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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1974-07-18, Page 16u • r�ssroacJs Published every Wednesday as the big, action cross-country section in The Listowel Banner, The Wingham Advance -Times and The Mount Forest Confederate. Wenger Bros. Limited, publishers, Box 390, Wingham. Barry Wenger, Pres. Robert O. Wenger, Sec.-Treas. Display and Classified ad deadline— Tuesday, week prior to publication date. REPRESENTATIVES Canadian Community Newspapers Association, Suite 51. 2 Bioor St, West, Toronto 962-4000 Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc., 127 George St., Oakville 884-0184 atching W (Continued from page 1) The animal is tested by veteri- narians in its country then farm quarantined in Europe. If the quarantine is passed it is then • movedto an isolation quarantine station for about four months hi Brest, France. If this quarantine is passed and only one out of two pass it, the animal is then moved for another four month period to a Canadian quarantine station at Gross Isle or Saint Pierre - Miquelon, Upon release to the "farmer im- porter, he must provide six qua- rantine animals to be quaran- tined in a government approved facility for 90 days. All told, from the date of selec- tion to the final clearance and ac- ceptance onto the farm, the wait- ing period is in excess of one' year! The Canadian government charges between $2,000 and $3,000 for housing and feed. This works • out to about $2o per day. , Evtrn after having " gone through the red tape waiting the year or more and paying -.thou- sands of dollars, the breeder may come up with a non -breed thereby making the entire a tempt a great loss "It's frustrating, time-consum ing and expensive," says Mr Watson. Charles Watson stands side, sporting light, casua clothes to suit weather condi tions: 86 degrees and not a in the sky. Since the millionaire saw his opening about 25 ye ago there have been few cl blotting out his sunshine in term of financial and personal success He isn't that 13 -year-old ki walking the streets for a job any more, but he could be, except fo the set jaw, the gleaming eye, al most looking for the dare, the challenge and the excitement of starting out all over again. It was when he was a laborer that he met his wife, Ethel. He was nineteen when they married and, in 1942, served in the Armed Forces in Europe where he saw a Charolais for the .first time. He went into the war a private and- he "came out a private". After dethobilization he had made himself a personal vow, "No one was ever going to tell me This column is going to be a little tough to write. No, there hasn't been a death in the, family. Not quite. But I wasn't toe sure I wasn't going to. bleed to death (through the eyes) when I tottered out of bed at seven this morning just two hours after tottering into bed. at -Cha er, t- poo1- 1 cloud airs Duds s a r 1. CROSSWORD, , ACROSS. Y'r To mention 4 - Glide over a surface 7 - lit favor of 8 . Huge container JO - Invest With clothing 12 - TO transfer 13 - Poem 14 - 'she Bard' of ....^ 16 -Unit 17 - To exhort 19 - Mrs. Sheep 20 Warm up an . 21.Eengine s 23 - COmPkilte 26 instigates 29 - Mn age 30 - Vegetable 31 - Perceives 34 - Conteinere, 37 - Conceit 38 - Broadtait 39 - Largest Euro- pean' 42 Protect 44,- Tim pot, 46 - Performa 48 - Word element meaning "new" 49 - Prevaricated SO -Grating device 51- l?emals parent 52�• Beverage 531"- Profits 54 - Exhausts DOWN 1- Signal system 23 - Deveelop 4 - Pilfers 5 G l's name LIMO EBBE ami rLau@ E13B MUM! 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The next step was the presi- dency of his own agency in To- ronto while at the same time he was an executive with Crown Life. Real estate called him in 1959 andthe insurance business was left 'behind. His dream city,: •Peel Village, was assembled and the first homeowners moved in in 1961. Among other developments guided by his hand came It was all that reading brother-in.law, Jack brought along on a visit some high school football pieture kand we spent most of the night, harely stopping for food and drink deciphering the names under the photos. There we were, in the late 1930's, looking so . young.and sweet and innocent it would make your eyes water. One pick was headed: Undefeated Champiod of Lanark County. That was a great year eareckon. Come on, now. many of you have ever been ea a team of Undefeated Champion* of anything? We talked and laughed a rot.as we identified long forgotten faces and our wives muttered away contemptuously in the back- ground. They . thought we were behaving like a couple of school- boys. We were. Right in the middle of the front row, holding the ball, was Les Doug as, quarter -back and team captai . He wasn't a big guy, he was solid bone, muscle grit. He could always claw way that extra five inches f touchdown, through 600 pounds enemy flesh. He was a great hockey play too. Made it to professional. he was born 20 years too soo There were just too man, 6, Shoppers' World in Danforth and°hockey players in those days, a Shoppers' . World in Brampton. The latter consists of 100 stores covering 45 acres. But now, Charles Watson's • long,1 9 13111 Smiley n,... _4.[• * ... ..y., •° nil. ,•;_....: w. 4. _ _ 11 +' he d't quite make the l � , Jobiiny Hogg, A nice guy, who though cell, t{ he the , Ateen old Hockey. League In scoring "for several . may, he'd be knocking `about $60,000 a You. Flanking him in � the .were Bob White and Tom Harper. Tom could' run with the ball like a rabbit with six guys shooting at him. Bob !flute was my t friend.nd, through high school. He wasn't huge, either, but when we needed a few yards, there was no question Of who' would get the. ball. Bob ob would take a plunge at anything. the size of a doughnut. hole and always come up. with the necessary , yards. We all hated s chool,�except for the sports, but :Bob White was bright. Today, he'd be. going to college and becoming; an .engineer, or something equally useless. But in those days, there was no way. No students' loans, no grants, and dang few affluent parents. If you got a job in a factory you w - , I How , V +iucsy. but Last time ;I saw Bob was in and London, England, during the his war. It' was in the, lobby of the or a famous, or infamous, Strand of Palace. He was checking out, I was checking in. Hello and good - ex, bye. He had completed one tour But of operationsn bombers and n. was about to begin his second. On eat which h nd Beside Bob in the picture was THAttsago, both major parties have had the a chance to do something about o it. I begin to share your ome scepticism."to. • 0-.0.-p s.at Wfien'Moses declared the meatill of the pig unclean, he made a lawmain interests are his family, A, r►culturalEthel, Charles Jr, and Shirley15� his health and Wat-Cha Farms, - With time now to null thins WITH.AIIRIAN VOS over, is he sorry he didn't receive My city friend, Harry, said more formal education? In a other day to me that my son, wh way, he is, but formal education, wants to take over the farm s he feels, is not the be-all, end-all, day, is in a really good position It's just a nudge in the right .di- do so. "Listen to the politician rection, "to get the thinking pro- `ll parties are promising th cess going, but the real world still when they get the power they w has to be tackled:" , do something to make it easy He likes the attitude of most a young man to- start farming young people today. "They aren't he said. searching for new challenges be- It just so happened that I w cause they're rebels, but because reading the Canadian Country man of May, 1936. A M. Staples they're sophisticates, __and a wrote, "What hope is there .for• sophisticate to lne is one who am hi*, ems, ° intellectual cultural than the li poolroom bunt. Re dyed the violin. He olit d his subs. w .a lam, . good -1 lad, just the type you'd want for y �. self, thotO he had a distressing habit of p . crud punts. As 1 herd it.later,. the found: Johnny lye :in, a rubber dinghy the Mediterranean. Dead; He'd> b allot dpi, wounded,. per* ch y, and: uted; got into the. h died. Then there was Lea Morris, a boy with. a ` terrible; home life, a terrible,. birthmark, and a per- sonality to go with both. But be was •also a terrible, terrifying tackler, who could hit a fancy- dancy halfback :so' hard that the guy didn't know he'd been ampu- tated at the knees until he tried to stand up. And Norm Davis, He had the speed of a gazelle, and -the grace of a gnu.. He didn't come back from the war either. There were quite a few more, but Old Jack, my brother-in-law and myself, didn't belabour the tragic theme. We laughed until we were purple in the .face at all the things. we had got away with, not all the things that :had., got away with so many of us. It was also nice to see , our ceaches, Earl Fleming, teacher; such a handsome young man I can't believe we called him ,"Old Flem." J. C. Cosgrove, 248 pounds of science teacher who could wipe two recalcitrant stu- dents off their stools with one hand as easily as.I could wipe the dust off the` window -sill, if such a illy thing ever_ occurred to me. As you can see, this has been a and column to write. And P a mighty difficult one to read. for that has its repercussions today. ," Many old wives' tales , derive from this law.. There is still as another part of the Bible that - does have a bearing on today's farmers' image. The same Mr. a Staples from the Canadian Lal Countryman quotes from the d isest man who ever lived, answer t. jomon. The 38th • chapter of t Ecclesiasticus, verse 25, "How can • he get wisdom who holdeth a the plow, that glories in the goad, • 1 y 'des of ' ng ma =wl ° IkAkirdcani �1 a d`f eye lkx acs 4 :.,� Chir '• j `coni• 'sa. s �' '� Q 3oµ1 *Pflug.Ther must be that under presen could have told me the world was flat when I was 19 and Y would conditions there\ is little. Nowa have believed it. But you don't days a farmer must have B.,S. youngsters today like that." Somehow it's hard to imagine that anyone ever B.S.'d Charles Watsdn Sr. And, even if he had ' believed the world was flat, you get the distinct impression that, one way or another, he would have made money out of it. YOU CAN RX4T Dy Gena V o, ) s;;;2i Screwdriver Care When a screwdriver blade be- gins to wear it tends to slip out of the screw slots easily, which makes itt difficult to tighten screws se urely, and it chews up the heads of tightly seated screws which must be Loosened. To pre- vent this, dress up the blade tip of your screwdriver occasionally by stroking it with a flat file to eli- minate rounded edges and to make the end blunt once more. Be careful to maintain the ori- ginal bevel of the side faces, and file across the tip at right angles so as to keep the blade end square. considerable cash income from his operation. By no other means can he pay taxes, professional services, procure clothing and groceries, machinery, feed, seed, building and fence repairs and all the other host of items,that enter into farm necessaries." I could keep on quoting and it could as well have been written today about mortgages and farm credit, interest, etc. So I told. Harry all this and asked him if he still had so much confidence in, promises made during an, e- lection campaign. "Well," he said, "if that problem, already existed 38 years that drives oxen and is occupied. in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks? He gives his mind to making .furrows and is diligent to give the cattle fodder. Such shall not be sought for in the public council norit high in the congre- gation; they shall not sit on the judges' seat nor understand the sentence of judgment; they can- not declare justice and judg- ment ; udg-ment; and they shall not be found where parables are spoken." In other words: The farmer is no more than a rather stupid hayseed. I wonder what the secret opinion is of many city people today. —stereos —televisions. -tapes —earphones —accordions II I MAY The Gift of Music... —drums —tambourines —records —radios Rutiedge t\ GUELPH ST. 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