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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-11-21, Page 8We invite you to attend OPEN HOUSE at our new office location, in the VILLAGE OF ZURICH FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Robert F. Westlake Insurance PHONE 286-4391 ZURICH* •! A • 4 ;(,),0„; \„, Centralia Farmers Supply Ltd. Grain • Feed • • Cement • Building Supplies Coal 228-6638 Stephen Voters Mon., Dec. 2 ELECT Alan Walper as a Member of Council A lifelong resident of the township Alan Walper solicits your support and promises to serve to the best of his abilities for the betterment of Stephen Township and all its residents. dp COMPLETE *At, le COVERAGE FOR 411.44 * Home * Farm * Commercial ir Automobile * Registered Retirement Plans CONTACT Bev Morgan Insurance Agency Ltd. 238 Main St. Phone 235-2544 Across From Beaver Lumber Exeter FREE DRAW QUALITY TOYS Farm Implements . . .Just Like Dad's Big Ones! Snow's Coming! MOVE IT THE EASY WAY Can Be Mounted On 7 to 16 H.P. 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ATTENTION.— FARMERS NE ATTENTION Due to an increasing de- mand for land clearing in your area, we offer a wide variety of earth moving equipment,/ ranging from the John Deere 450C to Caterpillar D-9 to fit your requirements. For free estimates and job allocations please call our office 'Collect' 2644 047 264 MELBOURNE1047Liinie Page 0 Times-Advocate, November 21, 1974 Mothers entertained What next? bananas dy MRS. WILLIAM ROHDE THAMES ROAD On Monday evening November Ii at Thames Road United Church Hurondale 5 girls and their mothers enjoyed a buffet supper of casseroles, salad, cherry cheese cake and punch. Mrs. Judith Parker and. Mrs. Sharon -Passmore are the "b' leaders. CO-OP BOARD OF DIRECTORS — The newly elected board of directors of the Exeter District Co-Op is shown above, Back, left, Eric Kints, Stan Francis, Howard Hendrick, Jim Dougall and Lorne Ballantyne, Front, Jack Blair, retiring president Eric Finkbeiner, vice-president Fred Miller, Jack Stewart and manager Jack Schell. T-A photo Sales over two million Full Line of Appliances • Available At BONTHRON FURNITURE Henson 262-2016 SERVICE BY KNIGHT ELECTRIC Co-Op profits double 4-H girls entertain Monday night November the eleventh at the home of Mrs. Glen Stewart, Huronciale I girls held their last Jneeting as a buffet supper with the mothers as guests, They had supper and after played games. It was an enjoyable evening. Mrs. Glenn Lamport and Mrs. Glen Stewart are the leaders. Persona Is Mr. & Mrs. Manford Luther, Grand Bend visited one day last week with Mr, & Mrs. Chas. Jeffery. Sandra Stewart spent the weekend with Nancy Hern, Zion West. Mr, & Mrs, Fred Cunnington, Centralia visited Sunday evening with Mr, & Mrs. Howard Cun- ninghton and family. A large crowd attended Open House Saturday afternoon and evening at the home of Mrs. Lorne Passmore in honour of her daughter Beth. She is a bride elect of November 30th. The flowers in the church on Sunday were placed there by the family of the late Mrs. Leonard Harris and by the family of the late Chas Miller. Twenty nine people attended the fellowship group meeting on Sunday evening. Mr. & Mrs. David Passmore and Tom visited on Sunday with Mrs. Myrtle Passmore, Exeter, Rollings and the late Alvin Cudmore. The other six current members are Eric Finkbeiner who is completing a term as president Fred Miller, Lorne Ballantyne, Jack Blair, Jack Stewart and Howard Hendrick. In his annual report, local Co- Op manager Jack Schell said he looks for a more promising year in obtaining supplies. He added "the fertilizer in- dustry as a whole looks about the same as last year but we can expect more increases in prices. nounced he will seek the Zone 7 director's post being, oiracated by McKercher. The election for this position will be held in Stratford on December 6. At least one other candidate will be in the running, He is Harold Schmidt of the Waterloo area. Zone 7 consists of 10 Co-Ops in Weste'rn Ontario. On the local level three new members were elected to the Exeter board of directors. They are Jim Dougall, Ross Francis and Eric Kints. They replace retiring Bob Down and Harvey District 4-H leaders attending Royal Fair By ADRIAN VOS Will we have a rotten banana scandal next? Someone said at a meeting I attended, that every week as many trailer loads of bananas spoil in Montreal alone, as trailerloads of eggs spoiled in a whole year. However, since no marketing agency of farmers is involved, I doubt if we will see anything about it in the papers, Why does every vegetable grower have to dump tons of carrots every year? Because the consumer refuses to buy them if they are not straight and slender, In the meantime our taxes are spent to investigate the loss of three trailer loads of eggs, so Beryl Plumptre can keep her $40,000 job, and the opposition parties, plus a disgruntled ex- cabinet minister can have their field-day. Quebec is planning legislation to prevent first class farmland from being taken out of production. Ontario is still contemplating such a move. B.C. has done so already and Saskatchewan is drafting such legislation now. It is heartening to see that non-farm people at last are beginning to realize that our grandchildren should have something to eat also. In the meantime officials of the Ontario government are trying to buy class one farmland, one hundred acres of it, for a lagoon for the Blyth sewage system. Whereas Blyth has a population of less than one thousand, it seems that ten acres will be needed for each man, woman and child in the province. Does Toronto use this much sewage disposal space? I think not, for then most of Ontario would be one big lagoon. The question is, what is more im- portant, some extra money outlay for a treatment plant or permanently destroying food producing land. Queens Park must be one confused bunch of bureaucrats! Some American farmers, who killed their calves some weeks ago, have taken a different tack. They organized a packing plant, truckers and other transporters, and donated their money losing calves for food aid in hurricane stricken Honduras. Trucking and processing was done free of charge. By MRS. DAVID KESTLE CLANDEBOYE Mrs. P. Groenewegen, Mrs. Bruce Henry are attending the Royal Winter Fair, courtesy of the Department of Agriculture and Food. Mrs.GroeneWegen left Tuesday and will be there until Wednesday evening and Mrs. Henry leaves Thursday/ morning until Friday night. These ladies are 4-H leaders and this is one of the many rewards received for their services. They will be staying at the Lord Simcoe Hotel and meeting with other 4-H leaders in Ontario. WI meets Clandeboye branch of WI met Wednesday afernoon at the home of Mrs. Rupert Williams. Roll call was answered by something I have learned from the new handbook. The guest speaker Jim Stratton an officer from the Department of Human Rights, spoke to the ladies and Mrs. Karl O'Neil gave the motto "when we stop listening we stop learning." Mrs. R. Worthington will be the delegate to the Area Convention held at Statford next Wednesday and Thursday November 27 & 28 of November. Guides take hike Local guides and their leaders had a hiking expedition last Saturday at the farm of Mr. & Mrs. Keys - Hyde Park. ucw Mrs. C. Coughlin attended the district directors meeting at Lobo on Monday afternoon. Clinton Hodgins, Orlando, Florida is spending some time at his farm with Mr. & Mrs. Gerry Noyce and family, Larry Gibson and friends, Guelph were weekend visitors with Mr. & Mrs. L. Gibson. Mr. & Mrs. C. W. Millsonand Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Millson were guests Thursday evening with Mr. & Mrs. E. Glavin and Leona, Huron Park. Sunday evening they were at the home of Gerald and Florence Millson. Tom Kestle and Lyna Ross, London were Sunday evening visitors with Mr. & Mrs. D. Kestle. and Janis. Mr. & Mrs. J.Robertson at- tended graduation ceremonies at Medway High School when Archie Robertson received his grade 12 certificates. Mr. & Mrs. D. Kestle visited Mr. & Mrs. Bill Jarman and Rev. & Mrs. Sach at the Twin Elm Trailer park Strathroy Sunday 'afternoon. Saturday afternoon November 23, Achievement Day is being held at the Separate School in Parkhill, anyone is welcome to the afternoon program. About 42 area residents are taking a bus trip to the Royal Winter Fair on Wednesday November 20th sponsored by the Clandeboye WI, Many neighbours and friends wish to extend congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. Bill Aikeits who were recently united in marriage. A Bestline demonstration was given by Barbara Carter at St. James Church Tuesday. Winners of the draws were Mrs. Wilfred Cunningham, Mrs. Roy Cun- ningham and Rev. John Hofland. Lunch was served. Mr. & Mrs. Clarence, Carter and family and . Mrs. Isabel Simpson also Mr. & Mrs. John Simpson and family enjoyed a birthday dinner at the home of Mr. & Mrs, Peter Banks, Brights Grove, Sunday. Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Carter attended the Medway Com- mencement on Friday evening to see Stephen get- his Secondary School Graduation Diploma. Debbie Mareinan also received her diploma. Members of the Exeter District Co-operative were told at the annual meeting at the Kirkton- Woodhain hall Tuesday night that profits for the year more than doubled those of 1973. President Eric Finkbeiner of Crediton said "it was a very successful year at your Co-Op making it possible to show a profit of approximately $90,000 and $16,000 for the subsidiary of Cann's Mill Limited. Finkbeiner continued "there are several reasons for the in- crease in profit, the main one being an increase in sales of $700,000 to almost two million dollars in the Co-Op and sales of $433,000 for Cann's Mill Ltd." "There was also an increase of around $16,000 of UCO patronage and a refund of $5,000 in volume discount." The president also said the downtown property of Cann's Mill had been disposed of which will consolidate the Co-Op operation into one area without duplicatiOn of mill and bookkeeping employees. Verifying an earlier recom- mendation by the board of directors the members attending the banquet unanimously agreed to distribute earnings by declaring a three percent dividend on member purchases and a two cent per bushel rebate on grain marketing. Bob McKercher of Dublin who is retiring after 12 years as a UCO director for zone 7 said similar gains were made in 1974 by the provincial body. McKercher said branch Co-Ops such as Exeter would receive a three and a quarter percent patronage dividend on purchases from UCO. Bob Down who has served on the Exeter Co-Op board of directors for six years has an- Clandeboye U. Church Wpmen met at the home of Mrs. Arnold Blake with eight members present. Correspondence included a letter asking for assistance with the drop-in-centre to be for senior citizens in Amherstburg. Donations for bale arejto be brought' to next meeting or to Hazel Williams, Layette articles to be handed in at the next meeting. • Mrs. Neil conducted worship on mission. Mrs. C.Coughlin and Mrs. J.Donaldson attended the Official Board meeting held in Lucan last Wednesday evening. Personals Mr. & Mrs. Roy Hancock and family of London called on Mrs. J.Donaldson and June. Cindy returned to London for the weekend.