HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1954-02-03, Page 8*
HIGHLIGHTS
from the
HIGH SCHOOL *
ANNUAL concert
High School Variety Concert
will be held on the 24th, 25th and 26th
of February in the Wingham Town
Hall. Tickets are on sale this week
but there is an item about that else
where in this paper.
Now, here’s a preview of the show.
A complete programme will be pub
lished in the February 24th edition of
the Advance-Times. One of the main
productions will be a minstrel show
consisting of music and novelty num
bers such as songs by a quartet (Ken
Holmes, Bill Connell, Don Edgar and
Terry McArdle), a dance by a sextette
of girls from the middle school, reci-
The
1 As usual there will be a gymnastic
I display by the boys. As yet the other
numbers are undecided, but you can
be sure that this concert is going to
be bigger aud better than ever be
fore.
Ruth Webb.
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SCHOOL PICTURE
has
the
are
tationsj and other humorous .numbers.
Head of the humour department will
be Ken Woods as interlocutor, ably
assisted by end-men George Hall,
pave Donohue, Jini Gaunt and Neil
Stainton. Choral selections by the
Glee Club will provide a finale for
the minstrel show part of
gramme.
Something new will be a
display by the girls. Their
“The Old Woman Who Lived in the
Shoe.’*
The play by the senior dramatic
club is a comedy entitled "Search
Me”. Parts have been assigned to
Catherine Keating, Donalda McDon-
the pro
tumbling
theme is
skirts ar-
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and how
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Look what I found in the chest ’neath
the stair—
Why, it’s a school picture, well, I do
declare!
Out in front of the school, by the old
maple tree,
Are the pupils and teacher of Wing-*
ham’s grade three.
There’s Johnny, the bully—he .hasn’t
changed much—
And Calvin, the coward, who’d run
at a touch;
There’s Bobby and Russell, Ebenezer
and. Joe,
And vain little Sally, her
ranged so.
Bright Betty, Elizabeth,
Pat-
Just notice how straight
primly we sat.
There in the middle’s the schoolmarrh,
so tall,
With her hand on the head of her
little pet Paul,
But who’s that queer fellow, down
there in the front?
I don’t remember that homely wee
runt.
His hair is all mussy, his collar’s not
right, »
His ears are like saucers, his eyes are
shut tight.
Now just who was he, the poor little
tyke?
Maybe he’s Joe—No— and there’s
Mike.
There’s only one other and why, let
me see,
Well, heavenly days, that poor fel
low’s me!
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until he is compelled to sell it either
due to threat of spoilage or the fact
that it is eating hint out of house
and Iiome, The farmers have always
been this way, and it seems rather odd
that one of Canada’s, for that matter
one of the world’s most important and
basic industries should have to .accept
a pattern such as this. But it has
gone on, and the time has come to
draw a halt. Even labour has come
to the point where they can demand
that they get a certain wage or they
won’t work. This has been made pos
sible through the organization of la
bour unions. If farmers can ever hope
for a similar future, then they -must
prepare themselves to band together
and stick together in an organization
of their1 own.
I don’t think that farmers can ex
pect to band together and set up a
program of Cxhorbitant prices, and I
don’t think that that is the idea. All
farmers want is the right to have a
little more “say-so” in the marketing
of their goods. They want to be able
to have a fair idea of how much those
products will bring when the market
time comes and eliminate much of
the risk, currently involved in farm
ing. When you have at least $25,000
invested in a farm, stock and imple
ments, you have a right to know a
little bit about what to expect in the
future. A store keeper carrying a sim
ilar stock, is reasonably assured of at
least a 15% mark-up on his goods, and
in some cases more.
I predict that the time will come
when farmers will be able to market
their products on a basis of an as
sured price, plus a rebate should the
market be good, and the product bring
the advanced price. It would take the
gamble out of farming, encourage
more good young farmers to stay in
the industry and restore a system of
regulated, buying by the farmer. But,
it will only come through the co-oper
ation of the farmers themselves. It
will, mean sacrifices at the beginning
and a lot of missionary work will
have to be done, but it can work, for
agriculture as it does in the. trades
and in industry.
MARKETING
These past few weeks there
been a great deal of interest in
topic of farm marketing, There
several reasons for this interest. First
of all, the Ontario Federation was
meeting in Toronto a few weeks ago,
and they discussed the topic at length.
This past week, the Canadian Feder
ation of Agriculture met in .pondon
for their annual, meeting and .they
mulled the. topic over and over in
hopes of finding improved methods
of getting value for the famers’ pro
duct. There have been several meet
ings in Western Ontario, on this
topic, In Clinton recently, the Huron
County Soft Wheat Growers met to
discuss whether or not they shoiild
try and have some sort of a market
ing plan to handle their product.
Down in Perth, the farmers have re
newed their discussions on the United
Livestock Sales, the agency that the
hog producers hired to sell their hogs
for “as much as you can get”,
of•these
with the
January
Trend”.
All of which seems to indicate that
farm folks are showing increased, in
terest in having a little more say in
where their, products go, what market
they will sell on, and for how much
they will be. sold. It points out that
farmers are rapidly turning away
from the “Take what you can get, or
what you are offered” plan, that-has
governed farm prices for generations,
and in its place they are adopting an
attitude of price stability. The main
beef of the farmer for years has been
that when he goes out to buy a shirt,
a tractor, a loaf of bread, or a ticket
to the movie, he .finds that.there is
a stated price for that item or ser-.
vice. If he is not prepared to pay that
price,4 then he isn’t able to buy. “On
the other hand when the farmer has
All
things* were closely tied in
Farm Forum discussions of
11th,. "The Farm Price
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on Thursday, January 28th, with Lon-
dan, Wingham, Hamilton and Kitchen
er clubs competing.
The Wingham curlers met stiff op
position in the first ’ round against
the crack combination of Haskett and'
Miller, of London Curling Club. They
defeated our representatives by 31-20.
This loss dropped Wingham into the
Burden or consolation event. Iq this
round they defeated Cassels and Stove
of Hamilton, in a real battle, by the
close score of 24-22.
Next stop was the Toronto Granite
Club on the following day. Here things
didn’t click as Unionville put our boys
out in the first round ^of the Burden
Trophy. !J
Wingham rinks were Tommy Thom
son, Cy Scott, Omar Haselgrove, Har
ley Crawford, skip and William Elliott
Ivan Haskins, George Inglis and (Clark
Renwick, skip.
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In this event as far as the Wingham
Club was concerned, it followed the
pattern of the Tankard.
Our club participated in the play
on Guelph ice. In the first event
round Wingham lost to Kitchener’s
Shirk and Clark 43-24.
This loss dropped them into the
Globe and Mail Trophy, the consola
tion event. Here they defeated Port
Elgin’s McKenzie and McGillvray 24-
21. They made the trip to Toronto
High Park Club, and were drawn
against Peterborough, who downed
our boys 28-23.
Wingham rinks were Jack Tervitt,
Dave Crompton? Wilf . McKague, and
Frank McCormick, skip and Casey
Casemore, Harold Thomas, Jack Bow
man and William Tiffin? skip.
All told, a lot of fun was had by
all and we fqel Wingham made an
excellent showing. Better luck next
year.
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Welland, Hamilton, Kitchener, Union
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present at the Brampton Bonspiel held
on Friday, January 29th.
In the first game Wingham Was de
feated by Brampton by a score of
5-12. In the second game Wingham
defeated Unionville by 8-5, and in the
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