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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1973-03-21, Page 1EsTA4ispwo Brussels Post 1111.1101011111M1k, BRUSSELS ONTARIO ' 102nd Year. Issue No. 12 Wednesday, Mardi 21, 1973 Brussels Lions report $1200 from Polar Daize EirtitselS time Won top hetittit at a Ladies Behspiel held id Palnxerston' Arena on March it the Brussels riiikWonfitstitilad# in the 11 rt.iti. draw ;and captured the tkennevrsoen troth liere MrSi tietiderAbil .presents the trophy to Wilma liathwelif Mutter,Aileen,,, , , Rhea Valiance, second,-. and kondtaktatitot i len& (P almerston observer) Mr. Robert Davidson of Brus.- sels celebrates his 93rd birthday on. Saturday, March 24th. A lifelong resident of this community, he farmed in Grey Township before retiring in, Brussels about 50 years ago. Mr. Davidson, who is in good, health, lives alone and cares for his home. He has been an avid gardener and still tends his rose bed. He retains an interest in community affairs and enjoys company and a game of euchre. There is a family of three daughters and three sons; Mrs. Fred (Agnes) Glassier, Mrs. Charles (Jean) Robinson of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Mrs. George (Gladys) Lcitt of Ottawa, Scott of Port Elgin , Charles of W Ingham and George of Brussels. He also has 18 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. Brussels resident to 'be 93 Saturday Storm disrupts telephone service A balance of $1200 was rea- lized from the Brussels Lions annual Polar Daize weekend, it was revealed when Hank Tenpas club treasurer presented a. finan- cial statement at a meeting Of the club in Melville Church. The occasion was the club annual farmers' night. Henry Exel, club president Board to consider Family Life program The Huron-Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board at its next meeting in. Seaforth on March 26 will be asked to vote, on whether or not to implement a program on Fami- ly Life Education in its 19 elemen- tary schools in Huron and Perth counties. Tuesday night at a special meeting at St. James School the nine-member subcommittee pre- sented the findings of the Family Life Advisory Committee, which has been studying the program since 1971, A favourable report was pre- sented by the enthusiastic sub- committee. The members of it are: two school board trustees, Francis Hicknell, R.R. 5, Sea- forth, and\ Vincent young, Goderich; Rev. H.J. Laragh, sea- forth, Sister MarySt. Louis, sea- forth; Mrs. John Walsh, Strat- ford; Mrs. Carl Dalton, R.R. 3, Goderich; Mrs. Patrick Glavin, R.R. 2, Crediton; Anthony Groenestege, R.R. 2, Gadshill; and Mrs. p. Perron, Zurich. Mrs. Florence Fleming, co- ordinator of the Family Life Pro- gram with the Waterloo' County Separate School Board, attended the meeting and spoke of the suc- cess of the program in the 445 schools in Which it has been started in her county. She of- fered Information and suggested guides for developing a suc- cessful program. expressed appreciation to all who had cooperated in making Polar Daize such a success. He re- ferred also to the visits which members, had made to- Barry Poole of Chatham, one of the snowmobile racers who had been injured and who had been a patient in Wingham hospital. A thank you letter was also 'acknowledged from Bob Blake. The club approved gifts as follows: $100 to the fair board; $20 to St. John's Anabulancedri- vers; $5 to each of the swimmers who braved the waters of the Maitland on polar Daize and $50 to the Farm Home for the Deaf. It was decided to continue with the Lions. Radio Bingos. Lion Bill Turnbull introduced the guest speaker, Jim McDonald, principal of the Centralia College. Mr. McDonald, a member of a trade delegation to China about a year ago, recalled details of his trip. He was impressed by no signs of malnutrition in the parts of China he visited. There was evidence of Communist pro- paganda on' billboards, and workers were goaded on to greater efforts by loudspeakers. A memorial to the famous Ca- nadian Dr. Bethune was visited. Many_ Of the houses in Peking were small, tile-roofed and open on a common courtyard, he sid. The horse is still-, a beast of burden with very few cars or internal cornbusion engines in evidence. When communists took over they had co-operative farms, then their present day communal farms. An interesting feature, he said, was force-feeding '.= ducks. A moist feed was spurted into the ducks four times a day by machine and this got them to market in sixty days. Cows .Rebekahs hold dessert euchre A pleasant social time was enjoyed by the ladies who atten- ded the Dessert Euchre held by Morning Star Rebekah Lodge in the IOOF Hall. Prize winners were: High, Mrs. James McDOnald; 2nd High, Mrs. Wm. Cardiff; Lucky Chair, Mrs. J. Yuill; Birthday on March 12th, Mrs. J. Hall. , • weren't as high producing - averaging about 10,000 lbs. per year, and were milked ten times a day to keep the people busy. Some . of their hogs had litters of 18-20 pigs. There are tremendous tracts of level land aroundPeking which hadbeen levelled by hand. The Chinese people, 75 - 80%- of whom live in rural areas, were very good hosts. They took the delegation to see • the Great Wall. On the way home the group visited a research sta- tion in the Philippines where they were working with improving va- rieties of rice, Lion Jan VanVliet thanked Mr. McDonald for his interesting talk and slides. Howick Mutual elects officers Howick Mutual Farmers' Fire Insurance Company elected a new slate of officers at its annual meeting in Gorrie. Officers elected were: presi- dent, Max Demary, Brussels; vice-president, Ronald McMi- chael, Wroxeter; assistant sec- retary-treasurer, Mrs. Joy (Continued on Page 6) Jr. Farmers plan meeting A total of 350 Junior Farmers from across Ontario will represent -over 7,000 mem- bers at the annual Junior Farmer Provincial Conference being held at the Inn on the park,- Toronto, from March 23 - 25. This year's conference is de- signed to help participants -be- come more aware of people in varied social situations on a personal basis. Part of the pro- gram will also involve delegates in determining the provincialJu- nior Farmer program for 1973. Attending from Huron county will be. Glen McNeil, R.R. # 6, Goderich of the Clinton club and Tom' Melody, R,R. # 2, Dublin, .Joanne Maloney, R.R. # 5, Sea- forth; Glenda Little, Seaforth; Connie Coutts, Walton; Of the S ea- forth club. Once again there have been irresponsible persons who haVe demonstrated their total dis- regard for public property. Pro- perty that has been provided, and improved, to provide an ex- cellent recreational area. The Brussels Community. Park, used extensively as a ball park during the season, has been ploughed up by a car, or cars, in the area of the outfield, as it was last year. A great deal of money, time, and labOur, has been ex- pended to provide facilities that give Brussels One of the finest ball parkS in the area, it is disgraceful that there are thOse who, apparently, take pleasure in deliberate damage. Those res- ponsible should be put to work getting it in shape again. ***** Vacation trite!' School is out Students can now' relax for a Week and renew their energy and depth Of COnteritratiOnfOr the StrentibuS studies ahead of thend in the final months of the term, Teachers can Cahn their. quiVer, ing nerves and regain their cool, heated to explosive degtee in the day4O-daY frirStratiOrit ex- periended by then, Some pareritS have gathered their young about them and taken off for a family vacation. • Older students have' taken off also, 'lint not for' family vacation you can bet. bated lovers are toing to have to cut doWn on the daily ConSiirtintiOri Of their favourite beverage Or hand oat more Motley int' it. The ptiod of dated, ive ' have heard,, iS about to take another juiuii. POlkatte inclined to grittrible at thepresentl5ceiits or tO cent Otte of .1' ,cup of defied at, piateeir They, no doubt, will soon have to • pay more . Why fuSs about it? If you do not like the price, so what? Water IS a better thirst. quencher anyway. . * * * * * The weekend storm cancelled a number of scheduled events, Among them was the Confittria- tion Service that was to have • .beeri held in St. John's Anglican Church, Brtiseels, on Sunday. Bishop H. Appleyard, of London, who was to confer the' Rite of Confirmation, was unable to make the trip here. The service was pOStponed until Friday of this Week at seven-thirty o'clock in the &ening. It is expected eleven personS will join. the Anglidan communion at, that service, two frOM the Blyth Anglican Church and nine from St. John's, BtrisSelS. ii**,*** Yen . never "realize how much you rely on. the telephone until that sometimes bothersome _ in- strument of communication ceases to function. Whatever did the tegabby"folk i who Spend hours gossiping with itiendt and neighbours, do over the weekend, Ord the no-talk-days. ,when the telephones Were' out service? Poor creatureil 'toy must have been reduced to otating at the idick,btik and finding their non-0081p days frustrating : as well as litieSditie4 'With* Canadian records-. Were set at the awing indoor track and field '6hodpiphAipit held in ,Quebec i Saturday and gunday. Out ithieteS are ton, otantly developing and iniptoving4 'The Canadian gtotipi selected SUMO evening,, will 111043t the Russians Id Montreal th4rtiditt night. .dotid Luck toot With thettil 44**,44 Rural lines of the Maitland Teleservices in Morris and Grey Townships were extensively da- maged in the weekend *storm of freezing rain, snow and high winds. C.L. Workman, manager of the maintenance department here, reported approximately150 telephones out of service and 80 poles down. - Maintenance crews were out during the storm, and since, struggling to repair damaged lines and restore service as quickly as possible. Many sub- scribers were still without ser- vice on Monday. The Village of Brussels was not affected. There were some hydro dis, ruption in local rural areas for short periods of time, but no- thing extensive was reported. Breaks arm Frank Alcock of Brussels, an employee of the maintenance :crew of Maitland Teleservices Ltd., had the misfortune to suf- .fer a broken right arm. • The accident happened -on Saturday when he was operating a digger while working on repair of telephone lines damaged by the storm.