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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-05-20, Page 25TOP STUDENT IN FARM ANALYSIS PROJECT — David Latta right of Lucan graduated with honours from the Agricultural Business Management course at Centralia. Here he is seen receiving the special Western Ontario Branch, Ontario Institute of Agrologists Award from MP. William Kilmbt Friday.. "- T-A'photo'by Sharon Specht. GRADUATING from Centralia's Agricultural Business Management course Friday is Edward Farwell, right, of Zurich. Mr. J.A. MacDonald, Principal, presented the diploma. T-A photo by Sharon Specht. PAULA VINK of Kirkton receives her diploma from Centralia's Prin- cipal J.A. MacDonaid,Friday. Paula graduated from Community Home Economics. T-A photo by Sharon Specht. EXERCISES were held at Centralia College of Agricultural Technology Friday. Margaret-Helen (MacDonald) Burton of Huron Park is seen here receiving her diploma from Principal, J.A, MacDonald. She graduated from the College's Fashion course. photo by Sharon Specht. GRADUATION A bunch of jokers A legislative committee meeting earlier this week seemed like a practical joke gone sour, a college prank which seemed funny at the time turning ugly when they tried to pull it off. Officially, the committee was grilling Minister without Portfolio Lorne Henderson, trying to discover what the taxpayers get for , the $113,000 he spends on himself and his staff. Henderson, after all, has been the butt of many standing jokes around here, and so the committee thought it would be fun to bring Henderson in front of them to explain just what his duties are. There's nothing basically wrong with the concept, it's just the vile way it was done. The tone, the sneers' a deliberate attempt to humiliate the man, It was one, of those occasions where you become personally embarrassed on behalf of the victim and ashamed of those trying to brutalize him. Lorne Henderson is a farmer, the Conservative member from Lamb- ton since 1963. Before that he was on local council, deputy reeve, reeve and finally county warden. He is not a public speaker and in fact makes glaring grammatical errors, constantly saying "done" for "did" and that sort of thing. But he is the kind of man who understands rural Ontario, who can relate to real people out there, the kind of man who becomes an easy, and cheap, target for politicians who believe polish is somehow more important than genuine rapport. Henderson is, it is true, the epitofile of the 01d-style politics, of using muscle to get what he wants for the people who elected him. Before his elevation to cabinet, Henderson lead the strong Tory rump, a portion of the citizenry the Tories lost touch with over the years and, as a result, lost support from last September. Undoubtedly Henderson's cabinet appointment is aimed at regaining that support, and the committee pointed that out, except they criticized him for being political, if you can imagine a politician seriously attacking another politician for playing politics. Sarnia Liberal James Bullbrook, a smoothtalking, well-dressed lawyer, was worst. Bullbrook's riding borders Henderson's and it rankles him that Henderson is a force there as well as in his own riding. He called Henderson "a redundant minister," in charge of "a super- fluous expenditure of money," and opened his attack by wanting to know who wrote Henderson's six- page opening remarks because of references to the Oxford University Press. Bullbrook said, "I don't believe the Oxltra` Press is current choice in your reading ,.." Scarboro Tory Frank Drea ac- cused Bullbrook of "vindictive, malicious questioning," a description which pretty well summed it up. "The question that the minister was asked to appear on was what does he do," Drea said,"not what does he read, not how does he spell his words, not whether he is grammatical and not whether his literary efforts are good enough to meet the standards of a small town lawyer." There was general tittering from the Liberal and NDP members all evening whenever Henderson's grammar slipped or his reply wasn't up to some sort of imagined academic standard of excellence which all MPPs should have. There was the exchange for example with Hamilton NDP Michael Davison who pushed the monumental discovery that Hen- derson made a $100 mistake because staff salaries totalled $35,100 and not $35,200 as reported by Henderson. There were dozens of examples of this type of petty, childish harassment, far too numerous to mention here, but it strikes me that this kind of public crucifixion by ridicule in no way serves the public interest, an interest which the op- position claimed was the point of the whole exercise. It reminded' me of pitting an NHL hockey star against someone who can't skate and watching the pro flatten him with a stunning body check. It certainly proves the pro is a better hockey player, but it doesn't make him a better person, does it? If anyone walked away from that committee room a better person, it was Henderson The head hunters would never admit it, but they lest that one to a Vetter man. CLAIRE HOY QUEEN'S PARK Paid for by supporters of civilized behavior. I ottA4-0,Y.811-40/44-/ The mark of a man. The Toronto Sun, Thursday May 18, 1976 ' BEST ALL ROUND STUDENT AWARD — David Miller of Exeter, right, who graduated with honours from Centralia's Agricultural Business Management course, receives his diploma from Principal, J.A. MacDonald, Friday. Barry won the Best All Round Student Award. photo by Sharon Specht. SOYBEAN GROWERS! THIS YEAR, GROW WITH THE BEST OF REGISTERED AND CERTIFIED VARIETIES FROM . . . STEWARTS BEECHWOOD New, early (2600 heat units), tall growing, large-seeded, high-podding for easy combining. EVANS Short-growing, large-seeded, good lodging resistance, in the 2700 heat unit range. HARLON A good yielder at 2800 heat units, strong-strawed, with resistance to Phytophthora rot. STEELE In the 2900 heat unit range, slightly later than Harlon, a strong-strawed good yielder. In selecting a soybean variety from Stewarts, you know you have the protection of high quality control standards. All four of these varieties were germination tested on May 5, 1976 . . . with tests ranging from 91 to 94%. STEWART SOYBEAN SEEDS ARE AS CLOSE AS A PHONE CALL TO YOUR LOCAL DEALER OR PHONE (519) 293-3211 afipArfra^-iest STEWART SEEDS ktailjS LIMITED Ailsa Craig, Ontario NOM 1 AO 0 Times-Advocate, May 20, 1976 Page 24 Graduation exercises at Centralia College 4-H leader shows slides about Africa Bob Simpson, 4-11 leader, showed the Sweet Corn club, slides of Africa, which his friend, who works on an agricultural research farm, sent to him. The organization, called CUSO, is responsible for sending men over to Africa to teach the people there how to grow crops. The slides were very informative and showed just c how different the climate and the people are there. Bob also talked on preparing the soil prior to planting and some of the different fertilizers that are used, Pony Club picks officers The Exeter 4-11 horse and pony club held their first meeting May 12 at the home of Mr. & Mrs, Bill Johns, Election of officers was held, The following were elected: President, Jerry Sims; Vice President, Bev Preszcator; Secretary, Trudy Johns; Press Reporter, Angela Liehmann. The members discussed what they wanted to cover in their 4-H meetings. Mr. Johns gave a demon- stration of how to trim a horse for the show ring. The meeting was then adjourned. Later Mrs. Johns served lunch . Passing the offering by, me twice was no mistake. Elilet Berry got wind I sold my hogs last weeks: The Best All Round Student Award was presented to Barry Miller of Exeter at the Graduation Exercises of Cen- tralia College of Agricultural Technology last Friday. The ceremony took place in the College Recreation Hall which was filled to its capacity, Diplomas were given to 105 students who had successfully completed two-year courses in agricultural business management, animal health technology, community home economics, fashion and food service management. Mr. J.A. MacDonald, principal of Centralia College, welcomed the several hundred guests and expressed his thanks to the many farmers in the area who made their farms available to the students for learning purposes, "Life today is Complex" was the subject Dr, J.C. Rennie, Executive Director, Education and Research, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, chose for his address. His remarks were aimed at the graduating students, particularly when he said that they must remain knowledgeable because they "can't afford to stop learning" in today's complex society of technological developments. The 1972-73 class provided the distinguished award presented to Barry Miller who graduated with honours from the Agricultural Business Management course. Barry is now in partnership with his father, Edwin Miller, and plans to be married next year. Another honours graduate of the same course, David Latta of Lucan, was top student in a farm analysis project and won the Western Ontario Branch, Ontario Institute of Agrologists Award. Other students in the area receiving diplomas Friday were Paula Vink, of Kirkton, Margaret Helen (Macdonald) Burton of Huron Park and Edward Farwell of Zurich, all graduating from the Community Home Economics, Fashion and Agricultural Business Management courses respectively. Bale systems not difficult Most Ontario farmers do not have the expertise required to handle big round bales. This could cause some unexpected problems. But the big-bale systems need not be difficult to handle if producers consider some basic procedures, states .an Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food engineer. "The big-bale system can be a real boon to some producers. Although it is still relatively new, it appears to work well in the province. Since the system is getting more popular, our main concern is with the proper handling of big bales," says J. K. Weeden, an agricultural engineer with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Guelph, Big balers can produce bales from 500 to 1500 pounds in weight, and because they roll, it's of primary importance to release them only on level ground. Once a big bale starts rolling, there's a lot of force behind it that can cause human injury and damage to equipment and property.