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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1957-03-14, Page 16P 1.5, The; Times•Advocate, Moth th '14, 195 ► The Story In little ly 1. RS. RQ1SS SKINNER W. I, EkKhre Rorty The Elimville i paten's Insti• tote held a ladies .euchre party en Tuesday afternoon in the hall Mr, and Mrs. Ross Armstrong With six, tables playing, The of :Stratford. Air. Keith Heywood ►'inehelsea and Sunshine line of Canip Dorden, Miss Joanne had charge of the afternoon. Robertson of li,ippen spent the Winners were: ladies' high, weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Hu - Mrs. Laverne Morley; ladies. low, bort lleywopd. gra. Thames. Coward; lone Mrs. Wrn. Routly, I'4iss Ruth ..lands, Mrs. Gilbert Johns; Skinner, Mrs, .Ross Skinner and .Lucky draw, Mrs. Arthur Ford. Mrs, Norman Jaques of Zion At. The winner of the blanket was tended the 4-1I Homemaking Club Mrs. Thomas Campbell. Achievement :Pay in Seafortb. Euchre club District High School OnSatur- e E'1' vi 1'e Euchre Club was day - Th 1 Miss Shirley Jaques of Zion held on Friday evening with .spent the weekend with Miss Miss Verde Kellett as hostess. Brenda Skinner. 'Winners were: ladies' high, Mrs. Mrs, Hubert Bunter returned. Nereid Bell, gents' high, Mr. home after spending several weeks with Mr. and Mrs, Earl Report From Parliament t Allen Johns; consolation, Airs. I'hiiip, Numb. ' Lo Ur. and Mrs. Allen Johns will he lfpsts. on Friday euening. r $ Far Boar' Persenet Items 1 Too a, Cautious \.Vit M rye. Ur. and Mrs. Delmer Skinner. Edward 'and prances visited on Sunday with Mrs. W. Johns of Exeter. South End Service Used Ca Buys '56 FORD CUSTOMLINE 4 D 0 O R Automatic e transmission, better than new, '53 METEOR TUDOR 'SU AUSTIN SEDAN. Really sharp! '52 FORD SEDAN '52 CHEVROLET SEDAN F u 11 y equipped, radio, seat covers, sun visor. South. End Service Hunter of Toronto. The new electric organ was installed in Fiimville United Church last Friday. The dedica- tion service will be held at a later date. Mr. and Mrs. George Ellcott of St. Marys visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Routly. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stephen and Betty Ann were Friday eve- ning guests with Mr. and Mrs, Harold Jeffery of Exeter. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Coulist visited on Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Routly. Mrs. Routly returned to Kirk - ton with Mr, and Mrs. Frank Routly after spending three weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Routly. Mr. and Mrs, Ross Lindsay and Steven of London visited on Sunday with. Mr. and Mrs. John Aliners. Mr. and Mrs, Kenneth Hogg of Thorndale spent Tuesday with Air. and Mrs, Wm. Routly, Mrs. Alex Crago of Kirkton visited on Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Routly. "Pull over, buddy," said the traffic cop, "you haven't got any tail light.' The motorist stopped, got out and examined the back of the car. He looked so genuinely hor- rified that the policeman was ac- tually moved with sympathy. "Well, mister, it's bad," said the cop, "but not that bad." Recovering his voice, the mo - Russ and Chuck Snell torist managed to stammer, Phone 328 Exeter 1 "It's not the tail light . . what's ' happened to my trailer, By le, E. cARDIFf^ed from, theless it will'hay.e the effect, We had the Canadian Fara), Loan^ Board under review last week. The .minister brought in .a resolution asking parliament to raise the capital amount from three million dollars to four mdllign, As the minister explained, this was necessary because of the accelerated rate of lending in the past year or so. There was no objection to this increase from any source,,but much corn- plaint onn plaint was made from nearly all quarters of the House with respect to. the very limited way in which the act was being .ad- ministrated. It was pointed out to the mi- nister and the government that farmers were not getting the consideration they deserved with respect to loans. The act reads. that a farmer is entitled to re- ceive up to 65% of value, but as I myself pointed out, farmers were not able to, get anywhere near the amount. 'Some wanted the ceiling raised to SO' , but my contention is that it doesn't matter so much the raising of the percentage, if the farmer was able to realize up to 85%. The trouble is the applicant is up against the judgement of the appraiser. He doesn't always agree with the applicant, but places his own valuation on the farm. I suggested to the minis- ter to set up a tribunal to work in some cases, This would give the applicant at least a fair es- stimate of the value of ht's farm. Farmers find themselves in rather a tough spot with respect to money in the last three or four years, and it is getting worse. As the resolution proves, they need more money. • Because the government is in the lending field, farmers are no longer able to borrow money from private lenders. ,When a firmer goes to a private lender he is told "why don't you go to the Canadian Far m Loan Board"? You're Stuck The result is that if you are turned down by the board you are stuck, and in. some cases this is really a hardship, because if you have a small mortgage WUERTH'S VTWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY — WLJERTH'S TWENTIETH Wuerths ANNIVERSARY — 1937 — 1957 Kit S TWENTIETH e W z 1937-1957 WUERTH'S TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY to w ' Wool, Nylon Heol eL Toe, 9'. , 9,' 10 4 T W , \ Shoe Trees Plastic, Metal and Wood • Shoe Polishes ▪ hropert's esquire, Kiwi, Nugget, SHOE SALE It has been a pleasure to serve our many friends and customers for the past 20 years. To celebrate our Anniversary, we are offering these SPECIAL VALUES from now until the end of March. PACKARD Corrective Shoes For Children. Sock Venues Men's Diamond Pair Nylon Socks 69c Men's Nylon Pair Work Socks 69c Work Socks 39c Two Pair For 75c Boys Work Socks tiily't, Polishing Kitt, Brushes, etc. Men's Gloves Roper QIbVes --+ Lined and .UnlineQ Mitts £ Glovee�-Cotton d. Leather Dock Shoes Measured To Fit $14.95 To $21.95 Men's Oxfords & Loafers !slack and Brown E A Regular $8.95 ,,,,,,,,,„,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,e,.,,,, $5.49 Reduced To Clear —.Good Value Save $ $ On Jet Boots 6c. Quarter Wellingtons WORK SHOES Genuine $7.95 Value $6.50 Boys' Work Shoos $3.95 to $5.25 Men` Rubber Boots 8.9,10,11,12 TO Clear At ,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,, $3i.49 We Carry Men's 'Hip 6. Thigh Rubber Boots, All Sizes Men's, Boys' Tennis Shoes White and Black Real Values Boys' Oxfords & Loafers Slack end' Brown'New Low Prices MEN'S POLICE BOOTS ,,.,,,., „ Plain or Cap. Toe MEN'S & BOYS' ROMEOS .,,,.,,.,.,; House Slippers We are always happy to meet and serve you . w COM. in anytime. Leather and Rubber Repairing' Promptly Attended To « Try Us GIVE US A CAI.. AND SAVE MONE? w N V WUERTH'S TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY w AIIVS113AINNV on our farm, borrow some person who, finds, they can no longer live on the interest on the mortgage, regardless of the interest being paid up he closes the mortgage. You are given, in most cases,, a month to get the money. You .l;o 'to the Farm Loan. Board, and. if you are turned down.. you are sold out, and believe me you don't need a mortgage nearly as high as 65% to be in this position. I talk from experience. Where an applicant was asking for a loan of $2,500 on a hundred acres of land with buildings and stock .(not one-third the value) and was. turned down, the excuse was that the intake on the Ural didn't justify giving ,the loan. The real reason „the farmer needed the' loan was to increase the productivity of his farm. In this case, however, this . man. was asking for enough money to pay off a $2,500 mortgage to keep. him front being sold out. The Farm Loan Board are much too careful, . and if they intend to. stay in the lending field, they will have to be more generous in some cases. Spends One Million How many of you read the Gordon report? This was a Com- mittee set up by the Govern- ment to make a study of Cana- da's future progress. Up till now this Committee has spent over one million dollars, and all we have received is a pre- Iiminary report. The final re- port is to come later. I am going to relate some of its findings dealing currently with agriculture, and referring to the great changes that have taken place in Canadian agri- culture since the end of the • last war, which has meant a steady increase in the physical volume of output per farm, and per man hour. The report refers to the considerable , improvement i n real earnings and the increase in farm income, experienced during the post-war years. But no mention is made of the fact that a nortion of this increase is, in effect. a return on capital invested in modern agricultural machinery, a n d may I add, in the greater use of fertilizers,herbicides, for weed control so necessary in this day and age. These greater outlays have not been mentioned. in the Gordon report.' nor has it referred to the fact that. the dol- lar earned by the farmer in re- cent years has declined in value and purchasing power. Proper Perspective My contention is that if em- phasis is to be placed on the overall increase in farm income, then it should be viewed in its profiler perspective, and take into account all related factors. Strange to say, the reportgoet on to say that the growth of Ca-- ada's population, coupled with rising costs and incomes, will have decided impact on the pat- .tries. tern of agricultural production. with some at any rate,. to again vote; the Government back into power. Farmers have been the "for- gotten man.” In fact they are the only people who have not shared the buoyant ,prosperity of the country as a whole, and if it had been any other group. except the farmer, something would have been done about it long ago. Still Keep control The other day there was an- other very interesting resolu- tion brought before the House. It was brought in by the finance minister to introduce a measure to pay full tax rates on all gov- ernment properties. This, I am sure, will be good news, for ;many municipalities. The catch is that the.govern- ment reserves the right to set the valuation on the properties. Strange how much consideration is being given to the municipal- ities at this particular time by the government. To me it looks like a guilty .conscience, ' Just to prpve my point, in 1939 the municipalities were get- ting 39% of the tax dollar, prov- ince 26%, federal 35%, In the year 1949, -ten years later the municipalities were getting 30^,0 of the tax dollar, province 22% and the federal 48%. Last year 1956, the municipalities were only getting 1155, province 12% and the federal government 77% of every, tax dollar. Now we 'find the government bragging about being so gener- ous with the municipalities by giving them back what really was their own money in the first place. I placed' these figures on Han- sard a little over a week ago, when the finance minister was directing a resolution through the House to bring in a Bill to increase grants to municipalities. At 1,he time no one challenged them.ad theynot ben true e someone would have spoken against them. In Toronto last week, at a convention of the municipalities, the finance minister, who was the guest speaker, tried to talk. around the figures I used, but by andlarge he didn't change them to any extent, the only difference being that he quoted figures of 53-54 instead of 56, and stated that the Federal Gov- ernment was only receiving 71%. I stated' in .the House that if this trendcontinued for another ten or 15 years, Ottawa would have full control of all the fi- nances of Canada, and the mun- icipalities and the provinces would have to come to the fed- eral government before they could do anything. In other words, we are drift- ing into a dictatorial state, and that may I add, has always led to communism in other coun- But, aside from this increased domestic demand, it forsees little likelihood that external demands for Canadian agricul- tural production vgi11 inc):ease materially in the next 25 years. In other words, this means. Canada is going to change from an exporting to an importing country. As growth develops farmers will receive less and less consideration. In fact it has al- ready happened. Take eggs, for instance. Last year we imported 3,500,000 cases of eggs in eleven months at a value of $261,469.00 at a time whenour egg producers were not getting enough for eggs to pay for the feed. Everyone wondered what was wrong with the egg market. The same thing happens in a great many more things the farmer produces. Farm income has 'gone down and down in the past four years and no action was taken by the Government to correct the situ- ation. Now, however, just be- fore an election is called, we hear hints with respect to as- sistance to sagging farm in- come. Four years late but never - Grand Bend —Continued from Page 8 Mr. and Mrs. Ted Brooks and family of Toronto spent the week- -end with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. ltendle, Mrs, Brook's parents„ •,,; who accompanied them as far as London and remained there for a couple 'of days. Sunday visitors with Mrs. Wm, Patterson were Messrs. Warren and Gary Patterson, and Mr. C and Mrs. Donald Stott arid sofa, m all of Sarnia. 70 Mr, and Mrs. Melvin . !lam- eden and daughter of Toronto' t. spent the weekend with Mrs. Ramsden's parents, Mr, and Mrs. Eddie Gill. m The weekly Bible study in the 2 United Church held on Wednes- • day evening will not be held this m week account of ,the joint ladies ▪ night of ' the Men's Clubs of Greenway and Grand Bend, but• s• will be held on Wednesday eve- ning, March 29, as usual. x Mr, and ,firs. E. Keown visit ted with 'Mr. and Mrs, Orn Ma- thers on Saturday evening,' rn 1 The local Legion held a sue- t' cessful euchre party On Saturday q evening in the town hall, the prize winners being: ladies high, Mrs: Burton Green; ladies 1oW, Mrs. L. I"ahner; ntett's high, LI Jack Turnbull; men's low, Mr, g li Lloyd ahnet; lone hands. Otto ;44B,estetnayer,; and Mr. Howard • ICiump, and door prize Mr, Cco,,, c Schilbe, the door prise being MIAll dented by Mr. Horace Lake, 1 Mr�'foay Rivershickis a a. patient tfi in South Huron Hospital, Wue'rth's nes $MONll1.,:2.Jh' WtrEiIITH'>t T'WEN'yi87`H ANNIVERSARY MAIN MEETt 7 37 7f37 tf3/-4951 art H'S 1"W P4TfgTIt ANNIVERSARY M'1L 1' 'I TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY Pastor• ''Ah, good itiotiiIng, Mrs. Brown', I see you are faking a trariip info the coui tty," Mrs *Wig "A tramp Woolf I'd have you ktieVir this is my' huthttikV .otter .Prom' Brinsley 1$y. MRS, CE:CIl, E41-WQQ0 Mrs. Wesley Dixon. Mrs, Wes Dixon passed away at the home of :her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Airs. Edward Hotson on Wednesday after :a lengthy illness. For some years Mr. and Mrs. Dixon farmed on concession 4. Selling out, they moved to Pen- field where they lived until they came to their daughter's home for the winter. Surviving besides leer husband, , °are four daughters and two sons: Orville, Rheola (Mrs. Ed - Vara Hotson) and Marjorie (Mrs. Dean White) of McGinty- ray; cGillivray; (Zelda) Mrs. James George. of Sarnia; Leslie of London and (Audrey) Mrs. Gordon Kemp of Denfield; one brother, Fred Fen- ton and one sister, Cora, of Dids- bury, Alta; 33 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildr.en4. The funeral service was held from the T. Stephenson and Son funeral home, Ailsa Craig on Saturday, March 9 with inter- ment in Ebenezer cemetery, McGillivray Township. Personal Items Mr. and Mrs. Andy Craven of Toronto formerly of this com- munity visited friends here and also with his brother, Lin Cray - en who at the present time is very ill. Mr.. and Mrs. Stuart Weather- spoon, Mr, and Mrs. Geo, Prest and Billy, and Mrs. Ida Prest spent Monday evening with gm.Marion Cunningham of Clande- boye. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Amos of London and Mr. and Mrs. Con - oily and family of West Mont Rose spent Sunday with Miss Mary Amos. The Brinsley United Church held a crokinole party in the basement of the church on Mon- day evening, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Morley re- turned home on Saturday from their wedding trip, Mr. and. Mrs. Marwood Prest spent Saturday' evening with Mr. and Mrs. Art -Cunningham of Clandeboye. Mr. Lin Amos is confined to his home with a bad cold, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Ellwood and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hamilton visited with Mr. and Mrs• Steve Dundas of Crediton, This 1s The Night ive SPRING. DRIVING NOW IS THE TIME — AVOID. THE RUSH1 Yes, now is the time to }ging your ear into our garage for an expert wheel alignment job, In fact, j g we'll check your car over from bumper tp bumper totmake sure' you'll have miles and miles of carefree happy motoring.. HUNTER-DUVAR L SONS 1LIMITED Phone 38 Exeter n„nu„ uuu„un„unun,nnuuunu„unun!,uunu„uuu,uuuuu,u• Barbers Announce Price 'Increases To meet increased costs, the Goderich Branch of the Ontario Barbers Association has authorized modest increases in prices, effective March 14, 1957, ADULT HAIRCUT 85¢ BRUSH OR CREW CUT 90¢ 70¢ 75¢ CHILDREN'S HAIRCUT (Sat. 85¢) CHILD'S BRUSH CUT (Sat. 85¢) Allbarbers in this branch are urged to co-operate with branches already charging much higher fees for their services. GUARANTEED. INVESTMENT CERTIFICATES THE PREMIER TRUST COMPANY 19 Richmond Street West, Toronto Empire 3-7043 44 James Street, St. Catharines Mutual 5-8489 428 Richmond Street, London, Ontario 4.2716. s ls;tateietutaialelG1GIG1MuIuIuI They 'both drive! 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