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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1956-02-16, Page 1Eighty-Second Year EXETER, ONTARIO THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY W, 195# meeting in Clin- afternoon. packers are try- price to the 23- jEb 1 >< w8* • •• ’■•*’** REIGNS OVER 500—Pretty Margaret Wood­ burn, 16-year-old daughter of Mr. Lisle Wood­ burn and the late Mrs. Woodburn, of R.R. 3 Parkhill, is the new reigning monarch over SHDHS’s 500 students. She was crowned at the school’s formal dance Friday night. She’s in grade 12, treasurer of the student council, member of the glee club, a cheerleader; her hobbies include dancing and roller-skating and her ambition is to become a teacher. She was escorted by Bill Baker, of Hensall. Former queens of the school presented her with South Huron's new crown, a bouquet of roses and a gift from the students. The school auditorium was decorated in a Valen­ tine motif for the annual “At Home”. Favor Producer Boards To Organize Marketing Celebrate Tenth Birthday Of District s Largest Show On .Friday evening, February 10, Kirkton Community Associa­ tion held a turkey 'banquet to honour the founder's of the as­ sociation. The Association, which spon­ sors the district’s biggest evening show, the Kirktion Garden Party, ■celebrated .its tenth anniversary. The annual June vaudeville show attracts crowds of up to 10,000. A capacity crowd of former ■Officers and friends filled the school hall o>f the United 'Church Which was decorated with Valen­ tine motifs, violets and red tapers. The Women’s Association .served the sumptuous fare. Mrs. C. A. Campbell, of Sarnia, cut the (birthday cake at" the •dinner. 'Ross Marshall, president £-<df the society/ acted as. toast- r master. 1 Rev. Michael Griffin,* of Brant- s fond, former rector of St. Paul’s ‘ "Church, Kirkton, was the guest speaker. Ih forceful words, lie urged the community to go for- Ward in the spirit of the fore­ fathers with’ faith, courage and friendliness. In 'addition, he stressed the need to draw newcomers into our community life 'by showing them the 'benefits of our great British heritage. • -■s. Jack Roundell, a representa­ tive O'f 'the public, introduced the speaker and Fred .Switzer ’thank­ ed him. .Entertainers for 'the evening ■Garth Bladder and duets; iSgt. Frank “Willie McGuire”. Davis 'acted as HS Brunette New Queen South Huron District School's new queen likes to dance, roller-skate, turn wheels and handle money. •Margaret Woodburn, the pretty brunette students xiew monarch fox* tbho'se activities •agenda. She’s treasurer •council, a nxembex* of the glee •club and a cheerleader. Her hob­ bies are dancing and roller­ skating. She plans to spend two years •at normal school and become a school teacher. A grade 1.2 student, she’s the 16-year-old daughter of Lisle Woodburn, R.R. 3 Piarkihill, and the late Mrs. Woodburn, She has an older sister, Marlene, 18, and a younger brother, Bill, 10. She attended S.S. 18 McGxllivary be­ fore coming to 'South Huron. Margaret was escorted to hex*, throne, through a heart-shaped *| trellis by her contort Bill Baker of Hensall. The .royal couple was' accompanied by the seven other1 contestants for the crown and their escorts.' 3 . ’ Formex* queens honored her: -Joan Thomson, the 1955 xnon- ■arch, now at McDonald Institute, Guelph, placed the new crown on her bead; Kathryn Hunter, 1954 queen, presented her with roses 'and Marion Creery, student coun­ cil president, gave her a gift on behalf of the school. Ken Tutekey was master of ceremonies. Grail am Farquhar presented the othex* contestants with gifts. They included Marion Alexander, Barbara Allison, Carol' Fletcher, Connta Jackson, Alexia Lostell, 'Connie Ostl'and and Loriaine Taylor. 'Receiving the students were Principal H. L. Sturgis and Mrs. . Sturgis; Beard C “ MaoNaughton and Mrs. Naughton, and Mita Creery her escort. High sing, cart- chose as their 1956, lists all on her busy of the student Board Chairman C. S. M.ac- and Junior Farmers Present Festival tWr3outh Huron Junior Farmers Yndn’t enter a play In the county drama festival but they supplied entertainment at the semi-final competition at Seaforth Tuesday night, Labelle Coward gave a reading and Barry Jeffrey rendered an accordion solo. (OHnten juniors won first prize for their play. They will compete against the north Huron winner at the finals in dllnton on Thurs­ day, Feb. 23. were Mrs. Ken B'lackler, ■Hock'aday and Mrs. Harold pianist. Mrs. Alvin su'me O'f the work of the Juvenile contest. Over 500 ’children have participated in these annual px*o- grams since the (contest began. (Incidentally, Ken Blackler was one of the first prize (winners.) Mr. Arnold Wiseman, trea­ surer, presented a bright financ­ ial picture. The association has a tidy balance after making sub­ stantial donations to local organizations’. John A. Stephens reviewed the work of tihe Thames Valley Authority and stressed the need for conservation. Toast Founders Hugh Berry, member of the association since its inception, re­ plied to the toast to “The Founders of the Kirkton Com­ munity Association” proposed by Mrs. Gerge ‘Wilson, secretary. In proposing this toast, Mrs. Wilson related the following history as found iff the minute ibooks; “For some time previous to the inaugural meeting on December 5, T944, ‘Dr. 'C. A. Campbell had been interested in a cultural pro­ ject which would benefit not only ■the immediate community within a .five-mile radius, but be of in­ terest 'beyond these limits. In the summer of 1944, 'Dr. Crago gave a ire- Campbell, accompanied by and Mrs. IRoy McNaughton, visit­ ed Zenda Garden Party and were favorably impressed by some of its features. On December 5, 19 44, a meet­ ing was called for the purpose of considering the organization of a community association with the co-operation of the Kirkton Agriculture Society, the Aberdeen hall, 'the public library, the Wo­ men’s ’Institute and the skating rink. This meeting was held in Aber­ deen hall with some 20 persons in attendance. Canon R. W. James was chairman and Dr. C. A.: Campbell secretary. The, agriculture society was represented by Charles Paul and Hugh Berry; Aberdeen hall by Ira Marshall and Frank Routly; the public library by Canon —(Please turn to page 12 “'Government or Producer Marketing Boards—which is the foe'st for the marketing of the various farm products?” was the topic for discussion at the farm forums on Monday night. Show More Interest At the Fairfield Farm Forum, meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wilson, the members felt that producer boards which operate in smaller areas have more interest in the problem of producing and marketing than government boards but if the problem becomes^ too large in­ volving a large area the govern­ ment would have to help as in producing and marketing wheat (whereas the bean producers 'board do good work without gov­ ernment aid. It was cited that the cheese producers board got better re­ sults marketing their products than the government was able to attain. 'Canning companies gulate the amount tonage a grower but farmers would gov’t dictating as must or must not ply and demand usually regulates production fairly well. In answer to the question as to Whether it was necessary to have government farm market­ ing boards to „ stabilize farm prices all the forums were agreed that government could put a floor price on some products or grant subsidies which would help stabilize prices on a nation wide scale. The next Fairfield forum meet­ ing will convene at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Murray Elliott. Should Stabilize Farm Prices . Thirty members of the Unique forum met at the home of Mr., and Mrs. Jack McClinchey and they thought • that government boards should handle surplus disposal on certain farm products re- of acreage or may produce resent the to what they produce. iSup- Require 4,000 Workers To Conduct TB Survey The Huron County TB sur­ vey, which will begin next May 7, will require the services of ■five thousand volunteer workers to help reach the objective of a ■hundred per cent of the eligible ■population, that is, all persons of high school age or over. The need for such a large num­ ber of workers was explained by C. H. Bray, of the Ontario De­ partment of Health, who pointed out at the organization meeting that the survey depends on its success largely upon adequate publicity and 'personal canvass. For this reason, the general sur­ vey’s committee head Judge Frank Fingland, Clinton, and the Huron TB Association’s presi­ dent, F. E. Madill, Wingham, •set up an organization will reach into every cor- tihe county. main committees have al- been established, but Ed MP Criticizes Gardiner But Admits He's Clever Elston Cardiff, Huron MP, cri­ ticized Agriculture Minister J, G. iGardiner in the House of Com­ mons Friday for saying tihat.fa-r mers are in a better position than they ever were. J “Anyone who knows anything at all about farm income knows perfectly well that the farmers of this country are the only group which has not prospered a's the national income has gone up,” Mr, Cardiff told the house, “All other groups, “he said,” have prospered under that in­ crease, but the farmers have not. They are the ones who have been taking the brunt of this thing from start to finish. They al­ ways get the last rise in prices and when prices start to go down they take the first fall. “We have been taking falls for almost three years. We have been going down instead of up at a time when everything we have to buy has gone up. The price we get for what we produce does not constitute something that is real. What we have left after We have bought what we have to buy is our profit and we have hot had very milch profit. ' 'Despite his criticism of Gardi­ ner, who was bbrn at Farquhar, Mr, 'Cardiff acknowledged his ■ability. “The Minister of Agriculture has proved himself to be a much ■better political Advisor to gov­ ernment than a minister of ag­ riculture so far as the farmers are concerned. I have listened to him for the last 16 years, and I give him credit for being a clever minister, I appreciate his ability in a .great many respects.” The Huron MP also spoke on ‘the wheat situation: “I would say that the govern­ ment is to blame to a large ex­ tent for the fa&ts that we are out of the British market with our wheat. We refused to let British dealers sign for $2 wheat because we insisted on $2.0'5. As a result we have nevex* sold any wheat at that price. We could just as well have held the Brit­ ish market as lost it. The British are smart buyers, and they know When they are offered a good price. ‘ Lost British Market “When we held our wheat at $2.05 we lost the British market and since then they have not been buying very much wheat from us. I heard the Minister of Trade and Commerce state that we had not lost the British market, that they would have to buy Wheat from us. They bought their wheat from Russia, where they could buy -more cheaply than here. Not only that, but countries in Europe have been forced to grow their own wheat because exits was too expensive to buy. “Had we in the east been able to buy feed wheat at a pride we could afford to pay we would have bought many thousands of ■bushels. That would have made more space available in the ele­ vators for wheat, how lying out on the prairies. That is one’ reason we have such a surplus of wheat, because we in the east could not afford to buy feed —Please Trim to Page 12 have which nex* oif The ready win P. 'C'hesney, of Tuck er smith, chairman of the canvass, points out that 'hundreds of workers are needed to make sure that every home in the county is "reminded of the coming survey so that all members will know when and where to go to have their chests X-rayed. Want Full Coverage- The reason for taking such trouble and setting up such a vast organization is that health officials feel that the survey will only be effective if everybody presents himself at .the mobile clinics an May. Because it is an infectious disease which can be caught from any one who has TB and is not being .treated, it is dangerous to have any un­ known cases in any community. Yeans dgo this fact was recog­ nized ds applied to cattle and compulsory TB testing was in­ stituted. While the test is not compulsory for human beings, it is clearly as important that-the disease be controlled in, men and women as in cattle. Fox* this reason, every effort is being put forth to make the survey a complete success. It is planned with in the next three weeks too try to recruit the neces­ sary five thousand workers, and to this end committee mem­ bers are already going through the county asking fox* volunteers. If Hunon is to show the way and .chalk up the first all-out chest survey in a rural area, these workers -are essential. 'Reeve Norman H. Jones has been appointed, ‘chairman for Hensall for Huron County T.B, Mass^ X-Ray in May. Undpr him are six sub-committees: supply, R. H. Middleton; census, P. L. Mc­ Naughton; clinic, Mrs. D. J. Mc- Kelvie; secretary, Mrs. W. Spen­ cer; publicity, .Mrs. Maude Hed­ den; transportation, Harry Hoy. Herman Powe New Bailiff Herman Powe, of Sanders St., has been appointed bailiff of the fifth division court of 'the iCoun- ty of Huron. ’ He succeeds Noble Scott, who recently resigned (because of 411 health. George W. Lawson, James St., is nt present clerk of the court, such as -wheat and coarse grains hut producei* boards could effi­ ciently control most other com­ modities. They did think govern­ ment and producer boards should Stabilize farm prices. An exchange of valentines was the highlight for recreation. The- next meeting will be held on February 27 at the home of Mrs. Sdhilbe with Mr. Carl Oestricher speaking on the topic “Paying for Our Health.” Producer Boards Better Members of Parr Line forum thought that from Ontario’s view­ point producers bo’ards should prove more satisfactory. The Government should handle wheat and butter and on the remain­ ing products the producer could set up its own marketing boards. In order to regulate marketing, production would have to be con­ trolled and one suggestion to do this was by means of education. They reported that they reali­ zed it was hard to stabilize farm prices but that a government floor price such as we have on hogs is a necessity. Winners of progressive euchre were Mrs, Gordon Coleman, Mrs. John Soldan, Eldon Jarrott and Glenn Weido. (Mr. and Mrs. David Bailey were hosts for the meeting. There will be no meeting next Monday night but the forum will be held February 27 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Robinson. On February 24 the forum is hold­ ing a community night in S.S. 3 Hay school house. Boards Should Co-operate The Hillcrest forum, which met at the home of Mr. and/Mrs. Rea Nell, thought that government farm marketing boards should co-pperate with producer hoards efficiently handle price sup­ ports and surplus disposal. The members doubted whether a marketing xboard or even the government could regulate the volume of production but can do a lot for marketing and im­ proving quality of products. 'Contrary to the findings of some other forums those attend­ ing the Hillcrest forum thought that government boards could stabilize prices in fairness to both ■producer and consumer. “Today we should be getting 30for dressed hogs without having the consumer pay a n higher price” was a statement ' from their re­ port. > Next week Hillcrest forum will attend the meeting at Ilderton and Mr. and Mrs. Newton Was- nidge wall be host and hostess for February 27. Fieldnian Speaks To Forum Mr. Gordon Greig, secretary­ fieldman of Huron County Fed­ eration’ of Agriculture was guest —(Please turn to page 12 speaker at Elimville Farm Forum meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Will Elford. After considerable discussion the members t concluded that, due to the amount of money in­ volved, government marketing boards should be responsible for surplus disposal and price sup­ ports. They did not advocate con­ trol on production and stabilizing farm prices was a problem to be handled by ‘both boards. Call Tenders For Addition Tenders are being called for ■the $50,000 addition and alter­ ations to Exeter Post Office. The call appears this week in The Times Advocate. Plans provide for a full­ width extension of 15 feet to ■the rear of the building and a mail lobby of 20x8. The inter- iox* alterations will allow fox* 30 feet of lock boxes. ■Since tenders must be in by March 21, local officials be­ lieve the construction will be done this summer. Every cent which Ontario hog producers have received above the floor price during the past month has been the result of bargaining done by the market­ ing co-op, Director Clayton Frey of Sarnia told Huron producers at their annual ■ton Wednesday Frey charged ing to force the cent floor because of the surplus oh the market but the co-op has succeeded in keeping it higher by refusing to sell. Because the co­ op has the power to take hogs away from packers, it has been able to keep the price between 32.'5 and 24, "The packers have to answer to somebody now for the .price of their hogs,” he said, “They never did before.” The Sarnia director urged pro­ ducers to get behind their or­ ganization so its. bargaining pow­ er would be strengthened. He predicted the co-op would make mistakes but he asked farmers to give it a chance to prove it could increase their returns, “'Our objective is clear,” he said. “Let’s go after it,” Frey explained to 200 pro­ ducers the new direction pro­ gram and how it works. The new scheme gives the co-op complete power over the shipment of hogs to the market. Frey said that if ■packers refused to pay the price asked by the co-op, it could order ■the hogs shipped elsewhere. This has given the producers power to bargain effectively, he maintain­ ed. The speaker said that in re­ List Spelling Winners In Township Matches Winners are being declared in the district township competi­ tions of the Ontario Spelling Bee. (South Huron public school in­ spector John Goman, who is con­ ducting the matches, said com­ petition is keen among the stu­ dents. "I have been quite pleased with the interest displayed by the children,” he said. Only three of the rural schools in the area have not been able to enter contestants in the town- ship quarter-finals. . Winners declared so far are: Hay towriship Sharon ' Block, Zurich; Bill Wagner, Zurich; June Tinney, No. 10. .Stanley township—H o w a r d Scotcheer, Bayfield; Rosalie Wat­ kins, No. 1 Stanley; Jean Turner, No. Jean McClinchey, No. 1'0. IStephen Township—E v e 1 y n Wilson, No. 1; Shirley Bender, Union 16; Mary Anne McCann, No. 6; Grave Eagleson, No. 10. Hensall—Billy Parker, David Noakes of Grade 8. Tuickersimdbh—M a r i o n B ell (No. 1), Dwayne Elliott (No. 3), Neila Hillman (No. 5), Usborne township will hold its competition on Thursday at Win- c'helsea. J. A. MdCurdy School will hold thisits competition on Friday of week. Winners from these quarter­ finals will compete in the semi­ finals next week. These will be held at Hensail on February 20 for, Hensall, Stanley and Tucker­ smith; at J... A. D. McCurdy ■School, RCAF Station Centralia, February 21, for Stephen and 'Huron Park; and at Exeter on February 22 for Usborne, Exeter and Hay. The inspectorate final will be held at Exeter on February 29 at 8 p.m. when four contestants from each semi-final will com­ pete for the right to go to Strat­ ford. cent weeks, packers have been buying all their domestic require­ ments on Mondays and Tuesdays at 23.5 or 24 cents. After they bought all they needed at this price, they tried to. force the. price down to 23 so they could buy the surplus for storage. Dealing with the problem of shrink, the director said that in the co-op's experience hogs did not shrink in 48 hours providing they have water. Beyond 48 hours, there is still little shrink if the hog is supplied with feed and water. 'Some processors, he said, had slaughtered pigs which came to their plants even though they re­ fused to pay the co-op's price. In almost all of these cases, dif­ ference between the co-op price and the packer’s bid has been re­ trieved, he said. 'Frey said the co-op was- not in favox* of the packer’s system of shipping (hogs because the shippers were receiving some of the money which should be paid to the producer. He was referring to extra payments received by truckers from packers. Explains Service Charge The speaker -explained how the 24 cents fee per hog taken by the co-op is spent. Two cents are used to make up for the former licence fees which financed. the expenses of the county and prov­ incial groups; another two cents are spent in making checks pay­ able at par to the producers; ■a further two cents are required so that producers could have use of the public stockyard at Toron­ to where the Ontario price is established; another 12 cents are required for pro-rating- charges over and above the 20-cent levy on every statement; the remain­ ing six cents are spent for sales costs. Frey dealt further with the cost of pro-rating. He said at on­ ly applies where there is a ship­ ment of more than one farmer’s ho,gs. The company paid the co­ op for the value of the whole load and it was the co-op’s re- sponsibilty to break the- returns down for the individual farmer, The co-op also checked to see that the packers were paying the proper price. Frey stated pro-rating cost the co-op around 70 cents per state­ ment. 'R. Da Etherington, of R.R. 1 Hensall^ told Frey the load in which his hogs were shipped was prorated right at the packing plant and not at the co-op of- —'Please turn to page 12 Will Erect Plant Here To Make Oil Products The Lu’bri-Loy Company, of St. ‘Louis, Missouri, has announced the appointment of Hon West­ man, Exeter automdtive supplier, as its Canadian sales agent. The ■company plans to establish a plant here within a yeax* to man­ ufacture its oil products. TEEN TIME PARTY—-Over 120 members of Exeter’s new teenage club enjoyed themselves at their first big party last week which was sponsored by.Tuckey Beverages, local soft drink bottler, Bill Gilfillan, left, is shown distributing pop to a crowd of boys. Laverne Gould, next to Gilfillan, won a plastic cooler as a prize. After watching a hockey game, the boys and girls danced in the arena. —Photo By Noseworthy Mr. Westman, whose .retail and wholesale automotive business has grown rapidly since it was established here four years ago, said this week he plans to con­ fine distribution to Ontario for the first year, then expand to other provinces. The American company’s prin­ cipal product, Lubri-Loy, is a concentrated oil which reduces friction in engines. It is the larg­ est selling product of its type in the United States and sales have already been extended to 'Central and 'South America and to Fran­ ce. " Other products include a waterless hand cleaner and dis­ penser, a metal parts cleaner, and a gas line anti-freeze. Mr. Westman said the product will be imported from the U.S. until a plant is established here. ■Most of the manufacture will be done by machine; about six peo­ ple will be employed at the start. 'Gene Brenfleck, U.iS. million­ aire, owns the parent company. He awarded the Canadian con­ tract to Westman last week. Convict Driver In Area Crash Two traffic cases involving accidents in 'Stephen township were heard in county magistrate’s court on Wednesday afternoon with Magistrate Dudley Holmes presiding. Mike Van Deursan, truck driver for the Medway Creamery, Ilderton, was convicted off care­ less driving and fined $10 and ■costs as the result of a collision with a truck driven toy Douglas Lewis on January 4 in Stephen 'township. PC Dimer Zimmerman investigated the accident. Lewis, accompanied by his cousin, Ray Lewis, was driving east on the "Mt. Carmel Road When Van Deursan, who was ap­ proaching the intersection from the south, failed to stop. The re­ sulting collision caused $500 damage to the creamery truck and $600 damage to Lewis’ tmiclt, A, B. Siskind, Q.G., of London, counsel for the defence, eon tend* od Van __ to Mop at the highway but bls —Please Turn to Page 1't Dentaan made Ail effort