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Dakar:
city of contrasts
(One of a series).
By PAW, WILSON-
Freak piglet dies
Despite its owner's efforts to save it, this Siamese twin
piglet survived less than a day after it was born last
week. Amos Wright, Centralia, displays the freak animal
which has four ears, eight legs, four thighs. —T-A
Federation news
Foresee decline
in poultry marketing
Order, moitasomfe
Second. Section. EXETER, ONTARIO, OCTOBER 11, 1962 POO., :.tifirt.fi.
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HS team wins in Huron,
now atinfi plow match •
By MRS. FLORENCE ELLIOTT
Huron Federation Sec'y
Poultry market report
from Canada Department of
Agriculture poultry division:
Most major Canadian poultry
markets continued steady, ex-
cept for the odd minor price
revision for certain kinds and
weights at widely scattered
ues: attracted to elements in
our culture, yet bringing at the
same time their own sensitivity
rooted in a culture which we
call primitive only because we
don't understand it.
Early on the morning of July
7, we say our farewells to our
friends in Dakar, and board the
train for Saint-Louis and the
work project.
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The bus loaded with Canad-
ian and American students
lurches away front the Dakar-
Yoff air terminal, and speeds
along the highway towards the
city, now visible as a skyline
of tall white buildings, glisten-
ing on relief against the blue
of sky and sea.
The dry brown country-side,
providing scant pasturage for
the scattered flocks of sheep
which clotted it, gives way
gradually to signs of urbaniza-
tion: women in colorful robes
returning from the market
place with their baskets of
purchases riding steadily on
their heads; pedestrian over-
passes with increasing frequen-
cy, factories and oil-storage
terminals on either side of
the highway, then suburban
housing developments, with
cream-colored dwellings neat-
ly laid out along streets lined
with bushes of flowering bou-
gainvillia,
Then we are in the city. The
bus jostles around a traffic
circle filled with bleating taxi
cabs, colorful carts drawn by
horses with jangling harnesses,
and Africans in flowing bou-
bous astride motor bikes, We
are caught in Dalcar traffic,
in which pedestrian, driver,
motorist and cyclist are mingl-
ed in a whirl and rush of near
confusion which never quite
becomes chaos.
National sports centre
The bus arrives at a large
enclosed sports park in the
middle of the teeming African
quarter of Dakar, It is the
national centre for popular
education and sports, contain-
ing a large stadium, a soccer
field surrounded by a 500 metre
track, basketball and handball
courts, and a cluster of low
buildings at one end — offices,
classrooms, and dormitories
for the students.
The bus pulls up in the quad-
rangle formed by these build-
ings, and we step out into the
glaring sun. Once again, there
is the peculiar odor which I
noticed when stepping off the
plane, a curious assortment of
smells wound together on a
slight breeze, intensified now
by the recognizable odor of
roast peanuts and flowering
bougainvillia.
A group of students at the
school, still in their training
clothes, welcome us warmly
and direct us to one of the low
buildings which will be our
quarters for the next two
weeks,
At lunch, our host, M. Laur-
ent °late, a young official in
the Ministry of Youth and
Sports, speaking very even and
eloquent French, welcomes us
to Senegal, assuring us that
they are most happy to have
us here, and that they will do
everything possible to make
our sojourn a happy and pro-
fitable one.
Looking at the meal before
us, roast beef, a rice-like dish
called cous-cous, vegetables,
salad, and fruit, I reflect that
the Senegalese have already
demonstrated their hospitality
most effectively.
And their hospitality con-
tinues. There are lectures on
Senegal, its government and
development programs, lessons
in the native language, Wolof,
excursions to the beach, tours
of the city and the surround-
ing Cape Verde area, football
matches, and the national
championship track meet, And
most iniportant of all, we are
given ample opportunity to
meet and to come to know
many Sengalese, During these
two weeks before the projeet
begins, I feel thyself being
drawn closer to Africa and the
Africans.
Fascinating city'
Dakar draws you to itself by
its fascination, by its varied
sights, sounds and smells, and
by its people. Standing in the
middle of the Place de l'Intle-
peederiee, yott are in Little
Paris, Around you are tower-
ing buildings topped by colorful
billboards. ultra-Modern store
,fronts, sidewalk cafes, Yoe are
in a French city except for the
pedestrians in colorful African
garb,. and the street vendors
hawking miniature torn,tonts
and carved ebony masks.
Standing in the market place,
you are in Africa, in the press
of crowds shopping along the
rows of closely packed booths,
which, display their `wares as
at a fair; a Perrietual midway
where reest earntheir liveli-
hood selling tolerful .cloth for
dresses, fruits, sandals, spices,
charcoal cooking furnaces, dried
fish, pots, or sunglasses.
The babble of a longue in
raid) you are beginning to rec-
egilize a felt/ words mingles
with the rush of buses, the
buzz of motor bikes, and the
roar overhead of a jet streak-
ing in from France bringing
tin Paris newspapers,
Island of the pest
From the centre of the city,
a narrow street leads youpast
Lebanese shops, past groups of
children singing and dancing a
London Bridge-like game, down
to the sea by the harbour. A
mile out in the bay sits the
tiny island of Goree, one Of the
four communes eetablished in
1848 by the French, Now, over
a century later, it is part of a
unified, independent country of
2,500,000 people which has tak-
en a responsible place in the
modern world.
Yet the island is a refuge of
the past. There, the peace of
existence is leisurely; life is
lived not to the rhythm of com-
merce and industry, but to the
rising and setting of the sun,
to the beat of the waves on its
rocky cliffs, and to the ebb and
flow of humanity brought by
the launch which plys between
the island and the harbour,
And Goree bears too the scars
of the past. On its high cliff,
looking out to sea, sitting in
tracks cut in the granite, are
two massive guns which in the
last war controlled the harbour.
And down by the sea, on the
island's point, is the round stone
prison, an ugly monument to
the greed of Western plantation
owners who used it as a stor-
age terminal for newly cap-
tured, slaves, waiting to be ship-
ped to America.
Many Africans feel an intense
bond of sympathy for their
brothers in America, and so are
extremely interested in any
news about the racial problems
there. Laborers and university
students alike have heard of
Little Rock and of lynchings
and riots in Mississippi, and
they bombard us with questions
about these, and similar exam-
ples of injustice in America.
Some admit that they will never
be able to regard America with
respect while negroes still have
to fight for what should be
rightfully theirs, human dignity.
A new voice emerges
For these two weeks we are
introduced to an Africa where
the remains of colonialism and
the beginnings of a new nation-
alism are visible everywhere—
in the buildings, in the streets,
and in the -people themselves.
In. Dakar, we are still very
close to France.
And yet: among our new
African friends, we begin to
hear the voice of a new con-
tinent, which in reality is very
old; seeking to learn from the
west, yet questioning our val.
points. On the live market,
some Toronto dealers lowered
their paying price one cent for
broilers and light weight chick-
ens and advanced their prices
for medium weight fowl by a
like amount. At Winnipeg,
medium and heavy young tur-
keys declined 1 to 2 cents. On
the dressed market, heavy
chickens advanced 1 cent at
Montreal.
The number of chickens, two
months and older, not intended
for laying shows a decline of
over 30 per cent of these chicks
except Ontario report a con-
siderable decline in this cate-
gory. Ontario is the most im-
portant producer of broiler
chickens in Canada and there-
fore it is not surprising that
over 30 per cent of these chiks
which pre being grown out for
meat are found on Ontario
farms.
Quebec is second only to On-
tario in broiler chicken output
and first in the production of
roasting chicken. This is re-
flected in the tables which show
to have about 23 per cent of
the chicks for meat production
on June 1,
The decline in numbers would
indicate that during the latter
half of 1962 the marketing of
chicken meat would decrease.
During the period July 7 to
September 15 this was the ease
as the weekly volume of both
broiler a n d heavy chicken
slaughtered in registered plants
declined two per cent and ten
per cent respectively, compared
With 1961.
Not a substitute
"Canada's support of the
world food program will not be
Created for the purpose of de-
veloping a program leading, to-
ward improvement in 'the qual-
ity of Ontario hogs, an organ-
ization to be know as the On-
tario Swine Improvement Coun-
Will mark
Co-op week
"October 15-20 is an important
week to co-operators across
Canada," reports Theron Creery,
president of Exeter District
Co-operative. "It is Co-op week
when we in the co-operative
movement focus attention on
co-operatives, where people are
in business to serve themselves.
We are particularly proud of
this from the viewpoint that
our co-op businesses are 100%
Canadian-owned."
Co-op Week, a national salute
which has been observed now
for several years, is sponsored
by two organizations. One is
the Co-operative Union of Can-
ada, the other is Le Conseil
Canadien de la Co-operation.
The main purpose of focusing
attention is to improve under-
standing of co-ops by the gen-
eral public and to deepen the
conviction and determination of
co-op members to help them-
selves economically and social-
ly through their co-ops.
"The Exeter District Co-op-
erative will celebrate Co-op
week with an open house pro-
grain on October 19 and 20 for
members and visitors" said
Mr. Creery. This is a good op-
portunity for rural and urban
people to visit 'the co-op, and
everyone is welcome, The di-
rectors and staff will be pleased
to show people our facilities
and talk about the service avail-
able."
at the expense of our other as-
sistance activities.
"We look upon the world food
program as another step for-
ward in helping to raise the
levels of living of our friends
in the developing countries,"
Insect control vital
James Marehall of the Can-
ada Department of Agriculture
research station at Summer-
land, B,C., says much is heard
about the dangers -caused by the
misuse of insecticides, but few
fully realize the benefits de-
rived from these chemicals. He
says the war against insects is
never ending.
Without the advantage of
chemicals Okanagan fruit grow-
ers would go out of business
and the problems of raising
food everywhere would increase
tremendously.
A greater problem than con-
trol of the dangers to humans
and beneficial organisms, ac-
cording to Mr. Marshall is the
rapid development of immunity
by insects to each new insecti-
cide,
ell has been established under
the chairmanship of Prof. G,
E. Raithhy, OAC,
Decision .to establish, the
council followed a meeting call-
ed by W. P. Watson, assistant
deputy minister, at which time
the necessity of such an or-
ganization was discussed.
At a recent meeting to adopt
a constitution and elect officers
it was agreed 'that the principal
objective of the council should
be to co-operate with govern-
ments and other organizations
in the development of programs
designed to encourage improve-
ment in the quality of hogs pro-
duced in the province.
The following organizations
are to be represented on the
council; the Ontario Hog Pro-
ducers' Association; the On-
tarn) Swine Breeders' Associa-
tion; the Ontario Retail Feed
Dealers' Association; the Can-
adian Feed Manufacturers' As-
sociation, Ontario Division; and
the Canadian Meat Packers
Council, Ontario Section,
In addition, the OAC, the On-
tario Veterinary College, the
live stock branch and the pro-
duction and marketing division
of the Canada Department of
Agriculture were accorded rep-
resentation.
During discussion 'at the meet-
ing which led 'to •the formation
of the council, Mr. Watson said
that there is plenty of evidence
to support the contention the
need for improvement exists. He
emphasized the importance of
the domestic market and the
necessity for a quality product
in developing that market to
its fullest extent.
The following officers were
elected: chairman, Prof. G. E,
Raithby, OAC. Guelph; vice
chairman, Ernest Dodds, Or-
angeville; secretary, James
Boynton of the Ontario Hog
Prodteers's Association. These
men and J. D. Doyle, repre-
senting the meat packers coun-
cil, and Dr, W. D. Morrison,
representing the feed irianu-
OK bylaws
for Bidduiph
At its meeting last week,
Bidduiph township council:
Received approval from the
department of education of the
bylaw attaching part of Whalen
public school section to the
school area No. 1 of the town-
ship,
Received approval from the
department of municipal af-
fairs to extend the time for
returning the assessment roll
for 60 days;
Awarded the contract for the
construction of the St. Pat-
rick's municipal, drain to Roth
Brothers, Wellesley;
Awarded the contract for
snow plowing township roads
to Walloy Construction Co,
facturers association, comprise
the executive committee.
Before any specific recom-
mendations for program's are
made a careful survey of the
situation will be undertaken.
Accordingly committees have
been appointed to study such
phases of the industry as breed-
ing, feeding, marketing, and
disease control. It is expected
that these studies will reveal
information which will be use-
ful in drafting programs which
when put into operation will
have a beneficial effect upon
the. industry,
Huron county
crop report
By D. H. MILES
Huron Ag Rep
Th many light rains of the
past few weeks have helped
fall plowing but have hindered
harvest of late beans.
Husking corn is maturing
slowly. Silage corn is still quite
green and there are many silos
yet to fill.
Fall pasture has been quite
good, There has not been a
heavy killing frost as yet,
Award contract
for Tuckersmith
The contract for paving a
short street in Egmondville was
let by Tuckersmith council to
Lavis Contracting Co. Ltd., of
Clinton, with work scheduled
to start ._oon after department
ofh
highways approval is ob-
tained,
The completion certificate
was received for the Buchanan
municipal drain, The clerk was
instructed to apply for provin-
cial aid and to call payment
due by November 8.
Tenders for snowplowing the
township roads 'for the 1962.63
winter are to be called. Two
power graders will be required
this year.
Court of revision on the 1962
assessment roll is to be held
October 15 at a special council
meeting called for that date,
Accounts included: roads,
$2,805,01; municipal drainage,
$6,398,78; advertising and sup-
plies, $155.56; welfare, $99.75;
administration, $1,301.82; high
school debenture, $3,461.25; On-
tario Hydro, street lights and
pump, $250.52
The next regular council
meeting will be held on Nov.
6 at 1 p.m. in the town hall,
Seaforth,
Checking your corn crop now
for any mistakes could up both
yields and profit next year,
says Stan Young, crops special-
ist at the Ontario Agricultural
College. Noting mistakes now,
when you can see them in the
field, is a big help next spring.
A SHDHS team of Pan! Turn-bull and Robert Becker Won
the senior high school class,
der 19 years, at the Huron
County plowing match at Bent
miller Saturday.
The team is representing
South Huron this week at the
International Match pear Owen
Sound.
Paul Turnbull's land ,was
judged the best-plowed of the
Huron match in the tractor
classes and he won the Esso
champion tractor special. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fer-
gus Turnbull of the lake road,
Robert Becker is the son of
Reeve V. L, Becker, Dashwoocl.
Another Becker, Lawrence,
won the green class for boys and
girls under 15 years.
Two Grand Bend farmers,
Russell Des Jardine and Larry
Taylor, placed second and third
in the mounted plow competi-
tion.
Th e ground was almost too
sticky for good plowing Satur-
day but Huron plowmen were
still able to make the match
one of the better ones in recent
years,
The match was held on the
farm of Howard Feagan, just
one mile north of Benmiller.
It was the 36th annual match
and 4 competitors were entered
in the tractor classes and one
— Edgar Howatt, Belgrave —
in the horse-drawn competi-
tion.
L. E. Cardiff, Huron is
secretary-treasurer of the asso-
ciation and William Jerrie, RR
3 Brussels, is president.
Class winners included: boys
and girls under 19, Larry
Young, RR 5 Goderich; as many
plows as you wish, Kenneth.
Cardiff, RR 2 Brussels; wide
bottom, John Feagan, Gode-
rich; junior high school, Gor-
don Pryco, RR 1 Dublin, and
Cecil Ryan, Seaforth; mounted
plows, Wayne Durnin, Auburn;
special utility class, Donald
Perrie, Brussels; businessmen's
class, Mr. Campbell.
Waliis tops
corn contest
Harold Wallis, Granton, won
the grain corn competitibn
sponsored by Kirkton Agricul-
tural Society, it was announc-
ed this week by Secretary Alex
F. Crago,
Second prize went to James
D. Bryan, RR 6 St. Marys,
and third to Clarence Robson,
RR I St. Marys.
Other competitors -finished in
this order:
Murray Selves, Fullarton;
Allen Berry, Woodham; Jack
Urquhart, RR 1 St. Marys;
Ross Robinson, RR 1 St.
Marys; W. R. Kirkby, RR 1 St.
Marys; Howard Bearss, Jim
Bearss, Science Hill; Clarence
Switzer, RR I St. Marys; Jo-
seph R. Robinson, RR 1 St.
Marys; Toni Hern Jr., RR I.
Woodhain; Jack Thomson, RR
6 St. Marys; Jack Arthur, RR
1 St. Marys; Ross Hem, RR 1
Granton.
According to the rules of the
society, which were outlined in
the prize list, only those com-
petitors who exhibited cobs at
the fair are eligible for prize
money. Norman McCully judg-
ed the crops.
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