Times-Advocate, 1986-04-09, Page 27STEPHEN SCIENCE WINNERS — Wanda Turnbull and John Paul Maurer are shown with their winning
projects in the recent Science Fair at Stephen Central School. T -A photo
He once said he was Canada's
ugliest politician. At one time, he was
credited with bringing at least 15
rural seats into the Liberal fold as
minister of agriculture.
He is, well, not ugly but he would
have trouble winning any kind of
beauty award. In his early years as
a Cabinet minister, he commanded
considerable respect. He had a great
deal of clout. In later years as
Trudeaumania waned, he was, in the
end, virtually ignored by his prime
minister and the Cabinet.
He is still stumping this country
calling Canadians names because
people are still starving.
He is Eugene Whelan and he can
still talk the leg off a mule when he
parks himself behind a podium.
"Really, we are more barbaric than
ever before," he says. "There's
enough food in the world to feed seven
billion people if there was proper
distribution, yet a third of the world
population remains needy.
"We're the most scientific,
educated barbarians the world has
ever seen."
He is right. Between 13 million and
18 million people die every year from
hunger and starvation.
Every 24 hours, 35,000 people die
from hunger, 24 every minute of the
day. Of that 24, 18 are children.
More people have died of hunger in
the last five years than have been kill-
ed in all the wars, revolutions and
murders in the last 150 years.
And that includes the two World
Wars, the Boer War and the
American Civil War.
Eugene Whelan has' been in the
forefront of the fight against hunger
for 15 years. He tried to get Canada
to give more to foreign aid but "I fail-
ed," he said in Ottawa recently. "I
must have failed or else that terrible
tragedy in Ethiopia would never have
happened."
He warned the world in 1983 that the
African desert was advancing and
there would be a massive disaster. In
1974, Henry Kissinger promised that
in 10 years, no man or woman would
need to go to bed hungry.
"We could have done it," Whelan
maintains to this day, but instead the
money went into armaments "We're
a bunch of hypocrites. We will some-
day reap the benefits of those
actions."
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And what is Eugene Whelan doing
about it?
Althbugh he talks a great deal, he.
is still putting money where his mouth
is. He is now president of an organiza-
tion called Agricultural International
Development Associates of Canada.
Ten shareholders in the company
have contributed $18,000 each. He
wants another 15 investors. He -hopes
to be back helping third world coun-
tries battle hunger by developing
their own farming abilities. He and
his associates will be trying to help
starving nations help themselves.
"If we don't,they'll always be the
world's basket cases. It's as simple as
that," says Whelan. "This company
won't be ripping anybody off."
Whelan has thousands of friends in
the agricultural community. He
garnered tremendous respect when
he was agricultural minister. He has
people of many political stripes who
respect him for his blunt honesty. If
anyone can get a company together
to help the third world, it is Eugene
Whelan. He was president of the
World Food Council in 1984 and 1985.
He knows agriculture and can spot
trouble in the making.
I wish him all the success in the
world in his new venture.
I only wish I could spare $18,000 to
become an active associate in his
company. The money will be spent in
the proper places, I'm sure.
Times-Advucutu, April 9, 1986
Page 1 5A
Centralia College grad
wins chamber's award
firmlyy committed to the business
of .tarmhtg and well known for his
work in various agricultural
orgaplsxtioas;Denfield area farmer
BevBhipky was for his ef-
forts and dedication last week when
he • was presented with the 1886
'Farmer of the Year" award by the
London Chamber of Commerce.
Given annually to • a Middlesex
County farmer who is judged to be
outstanding in his farming practices
and contributions to the community,
the award originated over nine years
ago as a result of the chamber's at-
tempts to bridge the 'rural -urban gap'
and recognize excellence within the
farming sector. One of five nominees
this year, Shipley was sponsored by
Lobo Township Council.
A Centralia College graduate, the
Denfield farmer currently runs a
dairy and cash crop operation, call-
ed Greystead Farms, on the site
which his ancestors settled several
generations ago.
Shipley became a full-fledged'part-
ner with his father in 1969 and later
took over the operation in 1976. Over
the years, he has gradually expand-
ed Greystead's initial land base of 150
acres to the current total of 700 (100 of
which are on a long-term lease).
A true conservationist at heart, the
Lobo Townshipo farmer has installed
many erosion control measures on his
farms, including windbreaks and
grassed waterways. He also started
a reforeatraUon project on two of his -
farms and installed a new liquid
manure storage system in 1982 in an
effort to control environmental pollu-
tion. The ear -1 ' : hot'•' : s stem
allows him to spread manure at op-
timum times, when the soil is dry.
"We've got to be concerned about
the conservation practices because
we harvest the soil to its maximum,"
he explains.
The farmer also has numerous
agricultural organizations to his
credit. He is a member of the Mid-
dlesex Milk Committee, a delegate ten
the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement
Corporation, a member of the Ilder-
ton Agricultural Society, and a direc-
tor of the Middlesex,Federation of
Agriculture. He is also part chairman
Two district men
on wheat executive
Directors of the Ontario Wheat Pro-.
ducers' Marketing Board elected
Edgar Walcarius of RR 6 Aylmer, as
chairman of the local board for the
coming year.
The announcement was made
following the board's inaugural.
meeting held in Toronto, at which
time the complete slate of local board
officers were elected.
Glen Miller of RR 3 Parkhill was
elected as first vice chairman of the
local board, and Dave Alderman of
RR 1 Inwood, was !ected as second
vice chairman. Newly elected to the
executive committee was Jack
Campbell, as fifth man on the com-
mittee. Robert Holmes of RR 2 St.
Pauls, as immediate past chairman
of the local board rounds out the five
man executive of the ten man board.
Following the local board's, in-
augural minting, local board chair-
man. Edgar Walcarius advised that
ijpproximately 91 percent of the 1985
soft white winter wheat crop has been
*old. In summary, the chairman
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released the following crop sales to
date.
Producer sales to the marketing
board to the end of March, total
898,870 tonne. Board sales for
domestic human consumption pur-
chases total 223,636 tonne; seed sales
total 14,880 tonne; feed sales total
43,123 tonne; export sales complete
total 536,912 tonne; export sales in-
complete are 363 tonne; stock unsold
are 79,815 tonne.
Producers delivering soft white
winter wheat to the Class A pool have
received an initial payment in the
amount of $120.00 per tonne, or $3.25
per bushel.
Producer sales of red wheat to the
Class B pool total 6,428 tonne. Pro-
ducers delivering to this pool have
received an initial payment of $120.00
per tonneplus an interim payment of
$44.00 per tonne, for a total to date of
$164.00 per tonne, or $4.46 per bushel.
Producer sales of utility wheat to
the C1ass&pool1ota1+08 tonne: Pro-
ducers delivering to this pool receiv-
ed an initial payment of $120.00 per
tonne, or $3.25 per bushel.
and member of the Centralia College
Advisory Committee.
At home, he,afd his wife Barb re-
main busy raising their three
children,Barb,who plays a supportive
role in the operation, is also active in
off -farm agricultural related ac-
tivities. A secondary school !lesion of-
ficer for Centralia College during the
fall, she is also a co-ordinator for Mid-
dlesex County's human relations and
the rural family' course, which she
enjoys very much.
One of her biggest concerns is the
current economic status of the farm-
ing sector and the resulting stresses
and uncertainties from which farm
families are suffering. "Yields are go-
ing up, costs are going up and yet
we're getting paid less. We're very
fortunate we hive the dairy base, but
as far as the cash crop, it's really
touch and go." Even with good
management practices and careful
tnonitorization, some farmers may
still end up with problems, she says.
Bev is in agreement. "We made a
commitment through the vocation of
farming to produce and supply food,
but 1 don't think we should be ex-
pected to do it at a loss," he notes.
Steadily declining commodity
prices, couples with increasing costs,
make him cautious about the future
of the industry and he is disturbed by
the fact that a turnaround may not be
in sight until 1988 or 1989. "I just wish
the' turnaround would come a little
sooner because I'm afraid there's go-
ing to be clot of good farmers out (of
business) by then... I don't think
we've seen the worse yet, I think this
year is going to be the cruncher."
He says he is also concerned about
lack of food other countries are fac-
ed with because their governments
can't afford to purchase the surpluses
produced in North America.
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