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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1973-10-11, Page 1010 CLINTON NE.W$43,Ecc)111),,,TligliSPAY, •00170/1M1 , 1973 Froin ray window Eugene Whelan was the guest speaker at the Huron County Federation of Agricultures annual meeting in Salt- ford last Thursday night. Federal Agricultural Minister Whelan told the packed hall that his department was trying to take the "yo-yo" effect out of farm prices. (photo by Keith Roulston) I . I CLARE .HECLA FURNACES Available" In OH Hood - Natural Goa or Proparo. Gas for rural users. 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I 'Magi , I long Mina jec River Poland TICkatIt avanaeie at this folloWIng lac/flown CAMPBELL'S OF GODERICH 5244531 FINCHER'S SMOKE SHOP $24.964 COACH HOUSE TRAVEL SERVICE 524.8366 CLINTON NEWS-RECORO - 482-3443 FRANK PETER, BAYFIELD 565-15 SO VICTORIA & GREY TRUST •524438 I RAWSON & SWARTM AN - 24-0,311 BARTLIFFS BAKERY., CLINTON - 4 a 1-97 2Y OR ANY ROTARIAN Pnices: FAMILY Vent sYS.os PURCHASE EARLY ADULT TICKET * $6.06 AND AVOID DISAPPONYM artioiNt TICKET 40. l'he +'w4$ Alta Police seek car Farmers 'need more organization My mother, bless her, used to say there was little point in neighbors fighting over their children when their kids became embroiled in the little spats that all youngsters seem to have. She said that very of- ten parents were fighting in the front yard while children were making up in the backyard—and I've always believed this philosophy to be sound. Thus it was that my two older children learned quickly there was no point in coming home to mother to complain about a playmate. I simply told my kids to stay away from the troublemaker until the feud blew over. I didn't even at- tempt to find out who was right and who was wrong. But our, youngest son is growing up with a big brother and a big sister who make that fatal mistake of shielding and protecting their little brother—and sometimes it makes for problems which I find difficult to resolve. A long time ago, my little son came home from school almost every day with his pants dirty, his face scratched and his eyes swollen from crying, When I asked him the reason for his plight, he told me that some big guy on the playground was beating him up. Now I know that's a serious problem when you are a little fellow. There's probably nothing more upsetting than a bully on the playground, and it isn't an easy matter to put one's finger on the root of the matter either. And although it pained me dreadfully, I used the tried and proven method from the childhood days of my older kids. I told my little boy either to find a new area of the playground in which to hang out or to stand his ground with the bully and use any means - devious or otherwise - to hold him off. It hurts to send a frightened little lad off to school with that kind of advice in such a situation, but I was determined not to become an interfering Mersina was bored. Her mother was away at a wit- ches' meeting, and she was all alone. A leaf blew in through the window. With a touch of her finger. Mersina turned, it into a newspaper. There was an ad on the Want- Ad Page: "Witch wanted for party." "I love parties!" Mersina squealed. And off she went to answer the ad. When she got to the right address, a fat woman an- swered the door, She wouldn't believe Mersina was a real witch and closed the door in her face. So Mersina got on her broom and flew around to the kitchen window. She said a magic word and made herself small enough to fly in through a hole in the window screen, "1 told you I was a real witch," Mersina squeaked. The woman thought she was a mouse and swatted her. Mersina got angry. She changed the woman into a mouse. The mouse promised to let Mersina come to her lumps. It hurt, but it is charac- ter,building for the child—so I gritted my teeth and proceeded. But my older children were not Fit) passive as I. They had never heard my mother ex- pound on her theory about such matters. They probably rernern- I3ered back to their childhood days'to the terror which can fill the heart of a child as he steps onto the schoolyard alone, waiting to be attacked. My two eldest took matters into their own hands. They ad- vised our youngest son to show his adversary that he wasn't really alone in this big world. They suggested that they would just happen to 'walk along to school' with their little brother. They thought that if they just happened to be nearby when any• trouble developed, our youngest son could point to his tall and sympathetic supporters with a warning to "Watch out or they'll get you". The relief which flooded over my youngest's face was a joy to behold. His tear-clouded eyes squinted with pleasure at the thought of such triumph and he soon was restored to the happy, bubbly little boy we all knew so well. To be sure, my older children were taking a step with which my mother would have heartily disagreed, but somehow it made me very proud to know that my children were sticking together like that - all for one and one for all. Somehow I couldn't bring myself to argue with their apprgach to this problem. In fact, I said ab- solutely nothing and waited eagerly for the after-school report that evening. When No. 2 son arrived home from school that evening, he was self-assured again. He had warded off his tormentor with the mere presence of his big brother and sister, and he was now able to walk safe and unmolested on the playground again. What a trmendous life it was after all! At that point I wondered-I really wondered at the wisdom of my mother's advice and the system I'd been following in party. But when Mersina tried to change her back, she didn't get the spell quite right She changed the woman into a hippopotamus. It bellowed. The door flew open, "Mersina. I told you not to get into trouble," scolded her mother. With a magic word, she changed the woman hack and whisked Mersina out the door. Met.- sina wondered: was she still invited to the party? Copyright AVS Technical Services, 1973 Mason Bailey, retiring president of the Huron County Federation of Agriculture, war- ned members of the organization Thursday night at its annual meeting held in Salt- ford Valley Hall that farmers need more organization if they are to get a fair break. He said farmers are going to have to compete with the United States on world markets more and more in the future and said at present Canadian farmers just aren't well enough organized for such competition. He told the 400 persons in at- tendance that they must en- courage their leaders; that they should get the best leaders they could get and then support them. Mr. Bailey, a Blyth-area far- mer and real estate broker, retired after two years .as president of the organization, Elected the new president by acclamation was Doug Fortune of Wingham. Elected first vice- president by acclamation was Adrian Vos of Blyth and second vice-president is Vince Austin of Dungannon. Elected directors at large were Orrie Gingerich of Dungannon, Jack Stafford of Wroxeter and Gordon Blan- chard of Walton. This year's annual meeting was a stream-lined affair because of the presence of Eugene Whelan, Federal Agriculture Minister and because the combined meeting of the Individual Service Mem- bership regions of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture was held at the end of the county meeting. Gordon Hill, of Varna, president of the Ontario. Federation was present for the regional meeting as guest speaker, He said the tide is tur- ning. Farmers, looked down upon for many years, he said, are going to be recognized like anyone else, Mr. Hill said he was proud to be from Huron because it has more members in the OFA than any other county in the province and because the representatives the Huron members send to OPA are respected and set a good exam, pie, Mr. Hill expressed the need for proper land-use planning so that all the industry wouldn't continue to locate in the golden horseshoe area on the best far- mland. Industry must be spread out, he said. At the same time, there must be some protection given to the farmer so he knows he can set up a livestock operation somewhere and not have it closed down soon afterward by urban sprawl. At present, he said, there was no such place in On- tario. Mr, Hill also called for a more realistic credit system for farmers with increased aid from the Farm Credit Cor- poration. He said the province needs a taxation system that is more fair, one that judges the worth of farmland by its ability to produce not its real estate value, Farmers must be able to get good farm employees, he said. "We can get good help if we can pay," he said "but we can only pay if we get good prices", Mr. Hill also expressed con- cern about the energy situation including gas, oil and propane and wondered if farmers would be able to get enough propane this year to dry their corn because of a strike at one production facility. Fertilizer too, he said, may be in short supply, especially by next spring. The OFA is ad- vising farmers to get as much fertilizer on this fall as possible, he said, because sup- ply will be limited and prices higher in the spring. Earlier in the evening, Mr. Hill had introduced Mr. Whelan as guest speaker. He called him a young farmer "in other words, a farmer on the right side of 50". He said Mr. Whelan had done what so many of his predecessors had not done: prevented one farm group or another froth being mad at him all the time. The regional meeting which followed the regular county an, nual meeting saw four directors appointed to OFA. They were: Mason Bailey, northwest Huron; Jack Stafford, Nor- theast Huron; Morris Bean, central Huron; and -Alton Wainer, south Huron. Clinton Police are asking anyone with information on a hit and run accident on Alma Street near Mary Street last Wednesday night (October 3) about 9:55 to phone police with the details immediately. Patricia MacDonald, g2, of Vic- toria Street in Clinton is in ii i proved condition in Clinten Public Hospital with a frac- tured pelvis and lacerations she suffered when an unidentified vehicle left Alma Street and struck her as she was walking on the sidewalk. Police say the vehicle was dark colored, In another hit and run ac- cident last Sunday afternoon, police apprehended a Kitchener woman minutes after a hit and run accident involving a parked car on Victoria Street near Highway No, 4, In Clinton Court last week, two men received jail sentences as the result of a disturbance outside the Elm Haven Motor Hotel on July 12, Michael Reynolds, formerly of Vanastra was given a total of 47 days in jail, seven 'on obstructing a police officer, 30 days for threatening, and 10 days for contempt of court, James Heard of Goclerich was given five days for assaulting Clinton Constable Wayne McFadden and 7 days for assaulting OPP constable Eric Goss. Lionel J. Stanley of Vanastre was fined $35 for having liquor while under age and $40 for making unnecessary noises. Six teenagers were fined for being minors in a licensed premise as a result of the August 23 raid on the Elm Haven by 33 policemen. Fined were Simon Farlow of Mt. Forest, Brian Glanville of Eg- mondville, Raymond Burns, Nancy Colson and Carole Dale, all of Clinton and Margaret Struthers of Wingham. mother, finding ways out of my raising my family. Maybe son's - proVlems so that he- 'Character- building could ' 'be would not have to take. his Jeughtanether way: DR. A'S MIN1-TALES Mini-Witch Answers Ad