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CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1951.
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Y THURSDAY at CLINTON, Ontario, Canada, in the Heart of
Published
R. S. ATKEY, Editor A. L. COLQUHOUN, Plant Manager
THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1951
Electrical Strides oii the Farm
A CLOSE APPROXIMATION of the " ex-
tent electricet is now used in Can-
adia to which y will
adian homes, in all parts of the country,
be obtained when the Ninth Decennial Census
of Canada is taken in June 'this. year:
Serving more Canadians now than ever
before, it forms the keystone of industry and
our rising standard of living. Extension of
service has reached new peaks in recent
the years, especially to rural areas, and tie work
still is progressing. It is opening up large
new areas in industrialization, and making the
advantages of modern conveniences end labour-
saving machinery available to farm and other
rural homes. •
The census enumerator will ask every
fifth householder what principallighting
facilities are in use, and comparsion with the
1941 Census figures will provide an nocnrrate
measure of the -progress made in the decade.,
The 1941 Census revealed that 69 per cent
of all Canadian households used electricity for
lighting purposes, In a sample survey con-
ducted by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics,
in the fall of 1949, it was found that the
proportion had risen to 86 per cent—a striking
rise in a period of less than nine years.
Metropolitan areas are practically 100 per
cent
electrified
and the smaller urban areas
• uh
almost wholly so,. It is in the rural areas
that the greatest strides in electrification have
been made recently.Only 20 per cent of farm
homes reported the use of electricity in the
Census of 1941, but the proportion • had risen
sharply to 50 per cent in 1949. .About 60 per
cent of rural non-farm.homes were served,with
electricity in 1941, but in 1949 the figure was
up to 79 per cent.
Morally Wrong and Economically Unsound
(The Rural Scene)
most gigantic gamble Canada had ever seen,
and lost twenty million dollars of the farmers'
money in their reckless speculation. And the
farmers lied so little control that they couldn't
even fire the culprits.
Legislation would be required to make
this kind of _marketing lawful, and the pro -
motors axe asking for such legislation. They
are esking for legislation that would give
them control of the people's food in order that
they might charge more for it.
In making this request they show a woeful
lack of understanding of the true functions
of the market, and a woeful disregard for the
duties of government.
The marketing of farm products eontinues
to be the absorbing topic at the annual gath-
etings of farm organizations.
A demand is being created .for legislation
that will take the marketing of his crops
completely out of the farmenls hands and pate
it into the hands of government appointed
boards, which will have monopolists: control
of whatever crops are assigned to them.,
' The theory seems to be th it whether or
not these boards have business judo:ccnt and
met ting ability, they will et least have auth-
ority to forbid price -cutting, and to os nipol
the fanners to market or to withhold their
crops from market as the boards direct.
Producer Control is the attractive name they
have chosen for this kind cf marketing. But
the connection between the name and the
reality is hard to discern.
The farmers will have no authority over
the beerds; but the boards will have complete
cotnaof over the farmers, and if the crops are
frittered away in vain and foolish attempts
to control prices, the farmers will he the losers
and tit ill have no redress.
Enthusiastic supporters of ihr movement
tell us that the purpose is to get away f rom
the sreculatotes and middlemen, and :m.u•ket
the crops in the interests of the farmers and
their consumer customers.
Western grain farmers had some costly
experience of this kind of producer controlled
rnar,ceting when the what pools undertook
to dlctate the price et whish they would sell
evheat, and refusedto sell for less.
On that occasion the men who had pledged
theneselves to put an end to speculating in
the farmers' wheat became involved in the
From Our Early „Files
25 YEARS AGO
Advertisers who used this edi-
tion to sell their wares included:
Harland Bros., Fred Jackson, The
The Clinton News -Record W. D. Fair Co, Tozer and Brown,
Thursday, April 1, 1926 Miss Cantelon & Co., Plumsteel
Groves -Jordan -At the home of Bros:; A. J. Grigg, Hoover & Bali,
the officiating minister, on Wed- W. H. ReiWar, James Twitchell
needay, March 31, 1926 by Rev. & Son, Cooper & Co., Couch &
T. J. Snowden, Clinton, Gladys Co., Irwin's, The Morrish Cloth-
Veral, youngest daughter of Mr. itig Co„ W. S. R. Holmes, W. T.
and •Mrs, Samuel Jordan, to Ar-. O'Neil, J. E. Hovey, S. C. Rath-
thur. William Groves. well, C. Hoare, W. R. Oounter.
Joseph McIntosh suffered a n
broken collar bone when he was
thrown from his sleigh on Monday
morning, near the reilroad tracks.
There was a terrific storm in
Clinton this week, tieing up
things very badly. Hydro has
been off for three days, but was
turned.' on again this morning.
H. S. Turner has purchased the
lot opposite W. J, Stevenson's,
which is known as the old Trouse
place.
Those assisting with the special
Easter music - in Wesley -Willis
Malted Church, as well as the
were
•
't'Mrs, M.J. Agnew,
or
g
airs
Miss Ann Stewart; Mrs. M. Neal -
ger. Mrs. a% G. Chowen, William
Moffatt, A. McKinnon, Miss Mary
R. Stewart.
Included in the prize winners
in a contest recently conducted
by .the Mail and Empire were
Miss Mae Ferguson, Mrs. Harry
J. Fremlin, Mrs. R. G. Thomp-
son and J. W. Manning.
Miss Ferrol Higgins was the.
guest soloist at the special Good
Friday services in St James'
Anglican Church, Loudon.
T. H. Leppington has purchased
the lot north of J. F. Wasman on
Albert St. and is considering
building on it
Enron Central Agricultural
Society has decided. to postpone
the annual Spring Show to April
15, just another of the results of
the severity of the storm this
week.
E. Wendorf has installed a
frigid air refrigerator which will
dispense with the necessity of
having ice for drinks and ice
cream.
In preparation for the vote on
the Collegiate by-law next Mon-
day, William Brydone, chairman
of the Board, has written a letter
to The News -Record stressing that
if the by-law is not carried the
present building wild not be re -
Modelled, as the architeot whose
advice has been sought on this
question deems that a very in -
The true function of a market is to bring
. buyers and sellers together from wherever
they are, to furnish them with the latest and
most reelable information available in regard
to the supply of, and the demand for the
commodities It handles, to provide facilities
for trading in such commodities, end to leave
the traders free to make whatever bargains
they can.
The only market that can perform this
service is the open market to which all inter-
ested panties have access.
It is the considered opinion of this paper
that the men behind this movement for pro-
ducer-ooutrolled marketing boards have an
entirely wrong conception of the proper func-
tion of a market, and en entirely wrong con-
ception of the duties and responsibilities of
governments.
They should not be encouraged in what
they are . doing, because it is morally wrong'
and economically unsound.
How to Halt Inflation
Inflation constitutes one of the greatest
fears of Canadians, apart from war itself and
facts brought to light in the study should
serve to give 'Canadians a more intelligent
understanding of the problem and to drive
home the importance of our individual roles
in resisting powerful inflationary pressures.
The report urges Canadians to realize that
in spite of buoyant incomes there are going
to be relatively fewer peacetime things to
purchase. Since this constitutes the root cause
of rising prices, the problem can be solved
only :-by `preventing excessive purchasing
power from being spent." Direct controls do.. •
not provide the answer, because they do not
strike at the root cause of inflation but only
IF CANADIANS insist on scrambling for
the available supply of goods and services
they may well "bid prices up to fantastic
levels with all the attendant hardships and
inj tistices,"
This warning is contained in a special tee
port on inflation issued by the Executive Coun-
cil of The Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
Various methods of combatting the menace
are listed.
at its symptoms. At the same time, some con-
trols might be necessary to allocate scerce
materials to the most essential uses.
' To fight inflation, the report recommends:
1. Restraint of credit, particularly for non-
productive purposes.
2. Increased but fair taxation to drain off
excessive purchasing power.
3. More efficient and greater output.
4. Increased saving on the part of both
individttels and goverrunent.
In tracing the causes of the present in-
flationary pressures, the report indicates that,
to some extent, the 59 per cent average in-
crease in wholesale prices which occurred be-
tween the end of the war and mid -1950 repre-
sented the inevitable release of forces generat-
ed and pent up during the war years. Boom
conditions of a peculiarly inflationary nature
existed in Canada throughout most of the post
war period. For example, capital expenditure
on plant, equipment, etc.generated spending
power 'hut did not immediately, add to the
over-all supply of goods on which wages and
salaries could be spent. It was a constant
pattern of Spending power in dollars rising
faster than production, and "if monetary pol-
icies had been less timid, some of the upward
pressure on prices would have been reduced
at the source." •
OBITUARY
STANLEY
MRS. ISAB'ELLA TUNNEY
Funeral services were held at
the Ball and Mutate Funeral Home,
High St, Clinton, on Friday,
March 23, 1951, for Isabella
Learning, beloved wife of the late
Robert Tunney, Rev. D. J. Lane
officiated and 'interment -followed
fu Clinton Cemetery: Pallbearers
were R. Y. Hattin, David Kay,
a David•
Jamas Crui'dosh nks
, D1-.
liott, Harvey Chutor and A.
Fletcher. Flower bearers were
four grandsons: Frank and Bob
Cook, John and Lloyd Butler;
Leslie Harding a n d William
Leeming:
Mrs. Tunney was born in
Northumberland, England, 90
years ago, and was a daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Leeming. At the age of two she
came to Canrada with her par-
ents, and prior to coming to
Clinton in 1914 lived near West-
field. She was a. member iof
Westfield United Church.
Mrs, Tunny's death occurred
at Hotel Clinton, where she made
her home with her daughter, Miss
Mary Butler, on Wednesday,
March 21, following an illness of
three weeks.
As a young woman, she mar-
ried Alex Butler who predeceas-
ed her in 1910. Two years later,
she married Robert Turney Who
predeceased her 14 years ago.
Surviving are two sons: Alex
Butler, Goderich, anti John R.
Butler. Clinton; end two daugh-
ters, Miss Mary Butler and Mrs:
L. J. Cook, Clinton. Also sur-
viving are eight grandchildren
and six great-grandchildren. A
daughter, Elizabeth, predeceased
her mother in 1914.
11/Liss Lois Moffat Lend vise
on,
iced at her home -over the week-
end.
Miss.. Isobel Fraser, Toronto,
spent the Easter weekend •with
he$ cousin, Miss Isobel Glen.
Mr. and Mrs, Lorne E. Pepper,
Niagara Fails, spent a few days
with John Pepper and other
friends.
Miss Kate McGregor, Wing
henry, and Miss Mergarot McGreg-
or, Toronto, are spending `the
holidays at their a -ranee
Donald Daymarid, Chatham, is
spending the Easter vacation with
his grandfather, Adam Stewart.
Mrs, Marion Laramie and Eliza-
beth, Clifford, and Miss Jean. Mc-
Ewan, Toronto, visited their par-
ents, Mr, and MTS. Alex McEwen,
during the Easter holidays.
Easter visitors with Mr. and
Mrs. Edward C. Glen included
Mr. and Mrs,' Hob MacDonald and
Rabe, isonelon, their nephew, Guy
Maddock, Toronito, and their son-
in-Lawand daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Mester Neilans and family,
London,
THE VOICE OF
TEMPERANCE
When a big producer sends a
generous .supplye of dais product
to the' :troops in Korea it would
seem' that we 'should be grateful
Tor such a patriotic gesture. When -
temperance people dbscov'er that
the shipment consists of 3,440
eases et ale—then they cannot
be happy about it. They know
that drinking among the troops
is one of the most disastrous side -
issues of war. They can only
protest against um:called for ship-
ments of intoxicabing beverages
if) our boys overseas.—Advt.
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Federation. Of Agriculture News
•
4.By Gordon M. Greig, secretary-fieldman, Huron County Federation of Agriculture)
Gas Tax Refunds
At the March Directors' meet-
ing of the Huron County Federa-
tion
tion of Agriculture held in Clin-
ton on March 20, a resolution was
passed and forwarded to the Ch-
eerio Department ed Highways
asking that gasoline tax refunds
be paid within 60 days of receipt
of :application. It was also sug-
gested that the Department send
the farmer a receipt stating that
the application has been •received
et the Department of Highways
office. In some caees, a farmer
has had to wait six months be-
fore receiving payment for his
rebate on traotor gas used in
doing farm work. When we owe
bhe government money it is paid
promptly (or else), When it owes
us money, any time will do to
make payment.
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Food Shortages
The present chaotic butter sit-
uation gives usfair weemipg thea
wo cannot rely on our Federal
Department of Agriculture to dr
the job of storing sufficient food
be :time of plenty to carry our
consumers over the period of
short supply. r
In on agricultural country like
we have, there should never be
a shortage of basic foods such as
meat, butter, cheese, eggs, etc.,
yet we have found cheese hard
to buy et any price, butter is
being doled out on a week to
week basis end next fall eggs
will be a luxury on almost any-
one's table,
e 3 e
Three Reasons
When we find problems like
this confronting us, we have to
look carefully to see if we can
find the cause. So eel', I can
suggest a new reasons for these
shortages. Firstly, we have the
goverdrment policy of directing the
flow of milk into certain dhen-
nets by making the price more
attractive in that particular mar-
ket. Secondly, we have the cut
back in price on these products
when all other, .prices were mov-
ing upward, Thirdly, we have
the good financial returns for
meats that make it a better busi-
ness proposition to let calves
milk the cows relher than milk
them and sell the milk to make
cheese or bubter:
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Solution Not Easy
The solution to this dilemma
of short supply end eaccessive
prices will, not be an easy one.
The price of butter and eggs "will
have to be set at a much higher
level than last year eto „encourage
farmers to produce more of these
essentials than they have done
during the past year. We can
produce more than enough butter,
cheese and eggs to satisfy our
notional consumer demand but it
will not be done at a price such
as we received in 1950, namely
28 cents per pound for cheese,
53 cents per pound for butter
and around 32 cents for eggs.
We will have to rely more
upon our marketing boards to tell
us what is required to fill the
consumer demand and what price
we. can expect to receive for our
produce.
adviseable step
MISS FANNY WILD
(By, our Bayfield corrsepondent)
The death occurred in London
on Thursday, March 22, 1951, of
40 YEARS AGO l Miss Fanny Wild, Goderich, fol-
lowing an illness extending about
The Clinton New Era . four years.
Thursday, March 30,-1911
Those assisting in the play punt
on by the Pastime Club included:
Otto Fink, Miss Stella Copp, D.
A. McClure, Ray Rumball, R. A.
Downs, Miss Grace Cluff, Dodds
Holloway, Miss 'Miniu Pinning,
Ken Chowen Miss B. McIver,
Russell learland;lyfiss Retta Cook,
Ike Rattenbiiry,IWilliam Dyer, W.
Johnson, Miss Mabel Cantelon,
E. Reynolds, Miss Spackman, Mies
Bessie O'Neil, Fred Rumbail, R.
Forrester. Miss Daisy Copp, Miss
Ida Wilken, Miss Pearl O'Neil,
Miss Gladys Cantelon,
Cochrane -Lockwood — At the
home of the bride's father, on
Monday, March 27, 1911, by Rev,
T. W. Cosene, Carina, daughter
of Mr. Fred Lockwood, to Robert
Cochrane, son of Mr, 'and Mrs.
George Cochrane.
W. J. Paisley has purchased
from G. L. Walker a handsome
pair of pinto ponies.
Mrs, Thomas Britton died rath-
er suddenly last week. Survive
ing are her husband and seven
small children, her mother, Mrs.
T. Flemming, thus sisters 'and
two brothers, Mrs. Harper, Mrs.
William Proctor, Mrs. J. Steep,
Miss Arinie and William and
Robert, Rev. T. W. Cosens of-
ficiated at the f u n e r a i, the
Pallbearers being L Carter, Wil-
liam . Proctor, N. Kennedy, B.
Keiser, J. Rice and W. Cochrane,
Those assisting at the Sunday
School concert in Ontario St.
Church included Miss Norma.
Treleaven and her mother, Mrs.
J•. W. Treieavein, George Carter,
Ralph Tiplady, Rev. T. W .Cos -
ens, B. J. Gibbings, Mrs. George
Shipley, Mrs W. Plumsteel, R. A.
Downs.
The Clinton News -Record
Thursday, March 30, 1911
Hughes-Stevens—In Clinton, on
Thursday, Meech 30, 1911, by
Rev, T. W. Cosens, Annette,
daughter of Mr. James Stevens,
to H. Hughes.
Robert Walker and family have
moved to their home on Victoria
Sit. E. Hill who has been living
in Mr, Walker's house has moved
to the Downs property on High
Ste Mr. Cochrane has moved in-
to Mayor J. Taylor's house on
Frederick Si, ,
John Ransfond hats returned
after e very pleasant trip to the
Old Land,
James Hamilton has purchased
the lot and old evaporator on
High St.
Those assisting at' the League
meeting in Wesley Church were
Misses Ruby Irwin, Dolly 'Gana-
elon, Beatrice Greene and M.
Clark, aril Arthur Tyndall and
H. E. Rorke.
Markets were: 'wheat, 75c to
80c peas, 70c to 71c; oats; 28c
to 29c,•' barley, 54c to 56c; shorts,.
$23; bren, $21; hogs, $6; buttes,
20c to 21c; eggs,'15e to 16e.
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Deceased, who was the fourth
daughter of the late Frieda Bickle
and Joseph Wild, was born in
Stanley Township December 20,
1867, on the homestead taken up
by her father over a hundred
years ago on the Bronson Line.
adjacent to Bayfield. She had re-
sided in St. Louis, Miss., Hannah,
N.D., and New York, before re-
tiring to Goderich to make her
home with her sister about 20
yeers ago.
She is survived by her young-
est sister, Flora (Mrs. William
H. Johnston), B'ayeleld, eleven
Nieces and nine nephews.
The remains • rested at the
Brophey Funeral Home, Goderich,
until Monday morning when the
funeral was held at ten o'clock
from St. Peter's Church, Gode-
rich, with requiem high mass
was sung by Rev. 3. P. Gleeson,
Interment was made in 'Claiborne
Cemetery.
Pallbearers were six nephews:
Joseph Will, Clinton; Elmer
Johnston, Preston; Louis and John
Wild, Walter anti Ford Johnston.,
Bayfield.
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MRS. T. J. TAMBLYN
Word hes been received locally
of the death in Bowsman, Man.,
on Monday, _March 12, 1951, of
Elizabeth Lander White Caldhvell,
beloved wife of the date T. J.
Taablyn, aged 77 years.
Funeral services were held) in
the United Church, Bowsman,
Man., on Thursday, March 15,
with Rev. Mr, Zwieker of the
United Church officiating, assist-
ed by Rev, Douglas Moore of the
Baptist Church. During the sere
vice the solo "In bhe Garden"
was rendered by E. Silverthorn.
Born near Londesboro in 1873,
Mrs. Tamblyee came to Southern
Manitoba to (he Coudterviile
district in 1903, shently after her
marriage to 'Thomas Tebnblyn.
They moved to Bowsman in 1934
where Mr. Tamblyn died in 1940.
Left to mourn her passing are
one daughter, Grace, Mrs. H.
Schooley, and one son, Frank,
both of Bowsman; two sisters,
Mrs. W. T. Herman, Clinton, and
Mrs. 11. B. „Fife, Toronnito; and
five brothers, William, Goderich;
George and John, Blyth; Fred,
Toronto, and Frank in the West.
One son, James, predeceased his
mother in 1947.
Harold M. Black
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NEMA WORM CAPSULES—all sizes
REX WHEAT GERM OIL $1.25 and $5.00
VET MD WHITE SCOUR POWDER 50c
SCOUREX LIQUID and TABLETS $1,75
SULPHANILAMIDE TABS, 60 grs. doz. 60c
For DEHORNING POL--$1,75
FLEMINGS--$1.00
PENICILLIN BOO JEES, all strengths and sizes
PENI-MYCIN OINTMENT $1.00
CALVITA CALF SAVERS $1.25 and $430
BARN and ANIMAL SPRAY CONC. $1.75
DR. BELL'S MEDICAL WONDER $1.25
FORMALDEHYDE, 16 oz. 350
SAVE MONEY AND FEED
treat your hogs to
A.P.F. .... 90c lb.
BREWER'S YEAST 30c Ib.
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JUNIOR BEDS, size 33"x66", spring-
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RED MAPLE BUNK BEDS, standard
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complete with ladder and guard
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MAG -HI, the most practical High Chair
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LLOYD CONVERTIBLE STROLLERS
are tops .. , .. $39.00 to $53.50
Full Length PLATE GLASS MIRROR,
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