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Junior Institute
Appoint Executive
The Lucknow Junior. Women's
Institute met in the Town Hall on' '
January 20 at 8 p.m, for, the first .
meeting of the., new, year. The
meeting was opened with the Ode
and Mary Stewart Collect. Nancy
Brown read the minutes of the last
meeting, Each girl answered the
roll call which was, the paying of
membership fees. •
The tielk executive for the new
year was, appointed: president,
June Alton; vice president, Nancy
Brown; secretary treasurer, Dean-
ne Reavie; public relations, Eliza-
beth Ritchie.
Mary Nelson demonstrated how
to make Lasagna-"While Ruth and
Grace Alton deincinstrated how to
make rolls, then all sampled them.
The next institute meeting will be
held pn February 17 at 8p.m. in the, • town Hall.
Woodlot
Improvement
Increases Profits
A. properly managed farm wood-
lot will furnish a convenient and
economical supply of timber, fuel
and fence posts for home consump-
tion 'and, at intervals, will yield
valuable sawlogs and veneer logs
for market. Farm woodlots will
produce much valuable material
.without improvement work, but
there will also be many undesir-
able, crooked and defective trees of
little value that could have 'been
• eliminated More efficient. man-
agement ormany of these woodlots
could double or triple the value of
their output. •
The majority of farm woodlots in
Southern Ontario are in need ,of
some type of improvement work.
Instead of being * left to grow
untended, young second-growth
woodlots may be treated to, prolIticil
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slo YEARS AGO ,30 YEARS AGO ( • Brian is ashy 12-year--old with, brown hair and blue eyes, He is
healthy and stockily'built, wearing glasses for near-sightedness.
His background is. French Canadian.
Brian is small for his age and below average mentally, so he
seems much younger. He gets on well with children either
youngeror older but is not happy in 'his own'age group because ,
he canndt compete with them., He is in special education and will
never be able to handle academic subjects: He will probably
need a sheltered: orkshop setting.:when growaiip. .
Meantime Brian is happy: friendly, good-natured and- co-
, operative. He likes to be helpful and is dependable abotit doing
chores. He likes to be outdoors and enjoys camping, swimming
and riding his. bike.
Brian 'needs a family who will love him for his sweet nature
and will berealistic about his limitations. Other children, either
older or younger, will be:an, asset in Brian's adoption home.
To inquire About adopting 'Brian, please write -to Today's
Child; Ministry of Community & Social Services, Box 888,
Station K, Toronto M4P 2112. In your letter tell something of your
• present family aid your way of life.
. For general° adoption information, contact 'your local .
Children's Aid
HELPFUL AND DEPENDABLE.
WRITECHURCH
The annual' meeting of Chaim-
er's Presbyterian Chifich is sched-
uled to be held this Friday evening
in tlieSunday School room at 8.30.
All members and /adherents are
urged to attend this meeting.
The Y.P.S. were unable to -attend
the Youth Service gat the Christian
Reformed Church due to weather
conditions.
' • By G. Austin
The following is part of the' talk
given, to the. National. Farmers
Union convention' in Edmonton in.
De,cember by Larry Pratt, author of
a book ''Tarsands''i , • •
"We hate not seen the worst of
the .energy. crises in Canada yet. •
Here are some of the things that 1 -
that all ' Of us - Consumers,
producers, city dwellers, farmers -
are going to have to live with,
rently in the' very near future,
1) Canada's ability , to produce
tide oil' is . rapidly. declining.
T at's why we have cut back our oil
exports to U.S. There 'is no way we
can make up the coming gap
between our 'growing ,demand and
our failing supply - except through
increased imports' of offshore oil.
This will probably mean a rather
serious imbalance of payments
problem; come 'the 1980's.
t •
(2) Unless we stop or decrease
our , exports of natural I,gas to the
U.S. 'in the very near ,future
dramatically increase' production
and, deliveraility from Alberta
(and we are being told we can't do
either) then Eastern Canadian are
apparently going to suffer 'gas
shortages in the next, 'couple of
years. Government's solution to
this is to build the pipeline.
(3) Ouroil and gas prices are rising
very, very quickly, and they will
continue to do so until they have
reached the equivalent level of
international- oil. Gasoline ' will
soon. (2 'years) be $1 - $1.25 a
gallon, and the costs of heating a
biome with' gas or •fuel oil will
probably increase another 30% or
more, thus Canadians_ could face
rationing.,
(4) If:Creased "hidden exports". of
energy through huge petreleum
devetoptients, increasing pro due-
top of ammonia, methanol, etc.
(5) Increasing amounts of capital,
both private arid public are going to
be poured into the development of
new energy supply - up to $100 b.
in the next 10 years according to
some "estimates.
We all have a good, idea of Who
will ultimately pay the very high
cost of energy development. The
oil •industry wants capital ; but it
ago wants proteetion 'against risks.-
That is why we have Syncrude - a
$2 billion dollar white elephant in
which the federal government is
subsidizing the oil companies and
the province 'of Alberta to the tune
of hundreds of millions of our
dollars. . Alberta carries the
enormous burden of building the
highways, etc. in which the oil
companies end up with 70% of the
ownership in' return for 30% of the
capital costs."
JANUARY 1966
The livardenship of the County of
Bruce,, the highest honotir
county , government, came to Kin
'loss Township for the first time in
54 years. Reeve P. A. Murray 'took
the honours at the opening , of
county council: 'It was in 1912 that
the, late Dan MacDoriald last
brought the wardenship, to. Kinloss
Township. Mr. Murray's Municip-
al service in Kinloss had a record of
councillor from 1943 to 1946 and
again from 1951 to 1957. He'
became Reeve in' 1962 and was
starting his fifth term.
Noel Mason, vice-principal of a
District High School at Keznptville,
was engaged as principal of
Lucknow District High School with
duties to commence next term. He
Was succeeding L E. Goyette who
had accepteda position as principal
of a new composite school at
Kingsville. ,
J. R. Lane, a resident of Kinloss
Township for most of his life and a
servant of ther,,municipality for 33
years, as clerk , observed his 91st
birthday on January 26th.
more high-quality wood 'mere—
quickly for higher profits. The,
most ' important treatment in a
young woodlot is. a thinning • when
the trees are four, to 'ten inches in
diameter and 30.to 60 years of age.
Thinning is. done by cutting ,or
b
girdling low-value trees to s•tituu-
ate the growth of the reiviaintag
trees arid to improve the quality.
and composition of the, woodiot.
Thinning the young forest may be
compared to weeding a garden in
that the production of wood is
concentrated on the most valuable
trees. •
Older woodlots will benefit if the
less- valuable species and The
leaning, twisted,rbranchy, crooked,
diseased and over-mature trees are
removed. There is a. great
difference in the commercial value
of the different species, those "of+
least commercial value being
known .as "weed trees". These
"weed" species will never grow
into good-quality timber and
should be removed as early as
possible. ImProvement ,work in
such older woodlots may still be
carried out at a profit if the trees
are big enough.
To assist woodlot owners in the
most efficient management of their
woodlots, , Ministry of. Natural
ResourceS staff will inspect a
woodlot on the owner's' request to
advise on management techniques.
Of even more impOrtanCe, the
Woodlands Improvement Act auth-
orizes the ,Ministry to' enter into
agreements with woodlot owners
under which woodland improve-
ment work may be done free of
charge by the Ministry. All owners
of five or more acres of woodland
qualify for woodland improvement
assistance if the woodlot is
approved as suitable for forestry
purposes. The Ministry of Natural
Resources provides the labour and
Supervision to do the actual
thinning of young woodlots or
girdling of undesirablecull trees in
older woodlots at no cost to the
owner. The responsibility of the
landowner is to protect the woodlot
from grazing and fire and to report
significant insect or disease dam-
age to the Ministry office. . The
agreement extends -for a period of
„fifteen years in most cases and, if
the land is sold, the a.greement can *
be assumed by the new owner for
the balance of the fifteen year
JANUARY 1946
The forecast.that the 1946 Bruce
County •Warcienship contest would
be a close battle, proved very true,
The winner, Was Reeve Kenzie
Foster of Bruce Township, who had
a scant two-vote edge Over Reeve
Richard Elliott of Kinloss. The
final battle was Foster 16, Elliott
14, with two members absent when
the vote was taken. •
Ashfield ratepayers in the West-
em .Division of Ashfield had but
two, more payments to make to
retire the debt of the ill-fated West
Shore ttailway, on which they had
been paying a levy, of approximate-
ley five mills for forty years. The
right of , way was sold to the
Province and Ashaelci share of this
sale was $1988.40. Ashfield's
share of the indebtedness Of this
venture,that ended so disastrously
was $125,000. Throughout these
years this, railway debt meant on
the 'average 100-acre farm an •
annual • levy of aPprOximately
$20.00.
50 YEARS AGO r,
JANUARY 1926
The following rates were in effect
at the locat 'exchange of the Bell
Telephone Company - Business
Service, individual .1jue, $2.05 per
Month, 2-'limey, $1.85; residence
service; individUai line $2.05,
2:party, $1;05. The company' was
asking the approval of a proposed
rate for' business service of $2.50•
and $2.00.
Arrangements were underway
,for the paving of the following
streets in Lucknow: Campbell
Street;.:,, Stauffer. Street and Ross
Street. Additional work of Have- •
lock Street leading to the C.N.R.
Station was 'being completed mak-
ing it a"high-class gravel road".
period.
Any woodlot owner interested'in
details of this assistance is invited
to contact the Ministry of Natural
Resources office. at VVingham. The
Winghain District includes Huron
and Perth Counties as well as
Huron, KinlosS, Culross, , arid
Carrick Townships in Bruce County
and MintO Township in Wellington,
County.
, The High and Public School
pupils on Monday enjoyed a
holiday, from school due to icy road
conditions and , fog. .This situation
was the same in many 'counties.
CURRENT ISSUE
For our sports-minded fang
basketball has now succeeded
football as the most important
thing in the' world.