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Myth Ontario. 18t Corner t asfi' of Blyth Elevator • Mill 523,%24. 5244241 Brussels Office Open Tuesdays & Fridays Phone 887-6663 Cattle higher, pigs steady at stockyards 12—THE BRUSSELS POST, OCTOBER12, 1977 The market at Brussels Stock- yards on Friday was active with all classes of fat cattle trading higher. Pigs were steady, There were 985 cattle and 1430 pigs on offer. CHOICE STEERS-$46.00 to $48.00 with sales to $49.00, GOOD STEERS-$44.00 to $46.00, FOUR STEERS consigned, by Robert Kreller of Fordwich " offering of 50 steers averaging $47,55, NINE STEERS consigned $44,00 withsales to $44,50. 29 heifers weighing Pioriugilds 809 pound, f averaging 1065 pounds topped McMichael of R. R. #2, Wroxeter pounds sold for $48.00. averaging' 8 the market at $49,00 with his averaging 1200 Pounds Sold for CHOICE HEIFERS-$42.00 to $43.50 and his overall average o: 1139 pounds selling for $48.25. by Ron Thompson of Bluevale GOOD HEIFERS-$40.00 to was $42.50, SEVENTEEN STEERS consigned averaging 1100 pounds sold for $42,00. FOUR HEIFERS CHOICE COWS-$26.00 t( by Jacob. Wallenstein, • averaging 1123 A STEER consigned by J pounds sold for $47.90 with his 40 & M Ranch of Brussels weighing sold for $44.50 with his 24 heifers Brussels averaging 987 pounds GOOD COWS-$24.00 to $26.00 $C1UT.0T0E toR AND CANNER COWS Visseher of R. R. #2, $47,00. consigned by George Blake' of $28.00 with sales to $31,7s steers averaging 1123 pounds 1210 pounds sold for $48.25. A averaging 943 pounds selling for 9 selling for $47.25. SIXTEEN STEER consigned by Murray $43.80. A HEIFER consigned by BULLS traded to a high o STEERS consigned by Andy Bray of Wroxeter weighing 1390 Bob McDonald of Brussels $36.00. weighing 910 pounds, sold for Brussels Stockyards nex $44.50 with his package of twelve Stocker and Feeder Sale will b( black-white-faced heifers held on October 18. Ronnenberg's Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley Boy, I get sick of the news sometimes, don't you? Unemployment and inflation are up. Housing is scarce and mighty expensive. The idiots in Ulster are still blowing each'other up. The various pipeline debates go on and on. And everybody is scared stiff that Quebec will separate. Boring, boring, boring. It becomes difficult to remain a positive, concerned citizen of this country of ours when the daily news is nothing but bad. Madness and senseless violence and fear of involve- ment seem to be all about us. It's highly doubtful that any Canadian hockey club can beat the Russians. Toronto Argonauts and Toronto Blue Jays are the worst teams in their respective leagues. My friends are getting old and sick. I have to have a tooth extracted tomorrow. And the bricks on my house are crumbling, just like my teeth. Just try to keep a stiff upper lip when you haven't any teeth with which to stiffen it. ' Canadian women are living six and a half years more than Canadian men. Juvenile delinquency is increasing at the rate of 6.3 per cent annually. And my bursitis is playing hell with my shoulder. Taxes in Canada are higher than they are in Britain. Two guys trying to tly the Atlantic in a balloon ditched in the sea near Iceland. And some poor turkey, fishing in the 'Niagara River, was drowned when his tackle-box fell in and he jumped after it. He probably had a mickey of rye in it. Another big (really big) cabinet minister resigns from the government. George Chuvalo at .40, wants one last fight. A CBC drama shows Alberta and Ottawa getting a royal screwing from U.S.-based oil companies. And my wife wants to buy a whole lot of new furniture for the living room, despite the fact that the stuff we have is only 30 years old, and perfectly good, if you like leaning lamps and rump-spring chairs. We've got enough natural gas to last us for years, but we won't be able to afford it. The weather is absolutely rotten. So is my car, which is about to disintegrate in a cloud of rust-dust, should anyone give it a kick. In Quebec, the English-speaking are taking a hosing, while in the rest of the country, arious guys called Goyer, Chretien, Lalonde 'aid Trudeau are telling us what to think. And never did get the stain on my picnic table. Nothing much wrong with the big banks, of nurse. There never is. Why, one of them has lashed its interest rate on loans for new cars s ism 13.5 to 12.5 interest. Quelle 'nevolencel Who needs it when the price of cars has gone up about six per cent? if you see a car going by you some time in the next year, and a body falls through the bottom, that'll be me, running my old car until it disintegrates. However, there's an out. I can buy a Turbo Commander executive jet that will Fly Above The WEather, for only $160,000. Trade or finance. I think: I might have to finance that one. Ottawa recently floated a bond issue of one billion dollars with remarkable ease. Authorities are "enthralled" with the ease with which the bonds were sold. Why not, they say, cut personal taxes and cover the enlarged deficit with' increased borroWing? Why not, indeed? They only have a debt now of six and a half billion dollars. Peanuts. What in the name of all that is weird has happened to this country in the last three decades? We came out of World War II with a proud war record and fourth in the world in gross national product. We have a surging economy, a vibrant industrial health, and all those natural resources. We were united and free and strong. The future was rosy. , Thirty, odd years later, we can't sell our products because our prices are too high. We have one of the worst records in the world for industrial and civil strikes. Our postal system is rotten. Our railways don't carry passengers. Factories are closing down right and left. The Maritimes are a disaster area. And Quebec is • practically dictating •its own terms, with a shattered Dominion in the offing. Maybe we came too quickly out 'of the national short pants and into the overalls. Maybe we got greedy and lazy and soft. Maybe we had third-rate leadership that sold out our water and our energy and out other natural resources for interim political prestige. Whatever happened, we have something very close to a national disaster on our hands. Our dollars are weak. Our young people have little faith in the future. Our middle-aged are suspicious and cynical. Our system is riddled with the worst aspects of bureaucracy: Thirty years ago, I'd have said to any of my many friends from the Commonwealth: Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Rhodesia, "Come to Canada; that's where the future is; greatest country in the world." I'd have difficulty in pronouncing those' words today. I could say we have ,the best' unemployment premiums in the world, great health plans. But there's not much room here now to build a future. Pity. INSURANCE OFFICE, BRUSSELS .TRUST CERTIFICATES Now Paying 2 for 5 years Monkton Office Open Monday thru Saturday Phone 347-2241 4 4.0.4,,VMA111,41.