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SUGAR 'N' SPICE sy 811.1 SMILEY
Well, were ,you alert enough
to fill your gas tank and pick
up half a dozen five -gallon
jkrrycans of the stuff before the
price soared?
Were you smart enough to
have your furnace -oil tank
filled before the stuff turned to
black „gold?
That's funny. Neither was I.
In fact, my wife informed me,
the day after gasoline prices
headed for the moon, that we
were riding, on a pint and a
prayer. -
"Dummy!," I stated.
"Dummy yourself," she retor-
ted. "Why didn't you tell me
the price was going up?"
"Twice -dummy," .I respon-
ded coolly. "Why don't you
read the ruddy newspapers?"
"Thrice -dummy," was 'her
unoriginal answer. "Because_
you're always hogging thefh,
and you never talk to me, and
I'm alone all day and'never see
anyone, and you come home
and bury.your big fat nose, in
'the newspapers, and I'm sick
and tired, of it."
"Bull-onev!",, I snorted, and
we • were off on one of those
half-hour deals so popular with
married couples. and from
which I always emerge looking
like Archie Bunker.
And There wasn't a bit of
truth in iter tirade. I don't hog
the papers. I- let her 'have the
classified ads section and the
sports section, when I'v,el
finished with it. She's not home
alone all day. She has the cats.
She sees people—the postman
and the garbage men—when
they're not on strike. And I
don't have. a big, fat nose. It's
just big.
I'm digressing. But I often do
that when I get talking about
my helpmeet, my other half, my
chicadee, my lambie, the Joan
• to my Darby, that broad who is
driving me.squirrely with talk
about spring cleaning.
What 'I really began to
discuss was my native ability,
born knack, or sheer genius, at
missing chances to save money.
There aren't many'such chan-
ces, in these parlous times, but
every time there. is one, i "seem
to' be out to, lunch. •
• Show me a hydro bill, and
I'll show you that it's four days
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- Liquid Manure Equipment
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p' st the deadline for the
discount. By the way, that's
one sweet racket. Hydro sends
you a bill, with a certain
"discount" if 4 is paid within a
certain date. That means that
Hydro can get along quite
nicely if everyone pays on time.
Right? Therefore, the
"discount" is no such thing.
It's a penalty. Robbers.
Show eine an income tax
return and I'll show you that I
should have been paying, and
have not been, quarterly, in ad-
vance. So I'm penalized.
Show .,me a full-page adver-
tisement featuring a big sale; 50
per cent off everything, and I'll
show you that the paper i"s' ten
days old, and the sale ended
last Saturday.
Show me a big jump in the
price of beef or lettuce, and I'll
show you a 'craving for red
meat and salad.
And my wife is just the same.
Show Her sixbooks of wall-
paper samples—all good,
sturdy, durable, colorful stuff,
and she will unerringly pick the
one that's twice the price of all
.the others. •
My swim suit invariably
the August sales begin. My win-
ter boots spring the same thing
in .January, before the sales
begin.
`If I'plunge for five shares of a
sure -thing stock, a war starts,
or Nixon says something stupid
again,, and there's a stock
market slump.
I don't consider this to be a
malignant thing. I don't really
4. believe, though it has crossed,
my mind, that ,God. has it in .for
me. Maybe it's Ol'd Debbil. At
.any rate, it happens - too often to
be a coincidence, and I'm ,get-
ting sick of it, by gum.
A typical was the first Olym-
pic Sweepstake..I forgot to get a
ticket: You'd think a guy's
friends would remind, him. But
oh, nog ,Not them. Too greedy.
And I've a sneaking notion hd
have Avon the million bucks.
Boy, would I show my so-called
friends, if I. won that. They
wouldn't see me for gold -dust.
But there is one little area in
which my wife and I are in-
fallible, when it comes to •
saving money. Every year, we
pay our house .taxes in Ja'nua'ry.
I think we save about eight
dollars. That will show them.
springs a ,leak in July, before we' tell. each other solemnl`.
GDCI chemistry class
uncovers antacid rip off
If inflation is unsettling your , , stom,ach acid. Thus 'by
stomach then you will be In -
calculation it costs the con.
.teirested in the results of the sumer $5.20 worth of,. Rolaids
Grade 13 'GDC•I' Chemistry to neutralize the equivalent
students' tests on the cost of
settling it. -weight of stomach acid.`
The classes, conducted tests The Drug Trading Company
on several commercial antacid and Philips Milk of Magnesia
tablets on the market today to have • approximately the same
compare their ability to, neutralizing capabilities that
neutralize stortrach acid and Rolaids do but to -use Rolaids
costs the consumer more than
their cost to the consumer. •10 times as much.
Several different antacid Simple comparisons as this -
tablets were purchased, from a
class have done will, no doubt,
local drugstore some of them in suggest to them ways in which-.
large q-uantit%' con'tainers . the`,, as consumers, could look
.priced. and weighed. A model with a more critical eve at'what
stomach was prepared and the they are in fact paying for when
tablets were crushed, weighed • they buy something to "settle'
and allo"wed to dissolve and the old stomach".
react with the "stomach acid".
From this the actual %olume of
stomach acid neutralized by -
each tablet could be 'deter-
mined.
Each brand was tested
-several times for the. average
value and tests were• done to
show the cost per unit of acid
neutralized as well as the num-
ber 'of times its own weight
each tablet could handle.
The class prepared a brief on
Rolaids,one of the brands used.
•Rolaids claim to be able to con-
sume 47 times its own weight in
stomach acid. This is unlikely
to be t.rue.accor.d.ing.to.fin.dings_..
reported by the students. Ad-
vertising the company uses
suggests that one tablet can
consume 47 times• its own
weight in 'excess' stomach acid
and the class cannot ascertain
what 'excess' stomach acid, is.
The students assumed •the
amount of. acid in an unsettled
stomach would,rbe at ph of 1.0
since the normal' is ph 3.0. On
this basis the tests on Rolaids
and the other products were
conducted and their values
asc•ntai ned.
Each Rolaid ,,tablet :Weighs
1.4 grains costs the consumer
1.3c and is '' capable of
neutralizing .0025" units of
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Ecology interest
As a finale to three weeks of ecology study at Victoria School, the students fi4Ied their gym-
nasium with Impressive displays. Ran Stoddart, left, 4,nd Tina Johnston, from room 9, exhibit
the junk they and their classrtYates found on the school grounds one morning last week.
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Con.serva tion'
Authority will
enlarge scope
The Ausable-Bayfield Con-
servation Authority voted
unanimously recently in
Exeter to enlarge its scope to
include the Lake Huron
shoreline from Goderich Town-
ship to its existing southerly
limit in Bo .anquet Township.
The resolution calls for the
authority to take in the water-
sheds of all streams 'entering
Lake Huron from"°a point about
10 mil'ttis ''north of Bayfield;
Stanley. Hay, Ste1pn and
Bos .nquet townships..
A report of the vote"now goes
to the provincial government to
await an order -in -council
making the action law.
The action makes the
Ausable-Bayfield. authority 'the
first aloe, Lake Huron to 'in-
clude the shoreline in its. scope.
Siifiilar action has been, taken
only clang Lakeintario in the
Toronto -Hamilton area.
'When approved. the
authority will have jurisdiction
which will allow it to under-
take -shoreline projects.
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May 16, Abe government boat
the Limnos, for supplies; May
17, the Agawa Canyon came in
light from Sarnia for salt; May
18, the Canadian Coast Guard
Cutter, the Rapid; .May 19, the
Westdale with a load of grain;
May 20, the Labradoc with a
load of grain; May 21, the Roy
A. J9drey, from Bay City came'
in light for salt and the Sar-
niadoc brought , in a load of
grain; May 23, the E.B. Barber
came in light from Sarnia for
salt; May 27, the Algoway
arrived light .from. Kingsville
for, salt; May 28, the tugboat
Sac' Manitoba; May 29, the
George Hindman, ex Cover-
dale, made its first trip to'.
Goderich from Buffalo for a
load of salt.
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IN ,AREA NO. 1
Watering May Be Done On
TUES., THURS., SAT:
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