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THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1956 X.
Huron Towns Changing
Shopping
Be Trend
Mr. Parker
An interesting sidelight on Theo
dore Parker, the Sebringville farmer who
opposes the compulsory hog marketing
scheme in Ontario, is revealed by “Rusti-
cus” in The Stratford Beacon-Herald.
The Stratford writer indicates that
the hog plan is not the first farm de
velopment which Parker has opposed.
He sa$ the lanky Ellice township farmer
was one of the leaders who fought against
TB tests for cattle and compulsory
warbl^ly spraying—two programs which
are generally regarded as accepted
as goad practice,
“Rusticus” makes several observa
tions -Oft.,gTr, Parker’s cr.usades which are
worth repeating:
“Does it not seem unreasonable that
(the one man who took a prominent part
fn the opposition to the TB test, who has
.been opposed to warble-fly spraying, is
now most active in the opposition to the
attempt" being made by farmers to gain
control of the marketing of hogs?”
“$fr. ^Parker ,may be successful in
delaying the effectiveness of marketing
legislation for a time; but he will be no
more successful in preventing the-event
ual organization of the farm industry
thanhe was in the permanent prevention
of TB testing our cattle herds, of the
compulsory spraying in warble-fly con
trol,”
Apology
The Times-Advocate wishes to make
a public apology for a misrepresentation
which occurred in last week’s issue con-
<cernyig (tbe request from Public School
Inspector John Goman for an appraisal
the education value of the operetta
recently produced by the Exeter public
£cMq1.
•The story indicated the board “de
fied” ,the inspector by passing a motion
,express|ng appreciation to the staff and
for the .effort entailed in the
production.
Public School Board Chairman Wal
lace G. Seldon has assured us there was
no defiance intended in the board’s
action and we are prepared to accept his
"word for it since The Times-Advocate
did not .attend the meeting.
In order to clarify the situation and
state the case correctly, we quote from
•the official records relevant excerpts in
connection with the incident:
Mr. .Goman, in his report, said:
x<It is suggested that after the pre
sentation of the operetta, the principal
/and teaching staff discuss its various as
pects ;at one of .their teachers meetings.
^Attention might be directed to a dis
cussion of its value from the children’s
point of view as well as that of the
parents and the general public.
“It .is not rmy intention to condemn
-this project, but it is my belief that a
-serious appraisal should be made to de
cide whether such a venture is giving
the children sufficient assistance in
reaching their educational goal to war
rant its disruption of classes and teach
ers4 routine.
“If entertainment for Education
Week is the objective, alternative pro*
jects requiring less preparation should
.form part of this discussion.”
In its motion passed in respect to
this request, the board said it was “not
sympathetic” to Mr. Goman’s remarks
and it put on record “its appreciation to
ftfre staff for the time and effort they
spent ,in putting on this operetta.”
Chairman Seldon has assured us
that the request for appraisal of the ope
retta has been passed on to the teachers
and ,|hat it will be discussed by them in
accordance with the inspector’s sug
gestions.
The swing towards Friday night
shopping appears to be gaining momen
tum in this area.
Merchants in Wingham have agreed
to switch from Saturday to Friday night
opening. Businessmen in Goderich re
cently voted 18-14 in favor of Friday
night.
Clinton merchants, basing their de
cision on an informal survey among
shoppers in that district, are planning
to give Friday night a trial period.
The Clinton News-Record last week
recorded reactions of the survey: "
“Of the people contacted, the major
ity are reported to be in favour of Friday
mght. There were a few who still favour
ed the old Saturday night but these were
in minority. Even among the rural
people, who might perhaps still feel in
clined towards Saturday night, the
majority were in favour of Friday night
or did not care which was adopted.
“There are definite reasons for this
step and they are:
1. Saturday night is becoming a social
. evening and is being regarded as
such by all classes of people;
2. ^Cities and small towns in Ontario are
adopting Friday night shopping in
ever-increasing numbers;
3. -The five-day week which creates a
two-day weekend, is definitely a de
ciding factor;
4. Pay days on Friday also enters into
the idea. A man being paid on Friday,
shops Friday night and has all day
Saturday to go where he may and do
what he wishes;
5. Television is keeping people at home
Saturday evenings and as more and
more people buy sets, Saturday .eve
ning shoppers become fewer and
fewer.”
Exeter merchants report a definite
decline in Saturday night shopping while
those stores which have been staying
open regularly on Friday nights find
their business that night is increasing.
It was recently reported .that Hensail merchants are also considering the
possibility of opening Friday nights.
Butter Floor
There has been a lot of discussion
lately about butter floor. prices, which
farmers maintain must be continued at
the present level for the sake of the
national economy.
The 58-cent floor, in the minds of
certain groups, is considered to be too
high. Not so, say officials of the Ontario
Cream Producers’ Marketing Board, who
have been digging up some figures on the
subject.
Last year, in Ontario, the butterfat
production of Ontario’s cream producers
ran to some 60,000,000 pounds, which,
with .60,000 members of the cream pro
ducers’ organization, means a production
of 1,000 pounds per farmer involved.
Most of these farmers do not de
pend entirely on cream production for
their entire livelihood, arid for them it’s
a good thing. The 58-cent price support
would mean, from the figures quoted by
the board* an average income for the
members of $580 to $600 a year. And
that does not take into account the cost
of producing the cream, which whittles
the profit down to a scarcely noticeable
figure.
But here’s the -point put forward by
the board: a reduction of three cents per
pound, for example, could mean a drop
of $30, on the average, in the producer’s
income. This could easily mean a decision
NOT to buy some manufactured item, for
instance, a new tire, a pair of shoes, or
various other articles that.could, taken
across the board, cut into a city worker’s
income.* * • * * *
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By ROY TREEBNER
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Conservation C The Times-Advocate
This will be my last jottings
from St. Petersburg, Florida. We
are leaving in a couple of days
for the East Coast -and Miami.
We have been listening to the
weather reports from Canada and
if a person did not know Canada
it would be easy for him to be
lieve that It Is a land of freeing ice 'and snow: you hear only pf
the storms,
.At the present time the flow
ers down here are at their best
and over at Cypress Gardens,
Which Orv and 'Stella visited
during 'the week, rtjhey were thril
led with the beauty ahd magni
ficence of the scenery and flow
ers which they said was beyond
all description.
Trees Always Green
•One peculiar thing about the trees is that they are always
green. The old leaves have been
falling of at the same time that
new ones are forming.
While we hear of your snow
storms, strawberries down here
are now at their best. Prices have
ranged from 2Q to .30^ a pint.
A couple of days ago we went
over to Webb City for no reason
in particular. Webb City, to
those, who are not acquainted
with it, as advertised as the larg-
■ est drug store in the wbrld hand
ling almost every article of
merchandise. It claims to be 27
stores in one, and advertises that
its merchandise will not be under
sold.
As I approached the main en
trance I saw a crowd outside
surrounding crates of oranges
and grapefruit helping them
selves. They were handed a paper
bag that would hold a peck' of
pranges and told to fill <them up
and pay the cashier. I filled a
bag with about 35 -good sized
oranges and paid the cashier 39<f.
After carting the oranges off
to the car I returned and filled
another bag with grapefruit.
Thei'e. must have been a dozen
and a half and for these I paid
19£.
Lady Gets Extr$ One
I guess I looked as amusing
to others ins some did to me. The
bags were filled to the top. One
lady had more than the bag could
hold and an attendant took off
one of thg oranges from the top.
She promptly picked up another
to take its place and she got
away with it,
Another gentlemen (had a bag
well filled but the attendant told
him to put pn one more.
Well the salutation I got When
I proudly arrived home with both
arms filled with oranges and
grapefruit was “What are we
going to do with ail those oranges
and all those grapefruit?” How
ever, just before. I started these
jottings >1 used the last of the
oranges for making a large con
tainer of orange juice but un
fortunately we have been having
second-class grapefruit for break
fast each morning.
Skeet Shooting
And Archery
IHello again, this week we will
deal with 'Skeet Shooting and
Archery. Evidently this may be
my last column on .the activities
on conservation club except for
next week when I will outline
the programme of our organiza
tion meeting.
iSkeet ranges have been coming
into existance more and more
each year throughout Canada
mainly because, animal and bird
targets simply do not exist today
in sufficient numbers to develop
and maintain a real skill in shot
gun shooting.
At one time. Exeter’sportsmen
had a skeet club of some 50
members, but from lack of acti
vity, interest lagged and when
the club finally folded there were
about 5 members using ithe range.
How many of you can recall
a summer’s evening when your
thoughts go 'back to the shotgun
season? Do you remember that
day when you missed that rabbit
or the time you sat in a duck
J finally you
heard the w’hiri- of ’wings and a
By Walt DisneyMERRY MENAGERIE
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“Watch out!Here comes Charlie trying to crash the
sound barrier!”
"TIMES"
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50 YEARS AGO
Reeve Bobier received a sketch
of his recently ordered automo
bile last week. The carriage will
carry from twenty five to thirty
passengers. Mr. Bobier expects to
have it here id May He intends drawing cream with1 jit be
sides giving pleasure trips to
Grand Bend. It will run at a
speed of fifteen miles an hour.
Mr. Richard Davis has pur
chased the brick cottage on the
corher of James and Andrew
iStreets owned by Mr. Wm. Sil-
lery and occupied by Mr. S. M.
iSanderis,
. Mr. W. S. Cole received on
Tuesday one of his silent sales
men show cades for the drug
vstore.
Up. to the present the month
of March has handed out more
real Winter weather than any of
the previous months.
Miss Ollie Quance of Exeter
has resumed her position with J.
Kellerman, Dashwood, as head
milliner.
25 YEARS AGO
Messrs Clifford HUI and Wm.
H. Sniith (Crediton) are, engaged
to work oh the highway to be
paved between Centralia and Exe
ter. At present they are moving
the machinery1 to Skinner’s pit.
(Around 3 o’clock Saturday
mOrnihg some otic attempted to
enter the store of Southcott
Bros, but were frustrated by Mrs.
Skelton who turned on a light
in the apartment overhead,
Mr. John Ford, caretaker of
the Exeter cemetery had a nar
row escape Friday evening when
the buggy In which he was riding
Whs struck from the rear by a
motorist, driving at a fast rate of
Speed.
The Huronia Male Chorus un
der the leadership of Mr. W. r,
blind for hours, and,
f".. ......_
flock of canvasbacks came wing
ing ill and you missed simply
because you were lacking prac
tice?
So with your help to organize
a Conservation Club a iSkeet
Range could be developed to keep
you in practice during the sum
mer months. Also there would be
competitive meets’ with •otihbr -
clubs.
Archery Old Sport
There is nothing new about
archery either as a sport or as
a means of stalking'game. As a
weapon it was preceded only by
the club and axe of the stone
age.
Steeped With tradition from
the fabulous Robin Hood and
the legendary William Tell,
archery- is being reborn in this
land where the early Indians used
the bowVand arrow with deadly
accuracy.
The whole family can take
part in .this import, from six-year- olds to the ^grandparents. The
Canadian 'wom'en’s champion was
held for six years by a grand
mother.
■If the idea of archery appeals
•to you, ..then with, your support
to organize a 'Conservation Club,
we could develop an archery
range ahd have (tournaments with
other archery clubs from the sur
rounding district.
Tentative date for organiza
tion of the cltib has been set for
Thursday, March 29.
News Of Your I
LIBRARY I
We had the privelege on (Fri
day of hearing Hon. Lionel
(Ghevrier Q. 'C. chairman of the —
St. Lawrence 'Seaway ’Authority,
_ discuss ‘the .seaway project. He is
a .native of Cornwall and repre
sented.the .constituency of Storm
ont until his resignation on# July
T, 19,54 ito accept the position, of ~
Canadian, chairman of the (Sea
way authority. i 0
The St. Lawrence power and
Seaway project is of course Can
ada’s biggest construction job
and, according to Mr. Chevrier, it
is progressing according to sche
dule. He gave a short resume of
events leading up to the start
of construction of the .seaway,
What ,'tfte construction Involves ”
and what it wil mean when com
pleted.
It will guarantee forever a
through route for Canadian com
modities and will give a much
widef range of transport serv
ices—lit will almost put inland
cities such as London “at the
Waters’’ '"edge” he said.
' Quebec
, After hearing this address w<e
’ visited the library to see what
. further information we could
find. Although we 'did not dis
cover any books bearing directly
( on the St. Lawrence .River we did
• find “Quebec; Portrait of a Prov-_
' ince” which told us about the
early dicovery of the St. Lawren-
’ ce and the St. Lawrence valley.
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Goulding were heard over CJGC
Monday eyeping.
15 YEARS AGO
Mir. and Mrs. Wm. Wareing
celebrated their fifteenth wed
ding anniversary on Wednesday
of last week.
Signaller Warren Sanders of
Toronto spent the weekend at
his home here. "KaleMoseopic Quebec”1 L.
Mr. Geo. Wright is this week Amy Oakley with drawings by
moving his general stock r of - - - - - '
merchandise, into the-store he
recently purchased from Mt. Wib
Martin.
Wm. Sweitzer was named pres
ident of the Stephen township
unit of the federaton of agricul
ture With Wm. Oestricher as vice
president.
Reeve Tuckey was storm bound
In Belmore last week—he was
not able to get home until Friday
afternoon.
Liettt Don J. Gladman who is
With the Perth Regiment at
Hamilton visited with his parents,
Mi4, And Mrs. F. W. Gladman.
10 YEARS AGO
The Congregation of the Pente
costal church in Exeter on Sun
day took up a subscription toward
the building of their new church.
The Guenther Transport have
just completed a new addition to
their terminal In Exeter North.
On Friday evening neighbors
and friends met at the home of
William Warren and Miss Bea
trice Warren id honor them be*
fore leaving for their new home
in Exeter.The ladies of CaVen Red Cross
met at the Library Tuesday and
Wednesday and quitted five
quilts for the Red Cross.
Ten members of the Exeter
Soy1 Scout troop as a reward for
efficiency were taken to Toronto
on Saturday to see the hockey
game between the Toronto Maple
Leafs hfid Detroit Red Wings.
her husband also gives*the his
toric and legendary background
of .the .settlements along the St.
Lawrence »to Tadoussac and
through the rugged Laurentlans
to the Gaspe’ peninsula.
“Ontario'1’ /
"Ontario”, written by Marjorie
Wilkins Campbell in 19i5‘3, is a
very fine write-up ,o.f our own'
province. It mentions a side 'trip
along one of the greatest canals
in the world. ‘"The first Welland
Canal was built by 'Captain Wi'l-
liain Hamilton Merritt in 1824
. to overcome the 326-foot drop
between Lake Erie ahd Lake 'Ont
ario. The present 25-.mile ship
canal was built by the Canadian
Government, at a cost of .$131
million as a first “step in the St.
Lawrence seaway.”
It was just such Information
We were looking for and we Are
led to say "When In need of in
formation consult Your Library.”
Last year during the warmer
months the National Employ
ment Offices received countless
requests for tradesmen ahd
labourers that they were unable
to fill. The men were all work
ing full time and numerous
householders were inconvenienc
ed and delayed by the shortage
of labour. It you are planning to
build a playroom, install a new
bathroom or Just require a man
for handy work, do it now, while
men are available,
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