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Cattle Prices Are What You Get
Despite The Daily Quotations
(By .D. Carl Hemingway)
Help 1
$ have a problem. Usually A
don'tt worry about problems be-
cause I ean almost ahvaays think of
where to get the necessary inform-
ation. This time I don't know the
answer and have no idea where to
go to get it. Perha$s someone can
tell me.
I have a few fat steers to sell
shortly. The problem is to find
out what price °' I should get. I
used to think the market report
of the Toronto stockyards was the
place to get an idea of the price
of cattle. Recently I was talking
to a '°'uron County beef producer
who had shipped a number of
steers- to the yards in Toronto.
They were sold in two separate
lots for $21.75 yet the top price
quoted for the day his steers
were sold was n20.00. If I look
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at the paper andbelieve $0 is
the top price for steers I[ will bane
about $75 on my 10 cattle.
could use bait $.75. My wife
could have a whole nae i all wfl d .
robe. Does my wifeet it or will
it be the packer'% wife. One of
my boys is starting to High School
and wants a wrist watch and $75
would buy him a dandy. Does My
son get it or will it be the buyer's
son. That $7+5 represents the in-
terest on about a $1500 loan, or
the taxes on a 50 acre grass farm.
Lf you happen to own 100 steers
you would lost $750 by this error
in the market report. .
1 could take these steers to a
commanity sale. There, the buyers
are bidding competitively and I
could bid on them myself and take
the cattle home if the price was
too bad. This looked like a very
good plan until recently when. I
began to wonder if cattle were
going direct._ to packers, like the
hogs, where no reliable price re-
ports are made. I looked up some
shipping reports from Government
sources and found that someth:oig
over 42% of the slaughter cattle
go' direct to the •packing, plants.
Alas for my plan! Under these
conditions the bidding is only mil ..
ly competitive so I still haven't
found out what price the buyers
are really able to pay.tt Please, can
anyone tell me what the fair,
honest price for my cattle should
be? s
The total area to be flooded on
the Canadian side of the St. Law-
rence River as a result of the
St. Lawrence Seaway has been
estimated at 20,000 acres.
Branch Agent for CNR Money Orders
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GOOERILH �.'UwSQUARE •• 1Pko«z 586
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OUT ON A LIMB
WITH BIL- SMILEY
Wouldn't it be awful if all the
people you invited to "drop in and
see us if you're up our way," took
you up on RA The resulting chaos
in society would be indescribable,
but appalling. • o e
You know how it is. You're at
a `wedding or something in the
city. During the postnuptial con-
viviality, you get to chatting with
some cousins of the bride, ' nice
couple you never met before.
They're charming, and so are you.
You'd love to see some more of
them, because they think you're
so charming and witty. So you
insist firmly that they comet and
see you. Your wife has that' qt er
look that means it's time to go,
so before you do, you make your
new chums pick a week -end to
visit you, right there and then.
Then some Friday evening,
you're mowing the lawn and sweat-
ing like a horse. You have your
shirt off. You're unshaven. Your
wife has a coldsore on her lip and
has just given herself a home per-
manuit. Your kids have dirty
shirts and runny noses. And a big
car pulls up at the house. This
stranger climbs out, and his wife
and three kids climb out after him.
"Well, here we are," he grins'
happily. "Better late than never."
You've never seen the man before
in your life. There's a squeal from
the Old Girl and you hear her
running upstairs. The kids come
over and stand beside you, wiping
their noses with the backs of their
hands. They stare at the strange
kids, who stare back with interest.
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It hits you like a hydrogen bomb.
This is that lush you were talking
to at the wedding, about a month
ago, Laid his silly, baby -faced wife
with the high-pitched giggle. "Heh,
Heh," you say and look wildly
about for your wife, who is peering
with horror from behind the cur-
tain in the bedroom window. Your
kids a e helping the other kids in
with their bags.
As you take them into the house,
you hear a faint flapping of wings.
That's your golf game or fishing
expedition flying out -the window.
But it's not until you are sitting
down and have offered them a
cigarette and called him George
and had him tell you his name is
Ernie, that the full impact is felt,
with the dreadful _realizationthat
these nyurps are actually going to
be here for the week -end.
* * * *
After a bit, while your wife is
weeping hot, salty tears of ,pure
rage, still upstairs, you offer them
a cold drink. They accept eagerly.
Future.. . 4-H Club Member
The two-year-old in his play -pen is
fascinated by life around him. He longs to
lard/ the tail feathers out of every chicken
on his father's farm. He has no idea at all
how a farmer's son should behave, but he'll
find out, later, when his brothers initiate
him into the local 4-11 club.
Here he'll learn by doing, pledged to use
his head, heart, hands and health in the
bestpossible way.
4-H Clubs were started with one simple
in mind: to have rural young people
car a worthwhile piece of work at home,
v'>hintarily, .fid do it better than ever
before. Plant a garden plot, perhaps, or
raise a calf, make a dress, beautify a room.
The idea was so good that the young
people swept their parents along with them,
and farm life improved amazingly.
4-H Clubs have done many useful things.
They have kept the light boys and girls on
the farm, trained young men and women
for leadership, improved life in rural com-
munities by introducing better agricultural
and home practices, and implanted the
ideal of good citizenship in young minds.
There are about 75,000 4-H members in
Canada. Many will graduate into farm
organizations in which are the progressive
young farmers who—by using modern
machinery and farm techniques—help to
keep all Canadians well fed.
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Suited for the occasion Joan May Fitzpatrick
shows form which helped win her the Miss Canada
title. Her measurements are 36-25-36.
You find your stock consists of
cue half -consumed bottle of orange
crush sitting on the kitchen table,
with a fly in it, two-thirds of r,
ibottle of stale beer that's been
sitting in the frig for three days,
opened, and one warm bottle of
soda water, Ieft over from Christ-
mas. So you send the kids up to
the corner for some cold pop, and
sit around grirning at your guests
in amiable agony.
1 * 1 4,
Your wife comes down, a bit
red -eyed, but looking pretty fair.
She's done something to her hair.
The coldsore is' buried under a
quarter -inch of makeup. She's
smiling with fierce gaiety and says
what 'a lovely surprise to have them
drop in. And when she walks past
you to make a pot • of tea, she
throws you a look that would have
curdled the blood of Attila the
Hun.
0 * 43 *
With a faint glimmering of hope,
you ask Ernie if he likes to golf
or fish. "Never could see much in
it," says Ernie, and your heart
hits your heels. Ernie, it turns
out, is a curler, and he spends 40
minutes of a warm summer even-
ing telling you about the trophy
his team would have won last
February, if one of the boys had-
dana hadda l off night.
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In the meantime, your wife Is
telling Elsie, as she turns out to
be, what lovely children she has.
Just at this minute, there is a
scream of terror from outside, and
one of 'the lovely children comes
in with blood running out of her
head, where your small daughter
clobbered her with a pop bottle.
4. 0*
Let's draw a veil over the res'
of the week -end, shall we? Exc(ep'
to mention that E nie developer
a nasty habit of telling you, it
front of your wife, about all the
work he does around the house
one of their kids got into the
poison ivy when you took them or
the picnic, and Elsie got a bit
frigid after hearing one of your
kids pipe: 'I oi't she a silly lady?"
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Canadian production of hops this
year amoented tai 1,:168,900 pound.'
Skipper Will Pay
His Taxes—Gladly!
aa;toy, I'll pay nay taxes gladly,
from now on!" exclaimaaed Jo; ;' T.
Clark, skipper of the disabled 30 -
foot cruiser Hi Ya Lee, as he clam
ed onto the dock at Goderich.
Adrift for 45 hours, the craft
was located by a -'US. coast guard
cutter and tgwed into °Godericla
harbor at about 1 p.m. on Thurs-
day.
Aboard, (besides Clark, whose
home is in Gibraltar, Mich.were
his wife; John, jr., 12; John, Karl-
zen, 17; Kerry MadLenncei, 12, and
a "Canadian" collie called Walt.
The ves el was the object of a
widespread search which was "oin-
ed by the Coast Guard cutter in
Port Huron, an RCMP boat from
Sarnia, aircraft fromCentralia and
Michigan, and the Ontario Provin-
cial Police.
The Hi Ya Lee ran out of gas at
about 2 p.m. tier. Tuesday when it
was only five miles, or one hour's
running time, out of Goderich.
Mr. Clark said he had no idea
that the gas supply was .so low.
He planned to have the carburetor
checked before returning to Port
Huron, he said.
The Hi Ya Lee started out from
Port Huron with- two other boats,
but later lost sight of them. One
of the other_ boats belonged to
Kerneth Karlzen, father of John
Karlzen who was riding in the
Hi Ya. Lee.
Alt Sea -Sick
"The worst part of being adrift
was when a Nor'easter came up
Tuesday night," said .Mr. Clark.
"The winds were 25 mph and the
waves were plenty high away out
there. We all got sea -sick and
we were sea -sick for 12 hours.
"With the help of three sea
anchors, we managed to keep her
bow into the wind. That saved
us," said the skipper.
Though they had flares aboard,
they coula'e_i't make any use of
them because they didn't see any
other boats in the area. They had
no ship•eo-shore radio
In the meantime, Kenneth Karl -
Len had reached Goderich in his
cruiser. No immediate alarm was
raised for the Hi Ya Lee because
it was thought that the boat might
have put in at Bayfield or Grand
• Bend. Later, after Mr. Karlzen
checked these two harbors and
found no trace of the Clark craft,
a he contacted police and a search
was started.
There was a portable radio
aboard the Hi Ya Lee and this
brought the news Thursday morn-
ing 'that boats and aircraft were
out looking for the disabled craft.
Good News
-We were so happy when we
heard that, we fried up some bacon"
and eggs and we all had a good
breakfast, said the skipper. "We
certainly felt relieved. Right after
Telegram picture.
EXETER STORES OPEN ON
',SATURDAY NIGHTS AND
SOME ON TWO NIGHTS
Exeter mer•chseits voted 21 19 to
change from Friday night open to
.'urday night open for :In unde-
termined length of time, according
to The Exeter Times -Advocate.
Some stores, however, plan to stay
open bath nights, the Exeter paper
stated.
In reporting the change the
Exeter paper said the follow ILg:
"At the present time, it appears
that all merchants will agree to
be open Saturday night until 10
o'clock. There is disagreement,
however, aver Friday night closing.
"For these places of business,
the two -night shopping will require
them to be open roughly 62 hours
a week. Owners are making plans
to shuffle their staffs.
`The - swing toward Saturday
eight came because of requests
from farmers who want to shop
Saturday night rather than Friday
night. They have complained they
do not like the Friday night hours.
'it would appear from the close
split in the vote, however, that
this feeling is not universal. A
number of merchan'ts• favoring Fri-
day night business report, their
sales up while others say they
have dropped.
"At the meet'eig Monday, a vote
of 26-13 opposed two night opening
but this, apparently was unavoid-
able after the close margin in the
voting for one night.
"The division of local hours re-
flects the disagreement which ex-
ists throughout the district."
U _p. n
Many a pedestrian walks as if
he owned the street, and` -u lot of
•notorists drive as if they owned
heir cars. -
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W*NTADS.
SELL IT THRU THE
that, we saw the Goat Guard cutter
coming our way."
I''Vben picks up by the cutter at
about 10 a.m., the Hi Ya Lee was
about 11. miles a lipyfield. After
wing the cruiser into Goderich,
the clatter departed right away.
After seeing the way in which
Canadian and U.S. government
agencies had thrown boats, planes
and men into'tlte search, Hr. Clark
said he would never again make
any complaint about paying taxes.
The Iii Ya Lee had been headed
for Port Elgin originally, but the
Clarks and their friends lost their
enthusiasm after the ordeal of
being adrift 45 hours. They plan -
no: to return to. Port Huron from
Goderieh.
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Promotions At
Holmesville P.S.
LIbrPON.—.Promotion lists have
n announced at Holmesville
blic school by Miss Anne Shad -
dick, teacher.
To Grade IX, Dominique Gah-
wiler, Leonard Wilson, Barbara
.Yeo, Frank Yeo; to Grade VIII,
Paul Cudmore, William Hoggarth,
Kathie Potter, Bonnie Williams;
to Grade VII, Marion Liejbold,
James McCullough, Robert Nor-
man, Mary Squire, Don Yeo; to
.Grade VI, Eric Gahwiler, John
-Ross, Marilyn Yeo; to Grade V,
Berthena Cruickshank, Darlene
Houghton, Milton McClinchey,
Douglas McCullough* Fred Tyndall;
to Grade IV, Helen Corran, Peter
Gahwiler, Douglas Liebold, Linda
McClinchey, Shirley Norma n,
Wayne Potter, Karen Sadler; to
Grade III, Paul MoCl:nchey, David
1VLcCullough, William Tyndall; to
Grade Ii, Lucille Bond, Donald Mc-
Clinchey, Brian Potter.
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