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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1976-01-28, Page 14C. F 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 k 3, Irt.44% • THE. AMCKNOW SENTINELI, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO .U. NEWS 0•••••••••••••••44•••••••O•••••OO.ONOO•oo“4444, LOOKING BACKWARDS. THROUGH THE SENTINEL FILES ' WITH MARGARET THOMPSON o•••••••••••••4•••••••••ii• ••••”•••••••••••••••11 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.