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lowing match afterthouOrts
Hindsight, they say, always comes with
r-20 vision. After three years Of planning
and effort most of those who hadanything to
do with the 1978 International Ploutiting,IViatch
probably have some suggestions to offer
future planners.
Of course, the biggest single factor In the
success of a match is the weather and there's
nothing anyone can do about that. However,
there 'are some points at which improve-
ments should be affected. For example, the
IPM's tented city has now reached such
magnitude that some form of transportation
through the exhibitors' streets should be
provided, after the general pattern of the
Canadian National Exhibition.
The majority of passenger wagons from
the parking lots drop their human cargoes
near the headquarters building and unless
the new arrivals are very sturdy walkers,
few of them ever cover the distance to the far
end of tented city. Similarly, those who are
dropped off at the lower boundary of the
grounds are faced with the same problem of
mileage if they are to see even a quarter of
the area.
Another suggestion would be to keep the
exhibit area open one more day. Leaving the
Can you believe
At times we find the people of Quebec
hard to understand. No doubt Quebecers find
Anglos equally inscrutable, and as a
consequence an ill -based atmosphere of sus-
picion and resentment has been allowed to
erect a wall between us.
The recent election in the city of Mont-
real certainly has done lithe to improve the
average Canadian's understanding of his
French-speaking neighbors. Mayor Jean
Drapeau, the cocky little guy who talked his
constituents into the Olympic Games, is
back in the driver's seat — not by any
squeaky near -miss either. His party took 52
of the 54 council seats. ,
There were predictions that Drapeau
didn't have a chance, what with hearings
into, the chaotic Olympics mess under way
• immediately prior to the election campaign.
site open for visitors on Syriday would add
little in the way of ext #gpense or effort
and hundreds of peopl 'whose jobs make it
impossible to visit the match during the
week would be able to attend. The extra day
would provide some insurance against pos-
sible bad weather during the preceding five
days.
Another point: We have heard stories
since the match that the farmers on whose
land the site was located have made a real
potful out of the event. Speculations we have
heard ranged all the way up to 550,000 for the
use of a hundred acre farm. Truth of the
matter is that land for the tented city was
paid for at about $75 an acre and plowing and
parking sites considerably less. The figures
for next year's site will be a little higher in
recognition of inflation but land for the
tented city will, only increase to $100 per
acre. Not really any millionaire's dream.
The International Plowing Match is by
far the largest event of its kind in the world
and it is totally unique in the fact that It is
produced each year largely through the ef-
forts of hundreds of people who get nothing
more than bare expenses for their trouble.
Not even that much if the match runs into
bad weather and loses money.
it?
Little did the prophets know about Quebec's
political awareness. A complete list of the
errors, incompetence and outright fraud
connected with the Olympic horror story
would fill pages of this paper. 1:lrapeau
dismissed the entire debacle with an airy
reference to the fact that the resultant bil-
lions in losses will cost Montrealers only a
few cents a week. True, every man, woman
and child in that great city will pay a few
cents a week . . . from now till kingdom
come. Drapeau forgot to add that several
million other Canadians helped to pick up the
tab by purchasing lottery tickets.
Anybody who has aspirations toward
political leadership should take Jean Dra-
peau as a subject of intense study. He
certainly has something- of the magic about
him. Mr. P. E. Trudeau could use a man like
that.
Two-edged sword
• Marketing legislation as we know' it in
Canada hat beeinialled tame sittibitqat
the taviour of the smait farmer, and in
others as aform of legislated tyranny. Hon.
Bill Newman, Ontario's minister of agri-
culture and food had some observations on
the subject when he addressed the annual
convention of the Ontario'Dairy Council last
Wednesday.
"I don't have to tell anybody here that
the industrial 'milk processing industry in
this province, is in a. crisis situation. If On-.
tario milk processors and their suppliers
think the milk quota system is out of control,
who can blame them? That's how it looks to
me and that's how it looks to a processor who
can expect to receiVe only about half his
plant supply quota.
"And It: isn't just the plants on quota that
are having trouble. The non:quota sector is
Suffering too. The processors aren't about to
expand if their future supply of milk is in
doubt.
"There's a lot wrong with our milk
marketing arrangements right now . . . I
know because I see almost daily reports and
analyses of the dairy industry. I also know
because I get a lot of complaints. Many
people think Ontario should have more
quota, and I agree. I give those complaints a
very sympathetic ear; it's about all I can
give them. On I ythe federal government can
allot more quota.
"I said we're in a crisis situation,. but I
What we don't
A few weeks ago The (Seaforth) Huron
Expositor commented on an advertising
campaign sponsored by the Ontario govern-
ment.
"A big, red, juicy apple jumping off the
newspaper page and looking good enough to
eat. A whole page of simple, inventive
recipes for Thanksgiving specialities, fea-
turing readily available, reasonably priced
Ontario produce."
That's what some citizens of Ontario
have been lucky enough to see in a series of
imaginatively produced and very practical
ads promoting Foodland Ontario, ads spon-
sored by the province's ministry of agricul-
ture and food.
The ministry deserves a heck of a lot of
credit, both for pushing the sale of our own
fresh produce and for the attractiveness of
the ads making the push.
In fact, the Foodland Ontario series is
such a good one that we hate to quibble about
don't think the public understands just what
me wait is. Youheara tat abdtxt disappear-
ing cheddar cheese and hue tiiik
powder surpluses, and I suspect there are a
lot of people who believe Ontario has huge
surpluses of butter stored somewhere."
The minister continued his address by
\pointing out that imported cheeses are being
sold n large quantities in Ontario, at ever
increasing prices, although locally owned
cheese producers can manufacture compar-
able products they cannot secure sufficient
supplies of industrial milk to do so. Newman
also stated that although there is a keen
• demand for Ontario's high grade cheddar
cheese on foreign markets the same
situation persists. Not enough milk available
to meet even our domestic demands, let
• alone foreign purchases — and this at a time
when the country is crying over its foreign
trade deficits.
Readers of this column may recall that a
few months ago we carried quotations from
one of Canada's foreign trade emissaries, in
• Vienna, who said exactly the same thing.
Yes, marketing boards and controlled
production have' no doubt been of singular
benefit to some agricultural producers, but
any such limitation of the free market can be
dangerous „:to producers. Regulations and
their enforcement tend to fall into the hands
of those who either do not fully comprehend.
the entire scope of the product and its pro-
ducers, or more dangerously, haven axe of
their own to grind.
see
it at all.
But quibble we must, on behalf of the
large number of people in this province who
are exclusive weekly newspaper readers.
Those people,and their numbers are increas-
ing, didn't get to see the Foodland Ontario
ads because they weren't carried in
Ontario's community press.
We know the big dailies have more read-
ers than The Huron Expositor, The Listowel
Banner or The Tilbury Times and that the
myth persists in some big city advertising
agencies and board rooms that ads in the
dailies reach all newspaper readers.
That's just not true and as the com-
munity press gets better at telling adver-
tisers its own story, those with a message to
get to all of Ontario are turning to the
province's smaller papers.
Foodland Ontario, your ads are too good
to confine them to those poor deprived
people' who don't read the weeklies.
BLUE
RIBBON
AWARD
1978
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"This is your last chance to get rid of that thing."
Items from Old Files
NOVEMBER 1931
William Earngey has pur-
chased the half interest in the
Gorrie garage from Herb Wil-
liams of Detroit.
Reeve McKibbon, at this
month's council meeting, inti-
mated that at the next meeting he
would introduce 11 motion that
"all salaries of reinuneration to
members of Council of the Town
of Wingham. for attendance at
meetings be discontinued, or that
under. p" t conditions of af7
or country; we
feel that fiWt-spirited ,citir,ens
should be willing to serve on all
municipal bodies without any
remuneration".
Alba S. E.. Carson, daugfiterof
RichardCaiton and the late Mt.
Carson, was united in marriage
to Irving Toner, Soil of Mr. and
Mrs: A..E.. Toner. They will con-
tinue to reside in the Gorrie area.
Believing he was leaping into
the arms of a neighbor, four-
year-old Carman Hogg, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Hogg of
Brussels, hurtled 15 feet through
the air to the ground below. He
received a badly fractured nose
and eye injuries. The neighbor
called to the boy to jump, never
thinking the boy would follow the
suggestion.
Mrs. James Edwards of Gorrie
says it pays to advertise. She lost
a brooch on Gorrie Fair Day and
advertised it in the, local papers.
It has now been found and
returned to her.
Herbert Wright, who has been
working for Thomas Burke of
Morris Township, has gone to
London for a vacation. When he
returns, he will, work for Henry
Johnston, fifth line of Morris.
NOVEMBER 1943
Approval has been given by
District Headquarters of Military
District No. 1 at London for the
99th Battery to install a rifle
range on the W. J. Henderson
. farm near the river and former
railway crossing. This work will
likely be undertaken in the
spring.
A campaign for the collection
of horsehair by school children of
Huron County is shortly to be
instituted. It is being undertaken
by the Federal Department of
Agriculture. There is a shortage
of horsehair used for the padding
of seats in airplane bombers.
Miss Ida Lutton has arrived
safely overseas where she will be
:engaged in special war work,
Miss Lutton is the second
Wingham girl to go overseas, the
other being Nursing Sister Nora
Bell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Matt Bell.
Captain Daisy Carr will
assume her duties with the
Salvation Army here 'this week.
She has been stationed ' at
Palmerston. Capt. William Ben-
nett who has been .here for the
past year, leaves to assume
duties with the Red Shield.
Jack Willits was re-elected
president of the Turnberry
Federation of A-riculture at the
annual meeting held at Powell's
School. Vice-president is Leslie ,
Fortune and secretary -treasurer
is Walter Woods.
It is difficult to realiie that the
war has been in progress for such
a length of time until one hears of
a story like this. Private George
A. Stewart has celebrated his
fourth birthday since his arrival
overseas. George is a former
Gerrie boy.
NOVEMBER 1954
Bluevale Community Hall was
packed almost to capacity for the
fowl dinner and annual meeting
of the Turnberry Federation of
Agriculture. Election of officers
was conducted by Gordon Greig,
secretary-fieldman of the Huron
Federation. Harold Elliott was
named president; Harry Mulvey
vice-president and Cliff Heifer
secretary -treasurer
Vic Loughlean, well known in
the district as' a minor hockey
coach, was appointed manager of
the Wingham Arena at a meeting
of the arena board. Mr. Lough -
lean, who will start immediately,
has been hired for' the period of
winter activities.
Damage estimated at $40,000
was caused by a disastrous fire in
the general store of Lloyd Hock -
ridge in Gorrie. Efforts of four
fire brigades from Wingham,
Listowel, Harriston and Brussels
failed to save the building but
succeeded in preventing the
flames from spreading to adjoin-
ing buildings in the business sec-
tion.
A cheque from the Huron
County Council for $35,000, repre-
senting the county's grant to the
new 50 -bed chronic wing now
being erected at 'the Wingham
General Hospital, was presented
to the board by Roy Cousins at
the regular board meeting. The
cheque covered grants pledged to
the building program by the
county over the past couple of
'years.
Mrs. J. E. Reavie was installed
as Worthy Matron of the Huron
Chapter No. 89, Order of the
Eastern Star, in an impressive
ceremony. Worthy Patron is M.
Taylor. Other officers include
Mrs. H. Machan, Mr. Machan,
Mrs. R. E. Armitage and Mrs.
Gwen Adams.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Zurbrigg
and family, second line of
Howick, were surprised when
friends and neighbors gathered
at their home to bid them fare-
well prior to their departure for
Wateroo where they will be
making their new home.
NOVEMBER 1964
Five Ontario Scholars were
presented with honor graduate
diplomas and Ontario Scholar-
ship Certificates at the Wingham
District High School Commence-
ment exercises last week. The
students are Patrick King,
Wayne Caslick, Claudia Normin-
ton, Susanne Reynolds and Elwin
Moore.
• Mrs. J.' R., Lloyd of Wingham
was elected secretary of the
Western Ontario Young Pro-
gressive Conservative Associa-
tion when the annual meeting
was held at London.
Mrs. Bertha Homuth of Wing -
ham had the honor of placing the
Province of Ontario's wreath at
the cenotaph service in Mitchell,
oil Remembrance Day.. Mrs.
HOmuth lived in Mitchell and
Stratford during the war. Four of
her sons served overseas in
World War II. Her youngest son
was killed in France.
At the meeting of Huron County
Council, it was announced that
Huron County's home for the
aged is to have another addition,
possibly providing 100 beds. This
is an estimate based upon the rise
in population at Huronview from
105 in 1960 to 234 on November...16
of this year.
Glen Coultes, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Coultes of Belgrave,
has been chosen one of a team of
six, students to represent the On-
tario Agricultural College in the
livestock judging competition at
the International Livestock
Exposition in Chicago.
At the morning service last
Sunday in Knox Presbyterian
Church, Bluevale, Rev. T. E.
Kennedy dedicated a church
bulletin board. The Young Peo-
ple's Society was responsible for
its purchase and erection in front
of the church.
Friends and relatives gathered
in Fordwich to bid farewell to Mr.
and Mrs. Everitt Allan who
recently sold their farm and
moved Friday to make their
home in Listowel.
Raymond Henning of Bluevale
has spent several weeks in
Toronto where he obtained his
apprenticeship in diesel and auto
mechanics
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TODAY'S CHILD
BY HELEN ALLEN
Randy looks like a cherub with his light brown wavy
hair, blue eyes and fair skin.
At five -and -a -half, Randy has been through some chaot-
ic years which left him with a deep distrust of adults. On
first contact with new people he is charming but he is
afraid to let himself get close to people for fear of meeting
with rejection. He needs parents with much patience and
understanding of how his early troubled times have
affected him.
Randy has just started kindergarten. Though he is very
active he has responded well to the controls in the
classroom.
This appealing youngster needs a mother and father
who can wait till they are able to help him believe they
really want him as their son. He should be the youngest
by several years.
To inquire about adopting Randy, please write to
Today's Child, Ministry of Community and Social Ser-
vice, Box 888, Station K, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2H2. In
your letter tell something of your present family and your
way of life.
For general Information on adoption contact your local
Children's Aid society.
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LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
Movie's 'humor'
nor Tunny
RR 3, Wingham, Ont.,,
November 12, 1978.
The Advance -Times,
Wingham, Ontario.
Dear Editor:
Having just returned from
viewing the movie "RABBIT
FOOT", we feel that we must
register a complaint. We are
writing to you with the hope that
you will publish this letter or part
of it. The movie was advertised
as 'inconceivably funny' and yet
it contained some very perverted
humour, such as degrading re-
ligion, immigrants, patriotism
and love. Even worse was the
suggested parallelism that was
drawn between this man's preg-
nancy and the incarnation of God
in Jesus Christ through the Virgin
Mary. It is a sad reflection on our
society that such a sacreligious
movie can be shown indiscrim-
inately in our theatres to unsus-
pecting viewers.
Sincerely,
Harvey and Faith Osborne.
Avoid tragedy
at Christmas
Dear Editor,
The latter part of November
and the month of December are
exciting times for most. With
Christmas coming there's the
shopping to do„for those special
people, the secrets kept from
children Ad the anticipation
caused by them.
Parties are a part of the season
also. At children's parties soda
pop is served and at adult parties
silly pop is served and the end
result is that you can't tell the
children from the adults except
for size. It's good, psychiatrists
tell us, to act like kids once and
awhile — it relieves tension, etc.
Driving at this time of the year
is a little different also. Con-
sidering the number of parties
and how they leave us, it's not too
difficult to see why accidents in-
crease with more people out for
Christmas shopping and party-
ing.
Next'comes the unhappy times
of the Christmas -New Year's sea-
son for those involved in acci-
dents and their family members.
Picture yourself involved in an
accident (because it could
happen). You are put in a hospital
or a funeral home. Was the party
worth all this. How would your
family feel or end up?
You are arrested for impaired
driving. Your licence is auto-
matically suspended for a mini-
mum of three months with a pos-
sible $1,000 fine or a jail term or
both. lk
All of these things are real and
happen every day, but more so
during holiday season.
From the Ontario Provincial
Police, have a 'good safe holiday.
Don't mix alcohol with driving
and risk your life or someone
else's. Watch out for the other
guy.
R. W. Wilson, PC
Community Services Officer
OPP, Goderich