The Rural Voice, 1978-06, Page 20Award will encourage
farm journalists
A new award at the University of Guelph
to encourage farm broadcasters and
journalists will also honor one of Canada's
best known agricultural communicators.
The Roy Jewell Award of $500 will be
offered annually to a graduating student
who has shown a high degree of interest
and excellence in studies related to
agricultural communication and extension.
The scholarship arises from a fund
established to honor the retirement of Roy
Jewell from his position Is farm director of
CFPL radio and CFPL-TV in London. Roy
Jewell began his journalistic career in 1948
as director of farm services for the London
Free Press and radio station CFPL. In
1953, he began the first regularly
scheduled farm television program in
Canada. He lived until recently on the
family farm not far from London.
Roy Jewell has consistently brought to
his broadcasting and journalistic assign-
ments a discerning mind and a keen sense
of interpretation. As a result, he has been
most useful to his rural audience. At the
same time, he has been able to interpret
the problems and needs of the rural
community in a clear and concise way to
his urban audience. In 1974 he was a
recipient of the OAC Centennial Medal in
recognition of his services to the farm
community.
It is the hope of the trustees of the Roy
Jewell Fund that the new award will
provide additional incentive for students to
undertake courses of study relative to the
field of mass communication and to follow
it as a career.
Plant research aided
at U. of Guelph
There are many ways in which the
pragmatist can see benefit in university
research, and not the least of these is the
annual catalogue of germ plasm releases
from the University of Guelph's depart-
ment of crop science. In layman's terms,
the publication lists plant materials
developed through OMAF funded research
which are potentially valuable in plant
breeding programs or genetic studies.
The materials are provided free of
charge to breeders who feel they can use
University developed germ plasm (i.e.
lines, clones, segregating populations,
mutants, etc.) to produce cultivars of
breeding lines. Virtually every public and
private breeder in Canada has received
material from the department, says
Professor Lynn Kannenberg. Like its four
predecessors, the 1978 catalogue will be
used regularly by plant breeders in this
PG. 20. THE RURAL VOICE/JUNE 1978.
country, the northern United States and
many European countries with similar
climates. The species included are spring
and winter barley, oats. winter wheat and
corn.
Copies of the 1978 catalogue of germ
plasm releases are available from the
Chairman, department of crop science.
University of Guelph.
Goderich port could be
used for CIDA corn
shipments
The Canadian International Develop-
ment Agency (CIDA) could use the
Goderich harbour facilities to ship grain
overseas in the future.
A tour of the Goderich facilities was
undertaken last month by CIDA officials to
familiarize them with the terminal in case
the harbour should be called into use at a
later date.
Similar tours were planned at Sarnia.
Windsor and Port Colborne, according to
Ken Patterson, chairman of the Ontario
Grain Corn Council who said the tours were
set up to promote Ontario corn and the
grain handling facilities on the Great
Lakes. In future, he said, Great Lakes ports
may be used more instead of Montreal
where the bulk of the current shipments for
CIDA take place. He said that $S million
worth of corn was shipped to developing
countries.
The biggest advantage of the Great
Lakes ports for shipment of corn is that is is
close to the growing areas meaning less
handling and better quality food
Rabies rate rises
in Huron
An increase in the incidence of rabies in
Huron county has led to 10 people having
to undergo rabies treatment.
During the first four months of this year
15 cases of rabies have been diagnosed in
animals. Five cattle have come in contact
with the rabies virus as well as nine foxes
and one horse. It was the horse that caused
most of the problems for humans. Of the 10
people who took the 14 -shot treatment,
seven had been in contact with the horse.
Rabies is a virus that must get into the
blood stream in order to take effect. Any
open wound or cut when exposed to saliva
from a -rabid animal can become infected
and the virus can take from days to months
before symptoms appear.
The Huron County Health Unit is
encouraging owners to keep a careful
watch on their pets and to keep them
confined.
Signs to watch for in a rabid animal are
hard to pin down. Dr. Bill Thompson. of
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