HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-01-25, Page 9TRI.Ptirg T9 MINISTER
• , Hon. W. A, Stewart
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Mrs. Harvey Smith and Pen-
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with. Mr. and Mrs. Colin Gil-
fillan and family,
Mt'. and Mrs. Newton Clarke,
Mr. and Mrs. ;John Coward,
Mr, and Mrs, Colin GlIfillan
and Barbara Anne and Mr.
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and family were gliosts on Fri-
day evening With Mr. and MrS,
Wm, Walters and Danny.
Mr. and Mrs. Beverley Mor-
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Road visited on Sunday with
Mr. •and Mrs. Newton Clarke.
Mrs. Colin Gilfillan, Mrs.
Win, Walters and Mrs. New-
ton Clarke spent 'Thursday afs
ternoOtt with Mrs. Ray Clarke,
Sunshine, Line.
The Farm Union group cited
instances where hospital ac-
commodation was not available
to sick persons because of
crowded conditions in local hos-
pitals.
The brief Contended that some
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.Federation Fieistmen We have exarnPles of this• in
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a waste product from the bre-
wery becomes a no-cost feed
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In other cases large compa-
oles With connections through
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no Margin of profit in produc-
tioo. With others entering the
field of production, it would
seem that the only alternative
for the farmer is to take over
Processing and distribution
through co-operative action.
North Middlesex
proud of Stewart
Says farm records
the key to success
Farm union presses
reduced truck fees.
Clark says: "During the last
ten years, the prices farmers
pay for goods have risen by
30 to 505, while return for
farm produce has remained
steady or even declined. Along
with this fact, higher expenses
emphasize the importance of
keeping farm records." •
The best way to keep farm
records is with an annual ac-
count book, From the analysis
of this book you can pick out
the weak points and correct
them, making changes for a
more profitable operation next
year. You can also check new
ideas for profitability on paper
before you actually spend the
money.
If you don't belong to a farm
management association and
there isn't one in your county,
Clark suggests sending to the
Economics Department at the
Ontario Agricultural College,
Guelph, for an account book,
They will also do the analysis
of the book at the end of the
year.
"Records are of no value un-
less they are kept accurately
and analysed at the end of
each year," states Clark,
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REPLACEMENT
PARTS?
s, :sew's ossaseaftSMESSOISIMIMMATirs019SVIEMSSMOMIS In a debate spread over two
days, .Huron ounty Counril de-
cided to increase funds to its
highways department by one
mill,
The increase will provide
the department with an amount
equal to eight mills. Whether
the boost in highway spending
will affect the 1962 .county tax
rate will riot be known until
the budget and tax rate are set
in March,
Suggest two mills
In the early phases of the de-
bate, it was suggested by the
1961 road committee that the
levy for highway purposes be
increased by two mills.
The recommendation w a s
made as a result of increased
costs arising out of improved
design standards for roads; a
backlog of paving to be done
in 1962, and the necessity of
setting some money aside for
contingencies.
The 1962 road program calls
for an expenditure of about
$600,000—$400,000 for new con-
struction and $200,000 for man-
tenance.
The committee suggested, as
an alternative to the levy in-
crease, that about 80 miles be
cut from the county road sys-tem. This plan was not ac-
cepted
Hensall fair group
honors Bill Decker
five years ago.
Earl Dick, Cromarty, reeve
of Hibbert, township, was re-
elected president of the so-
ciety. Vice-presidents are Jim
Doig, Tuckersmith, and Otto
Willert, Dashwood. Secretary-
treasurer is P. L. McNaughton,
The society decided to hold
its annual twilight fair on Fri-
day, June 8.
The union recommends that
speeial classification be set
up in Ontario for farm trucks
with a reduced fee,
"Farmers," said Gordon
Hill, Varna, who presented the
brief, "do not object to paying
a fair share of highway main-
tenance but feel the present
system is not equitable,"
He said farm truck average Five-year plan
only 3,700 miles per year, tra-
vel empty two-thirds of the
time and are used to capacity
only 25 percent of the time.
The union also suggested;
That weeds along county
roads and railways be cut or
sptayed earlier in the season
before going to seed;
That sanding operations have
not been adequate in some lo-
calities to reduce the risk of
dangerous hills;
That county council support
its proposal to have the pro-
vincial hospitalization p 1 a n
cover beds in nursing homes.
In ; brief to county council
last week, Huron Farmers'
Union requested support for its
proposal to lower licence fees
for farm trucks,
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A proposal to build a $256,000
county office, to eliminate re-
ported overcrowding in the Hu-
ron County courthouse, was re-
jected by county council Wed-
nesday. In a recorded vote, 29
were against the plan and se-
ven in favor.
The chief reason given for
rejection was that county fin-
ances do not warrant such a
building.
Donald Snider, of an archi-
tectural firm at Waterloo, said
an addition to the present court-
house as suggested by some
councillors would cost at least
40 per cent more than a con-
ventional building on its own.
At the last session of 1961,
council took an option on prop
erty for the proposed building
in Goderich.
The property • committee of
council, which made the propo-
sal, suggested that council pro-
ceed with the erection of the
building as soon as possible and
that the costs be paid entirely
out of current revenue, which
would mean an increase in the
mill rate for two or three years,
Oppose new
office building
At least one perSeil has ta-
ken exception to my remarks
regarding federal inspection of
meats sold for buman con-
stimptiun, I certainly have no
objection to the most rigid in-
spection of meat products but
I do object to it being applied
in a discriminatory manner.
That it is unfair to the smith
ler processor is shown in the
following quotation from a
statement made by Bruce Pac-
kers, Paisley, to their local
weekly,
"It is our fondest hope that
the present investigation on
inedible meats will lead to
rigid and compulsory inspec-
tion of all meat enterprise, in
Canada, Bruce Packers Ltd,
has, since its inception, tried
every known procedure and ar-
gument to force inspection
either by the province or the
dominion but so far there have
been no interested parties.
"If all 'taxpayers in Canada
help pay for federal inspec-
tion in the big plants and our
government turns a deaf ear
to giving it to the smaller
plants whb earnestly desire the
same class of inspection, then
it is quite obvious that large
packers have a monopoly on
the meat business of Canada.
"'Phis firm has spent large
sums of money to keep the es-
tablishment up to date on the
requirements set forth by the
Bruce County. Health Unit, It
is prepared to spend more to
get into a government class of
inspection, which till now. has
appeared hopeless."
To me this points up again
the former difficulties faced
by the large number of small
operators in many different
fields. Efficiency of operation
doesn't seem too competitive.
Rather it is other factors of
advantage that is forcing the
little people out,
Equal opportunity
We are alarmed at the dis-
appearance of the family farm
and we are led to believe that
farms have to he huge. I can
agree that the family farm of
the present and future needs
to be larger than a few years
ago but this is simply because
the family on the farm today
can handle larger acreage.
Farms have been increasing in
size on this basis for years. The
real problem of these family
farmers is to obtain an equal
opportunity to purchase sup-
plies and to sell product.
Since large corporations can
move into the farming business
and operate at cost or even at
a loss that can then be made
up in processing the product
or in supplying feed it cuts out
the one opportunity of a liv-
ing income to the one who is
Gobel stars
• in program
North Middlesex voters show,
ed in no uncertain terms last.
week that they're proud of On-
tario's new , agriculture
Nearly 600 supporters packed
Medway High School Wednes,
day night, Jan, 17, to pay trib-
ute to their MPP, Hon. Wilt
Ham A. Stewart, who recently
received the farm portfolio,
Mr, Stewart and his wife,
along with Harry Duffin, North
Middlesex PC Association pres-
ident, and Mrs. puffin, re-
mained in the reception line
for over an hour and one-hall
greeting guests and well-wish-
ers,
The gymtorium and balcony
of the school was quickly filled
and workmen twice had to
scurry to find more seats.
With Mr. and Mrs. Stewart
were their four daughters —
Marilyn, 17; Norman, 1.9; Barb-
ara, 11, and Gay, eight.
Mr. Stewart's rise in provin-
cial politics has been described
Just a few weeks after the
UN approval of a world food
program to feed the hungry
people of the world the Farm
Forum topic was "Food for
Peace" Monday nights
Forum members were unani-
mously in favor of sharing food
with the hungry although same
felt it would be a better plan
to provide machinery experts
to train and, educate the peo-
ple to gnaw their own instead
of being dependent on others.
Give one per cent
Fairfield Forum members
thought that 1% of Canada's
National. Product would. not be
too much to give as a nation
even though it would amount
to over $350 million per year
for they said that nuclear re-
search costs a great deal more
than that.
They met at the home of Mm-
and Mrs. Earl. Neil with 21 in
attendance. Mr. and Mrs. Her-
man Powe will be hosts next
week.
as "meteoric". He was first
elected to the legislature in
1957, in a bydlection caused by
the death of Thomas L. Pat-
rick, In 1.960, only three years
later, he became minister with-
out portfolio under Premier
Frost, then succeeded to the
agriculture post when John
Robarts was elected premier.
Hampered by a cold, Mr.
Stewart made a brief 'address
to his constituents, paying trib-
ute- to the riding as one of
great agriculture diversity and
a hub for education and cul-
ture. lfe said new educational
facilities like Medway High
School were helping to pro-
mote better understanding and
co-operation between rural and
urban residents.
Mr. Stewart was considerably
over-optimistic in predicting
the results of the five provin-
cial byelections which were be-
ing held ',he next day. He said
he would be surprised if the
PC party didn't win all five,
Liberals won three of the seats.
Responsible for others
Elimville Forum members
felt they had a certain respon-
sibility for needy nations and
suggested Canadians might pro-
duce more. They were also
agreed that 1. per cent was a
fair share for Canada as a na-
tion to give.
Owing to road conditions this
group had not met for the past
couple of weeks but. met Mon-
day night at the home of Mr.
and Mrs, Howard Johns.
The 1961 Tree Fruit Census
conducted by the Ontario De-
partment of Agriculture is now
under way. H 'you have a com-
mercial orchard and live in
Ontario, did you receive a
census form in December? If
not, write to: W. B. Fox, Ex-
tension Building, Horticultural
Experiment Station, Vineland.
Census forms will be forward-
ed to you.
unfair.
In reply, Dr. Dymond stated
that foUr hospital beds per
1,000 population were consider-
ed adequate, A survey by the
dep't showed that in Huron
County the ratio of hospital
beds exceeded this amount,
The minister, also said that the
hospitalization plan was not
intended to carry every person
Does it pay to keep farm
records? H. Clark answers
yes to this question, Mr. Clark
is a farm management special-
ist with the Farm Economics
Branch of the Ontario Depart-
ment of Agriculture.
NEW POST — Huron MP El-
ston Cardiff, who has been par-
liamentary secretary to Agri-
culture Minister Hamilton, was
transferred to a similar post
with the health and welfare
dep't in a shift announced by
Prime Minister Diefenbaker
at Ottawa last week. Mr. Car-
diff becomes seer etar y to
Health Minister Waldo Mon-
tieth, Stratford. His successor
in agriculture is John A, Charl-
ton, „Brant MP.
who was sick but only those
persons ill enough to require
the specialized care available
only in hospitals.
Dr. Dymond stated that in
his opinion other services were
more urgently needed such as
diagnostic and out patient ser-
vices. He also pointed out the
cost of the plan to the pro-
vincial government and stated
that a large share of the pro-
vincial sales tax would be re-
quired to maintain present ser-
vices.
The union delegation consist-
ed of Director Ray Hanna, Wo-
man's Director Mrs. Thomas
Govenlock, Secretary Carl Gov-
ier, Mrs. Govier, Gordon Hill
and were accompanied by John
Hanna, MPP, and. Hon. Charles
MacNaughton, minister without
portfolio,
Groofd
Fertilizer
The Quality
Is High
The Price
Is Lower
4- few councillors asked how
they would explain a mill-rate
increase "When they got
home,"
The property committee
pointed out that the county at
prgsent has a surplus of more
than $60,000 from operations in
1961, in addition to this, there
will be a surplus from the
County Home building account
of $30,000 to $35,000, Of the
four or five methods of finan-
cing that had been suggested,
the committee recommended
the current-revenue method of
Payment,
Two or thre councillors said
the county was not obligated to
provide office space for all the
departments now using the
courthouse,
Clerk-treasurer John Berry
said the county by law is re-
quired to have a detention room
but no such facilities exist at
the moment. Plans for a deten-
tion room, along with facili-
ties for the county library,
were, included in the architect's
plans,
A model of the proposed build-
ing and sketches of floor plans
were on display.
Hire assistant
The historic committee of
council suggested that Mr. Neil
could 'be relieved of his admin-
istrative duties to devote his
time to documenting items in
the museum. Mr. Neill said such
a job would take a winter or
two summers.
James Chisholm, Goderich,
was hired at $2,800 a year to
act as assistant curator. Mr.
Neill said council's decision in
choosing Mr. Chisholm. was a
"wise one," since the latter has
had four years of experience
at the museum and is interested
in the work,
Make sure plenty of water
is available for your dairy
cows in the winter; and that
it's above 35°F, say livestock
specialists with the Ontario
Department of Agriculture. The
average dairy cow drinks about
12 gallons of water per day,
and a heavy milker might need
as much as 20 gallons a day.
Fieldman comments
WithoLit inspection
William Decker, Zurich, a
veteran exhibitor, judge and
fair official, was honored for
his many years of service by
South Huson Agricultural So-
ciety at its annual meeting
Monday afternoon.
Mr. Decker was presented
with an agricultural service
dis,loma in recognition of his
fair work which spans most, of
the past half-century.
Mr. Decker exhibited Perch-
erons for many years at local
and regional fairs, later switch
ed to road horses. He has
judged. many horse shows
throughout Ontario.
He's past president of,' the
South Huron society, sponsors
of Hensall Spring Fair, and the
second member of the society
to receive the award. It was
presented to George Armstrong,
another past; president, who
was similarly honored aboUt
This year's annual Soil and
Crop Improvement Association
meeting will be held at the
CNE grounds, Toronto, on Jan.
23, 24 and 25, Centred around
a "Farm Management" theme,
the general sessions will fea-
ture outstanding' speakers and
panels to discuss topics relat-
ed to this important theme,
George Gobel, noted TV per-
sonality, will star in the com-
ing John Deere Day program
to b.e held in Exeter. Legion
Hall Friday, Jan. 26, sponsored
by Huron Tractor and Equip-
ment Ltd.
In addition to lending his co-
medy to the role of "Uncle
Henry" in a film fantasy which
serves as a background for the
entire program, Gabel will also
double on film as the pro-
gram's master of ceremonies,
According to Jack Van Bus-
sell of Huron Tractor, this
year's film is altogether dif-
fering from any previously
shown on John. Deere Day. It
includes films on new equip-
ment, new farm practices, har-
vesting methods as well as
comedy shorts,
Shows will be presented, both
afternoon and evening without
charge.
Wi nchelsea
Area forums support
food for peace plan
The regulations of the On- hospital patients could be ade-
tario Hospital Services Corn- quately cared for in licensed
mission Will not be changed to nursing homes at considerably
incl u d e registered nursing less cost and also relieve. the
homes, Dr. M. B. Dymond, critical hospital bed shortage.
minister of health, told a dele- The union group stated that
gation of the Huron County many elderly persons who pay
Farmer's Union in Toronto re- hospitalization premiums are
cently. unable to secure hospital ac.,
The Toronto meeting was r e., commodation when they are ill
quested by the Minister of and must enter a nursing home
health to further discuss a re- and pay for care.
solution followed by a brief The union group felt this is
previously presented by the
Huron County Farmer's Union
intiMM.SrMigageNtgenMS requesting that hospitalization
This week in insurance benefits be made
available to patients of licensed
nursing homes which meet the
requirements of 0i/eminent
regulations.
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to extend insurance
Early Discounts Still Apply
Get Our Prices Now Before You Buy
A five-year road plan, coin- at the museum
piled in 1961, includes among H Neil curator of Huron the work for this year: con- — " County Museum, has had more
struction of roads from Sea- than 163,000 visitors since be
forth north for 12 miles, and took over the museum about 11 from Carlow to Nile, two miles; years ago ,and has taken in
paving of the Walton to Brus- more than $34,000 in admission sees road, and two miles on
Road 19 at 'Ethel; and bridges fees '
at Varna and F or r e st er s Mr, Neill, in describing to
bridge. Huron County Council his , 'se-
ven-day-a-week" job at the mu-
seum, suggested that an office-
entry room erected outside the
present building would be a
great help during his "rush
hours." Such a building, he
said, would cost about $1,200,
and for the most part could be
erected by museum workers.
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