The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1961-01-05, Page 9STAGE COACH VETERAN—John Casper "Cap" Howard, who for 40 years operated a
stage coach between uca and London, died died December 18 in Ailsa Craig. He beganan
driving the coach to London in 1906 by
horse and mule, His first motor bus, shown
Above, was put into operation around 1912, He gave up his franchise for carrying
passengers in 1936 but continued to carry mail and freight until he .retired in 1946..
Us1... orne backs hospital
approves salary raises
Usborne township •council, at Grants of $25 to the Salvation A bylaw was passed authoriz-
Its ,inaugural meeting Tuesday, Army and $10 Le the War Memo- ing borrowing of up to $95;000
promised fullsupport to South rial. Children's Hospital were ap- during the year,
proved .
Huron. Hospital's current cam- Purchase truck
paign for $25,000 to finance con-
struction of its new wing.
Reeve Clayton Smith and his
councillors endorsed the cam-
paign after it had been outlined
by Elgin W. Rowcliffe, chairman
of the hospital compaign commit-
tee.
Council authorized a number of
changes in salaries, .hourly rates
of pay and charges in its first
bylaw ofyear.
ear..
Reeve and clerk were author- Ontario Dept of Highways has
ized to attend a 111WODA dinner given approval for the purchase
meeting in Goderich on January. of a new truck.
11. Council approved signing a re -
Membership was taken .m the lease to the Wawanesa Mutual
Ontario Good Rbads Ass'n and Insurance Co. on payment of
the Ontario Ass'n of Rural Mu- $2,000 for damages to the Eas-
nicipalities and arrangements ton bridge,
were made to attend both. con -
victions.
First Monday afternoon in each
eg
month wasregular
non set as the r
Clerk -assessor H. H. G. Strang .meeting day during 1961. For
will receive $250 per month; February, however, council. will
Treasurer N. G. Clarke, $600 per meet on Tuesday, Feb. 7 because
year; Road Sr
,
t
WilliammIou t
of
the Blanshard Municipal c
i
al fel
e•
5260 per month;power main- phone System 'me ting on Mon -
Leiner operator, $260 er month, day,
auditorsA, M. Harper
& Co.,
Goderich, $300 per year.
The crawler tractor operator
will receive $1..53 per hour, trac-
tor mower operators, $1.20 per
hour.
Snowplowing charges to rate -
year, with sa ✓minimum aised $of00 $4 00;
crawler tractor and plow, 59.00
per hour to both township and
county.
Subscribe to•,offiee
f During the o�senineproceedings
:Reeve Smith and Councillors
:Harold Hunter, George Frayne,
Ward..Hern and Archie Ethering-
ton subscribed to the declaration
of office before Clerk Strang.
Rev. Hugh Wilson, of Thames
Road and. Elimville charges,
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officials debate issues
Huron political action meeting
t l•Iru•an
MLA C. S. 119 acNaug .-
ton defended the Ontario govern -
No decline seen ere men's Actions in the hog market-
„
ing .controversy at the annual
meeting of the political action
In farm population.
Parr Line Farm Forum does-
n't expect to see much decline
in the farm population in this
district during the next decade.
The group reached this deci-
sion after studying figures on the
national shift from rural to ur-
ban occupations and the pre-
dictions of this trend continuing
during the agricultural "revolu-
tion” of,.ttle future,
The figures reveal that nearly
125,000 people have left agri-
culture during the past four.
years and that, since 1946, the
farm labor forcehas dropped
e
o d
by 40 per cent..
Despite this, the Parr Line
forum predicted at: least 75 per-
cent of its members would be
farming in ten years.
Asked what changes. it would
like to see in the next decade,
the forum found.
Financing— "When farming
becomes a profitable business
in proportion to industry +there
will be no trouble in securing
farm mortgages.'
Land ownership — "It should
remain the same -150 to 200
acres."
Technical assistance—"Farm-
;ers should make greater use of
the agricultural schools and the
I ag rep services",
opened the meeting with prayer
and wished council well in their
deliberations during the year.
Reeve Smith requested the co-
operation anti assistance of coun- '
cillors in carrying on the affairs
� i w ni n a: Expand
of the municipality harmonious- 1 �*
ly during 1961. In return, eoun-
"How Long would it take me
to be strong enough to open
any wife's pickle jars?"
oard ignore
•
fi'
.,
ultimatum
It looks like the Ontario hog Ministers the act, and. ,the "hie
board will ignore the govern- packers" who, the hog farmers Mr. MacNaughton reported on
ne't's ultimatum to come up say, are in collusion to_keep don't think you could stop them said. that the board was happ
with a new selling method by down hog prices. s Co-op ' ister Goodfellow that morning. pg
January 16. The 360 sometimes angry, ; He said the ministers and his as- coloring the butter substitute with "the way you fellows have
The delegates to the pro yin- sometimes laughing, all -through' } sistants feel that the sale of hogs then," said. Mr. Cardiff. rolled up your sleeves and went
dal meeting Tuesday voted al.- the meeting determined. county advertise rt �' `should be more in the open, and Mr. MacNaughton noted that to work on the problem of sugar
most unanimously to stick to the° delegates of the Ontario Hog 1 allow for sale to the first offer the butter surplus was aggra- beet subsidy."
present method of sale. They 'P'roducers i{Iarketing board Edward Schofield, provincial of the highest bid, Mr, Mac-
farmers
by the need. of Western Mr. Cardiff had reported that
agreed to toss the potato back heard: 1
secretary! of the 142edical Co- Naughton said; I cant conceive Filo find an alternative a sa temporary measure for the
to the government's hands. State control Operative Services Federation of I of the minister saying he does't p
pia agoras s in n ario s ' oil-bearing crops, ad.vertisin in his address to as h =- does. • g p�, and. this goes
committee of Huron Federation
of Agriculture in Clinton Thurs-
day,
Management assistance—"The He said the gov't had inter -
majority of farmers can look vened. to save .the marketing Pro -
after their own 'business provid- gram from going down to defeat
ing it is lucrative. enough", 'in another general vote.
Co-operative use of land and The intervention was criticized
equipment "Own yaur own by Alf Warner, RR j. Bayfield,
equipment to a certain point. Secretary of the eountY produc-
ers' ass's, who said. "the produ-
the balance", cors have been placed in a pret-
The in e1 at ty hot spot.,'
nieet_gwashdthe
Name of Mr, and Mrs, Glenn' Ile
was concerned that the pro-
{{Feirin, ducers' board had been ordered
P,uchre winners were Mrs. .T, to have a ;proposal for a change
Soldan and ,Tames Love, •high, in the method of sale in the
and Mrs. H. Adkins, low. hands of the goy t•by January 16,
I "That board can't do a thing
without the OK of the delegates,"
. 1 Al r. Warner said,
F.rds ka1�oon "In the county, we feel we
"There are .a Jot of people cam.- Percent ,!✓Quid not be .detected,
ing to us in dissatisfaction with Also, concerning the oil-hearin
the plan." !.crops, Mr, Hemingway said that
Mr, lviacNaughton said that the he understood that Canada eli4
government expected that the so -';not produce enough to supply
'Miter for, the Hog Producers ' needs for paints and varnishes
would have directed the arrange- but itpwas the imported oils that
ments to sell debentures proper- •create surpluses.
iY. Mr.. Zurbrigg eammented that
Farmers decreasing other than the butter surplus, the
Warren ;3urbrigg, president of dairy business produced only two
the Federation, noted that the percent mare than the needs Qf
percentage of farmers was stead- Canada. He suggested that if the
ily decreasing, with the predic- pure foods act were changed to
tion that by 1970 farmers would provide far proper marking of
make top only eight percent of
masgarme packages to show .the
the people of Canada. ">! arm_ contents, the housewife would be
P P a
ers have become very efficient.
This has benefitted the consumer
a great deal, but sometimes we Zurhrigg,
have not been paid for our in-
creased efficiency. Surpluses Collusion in beef?
which we must have to feed the Robert McGregor, Xippen,•talk-
world are used as a weapon
�+ po by ing for Beef Producers, said,
big business. the marketing of hogs is open to
Lorne Bodges, representing suspicion, certainly the market:
concentrated m i 1 k producers, ing of beef is ,too." These are nS
could work something .out if noted that tht;y felt the Depart- bad situations, Packers can cut
assured of the materials she wail
buying. "The contents .ef a poun4
of butter is standard," said Mr::
• aany.
someconcrete r isput
co cr acornerss
programAgriculturewasacting justaboutas fastas
inept of i s
on roads 1 d e 1 forward, hut in ,.April, Mr, Good- unwisely to advise some farm- body. Yesterday the market ill
, dull,
( fellow (minister of Agriculture) ers to'expand and far others to Toronto was and it
was pas'
A 'U.S, weather balloon, ap_ 1 told me he did not •now what leave farms when unemployment gusting the way those buyer•
parently released from Flint,/ the Farm Products Marketing was so high, acted, •
• Allele, in the early hours of ,Board wanted in the way of a Horace Delbridge, Usborne, An outside buyer, from the
Tuesday, was found about 10' method of sale, and apparently cream producer representative; United States, or from another
said that a ten -cent consumer plant, would have changed the
subsidy would. help ,but that the picture at once.
a.m. the same day on the. he still. doesn't know.
Ted th
Farquhar Road, just north of , Air, Warner also worn at
No. 83, 1$75,000 had to be returned by the Ontario Cream producers did not "Concerning beans, those three
Bill Mayer, son of Rabert frog producers Assn to the hog support Huron on that, He men-• elevators in Hensall practically
• llt13i11 RR 1 Kirkton,ospotted producers marketing hoard, for tioned plans for a "fire sale of speak with one voice when it
the balloon. on the side of the he said that only through Par t butter," where three pounds comes to price, but we have'e
roar(, A battery-operated light, ! a# the q0 cent deduction per ha.,, would be sold for the cost of two processingplant in London, and
fastened on the ope between could the association get money pounds, plus ten cents. This it lready s snaking a differ.
iwith which to operate, Without was ho ed would reduce the sur
I the ball on nd the p achute th th t a d p
o a earn , , is tnoneY, a associa ion n once.
was still burning. !thet' 'll h t plus' Farmers must have somethin
co-operative i
The•
instrument, called a radio fold a ,"pe v w have
o Ma Tvin Howe, 1421? for Welling -better than lust hope and faith,'
sonde, is released by the 'U.S. He felt that the attorney gen_ ton North, said that there was stated Mr. McGregor. He added
t 1 but 0 h
bureau to measure the tempera- sou enter with one
lure, pressure and moisture in tures sooner, but that the halting if farmers had considered asking beef, pork and lamb.
1)ep't of Commerce weather •ill's department should have no Ontario surplus u ere was that when planning to enter the
( a Canadian surplus of butter. meat Backing business, they
stopped thesale of FAME 'eche'- Huron !MP Elston Cardiff asked should t voice, for
the air. Theballoon r
ba o r b elks at
a height of 17 miles and the .t salegwould probably be a good that margarine people be con
thin I think the sale will go l d dd t butter Seek sugar policy
instrument floats back to earth t thanbefore." tot b a 20 percent
on stronger to the butter substitute. Lloyd Lovell, Tri en, spoke for
under a parachute, Pp p
"Sure as h--• does!" "This would raise the cost of sugar beets, commenting that
MacNaughton, the substitute, and at the same they hoped for a sugar policy for
discussingmatters with the Min- time cut surpluses. Of course, 1 Canada in the near future, .aid
which the,
The protagonists Ontario's Ontario stressed the value of ;know what he wants for he sure had planted wheat. "They plant
year 1961, the price would be
subsidized up to $13. Canada int=
c n chem• g ports 80 percent of sugar used,
explosive. hog mat etr g s , les W. McInnis- charged. =i*,,,, t1' "dfii• t r , i '`Whatever is done is beinginto margarine, but though the industry* need:,,;las .
came"face• to face for the first ec or a td members of Huron v Mr. Hemingway si:aled that be; subsidized, they do not wish to '�
ernment board • with weather Co Operative Die heal Services at; done to save the present: plan,
slate control over the selling ; of their annual meeting held in the went on Mr. AfacNau:ghton. "The understood the percentage addedIgo out of the business ,fo ra time
hogs. agricultural office board room
' government fears that pressures . to margarine would have to be • of war or other emergency would
• Hog board vice-president here. 1 now being applied may bring on over 30 percent, for less than 20 —Please turn to page 1At
Clayton Frey declare the gov- The Medical Co-operatives of, a vote, and that a vote may/
ernment's •two investigations of Ontario have hidden their light `wreck the plan. The government
the hog board's books last year tinder a bushel too long, thesis asking for an improved plan„
were a deliberate effort to pis- speaker felt "There are nearly , but is leaving the details up to '
trine in two years of name-cal-
ling.
ame calling.
For eight hours hog produc-
ers fired verbal salvos at agri-
culture minister Goodfellow's
Farm Products Marketing act,
the government board that ad-
Fielclman comments ,
cillors wished the reeve success
in 'his bid for the county warden- o r cut production •
Airs.
• Hog board. president C.har-
„
credit the farmers' ability to 50,000 people in Huron County, ! the Ontario hog producers,"
look after their affairs. and only 2,500 in this co-op," he; The government order that all
• Government beard chair said. "What you have here is a+ buyers be assembled in one
titan George` McCague state it healthy ,nucleus for continued "place .in Toronto places a hard
was his job to lay down the growth and. expansion." ;ship upon the small packer some
ground rules for each of Onta- ., There are 29 medical. co -opera- distance from Toronto, who would
rio's 26 farm. products 'market. trues in the Ontario federation.,have to resort to a broken ser -
The Huron group is the Toed vice to make his bids. Mr. Hem-
ing schemes — and the farm-
ers' job to work out the details.
The farriers applauded their
The reeve entertained council. resolutions — adopted unani-
BY J. CARL HEMiNGWAY make better hourly returns re- mously to stand pat on their
and officials to a turkey dinner
At Armstrong's. HFA Fieldmanpairing his own machinery.than present hog selling procedure
On December 29, the Federa-
tion of Agriculture in the county
met with the local members of
parliament, As the press was
present for the meeting I expect
that you will he able to read
about this meeting elsewhere so
I will make no comment.
However as a result of the
meeting the difficult situation
facing farmers seems even more
serious.
Conflicting advice
What can be done about the
decided drop in the farmers'
Comparative net income over the
years?
On one hand we are advised to
enlarge our enterprise to a more
i efficient economic unit, This al-
most certainly willforce some
, farmer to find employment in
tsome other industry where there
is already a serious unemploy-
IM•
eetproblem. Tliis will be good
for neither the farmer or the
!economic condition of the coun-
i try,
On the other'hand we are told
, that we must restrict production
Tin order to increase returns.
It
i will also mean less labor re-
quireds with the resultant in-
crease in the number of people
Without jobs, And ie we are suc-
cessful in getting higher prices
for otir produce will it autemati-
catty mean that we will have in -
:creased net returns?
This has been tried by label.
'Unions yet statistics show that
iAber minions have beep able to
increase their wages iii nineties
to the retail price of the pro-
duct which they prodttoed by less
than 1 percent. Gains made 1)y
lebor through the unions has
been et the expense of ivao'gan-
iaed labor,
Since fariiiers constitute a
very large part of !.his undrgan-
ized labor there ate very few
people for them to take advant-
age of should they .follow in the
steps of 'organized labor.
Need larger incor e
If we consider the latices 011
many farm products We .soon
realize that the priee is Mitch
higher than at nanny' times when
farmers were relatively pi°dspe-
tans. But• when we repaid 'ionto
Of stir machihery we see (het we
need a much Mtge Meta&
Dri several oeeasians in the
Peet few month§ Ineehatiies have
indieated that they 'e`tpeet 1.t0
Pet hoer fol' their label', And itt
roti, eat '(itis aver Abd hlitsvb
the, ccimniisait5n On the Wilde they
use while doing the jell.
..sty farmer, Mita r5 even ;Ytgltt-
Reports collections
Deputy tax collector Airs. B.
M. Woods reportedreceipt of
$127,447 in 1960 taxes.
esteeleMeSeseeNteereeMeeeseesseesteee
Comments about
Crediton East
By MRS. W MOTZ
rrA ..'....: omm�a�` cn3tt>..:. aomt .t:?Yt m
New Year's visitors
Mr. and Mrs. William Homey
of Exeter with Mr, and Mrs.
William Motz.
Mr. Ray Foster and family
with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Sims.
Mrs. Wellington Brock and
Ronald of Granton, Monday with
Mr, and Mrs. William .Mott.
Mr. and Mrs, .Henry Becker,
Mr, and Mrs, Henry -Pfaff, Patty,
Wallace and Lorraine were New
Year's guests at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Pfaff arid
family.
Mr. 1. Rydhtll of Elginfield
• and Miss Marcia Smith with
Alms. Emma Baynham and sons,
Mrs, Arliss McKee and son
of London with Mr. and Mrs.
Aaron Wein.
Christmas visitors
Mr, add Mrs, Aaron Wein and
Ars, Arliss McKee and son of
London with Mr, and Mrs, Hose -
rd Truemner in Exeter.
Mr, and Mrs, John Nedza with
Mr. and Mrs, Michael Keay in
1 xeter
Mr. arid Mrs, Marvin Wein
and family of town with Mr, and
errs. Leonard Wein.
Mr. 'add Mrs, Joseph Bullock
with Mr, and Mrs, Edward Dar=
bey in Willowdale,
13t Shcey McKee of London
.sliest the Christmas holidays
With his grandparents, Mr, and
Mrs. Aaron Wein.
Mpp'et e't fit el n lnated' 3
"-- the iteMltinala ?"
he can farming. Yet this in part until the government board
does contribute to unemployment comes up with something better.
and thereby, reduces his market.. The farmers are opposed to re-
To further aggravate the farm- turning to the old system of auc-
erspredicament we see TV pro- tioning their hogs at the stock -
grains showing the life of the yards. They prefer their present
rick-shaw 'men in Calcutta. Can
we then cut production?
Perhaps farmers would do well
to follow the example of a group
sof employees who have purchased
method which is based on the
solicitation of bids from proces-
sors by hog board salesmen on •
the telephone.
largest, l ingway indicated his concern for
Retiring directors Mrs. 0. G. : this method of sale when all bid -
Anderson, of Wingham, Lorne ders were within sight of each.
Bodges,• RR 1. Goderich, Fordyce other.
Clark, RR 5 Goderich, and Ken -i Mr. MacNaughton said he was
neth Johns, RR 1 Woodham, sincere in hoping for the selling
were eligible for re-election and , plan to work, but if there were
were unanimously reinstated. ' `.flies in the ointment" it was up
Fordyce Clark was n a m e d `to the producers to sit down with
president for the second time; the FPMB and work with them.
Gordon Kirkland, RR 3 l ucknow, Mr. MacNaughton. noted that
continues as vice president. G there was $260,000 transferred
M. Wedlock, RB, 5 Goderich, is fram•one hog group to another so
secretary -treasurer. far this year, not just $775,000.
The meeting was the occasion
the plant that was shut down. of the first public appearance by
, Cod-
Agriculture i• Minister 1 A. xo
Farmers could enter the proces- Agric litre I Waster y,
Sing field and thereby sell at fellow at a maior hog industry
wholesale or even retail prices. meeting since his farm products
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