeze" next fall now that everything is arranged and ready. All the best! PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Bob Cluff, Rob and Tara of London were weekend guests of Mr, and Mrs. Fred Le Beau. Mrs. Mabel Collins and Mr. Tom Handy, Seaforth, Mr. Del Altman, Orangeville, and Miss Judy Voison, Varna, spent the weekend with Mrs. Margaret Garrett, Norma, Diane and John. Mr. and Mrs. F.E. McFadden were in Toronto for two days last week attending the Annual Meeting of Builders Suppliers, While there, they stayed at the Hyatt-Regency Hotel. Mr. Robert Parker and son David Dorchester visited Satur- day with the formers parents Mr. and Mrs. Bill Parker, Sun- day guests were their other other son Bill, daughter-in-law) Mildred and grandchildren Charlie, Kim and new baby Jennifer of London. Mrs. Pat Graham spent last week in Woodstock as the guest of her sister, Mr. and Mrs. William Thrower and family. Guests registered at the Albion Hotel included Miss Donna Lee Berg, Mr. and Mrs. D. Gordon, all of London and Captain William and Mrs. Robinson of Goderich. Cottagers who were noticed in the Village for the weekend were Mr. and Mrs. George Kalanzis, Birmingham, Michigan; Dr. and Mrs. Bill Tillman and family, Mr. and Mrs., Keith Pruss, family and guests of London and Mr. and Mrs. .Joe Laudenbach of Toronto. Mrs. Norman F. Cooper, Mount Clemens, Michigan, who is spending several days at her residence here, was joined by her husband for the weekend, who has just returned from a visit with relatives in Florida. Diane Pugh says she ap- preciated the help given her by the people of Bayfield to com- plete an assignment for a school project on "Women's Rights" She found the com- ments interesting and sur- prising. Of the 55 questionnaires that were returned complete found that most of these are "pro-women". They think that the decision n and work ability of wor lower than men, The m of the men (not wome that the woman's place home fixing his meals cleaning his clothes whil earning the bread. Best wishes for a si recovery go out to Mr. Ed who is presently a patie University Hospital, Load Politicians were m streeting in the Village past few days; Friday Mr. Winkler, P.C. accompanie Mr, Harry Baker visited business places and Mo Mr. Robert Nixon, Libera companied by Brig. Mo Smith and Mr. Mau Liberal accompanied by Fred LdBeau, made their Today is voting day fo Huron-Riding by-election you are asked to please c out and "Vote". The Po Place for the Village is in Municipal Building and is o from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Someone once said' ab politicians — "You someti meet a politician who is nice you even if you can't anything for him!" — and "A lot of politicians need platform because they do have a leg to stand on!" IF IT ISN'T FOOD, POISON Most poisoning accide happen to the very young a the very old according to Ontario Safety League. 1970, 66 percent of all ca 'where age was specified curred to children under years of age. Unfortunately, the wor place to store detergents, clea sers, furniture polish etc. is al the most common — under t kitchen sink. Remember th toddlers love to explore and a seldom put off by the har smell and vile taste of toda cleansers. Bedrooms and bathroo host a variety of potenti poisoners, from prescripti drugs to toilet bowl and si cleansers to common headac tablets. Even perfumes a cosmetics are a hazard to dealt with.