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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1951-02-01, Page 10PAGE TEN by V. C. PORTEOUS * Director ONTARIO PLOWMEN'S ASSOCIATION EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of a series of weekly stories which Victor C. Porteous, Owen Sound, Ont., a director of the Ontario Plowmen's Associaltion, who as their coach -manager, will write about the visit of Canada's champion plowmen to the British 'on the e rk and area Isles Belgium, D Netherlands. ON BOARD THE QUEEN MARY: We are now on our way across the Atlantic', We left the dock in New York about 3.30 a.m. and it is now mid afternoon. The Mg ship is rolling a little but not too much and I think we will prove seaworthy. I hope so, for none of us'have been to sea be- fore, By us I mean Hugh Leslie of Georgetown, Ont,, and Herbert Jarvis of- Agincourt.,Ont.. the 1950' Canadian champion plowmen and myself. We are heading for the other side to take part in plowing matches in the British Isles and to observe agricultural conditions and visit historical places there and in Holland, Bel- gium and Denmark. We are the fifth in as 'many years to have been awarded all- expens-paid overseas trips by imperial Oil as a result of win- ning the Esso Champions Trans - Atlantic horse and traotor classes et the International Plowing Match. The boys won their trips, in competition with county and district champions and I was ap- pointed team manager by the Ontario Plowmen's Association who sponsor the big annual event. Besides lobking after the boys one of my jobs is to write a series of letters describing our exper- iences abroad — what we see, what we do andisometimes what we hear. I hope they will prove interesting to your But to get this series of letters properly under wayP11 introduce the two champion plowmen and myself. By coincidence both of the boys are 28 yearsold but Herbert Jarvis, the gold: medal horse plowman, is really the younger. His birthday was January 3, the day we left Toronto for • New. York, (Nice birthday present,. eh?). Herb is the son of John h r and is the second 'young:- Jarvis Y g' est of the "seven plowing Jarvis brothers," Willis, Donald, Rus- sell, Richard, Norman, Herbert and Leonard—in that order. The boys were given that title' when all of them competed .at the East York plowing match In 1947. Norman won that year but Herb has since won the county ohamp- ionship two years in a row, It might interest you to know that while Herb is an out-and- out horse plowman he works in a plant turning out -tractors. But on weekends Herb plows with a horse on his father's 100 -acre farm. His wife is a Timbers, a member of a family' that includes many champion plowmen, and they have twin daughters, Linda and Donna, who will be three years old next May. Hugh Leslie, the gold medal tractor -plowman, hails from Georgetown, end is an old hand at tractor plowing. He has been behind the wheel of a tractor since he was able to climb into the driver's seat and he has coni- peted at county and International matches since they were resumed after the war. Last year he was Peel County champion in the open sod tractor class, Hugh and his father, George H. Leslie, work a 40( -acre farm and of course it is highly mech- anized, He is a married man and the father of a four-year-old daughter Lynda Ann. As for me, I'm a farmer from away back and my Grey Maples farm near Owen Sound has been in the family for over a hundred years My son is now operating it and I'm a sort of silent' WISE and BATEMAN Agents for ANTHES-IMPERIAL and GAR WOOD WINGHAM SUNBLAST FURNACES ONE FOR EVERY PURPOSE Call. us to solve your' WIRING and PLUMBING PROBLEMS WSE and BATE!/1AN —Phone 147-- PLUMI3ING and HEATING — SHEET METAL WORK ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS Successors to Sutter-Pordue's Shop Work partner. I have always been interested in organizations that are aimed et improving agricultural condi- tions and I've taken an active part in nearly all farm organiza- tions in North Grey. Well, so much for all of us, 1 had better get back to describing our trip or you'll think we never got off. The day of our depar- ture was a busy one what with radio broadcasts, press interviews, photographers and the official luncheon. ^ I was glad thai, Col. Tom Kennedy, the Ontario Min- ister :if Agriculture, was able to drop m for it wouldn't have seemed right not to have him there to wish us luck. But before we knew it it was time to be at Toronto's Union Station. Our departure was quite in accord with all the other events of the day end I must say that the spirit of those friends who saw us off was not dampened in the least by the in- clement weather. Platform tic- kets did not seem to be necessary for f heard a good many of our friends tell the man at the gale they had reservations on the New York train. I think I heard at least five say they had lower six on car 36, but of course they were rot on the train when, it pulled out. We had no trouble whatever with inspection at the 'border as the customs officers were aboard whenwe left Toronto." inspection was carried out, systematically and completed by the time we entered the United States, Alto- gether our train trip was quite uneventful except for the fact that we were about one •and-a- haif York.hcurs late arriving in New It was 11 a.m. when we got into cur rooms at the Biltmore Hotel. By the time we contact- ed Peter Kinnear of Standard Oil, New Jersey, it was almost noon and he invited us to have lunch with him and a group of his associates. Mr. Kinnear is a former Ontario boy, having beens raised in Cayuga. We were taken to the Lunch- eon Club in the Rainbow Room of the R.C.A. Building, Rocke- feller Cenitre. This is on the 65th floor, about 800 feet above ground level. After lunch we were shown New York from the top of the same building. It was quite a CLINTON .NEWS -RECORD As this was the first ooeate voyage, for all of us we never ceased to be amused. T he accommodation and service on. that big ship—about a quarter of rt mile long-Twas all that one, could desire. . We had coffee in bed every morning; which none' of us get at home. We found the meals excellent end the menus had considerable variety. There were facilities and ser- vices of every sort aboard in- cluding swimming pool, bar, ten- nis court,, gymnasium, library, bank, drug and general merch- andise shops; even a hospital with doctors and nurses. Fortunately we didn't have to use the hospi- tal but we found all the other services reasonable, in many cases more so than those to be had on land. The ship's crew were most o t andeven bl ifB�g though the ship rolled a Itittle, life on the ocean wave was in- deed agreeable. "The Queen." made good time crossing' the Atlantic. At six a.m. on the fifth day out of New York she dropped anchor at Cherbourg, France." Burt she stayed 'only long enough to dis- charge some passengers and cargo and we were soon on our way again to England.. At one p.m. "The Queen" docked at South- ampton, our destination. Waiting on the dock to greet us were representatives 'cif. the Anglo-American Oil Co, They helped us clear customs and in a short time we were on the train to London. There we were met by officials of Ontario House and they escorted us `to the Cumber- land Hotel where we are irestai led, Iii London On our first full day in Lon- don we went by train to visit the National Agricultural Experi- mental Machinery Institution which is operated by the Depart- ment of Agriculture of Great Brittain. It is located at a place called Silsoe in Bedfordshire., It consists ,of 250 acres and was part of an estate formerly owned by the Duke of York, now King George VI. There we met John Hawkins who has made an extensive study of plowing methods. When I mentioned that we in the On- tario Plowmen's Association are interested in setting up a stand- ardht, ' method of plowing to be used g at international matches through - Later we visited some of the out the 'world instead of the va'r'iety of methods that are used today, he was in agreement. He offered to lend his assistance to any efforts we may make in that direction. This was gratifying and makes me feel that the day may not be long off when we will have a universal standard. Perhaps by the time I get back home there will be more to re- port on this matter. The following day R. H. Staple- ford of Ontario House took us on a start sightseeing tour. We saw many famous landmarks and districts and my feeling is that there is no city in the world quite like London. Even, though there are big gaps caused' by flying bombs and air raids, it. still has an air of grandeur and solidity, To these qualities may be added that of hominettr. It is no wonder that our boys who were here during the war pos- sess an affection for the city that is only exceeded by their , love for their home town. Our tour ended at the residence of Col. James S. P. Armstrong, Agent General for Ontario, where we were guests at lunch. It was an enjoyable affair and among the other guests was D. A. Bruce Marshall, agricultural secretary at Canada House who is the son of the late Senator Duncan Marsh- all, a former Ontario minister of agriculture. Following lunch we were taken on a tour of the Houses of Parl- lament at Westminster. A spec- ial attendant explained details of the buildings and some of the customs and traditions that sur - offices' in the same building, where one of the radio networks recorded an interview with Herb and Hugh for use the next day on a farm broadlast, We also had some photographs taken with "Dagmar," a well-known tele- vision altress. Naturally this was enjoyed by all—even myself. In the evening we had dinner, a smorgasbord, at a Swedish restaurant. There was everything you could think of to eat, and plenty of it. Later we toured sections of Greater Neyv York in- cluding Wall Street, Brooklyn end the whorves. We certainly enjoy- ed every minute of it. All too some it was 11 p.m, and time to go aboard the Queen Mary. We regretted having to bid our new friends good-bye. Once on board the Queen Mary we stayed up and watched its prcgreg out of the harbour. At fuer a.m. we passed the Statue, of Liberty, By " five we were pretty well out of sight of land so we waved good-bye to North America and made for bell. "Invasion" Begins LONDON, England: It is just a little better than a week since we said good-bye to our relatives and friends in Canada and now we are in the great city of Lon- don. Our long anticipated "in- vasion" of the British Isles is now well underway. If the newt five weeks prove to be as ex- citing o as the past one, we'It certainly have a lot to talabout when we get home. TE CORNERSTONE OF OUR WAY OF LIFE Today, more than ever before, a sound family life is an essen- tial background for the preservation of our way of life. Since the founding of the Manufacturers Life in 1887, hundreds of thousands of breadwinners have used its facilities to safeguard the futures of their families. 390,000 CLIENTS ARE NOW entrusting substantial amounts of their savings to the Manufacturers Life to protect their dependents' and their own retirement. 51,309,344,457 01' INSURANCE AND RETIRE. /WENT protection is provided by the policies they own. $413,855,443 IS SECURELY INVESTED to guaran. • tee payment of tho benefits promised under these policies. 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In the evening we were guests of Anglo-American at a dinner and a show, 2 had some diffi- culty in getting everything that was said at the show because it was delivered in that broad and proper English that is 'not, as you know, always spoken in Canada. Our opinions at this early stage are naturally subect to revision at a later date. Herb says the girls here aren't as pretty as they ere et home and Hugh says he hasn't seen a new car since he arrived My first observations would be that England, more than five years after V -E day, is still suf- fering from the effects of the war. This is evident in such things as the numbers of old cars, the many buildings inneed of repair and the old fashioned and dilapi'tated raih•oad equip- ment. After talking it over, we are agreed that the British people are facing and accepting their responsibilities with a fortitude and a forebearance that is to be admired. 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