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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1975-05-07, Page 7IS v.11 v- COMING time to order your Seed Grain Grass Seed and Fertilizer Requirements Flax seed also available We offer custom SEED CLEANING For further information eontaet 'TOPNOTCH FEEDS LIMITED Brussels 80-6011 The Mustard Report and proceding federal report will be discussed on May 1,4 at the Goderich Psychiatric Hospital. The • er,Hospital Co ordinating Committee of Huron and Perth have made arrangements for presentations concerning, the Federal paper on health of Canadians and Ontario Health Planning Task Force. A panel of local citizens will bring interest to the discussion with their comments. The Health Planning Task Force Report is of special interest in Huron and Perth. This report has been surrounded with controversy since its presentation. Polorization has materialized around the concepts of community medicine, and - the cost of health care. The present hospital-physician orientation of health delivery services ,is challenged in the "Mustard. Report", Knowing that interest will he high, accommodation for 150 . persons is planned. Registration is slated for 8:30 a.111. The two presentations and dinner will cost only four dollars. The featured speakers will be Dr. Humphries of St. Marys, a member of the Health Planning Task Force and Mrs. Brenda Wattle, editor- of Canada's Mental Health Magazine. It is to be trusted that the public will take advantage of this positive presentation and spirited discussion. Brussels Stockyard Report A heavy supply of cattle at Brussels Stockyards Friday sold actively with steers advancing $3.00 cwt higher. All classes of pigs sold on a strong demand. Choice Steers - 47.00 to 49.00 with sales to 49.20. Good Steers - 45.00 to 47.00. Seven Steers consigned by Underwood Farms of Wingham averaging 1230 lbs. sold fOr 49.20 with their offering of 24 steers averaging 1220 lbs. selling for an overall price of 48.50. Thirty-six steers consigned by K & L Beef Farms of Ethel averaging 1141 lbs. sold for 48.75. Twenty steers consigned by Earl Cox of R.R.2, Goderich averaging 1143 lbs. sold for 48.40.. A steer consigned by Harold Dickert of R.R.1, Gorrie, weighing 1210 lbs. sold for 48.25. Thirteen steers consigned by Earl Fitch of Wroxeter averaging 1109, lbs. sold for 48.00. Twelve Steers consigned by . Oscar Kieffer of R.1, • Bluevale, averaging 1197 lbs. sold for 47.75. Sixteen steers consigned by Charles Johnston of R.R.4, Wingham; aye-raging 1168 lbs. sold for 47.70. Choice Heifers - 43.00 to 45.00. Good Heifers - 40.00 to 42.0;0. Two heifers consigned by Jim Dewar of Atwood averaging 1025 lbs.. sold for 45.00. Eleven heifers consigned by Archie Walker of R.5, Brussels averaging 991 lbs. sold for 43.75. A- heifer consigned by John Andrew of Lucknovv weighing 1080 lbs. sold for..,43.75. Twelve heifers consigned by Doug. McPherson of Wingham averaging 903 lbs. sold for 43.49. Two heifers consigned by Neil Rintoul of Wingham averaging 875 lbs. sold for 43.00. ' Six heifers consigned by Harry Christie of Teewater averaging 968 lbs.. sold for 43.00. Fourteen heifers consigned by Norman Hoover of Brussels averaging 928 lbs. sold for 42.30. Choice Cows - 23.00 to 25.50 with sales to 28.00. r USE POST WANT-ADS DIAL 887-6641 MEM MOO ••••1 IMMO tHe BRUSSELS tiOtt MAY 1., itOt Mustard reppet meeting. planned Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley One of the things about modern society that bothers me, is • mouthy minorities attempting to impose their wishes on silent majorities. Another is the attempt by those who profess a profound belief in a vague concept called "progress" to find the common denominator in everything, and try to shove the rest of us in that direction. Sometimes I have a nightmare about the future. In it, I see• the entire earth populated by beings, no longer humans, who Tooke alike, talk alike, think alike, and even smell alike. Everyone will be a sort of creamy yellow brown in complexion. We'll all be the same 'height and weight. All individual anomalies such as hooked noses, buck teeth and jutting ears will have been eliminated. I wake up from this dream screaming,, at the point where I am just about to be told that we are all of the same sex. In the dream, everyone will speak the same language, some type of bastard speech like' Esperanto: Literature will be extinct, except for a few scholars studying its fossilized remnants. Shades of meaning will be lest. "I love you," "Je t'adore," and "Eu to amo," will all come out as "Yochamo" or something of the sort. the dream, there are no decisions to beinade, -because there will no longer be any difference between right and wrong, black and white,..good and evil. Television will tell us what to think, painlessly, and why. We will all smell alike - a subtle essence with traces of Chinese elm, Russian borscht, Congo musk and American b.s. We will all arise when the universal siren sounds. In unison, at the appointed moment, we will 'take our breakfast pill, our pep pill to get us going, our tranquilizer to slow us down for our lunch pill, another pep pill, a dinner pill, and at 2245 hours, we will simultaneously swallow our sleeping pills and become unconscious for six hours and forty-eight seconds. But each evening, before retiring, we will have our universal culture and recreation period. Something like counting our toes. It's only a nightmare, but each year that I live, the picture seems closer and clearer. One of these days I'm afraid I won't wake up. Two of the most recent steps by mouthy minorities and the people who cherish common denominators are the attempts at the forced application of Celsius temperatures and the metric system. Did anyone ask you if you, wanted to switch from Fahrenheit to Celsius? No. Did anyone ask me? No. Did anyone ask either of us if we wanted to "think metric"? Same answer. Y. Ron. William Stewart, nister of agriculture and food Id the annual meeting of the tatio Institute of Agrologists in niptville. According to • Mr. ewart, rational changes must be de if future generations Are to Ve access to prime land. Stewart was sympathetic to the blenis of small towns which tist -expand into agricultural d to attract indftatry. But he phatized that such progress at expense of food production bid not be tolerated. In accepting a life membership the Agriculture' Institute of nada, MC Stewart told the dience of 150 new demands uId be made on agrOlegiats. A P iri world food reserves in I am used to attempts to- brainwash me by • politicians, newspapers, experts, and my wife. That is what they are for, and at least I can fight back. • , But 1 deeply resent simply being told by some Ottawa ostriches and their stooges in the media that I must, willy-nilly, switch to Celsius thermometer and metric weights and measures, I am a reasonable man, I hope. If someone convinces me that something is for the common good, even though it inconveniences me, I'll go along with it. Example: at this very moment, the government is removing money from me, who has never been unemployed, and giving it to some lazy bum who wants not to work. This is known as unemployment insurance, In the same way I am helping subsidize other people's food, medical care, housing. Not a word of complaint. But what gets me is the arrogant attitude' that typifies those who espouse Celsius and metric.They do not present one valid (to me) reason for the changes. They say vaguely that everyone else is doing it. So what? If the latest fad is, joining the Flat Earth Society, must I become a member? If everyone else is picking his nose in public, does that mean that I should, too? Metric maniacs insist that metric is more accurate. More accurate than what? Is a thoUsandth of a centimeter more accurate than a thousandth of an inch? Of course not. It is merely shorter. Or longer. I'm not sure which, and I don't give a diddle. - Canadians, with their wild extremes of climate and vast expanse of geography, should battle this so-called . "progress" with every ounce of their strength. Yes, the word was "ounce." Do you realize that will soon be a dirty word, if the metric marauders have their way? Canada would lose its very flavor as nation should we allow this metric-Celsius pap to flow over us and flatten us into a dull facsimile of all those other dull nations. For .one thing, it would cripple our conversation, 60 per cent of which begins with a pseudo-complaint about the heat or the cold. It would destroy our idioms. Can you imagine our hero "centimetering" his way along the narrow ledge, rather than "inching"? "He's all wool and a meter wide" doesn't exactly stir me. Nor does, "Third down and a meter, 40 centimeters to go for Winnipeg." Well, the varmints haven't heard the last of me, This is only a skirmish, But I need reinforcements. Come on, all you thousands who deplore the change. Let's hear from you. Fire off a letter to your editor, for a start. Then we'll roll up the big guns. be brought into productivity in Northern Ontario. The report states that Ontario's Most productive foodland is located in areas of high poptila. tion. But because foodland priorities have been over. shadoWed by housing and indiis• try new policies Will have to be developed to minimize the loss. While acknowledging that Ontario grown food can be produced elsewhere, the report emphasizes the importance of being self-sufficient. It cites recent developments in the sugar industry as creating renwed interest in the production of sugar beets in Ontario. "The cutting off of soybean, even briefly, by the United States raised similar queStions," the report' says. evelopment on food land ust stop, Ag minister Ontario wil soon have to come 1973 had caused the public to look more than a million acres. The grips With the "sterile cap of on agriculture in a new light. solution could create considerably et. prime food land. higher food prices. Up to two plait and concrete" s reading To meet the uncertainties of the p future, Stewart suggested addi- million acres of foodland with a "We can't go on forever and a tional scientific training for agra. lower food potential may have to logiSts. He added that agrolo- gists would have to tackle distri- butler problems in agriculture soon and develop new crop varieties, Unless agrologists Continue to provide meaningful information to farriers he Said, they will not be fulfilling their role in society. One half of Canada's classi and one sixth of the class II agricul. hire land is in Ontario. Yet tWerity-five yearg from now Ontario will have difficulty being self-sufficient in foods which can be reasonably produced locally. According to a report by the Ontario Institute of Agrologists, even if productivity rises by 70 per cent Over the next 25 yearn, 'Ontario will have a Shortfall of