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Clinton News Record, 1954-07-08, Page 4PAGE 1OT..1B iimariamousisioup CLINTON NEWS -RECORD 1TIURSDAY,.--,JLILY••8- 954 'Why I Am So Happy In (1Iy, ELIZABETH FALCONErty, AThis is the essay• given by ., Miss ElizabethFalconer, dau- ghter of Mr. and Mrs, George •Falconer, Brucefield, , and a pupil of Grade 3, Clinton Pqb ile School, which won first place in local Legion' speaking contest and third In the Zone • firials;) "Who wouldn't (or couldn't) be happy M Ontario.? In our province we have all that is to be desired for a happy life at our very door -- snow and ice in winter for tobog- ganing, skiing and skating. There are lakes and rivers for summer swimming, boating, fishing and other aquatic sports. We have beautiful and healthful summer sunshine without excessive heat, and an invigorating winter clizn- ate with the Great Lakes border - Ing our province to moderate both our summer and winter temper- . atures. • "Many people go to Europe, or the Atlantic or Pacific coasts, or south to Florida. or California. looking for •beauty or diversion, .but wijere can they find either to surpass our own beauty spots? — A drive in our own verdant countryside with its colourful trees and streams—a trip to our own Niagara Falls with its beauti- ful parks—a cruise on our own lake waters -7a trip to our north- land with its beauty of forests, rock and wild life—or even a visit to some of our attractive cities with their lovely homes and parks will convince anyone that this is Ontario, the Beautiful. "Where but in Ontario can you find Such' wealth of products — grain, vegetables and livestock from ciur rich farming lands—oil, gas, minerals.and metals from our natural deposits—and almost any manufacturing _product you can name. "We have lovely summer resorts with fine bathing beaches which our neighbours to, the south like to frequent, where they can enjoy a sight they cannot see in their own country—sunset across the , untario- Happy Workers Plan .Day. With Thimbles' The June meeting of the Happy Workers Club was held at the home of ,Mrs, William Holland. The meeting took the ,form of a lawn quilting. Nine attended. The president, Mrs. Glazier, opened the meeting with the Lord's Prayer. 'Roll call was an . - swered bY the presentation of gifts for the layette. Business was dis- cussed and the quilt completed. ELIZABETH F,ALCONER The next meeting will be held in the evening at the home of Mrs. Warren Gibbings. 3/embers are asked to (bring their •needle and thimble, Quilt blocks are to •be handed in, Trie hostess will be Mrs.' William Holland, assisted by Mrs. GiblaingS,, Mrs. Garrett and Mrs. Ken Williams served a lovely lunch The meeting adjourned with the singing of "God Save the Queen." • ' • .„ Wed infahnerston Following; a wed:' ding trip to North- ern -Ontario,., Mr. and Mrs. James Gordon Nivins will reside in Clinton. The bride is the for- mer Mary Elizabeth Scott, daughter of Mrs: 'Scott, Palmer- ston, and the late James A. Scott, The groorn is the son of Mrs. Melinda Niv- ins, Clinton, and the " fate William Nivins. The • couple were married in St.Paul's Anglican Church, Palmerston, on Sat- urdaY, June 19. ,. lake. Even in winter they come to Ontario for skiing and tobogan- ning at our winter resorts., "I am happy in Ontario because it Is a good l place in which to dwell — Here we are free to live as we choose, in fine homes, in a beautiful province. We have the chance of a good education as well as recreation and our choice, of an occupation or profession.. TheSe are the reasons why I ani so proud and happy to live in Ontario." 501110 Tower -thrust Fly •Sprays We • have sprays for barns, livestock or 'house. 'Let us know your requirements and we will •supply the best spray to take care of them. BUG KILLERS 'We carry a complete stock of these'," either to -use dry or wet. Now N the time to spray weeds: Weed killers work best on hot, dry days. Have Western Oats recleaned, good feed for poultry on range, Fred 0. Ford PHONE 123W CLINTON Brightens Th(Nkture Of 'Your Ferffill Talk over a Farm Improvement Loan with "MY HANK' your nearest Bank of Montreal manager. roZINIIOM nINADIAR$ • -DANK, OF MON'FIELFAIL ADM exwa.d.,.:,70ree e'cue4 working with Canadians In every wnlk of sinc 1'817 Clinton Branch: WILLIAM IVIORLOK, Manager Londesborough (Sub -Agency; Open Mon, 81 Thurs. —0.4-•-•-•-•••4-.•• •-• • • 444-40•4•-4 • The Top Shell... [ (BY ••••••••444,4a. -aa -tea•-•-•-•-•-•-• -• It will no doubt be surprising to many people who are spending their summer vacations basking on beaches, fishing or climbing mountains, to learn that 'during these lazy days the people of Can- ada—and probably people all over America—are reading more than they do in the winter. While television and hockey games oc- cupy a great many people during the cold evenings, there is hardly a hammock or a train sear these days that does not have a book (probably a soft cover edition) or a magazine within easy reach. Almost everyone who attends the drama festival in Stratford this summer Will have done some brushing up on Shakespeare, and at least one Canadian newspaper publisher I know has selected the Bible for his holiday reading. can offer no better book than the Bible, but there are a few things that might be said in recommend- ing further reading. BENJAMIN BEVERIDGE) ; find it quite as palatable as Dr. Robertson says it can be if prop- erly prepared. In an eight-month season thous- ands et whales are killed by har- poon guns and censunted in the great ovens of thelactory ship.. A single blue whale might weigh 120 tons and censist of 80- barrels of blubber oil, 40 barrels of meat, oil and 42 barrels of bone oil. It is in length about 89 feet, with a tongue weighing three tons, a heart weighing half a ton. Eight tens of blood 'flow through its great hulk. What excitement and danger in such a life! • And what courageous men who live it! * * I had almost forgotten that Dr) Valchrianis, the Latvian whd• has been giving Premier Smallwood of Newfoundland • such a difficult time, was once a professor of economics at Carleton College in Ottawa. But learning that Wilf Kesterton (of Regina) who is a professor at that school, has com- pleted his book on the history of Journglism in Canada reminds me also that I had the privilege of suggesting a name for Carleton when it was being organized in 1941. Although my suggestion was not 'accepted, I cannot but hope that some of the integrity rubbed off on me from that great Can- adian who was the first president of Carleton College — Dr. Henry Marshall Tory. Destiny has a magnificent fa- culty for providing men with the proper associates, but it is rather !unique that the two men who formed the entire staff of Carleton in its first days were both Novn Scotians. Dr. Tory of Guysbor- ough County, was the president, end Lloyd R. Shaw of Halifax, was the registtar,- And it is an- other Nova Scotian, Dr. E. A. Corbett, who has written the much-needed biography called "Henry Marshall Tory" (Ryerson). But Dr, Tory .was only born in Neva. Scotia. He went: out into the world to find his mark. He was in his time—he, died in 1947 at the age of 83—a professor at McGill, Cm president of the Uni- versity of Alberta, the president of the National Research Council, a member of numerous royal C0171 - missions, and, perhaps, most im- portant of all, he was, the man who organized the famous Khaki University which established in the Canadian Amy in 1917 an entirely new concept of the sold- ier's needs and rights, which has * * 0. There have been more than 300 editions of "The Cornpleat Angler" since Izaak Walton wrote it back in the 17th century, and probably some sportsmen who are fishing for rainbow. trout in Alberta or hiiiiting tuna in Nova Scotia have a copy of the latest edition c'long with them. But there is no book on sea game—unless it is Mel- ville's "Nay Dick"—that provides better reading currently than R. B. Robertson's exciting story of the Antarctic, "Of Whales and Me". ..• • Published by Knopf and written by a Scottish medical doctor who signed on one of the most curious expeditions since Fawcett's last trip up the Amazon, "Of Whales and Men" is an account to stir the souls of the few adventurers who remain on this earth. To all oth- ers it will cause acute inflamma- tion of the imagination. - The whaling industry has chang- ed a good deal since lVfoby Dick's - day, but the vvbales are just the same and so, are the men who hunt them. It is practically the mainstay of life ,for the Norweg- ians, and in Europe the vast marg- arine business is largely dependent on the whale. Although it is hot so important to Scotsmen as It once. was, there were still many good men from Scotland who were with Robertson when he•landed at South Georgia, a small British island in the South Atlantic Ocean which is used as a whaling base. There were 17 ships in the ex- pedition, most of them manned by men (700 of them in this ease). wbo had spent their -lives hunting the sea monsters at the bottom of the earth. A factory ship forms the nucleus'. of .such an operation, and on this tremendous processing centre the whales are transformed from bloated carcasses (the whales are filled with air to keep them afloat until they can be gathered up) into the essential ingredients of a thousand pro- ducts, such as oiI fox' margarine, of courae, -and oil for precision instruments, glands for medical preparations, flesh for food, fert- ilizer and perfume. 1 have eaten whale meat mySelf, but did -not awe/ Woo, Important ONTARIO New Legislation respecting ELEVATORS and LIFTS I wish to bring to attention that The ElevatOrs'and Lifts Act, 1953, came into force on June 17, 1954. Under this legislation, in Ontario the owner of an elevator, dumb -waiter, escalator, raanlift or incline lift must obtain an annual licence to operate the elevator or lift. , Tlie legislation further provides that only a person Who holds a certificate of competency issued under the Act may make inspections of these installations in Ontarib. In addition, contractors who construct, installirepair, or maintain elevators or lifts, etc., may now only carry on business in Ontario if they are registered under the Act. In order to comply with the legislation -- Any person employed by an insurer to make inspections must make application immediately for a certificate of competency: 01,VNE1IS CONTRACTORS 1 of elevators, dumb -waiters, must make application irnmedi- escalators, manlifts or incline ately for annual registration. lifte must naake application im- mediately for licence to operate their installations, Licences and certificates of competency for the period ending December 31, 1954, are now available, and Anquiries and requests for application "forms ahould be directed to the Chief Inspector, nlevator Inspection Branch, Department of Labour, Parliament Buildings, Toronto, Ontario. ' ONTARIO DEP-ARTMEN/ OF LABOUR Charles Daley, Minister J I Cold Myste:41"*.' Thescommon cold may be a sim- ple illness to many people, but it is a complex problem for medical re- search. Scientists have rhade tre- nsendlihs progress in developing drugs that cure and prevent serious disease, but it wasbnly recently that they made the first step in solving the mystery of the common cold. A British virus expert, Dr. Chris- topher H. Andrewes, director of the Common Cold rte. search Unit at Salisbury, Eng- land, has been able to grow the virus of the com- mon cold oUtside the human body. Many other vi- ruses have been isolated. and stud- ied in the laboratories' but this is the first time in medicalhistory that the cold germ, the smallest of all viruses, has been able to be kept alive artificially. The cold, as well as other respira- tory diseases such as influenza, "strep throat" and pneumonia, is caused by some of the countleas vi- ruses that float in the air. The small- est living creatures known, thete germs are drown into the nose,„„ throat and lungs by the air we breathe, and multiply in the cell linings. • It is paradoxical that there 13 no cure for this time -wasting, an- noying,illness while serious respire - tory diseases like pneumonia pan be arrested by the new antibiotic drugs such as terramycin , Andrewes cautions that ". . . the cure of the comtnon cold is still a long way off. Alas, we will have to go on suffering for some time to come." It Is reassuring to know, how- ever, that extensiye research con- tinues ond, according to the d6'e. tor, 'no.- vva' `1,4 V4' our foot on the bottor too., .4 Ow ladder We hope now become a common attitude throughout the world. , Dr. Corbett is himself soniething of a great, Canadian, having come from Truro and, like ' Dr. Tory, having served on, the staff of 'the University of Alberta, He recently wrote a delightful book called "Father, God Bless Him", which I gave a -favorable review. Now I feel that his "Henry Marshall Tory" is a book wrich demairds the attention of all those who are proud of the people who have made this Canada of ours great. Weed of Week "DODDER" THE SCOURGE OF LEGUME PRODUCTION Dodder, Strangle Weed or Devil's Gut as it is variously cal- led is a true parasite of the'vege- table kingdom, reports the Crops Branch of the Ontario Depart- ment, of Agriculture. It consti- tutes a real threat to legume seed production particularly as it is very difficult to separate the seed of the weed from that of clover. Decider has no leaves, being a pale yellow vine that twines itself around clovers and other weeds. It sucks its food 'from the host plant and produces clusters of pale White flowers, which in turn de- velop four celled seed pods. It has no roots as the tiny plant lets go of the soil. when it be- comes attached -to a host plant. One plant may travel for several feet and' produce thousands of seeds. As well as clovers and most weeds it has a -marked pref- erence for flax and buckwheat plants. Preventien is the safest means of control. All seed must be free of this pest and if found it must not be allowed to produce seed. If it is in the early seed stage or later, the crop must be destroy- ed in order to prevent it spread- ing. Seeds may lie dormant in the soil for long periods of time making frequent inspections neces- sary to make sure that growing plants do not produce seed. There are many species of this plant but all are dangerous. Sam- ples should be forwarded to Bot- any Division, Central Experiment- al Farm, Ottawa,br Ontario Agri- cultural College, Guelph, to be identified. Under our Dominion Seeds Act this weed is in the Prohibited class and when found seed is of a rejected grade. Black summer fallow is to be advised but may have to be con- tinued for several years. Grasses and cereals will not snpport this weed but such crops must be free from clovers arid weeds. Farmers are warned to treat it as a scourge and not think of it as "just an- other weed." Spring Term Ends at "Tipperary" School. Teacher Honoured By Pupils June 29 was the end of school When they don't do their work fox the term at Tipperary and the Children had planned a -special party for their teacher, •Miss Margaret Holland who is leaving to teach in Clinton Public School this September, IVIiss Holland was pleasantly surprised with two lovely bouquets of roses presented by Janet Harris and Nancy Stirling. Janet Tyndall presented a' beautiful silver bread tray while Kathleen Rathwell read the 'address, composed by Derina Murch, (12 years old) and a grade seven pupil: To Miss Holland: (Donna Murch, Grade 7) For the, past three years, dear teacher, - You have taught us all we know, .And your struggle was not a fail - Each one on to the next grade did go. Barrie, Lenus " and Allen are in grade one, , . Their work is 'hardly ever done. Often five and one equals four, Sometimes less, somethnes more, Four boys are in" grade two. this ' year— Murray, Keith, Gordon and Larry. They print, read, sit and tarry; Murray has dimples, all the rest • smile; • And they are happy all the while. Now we come to the girl's in •• grade three, • Janet and Naicy as their -names They aren1;13iss golland's pride and . joy , • And little angels compared to each boy. In grade five there are 'Stuart, John and Freddie, For some fun they are always • ready; They'll pick up a snake or frog or toad, And chase us girls 'down the road. Kathleen plays; Janet can sing; They can make the schoolroom ring. Bruce likes ball, -instead of a song, And never does one thing wrong. Doug is the lucky one. He's through, But Donna is feeling mighty blue, For she hoped you'd stay another year, And see her get out of here. When things go wrong when you're teaching, in town, - and you worry and frown, Shake Y'eur head and give a sigh And think of the pleasant days gone by. We are sorry yZiu have to leave this year, So please accept this gift, teacher • dear; And in the years to come, we wish Thal you'd think of us, as you uSe this dish.' This was followed by treats of candy made by the girls. Promotions Miss Holland ,announces follow- ing promotions; Allen Gilbert, Lenus Yeo and Barrie. 'Willer to grade two; Larry Gilbert, Murray Grigg, Keith Rathwell and Gordon Tyndall -to grade three; Nancy Stirling and Janet Harris to grade fopr; Stuart Grigg to grade five; John Harris and Freddie Dutot to grade six; Kathleen Rathwell, • Brace Harris and Janet Tyndall to- gtade seven; Donna Murch to grade eight and Douglas Cant- elon to grade nine. Picnic The evening of June 29 was the annual school picnic for S.S. 9, held at Jowett's Grove, Hayfield, with a very good attendance. The following won prizes in the various sports events: Dennis Harris, pre- school running race; Lenus Yeo, grade 1 and 2; Janet Harris, grade 3; John Harris, grades 4, 5 and 6; Kathleen Rathwell, grade 6 and 7; Kathleen Rathwell, senior girls' Douglas Cantelon, senior boys; Nancy Stirling, sack race. • John Harris and Stuart" Grigg won the three-legged race.. John Harris won the somersault race. John Harris and Stuart Grigg won the wheelbarrow race. -Kathleen Bothwell and 1VIrs. George Wise kicked their slippers the farthest. Shirley Cooper and Mrs. Reg. Mil- ler won the minute walking race. Janet Harris won the "kiss eandY" scramble. Stuart Grigg won the bubble contest for the biggest bubble-gurn bubble. A game of ball finished a very enjoyable eyening. SEArORT11 LIONS PARK XS KEPT BUSY WITH PICNICS The Lions Park was a busy spot on Tuesday evening last when three different church events were in progress. Egmondville United Church held a successful chicken barbeque, with an attendance of over 300 people, and there were church picnics from Constance United Church and Thames Road United Chureh.7—,Seaforth News. • A Boy's or Girl's Bi • • • • • • MASSEY-HARRIS FIRST WITH - FULL SCALE TEST , TRACK FOR FARM. EQUIPMENT Wide -spread and fast has been the swing to modern meaanization. Urgent -demands have been. made upon implement engineers to . develop new models to keep up with the needs of agriculture. To get information on materials, designs and features in hours and days instead of the usual months and years, Massey -Harris designed and built the forst full scale test track' for tractors and modern power farm equipment. On this test track the machines lug heavy loads, bump and shake, -bounce and sway, jolt and jar, climb steep grades, and. spin round and round. 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