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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 1954-04-22, Page 12PAGE . ETGkii' CLINTON NEWS -RECORD TIIURSDA' ', APRIL 22, 1.954 4-44-0-44-4-4-4-4.4-44-4-44-44-4 t e Top Spelt: (BT BENJAMIN:BEVERIDGE) .; The basic aim of the Shakes- peareanFestival in Stratford, On tatio materialize. Milt tris beginning to m a well Altho the'l: Shakespeare may d tion of the English "oun a from , 'theatre it was net expected that the -Canadian drama centre at, Stratford could or would be con- fined to that type of play exclusiv- ely. It was also hoped in the ' beginning that Stratford would eventually be a training field for inexperienced students of the theatre as well as an opportunity for Canadian professionals — from one coast to the other — to act upon the stage with professional casts led by one or more inter- nationally known stars. This year, of course, both of these aims will bear fruit. Except for James Mason and Douglas Campbell, both well-known Eng- lish actors, all of the male roles in the three plays under the direc- tion of Cecil Clarke and Tyrone Guthrie will be taken by Canad- ians, All of the female leads will be, taken by Canadians, Frances Hyland, of Regina (though born in Shaunavon, Sask.) leaves her company in Liverpool to play Isa- bella" in : "Measure for Measure". Eleanor Stuart, a Montreal wo- man who has a good acting repu- tation abroad, will lead in "Oedi- pus Rex", and Barbara Chilcott Toronto will play the female lead in"Taming of the Shrew", a part previously planned for an English actress. Although the Festival is definit- ely not sectional in scope, Toronto, with its developing facilities for the theatre, is better represented in the Stratford company than any other Canadian city. Of the cast of 60 there are 24 men and Women from the Ontario capital, 12 , of them being cast in major roles. However, four thespians from Montreal are in the company, and although the eastern part of Can- ada is not represented this year, young stage aspirants from•sum- mer • theatres, hay -circuits and community theatres . right- across the continent will be' getting the chance of their lives. Talent scouts will be tumbling over .each other this year. In leading parts are men from Kitchener, Stratford it- self, and Ottawa. Also in the general cast are, fine stage pros- pects representing Kingston, Lon- don, 'St, Marys, Ont , 'Winnipeg, Moose Jaw, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouverand• Victoria, In addition to the plays them- selves, Stratford will 'also have a summer course in theatre study under the', supervision of : Cecil Clarke, artistic director of the Festival and the same man who organized the Old': Vic Theatre school in London, England. ° The course will run from July' 26 to August 11, and it is open to -a lim- ited number of students, selected for their sincerity in all aspects of theatrical Work. •:Out fi o Dairy Men Tr Complex Experiments Carried y y Continue Our. Fight Against Cancer: For New Record T i g Some small idea of the complex- fore it does its work and that will Advertisin BLIa S ty and difficulty of the a not be too Po Y � y ' cancer poisonous to the body. research program may be gained Many hundreds of experiments from a visit to the Research -In- have been and will be performed. Dairy Farmers of Canada will stitute of the Montreal General try for a new record in their 1954 Hospital Here internationally A short -while ago I mentioned. that Adrian Conan Doyle, SirAr- thur's son, had taken to writing, further adventures of his father's famous fiction character, "Sher- lock Holmes". Now I must report that still others have elected to exploit the great personalities of London's Baker Street. Edith Meiser is writing "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" for comic - strip artist Frank Giacoia, and the cartoon story is already appearing in newspapers in both Canada and the United States. « * * While. the Canadian National Ballet and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet managed to stumble through the financial burdens of their continental tours, the Sad- ler's Wells Ballet went back to London after 19 weeks in the Unit- ed States, with earnings (in dol- lars) amounting to $650,0001 * * * When old theatre patrons of Halifax hear the network radio show, "Our Miss Brooks" on Sun- day • nights, they may recall a young actress named Jane Morgan who used to live among them in the old days, and who often ap- peared on the stage before theatre conscious Haligonians with Sidney Tyler, later -the "Charlie Chan" of the screen. On the radio show, Jane Mor- gan—older and even more talented —plays the part of Mrs. Davis, landlady to Connie Brooks. Seeds • Have a complete stock of GARDEN, FIELD and LAWN SEEDS — highest quality — priced reason- able. • We specialize: PERMANENT PASTURE MIXTURES and LAWN GRASSES. Mixtures specially prepared to suit your requirements. • Our seed is all government inspected. In Clovers we have ALFALFA from $18.00 per bus. to $21.00 per bus. One lot of home-grown 'Alfalfa Seed specially priced at $19.00. • Let us know your seed problems and maybe our long experience will be of service to you. Fred O. Ford PHONE 123W CLINTON Notice APPLICATIONS for the position of "Fire Hazards Inspector" for the Hay Township Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Co., will be received by the undersigned secretary of the company up till noon April 30th, 1954. Applicants must be able to supply their own transpor- tation. Please state qualifications, experience, age and salary expected. HAY TOWNSHIP FARMERS' MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Reginald G. Black, Secretary -Treasurer Sox 59, Zurich, Ontario 15-16-b Maybe some day they will be suc- cessful, Maybe they never will be. known - biochemist Dr. J. H. But the work must be, done. Can- Quastel and, some 30 assistants and cer is a formidable foe and it will colleagues are working on ten pro- take the best efforts of modern jects related to the problem of science to defeat him. a take ' growth. The Institute receives a And - it will ak a great dealof grant of $30,000 from the National money. ,The bulk of the money Cancer I stitute of Canada, which for cancer research comes from is about one third of the money .volunteer contributions collected required for these vitally import- by the Canadian Dancer Society. ant projects. The cancer fight is everybody's One of the aspects of cell growth fight. that the Quastel team is Investi- gating is the action of substances known as competitive inhibitors. Competitive inhibitors might be described loosely as substitutes. They are substances that resemble in chemical structure other sub- stances but do not do the same work. Using them is like standing a dummy up in the batter's box who will cause the pitcher to throw balls but who can't hit any of those bails. When food stuffs are used in the cell . or when they are metabolized . . many different enzymes enter into the process. A competitive inhibitor is a sub- stance that willcombine'with the enzyme but won't produce the ssatuffresults as the natural food- . • Do you iteed.... " TO 2 RI(110N CANAOIANS ...then talk to ,IMyBank' FIL —.the fixer ... his full name is Perm Improve- ment Loan. Give him a chance to help fax up your farm ... he's eco- nomical, convenient, ver- satile. He can do almost anything in making your farm a better farm: A cream separator — milking machine - culti- vator —tractor—incubator... these are just a few of the many modern, time -saving, money- making farm machines and implements you can put to work on your "fartn through PIL, See your local B of M manager about your farm improve- ment loan. BANK OF MONTREAL each:$ juice Clinton Branch: WILLIAM MORLOK, Manager Londesborough (Sub -Agency); Open Mon. & Thurs. WORKING WITH CANADIANS 'IPI, EVERY WALK OF LIFE SINCE 1817- What has this got to do with cancer? One of the characteristics of cancer cells is that they grow more rapidly than normal cells. If a competitive inhibitor can be used to combine with the enzyme in the cell in place of natural food- steffs the tumor cell will lack the energy with which to grow. This. is a very vital matter in cancer control. There are difficulties, however. Glucosamine is an example of a competitive inhibitor. It has the ability to compete with glucose (sugar) for certain enzymes in the cell which are necessary for the release of energy. Glucosamine seemed to be the perfect substance to inhibit tumor growth. A carefully controlled experiment was conducted by pro- ducing cancersin mice by trans- planting them with tumors from other animals and then giving them glucosamine. The investigat- ors were encouraged to notice that the animals receiving glucosamine showed a definite reduction in tumor growth. Although cancer researchers never permit over- optimism, it did look as though they hadachieved an important step forward in cancer control. The results were definite. The tumors stopped growing at their normal rate. Then they ran into difficulties. The next group of rats tested did not show these same results, nor were other tumors as responsive as the first one tried. Glucosamine has never worked again as it did on the initial groups of rats. Further extensive research in- dicates that the body breaks down the glucosamine before it gets a chance to do its work. Only a small amount gets into the tumor cell and that, too, breaks down. The only conclusion the research- ers can reach at present is that the first strains of rats investigat- ed were in a condition where their bodies did not break down the glucosamine as rapidly as usual so it was able to gain access to the tumor cells, So, the search continues for a glucose inhibitor and an inhibitor of other fpodstuffs of the tumor cell that will not break down be - It is true enough that things are never quite as they seem, and more than one Winnipeg home- maker has been disappointed when the genuine Oriental rug she bought turned out to be "Made in Texas".- But an even greater dis- appointment these days is.to travel a thousand miles for the purpose of enjoying historic color and tra- dition, only to find out it is about as genuine as Leprecauns and the department store Santa Claus. There are no prairie schooners on the prairies, and few sailing ships on the seas. Young imagina- tive minds have survived very well the knowledge that Ossian did not write Ossian, that there are no giants in Patagonia, and no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. But when I first went to Vancouv- er's Stanley Park to see the great redwood tree (or perhaps it was a fir) which was pictured in our geography books (with an early model automobile parked right in- side its trunk) it was enough to make even the stoutest heart skeptical when the great tree turn- ed out to be a rotten stump. I wonder what the Queen must have thought when she visited Queen Salote in Tonga and saw the colorful Polynesians dancing their primitive dances, in full na- tive costume, to the mystic pom- pom music accomplished, in lieu of a real drum, on an old oil bar- rel. If Queen Elizabeth should go to the East Africa British protec- torate of Tanganyika she might be further disillusioned about the authenticity of even darkest Af- rica, where one these days is just as apt to see Stuart Cloete, Ernest Hemingway, Clark Gable, or even Ave Gardner, emerge from the ,Dreams Come Trac For Couple, 65 the Weed of Week Wild Oats W d O s Harvest Sorrow June advertising set-aside which ast year topped $366,000. Officials of the national producer organiza- tion, representing 455,000 farmers, believe that with more promotion effort in Ontario and Quebec, the national fund for advertising, pub- lic relations > and research can be boosted over the $400,000 mark. Support for this belief is found in the numerous resolutions present- ed at recent dairy meetings favor- ing an increased basis of set-aside across the.country. Most d iry of- ficials give the program consider- able credit for Canada's increased per capita consumption of dairy foods in 1953, In their 1953 report, members of the Dairy Farmers' publicity committee, stress the importance of the 1954 Set-aside. They draw attention to the fact 'that when farm income declines there is a tendency on the part of farmers to increase production to meet Crops Branch of the Ontario De- partment, of Agriculture Urges Use of Registered or Certified Seed as Best Control Measures. That Biblical injunction "As- ye sow, so shall ye reap" may wellbe teamed an authoritative admoni- tion specifically directed to On- tario farmers, says the crops branch of the Ontario Department of Agriculture. Officials of the branch warn that the farmer who carelessly sows wild oats (Avena Fatua) will surely reap a harvest of sorrow. "In the place of plump nutrit- ious grain the farmer who sows wild oats will garner hairy chaffy kernels, long awned and twisted," says C. H Kingsbury, fieldman, "When gazing, mournfully at ker- nels of wild oats he will notice a sucker, mouth scar at 'its base. It is a reminder that only suckers sow such seed." The crops branch points out that the best control measure is to sow registered or certified seed. Use of such seed guarantees freedom from such weeds. It is emphasized that once present wild oat seed can remain- in the soil for many years. Once land is infested the farm- er must play against time to pre- vent the seed from maturing. Sum- mer fallowing with frequent culti- vation will work the seeds to the surface where they can germinate and be destroyed. Winter wheat can follow. Where the infestation is heavy on good crop land, the soil should be worked in the fall and early spring and disced to destroy the seedlings. Follow this treatment with row crops and if necessary, repeat a second year in keeping the crop hoed, advises the crops branch. Plow deep at the end of the first and second year and then follow with early barley seeded down and cut early or pasture off. It is also pointed out that a long- term pastw.'e of five or more years duration will also greatly reduce the amount of living wild oat seed in the soil. Spraying with maleic hydrazide from aircraft just when wild oat blossoms are open prevents the formation of seed but this control is not applicable to Ontario con- ditions. their cots Which remain' Lit a high level. Almost certainly increased production leads to a surplus of one or more dairy foods, Adver- tising, which focuses attention of consumers .03 the food value and economy of dairy foods, is an im- •portent means by which to whittle down surpluses or avoid them en- tirely. Because of the record budget in 1953, Dairy Farmers of Canada advertising, public relations and research program has been extend- ed in 1954. All aspects of the pro- gram are aimed at maintaining Canada as one of the world's top. consumers of dairy foods, Only the New Zealanders and the Swedes eat more dairy foods on a per capita basis than do Canad- ians. CONTRACTS LET FOR PEAS PILICE SAME AS 1953 Contracts for about 800 acres of peas are being issued by, the Exe- ter branch of a canning company. Harry Penhale, manager, announc, ed last Wednesday. The crop is slightly less than -that of 1952 but close to the average in recent years. First contracts were Iet to district farmers Wednesday. Price for peas is :$98.50 per ton, the same as in 1953. Retire on $200 A Month for Life! A popular Halifax grocer and his wife recently retired on $$200amonth for' life. Their dreams of security and comfort have come true, thanks toadecision the grocermade in 1923. It was then he took out a Con- federation Life Insurance Pension Plan which included $20,000 insurance protection. He had just opened his store ... and with the baby and the payments on his home, - he had only so much left for retire- ment plans. It was a pleasant sur- prise when his Confederation Man told him how easily his dreams could come truewithout risks or investment worries. You'll be pleasantly surprised too at how easily you can make your dreams come true - and protect your loved ones at thesame time—. with a Confederation Life Pension Plan with Insurance. ConJedcration Lr• ife ASSAC1ATI" For Free booklet, "Retiring in Comfort Is Not a Miracle", call: K. S. GILLIES, Representative, Clinton jungle as a gorilla or rhino, The people there look fierce in their pagan battle dress, but their spears are marked: 'Made in Birmingham, England." Last yaar Canadians sent or re- ceived 1,934,433 cablegrams. "OId'at 40, 50, 60? Be Wise! Revitalize EN! You're crazy if you let age, get you down when only 40, 50 or 00. There's such n' quick, easy way to get new pep and energy. 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Seaforth Farmers Co-operative JL S. Hunt, Manager Phone ---Day 9, Evenings 481w 39-tfb TENDERS FOR GRAVEL Township of Stanley TENDERS will be received by the tuulersigned until 12 o'clock noon, May 1, 1954, for Crushing and Hauling 5,000 cu. yds. of gravel crushed to 3/ -inch size. Gravel to be put on the road under road superintendent's supervision. Contract to be completed not later than October 15. Marked cheque of $200 to accompany tender. Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. FRED S. WATSON,, Clerk, Township of Stanley 15-16-b NEIL CAMPBELL'S ClintonCHECKER OAR NEWS Farm Supply I'm getting a little jeal- ous of Beau- tena . . people used to come in the store and speak to nae first. Now they conte in and go right straight to Beautena's pen. Of course I can understand why ... she is really a beauty. You oan't boost the price of eggs, but by culling you can lower your production cost. It's wise to study your production costs, then to deternilne the production rate necessary to leave you a profit. Holding pro- duction at 60%, 65%, or 75% may take some close culling, but it's the best way I know to protect profits. Culling is a service we provide to any of our customers. • Health Hint . • Ever watch lice eat money? Actually you don't see there eating holes in your profits, but that's ex- actly what/ takes place whenever lice get ahead of you. At this season lice are most active, but with Purina Poultry Insecticide you can kneels 'em cold. Painted on the roost, with brush or oil -can, the fumes rise and suffocate the lice. It's the sure way. It's easy and the cost is low. They'll knock production if you, don't knock them first. • • We find our window turkeys are creating quite an interest. They have been called ducks, chickens, pheasants and geese, but are turkey poults from the Wallace Turkey Farm at Blyth. Watch them grow; I just saw a report on pigs being raised at the Purina Re- search Farm. Sows there have been weaning an average of 9.17 pigs per litter (twice a year) right along. That means Purina sows are weaning almost 3 extra pigs per litter, above the average. They explain it this way: In poorly fed sows, embryo pigs are resorbed, so fewer pigs are farrowed. Then many pigs, alive at birth, are so small and weak they cannot survive. That's why the general weaning aver- age is so low. We know a lot of local sows, conditioned on Sow & Pig Chow, are weaning big litters, too. Ever figure up what 3 extra pigs marketed per litter would do to your profits? Let's Get Acquainted Next time you're in town, drop in and say "howdy". Telt us about, your feeding and sani- tation problems. Could be we could be of service to you, since our people are trained by Purina and luavc lots of exper- ience, too;' in helping farmers around here. Don't forget .. . we have a date. 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