The Goderich Signal-Star, 1956-12-13, Page 41,7
Annu.t Meeting Of Locals 'Cancer
Society ReyeaIs Good Work Done'
Th -6 dtritl eetii Z tlae flo'cal for io>i a lineal reheat.
omfi t tote Canodion cancer Wee. pews convener, re -
Sloe; e t 3 heZtl at 4YIacltay Iotrol ported cin nears item's 'and notices
y giv;&l to 'lard aaad district papers
1 t t Week ',with a guod attendance since October., Dlr. R. Sperling re -
Lid Mr., R. Slaerling, president, ported on his attendance along
( with several other members to the
eonfei'exee- lieH- iii Listowet fn
The see retwry's and treasurer's November. He ,pointed out that
Kelteete were given 'by bliss +'ve1'n the annual unit 'meeting is 'to be
COcoper, 911r. 'rest Sturdy, chair- held in Clinton on Thursday,
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fff the, education committee, January 24. Mrs John Stratton,
lieFecd -tile representatives of organ - of Stratford, the former executive
ti:Omas to have IItms shown to secretary of the Ontario division
'M groin early in the new of the ,Canadian Cancer Society,
year. The women's service com- t gave an informative talk ori the
.tette report NINAs given by Mrs.' work of the Ontario division from
con. r•aechier, This committee its board to its conunittees oo,t-
PX vided timnsportation for pat -lining the duties of each.
leets Ageing to the London Clinic t Mrs. A. 1VI, Harper thanked the
46 car; on six occasions, with a I guest speaker for her irtstructive
;Went receiving ambulance trans -address. Each committee chair-
portation three times. The com- I man gave a comprehensive report
atteo trade regular visits to pat -on their year's work surruning up
urns at ioetne and hospitalized, , the work of the local ,branch in
giving each a small gift. Through the past year. Mr. John Stratton,
Ie Society, this committee was president of the Perth -Huron Unit,
able to provide a wheel chair spoke briefly, praising the local
• and dressings for another patient. branch for the good work it was
Volunteerblood donors were ap-' doing and thanked the president
preeiat d for a series of transfus- and members for their loyal sup-
port of the unit.' 1V Ir. Sperling
- - voiced his appreciation to the of-
fi,cers, committee chairman and
members for their splendid co -
i' _ ' . • operation in the past year. lYIrs.
Geo. MacEwan presented the re -
part of nominating committee, fol-
lowed by election of officers as
follows: president, R. Sperling; 1st
vice-president, E. Crawford; 2nd
vice president, Ed. Stile; 3rd vice-
president, Floyd Lodge; secretary,
Miss Evelyn Cooper; treasurer,
Mrs. A. ,M. Harper.
The meeting was brought to a
close with Mrs. Geo. MacEwan and
her committee serving a cup of
tea.
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The Farmer And
Price Of Bread
A brief story appeared in the
Signal -Star some time ago telling
of the increase in bread prices in
Goderich in common with other.
places in the province. The article
was -reprinted in The Huron Ex-
positor of Seafortli and was notic-
ed by a Toronto resident.
This resulted in the Toronto
resident (Farmer "John") writing
the 'following letter to The Huron
Expositor:
Editor; The Huron Expositor:,
Dear Sir,—That item in your
feature column ("Seen in the Coun-
ty Papers") in winch your Gode-
rich contemporary deals with the
price of bread, and that "some of
the larger bread companies have
announced an increase in price
of one cent per loaf," caught the
reader's more than casual inter-
est. •It tempts me -to senid along a
V'L`?t►°iTt_ or two, whip T i hoping;
may be considered constructive
THE GODERICH I • STAR
laappeIInt3g to tole' pee° Caliaadian
urbeet, the above trend reminded
ails reader e2 the wide gap 'be-
tween ghat the farmer gets for
his 60 pounds of quality wheat anal
whet the final consumer paye for
the loaf in town and elty. As
recently as 1949, for example, I
se -e the folltrwing reference to
"Bread Malting" in an authorita-
tive pamphlet titled, "The Story
of Wheat": "While wheat flour is
the main constitueet ie bread, its
enst is a comparatively small item
in the loaf as deliverer) to the
final buyer. On the average, 2'»i
bushels of wheat will make 143
pounds 'b{ abretd. The delivered
prive of bread in the average Can-
adian city is now 14 cents for a
20 -ounce loaf. With the price of
wheat at $2.05 a bushel, the value
of the wheat in a 20 -ounce loaf is
now about four- cents. ..."
In 1955, of course, the average
price of a bushel of quality Can-
adian wheat is, roughly, -30 30 cents
less than the above picture; but
bread prices have moved a long
way in the opposite direction!
_ Of course, a bushel of wheat is.
a long 'way front today's finished
loaf --wrapped, sliced, wholesaled
and retailed. It can be safely left
to the average reader in town and
country to "figger" just 'what
amount of "dough" is needed to
pay for 143 pounds of bread; but,
from my angle, it deserves to be
remembered that the wheat farm-
er's link with the so-called "high
cost of bread" is insignificant.
FARMER "JOHN"
Toronto, Nov. 27, 1966.
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Primarily because of his coun-
try's smaller population, and the
smaller market for his goods, the
average Canadian industrial work-
er produces, and earns, four-fifths
of the American average.
irljfNi6NNitioiiiis•iit As - nothing sib-Meant"iias been 1 •
S'7
" That reminds me . . .It's
time to renew my subscrip-
tion to The Signal -Star ! "
Many fall due in
December.
DOES ¥QURS?.:_
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ilFZeZWA
HAY KIDS!
SANTA CLAU
WILL VISIT GODERICH
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SATURDAY
.DECEMBER 15
Children from
all the
SURROUNDING
RURAL AREAS
are especially
invited, as well
as Goderich
children; to
come and see
SANTA CLAUS.
There will be a
Th,
bag of candy
for every child.
OUT ON A UM$
WO1111 DOLL SM LEY
Is there anything in this world
quite as silly as the annual Christ-
mas card binge in which otherwise
intelligent sensible people indulge?
I doubt it.
I'm afraid it's' another nianifest-
ation, of twentieth century
s
t -
headedness for which we have the
ladles, bless and praise than, to
thank. You can say what you like
about men, and it will probably 'be
true, but I doubt very much whe-
ther they would ever get into the
Christmas card jungle if left to
themselves. They simply wouldn't
bather sending cards to anybody,
and everybody would be a lot
happier.
5, 5' 5, 5:
Every year around our 'place, we
hold Christmas Card Night. After
the kids are in bed, we get down
to it at the kitchen tabl'e. I enjoy
this, because it gives acre a chance
to exercise that ham-handed, ele-
phant -footed wit in which the male
animal delights at such times.
y
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With ponderous glee I survey
the list. "Who in the name of all
that's baffling," I ask, "is Lulu
Butterworth, and why are we send-
ing her a 'card? I never heard of
her in my life." My wife removes
a stamp from her tongue and uses
it an me. "It just so happens,"
she says, Ali measured tones, "that
Lulu Butterworth is that dumb
blonde with the big bust that you
thought was so terrific in your
philosophy lectures 'twelve years
ago and she sends us a card every
year with her apartment address
and phone number in Toronto, and
I'd like to know why."
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"Oh," I say.
* 5 *
Thereis a brief silence after
this. She bras twelve cards, all the
same, left over from last year, and
she's poring over the list, trying
to figure out from all the tick,
marks, X's and hen scratches who
it was she sent the cards to last :
year, with the red Santa Claus on
them. It would be lust simply
dreadful' if someone got the same
card two years in a row. Awful.
A gross breach of etiquette.
* * 5 *
"Why in the holy old heck," II
venture again, with a little less
assurance, "do we send Dards to
the'Blan'kse.s? We don't like them,
we've never been .in their ,house,
and, tall the itinie she •d;t en
speak to me on the street." --With
site's a orrnie Cliafte r'ansd•_
wee -were •ore -the Ways and Means
Comimittee together two years ago
and `they sent us a card last year."
* * * * •
"Oh," I say.
U * * * *
Silence, while I lick the ,glue on
envelopes and she writes addresses
• on them. I think gloosiiily of the
r millions of dollars spent on Christ-
• mas cards and the stamps to mail
therm. Wouldn't it be much finer
if everyone just donated the oast
of their cards to a central fund?
The =total would probably mean two
weeks in Florida this winter for
every old -age 'pensioner in Canada.
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I'm . not completely an old crank
about the Christmas card business.
It has many things in its favor.
For one, it tells me once a year
that my two brothers are still alive.
They have wives who send us
Christmas cards. If they weren't
married, I'd never hear from them,
wouldn't know where or whether
they lived, or how many kids they
had. -
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And I must admit it's kind of
nice to hear from old friends.
Every year I get a card from
Clancy Mulligan, a bow-legged
little dagger from Woolly Worri,
Australia. An .old air force side-
kick, all he wanted to do was go
back to Austrylyer and raise & $
* t pigs and he wished this '%
&"*"* war would finish so he could
get at it. His card each year reads
something like: "My oath, Smiler,
ase $&&$&'*"*"* pigs are send -
ng me fair & $ * $ & " wild. I
wish I was back in the b*** air
force."
• RGET, KIDS...
nta will see you at th'e FIRE HALL
;teat at 2.30 p.m. on Dec. 15.
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I always .get a nostalgic smile
out of Clancy's card. Of course
there's another type of old friend
you get cards from. Couple of
years ago, I brought home a batch
of cards from the post office. I
never read them, just threw them
on the table fidtr my wife to cheek
through and make sure we got a
card from everybody we sent one
to.
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She usuall'v reads them aloud to
me 'While I sit and read the paper.
But this tisite, 'after' she'd read a
couple, there 'teas a shattering sil-
ence. I looked up and said:
"Aren't von going to read me the
rest of them?" You learn these
little courteousgestures after a
few years
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She (lave me a look that chilled
me right drown to my tail -bone.
and read`,"Bill. rherie, 'You will
believe II"h'i,q not. but I .have meet
your smell brnther, wbei :has arrive
in France with the Air Porte de
Canada a oo nation. Ile rete nre-
seintedrwlth your address. Ab, Bili,
why did von not send, for me aures
la guerre. as you tell 'me? Why
von not 'write send me the nlonev
for. t assag'e, like you sren wait
so lona, ery co Htels. You forget
•:ao Poon our great love? Me, never.
1 have yet one pair ttcltions you
give, made in searf. t wear ell
time, for memos,. Toueeur's your
Lirette.°r
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dent°5 iLl tc qMr. 1�rueteT, by 1jar y pcnL of 'ost rczchot.3
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"HERE 05° HOPE -HELP -AND HEALON''.
Everyibody, at one tame or other,
has, walked across €i thick, heavy
carpet and then, touch a radiator
or other 'metal object to feel and
even see a spark
of electricity.
Over the years such electricity
generated by the human body, us-
ually throughfriction, and even
static electricity, has been the
cause of great .peril, and grave
anxiety to hospital 'and medical
,personnel in an operating room.
Practically every anaesthetic
used in an operation to render the
patient insensible to pain is 'ex-
plosive and inflammable. Further-
more, being 'heavier than air, these.
gasses, while {being administered to
a patient, accumulate in the lower
parts of the room.
Hospitals have, and are continu-
ally, making improvements and in-
novations to eliminate the hazard
of explosion in an operating' room.
Explosion -proof electric switches,
"Ni.," ay. "go!"
shielded and guarded lights, use
of mirrors to reflect light and
replace .headlamps, elimination of
cauteri s and the installation of
conductive floors are now eoanlnon-
mohospitals.
plaeKe rn most
The conductive floor acts in
much the same way as the small .
chain lyvhich hangs from an oil or
gasoline truck and drags onto the
highway. It is made of a substance
or material through which elec-
tricity can pass with little or no
resistance. Its purpose is to lead
or conduct buman or static elec-
tricity out of -the operating room
and to be •grounde:di .harmlessly
into the earth. Now even the
patient being operated upon is
`grounded" so that the explosive
risk is lessened still more.
Today, because of man's ingenu-
ity and inventive ability, fires and
explosions in the operating rooms
of a hospital have .become a rarity,
indeed.
Huron Is No `Garden Of Eden
As To Good Seed, Farmers Told
Vr
The annual meeting of the Huron McKillop; Walter Forbes, R.R. 2,
Clinton, Goderich; and Williams
Clark, R.R. 6, Goderich, Colborne.
Seed Survey
C. H. Kingsbury, of the Field
Crops° Branch of the Ontario De-
partment of Agriculture, told the
150 farmers attending that if they
thought that Huron County was
any "Garden of Eden" they were
;mistaken. "You produce more
hay, grain and livestock products
in,' Huron County, than any other
county in the province, , yet in a
recent seed drill survey, only one-
half of all samples taken rated
No. 1 seed, he started. "If you
can excel in . so many respects,
there is no reason for your seeds
not being good—good seeds pro-
duce good crops." In the results i
of the survey, which was conducted
by the Fields Crop 'Branch an
Huron County Soil and Crop Im-
provement Association in all 16
townships, Mr. Kingsbury reported
there were 41 weed seeds he had
never beard of.
A highlight of the meeting was
the presentation of a past-presi-
County Soil and Crop Improve-
mentA:ssociation held at Londes-
boro was the largest ever held by
the association. Mr. W. J. Turn-
bull, R.R. 2, BrusseLs, was named
president for 1957, succeeding
Richard W. Proctor, R.R. 5, Brus-
sels.
Mr. Robert Allan, Brucefield, is
first vice-president, and Delbert
Geiger, Zurich, second vice-presi-
dent. Secretary -treasurer is Ar-
thur Bolton.
Directors are John Taylor, R.R.
5, Wingham, East Warwanosh Town-
ship; Delbert Geiger, Hay Town-
ship; Anson McKinley, ' Zurich;
Stanley; Alan Walper, R.R. 3, Park-
hill, Stephen; Harry Dougall, R.R.
3, Exeter, Usborne; Robert Allan,
Tuckersmith; Normae, Alexander,
Landesboro, Hullett; Robert . J.
Turnbull, Grey; Fred Doubledee,
,R.R. 1, Wroxeter, Howic'k; Clarence
Shaw, Wingham, Turnberry; Ralph
Foster, R.R. 3, Goderich, Ashfield;
Bob Grasby, lVtorris; Tom Webster,
R.R. 2, Auburn, West Wawanosh;
George Wheatly, R.R. 1, Dublin,
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