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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1957-03-21, Page 4Preparing for the musical festival at Mitchell is this from the left, Rosemary Lane, Katherine Moylan and group of Dublin High School students, Front row, Marie Schonderwoerd; back row,GiennButters, Lou Murray and Roy McQuaid WALTON Miss Jennie Van Vliet and Miss Corrie Huiyter of Strat- ford General Hospital spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs, Jan Van Vliet. Miss Yvette van 'Poucke of Kitchener - Waterloo Hospital, Kitchener, visited with her par- ents Mr, and •141rs, A. Van Poucke over the weekend. Miss Claire Hackwell, who is attending Westervelt Business College, London, spent a week- end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Backwell. Miss Audrey Debus, teacher at No. 9, McKillop, has resumed her duties after undergoing an operation in Stratford General ;Hospital. Mr. and Mrs, Don Gray and family. of Stratford visited with Mr, Joseph Hackwell and other relatives on Sunday. Mrs, iMargaret Humphries is visiting with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Hor- ace Rutledge, London. Mr. David Hackiwell, Exeter, and Miss June •Hackwell, nurse - in -training et Stratford General Hospital, visited with their par- ents Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Hack- well. A number of .parents and friends of students of the Sea - forth District High School at- tended ttended the annual variety night on Friday evening, those taking part from here were: Don Ach- illes, Jerry Achilles, Barry Hoe- gy, Michael Gulutzen, Barbara Boyd, Faye Love and Audry Hackwell. A number from Walton at- tended' the funeral of the late Leslie Johnston at Blyth on Friday afternoon, Mrs. Johns- ton, who survives, was the for - incl. Esther Shortreed of Wal- ton. A euchre party will be held in Walt. -11 hall Thursday evening under auspices of the Walton Ladies are requested to bring tarts and sandwiches, A large number front here at- tended the funeral of the late Clarence Steiss at Brussels on Friday. Mr. Steiss, who spent his boyhood days in Walton, was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Dnnie: Steiss of Walton. Besides his widow, the former Stella Henderson of Brussels, and a daughter, Ruth Anne, he leaves to mourn his loss two brothers, Lorne, London, John, Welland, four sisters, Mrs. Casey (Helen) Hudson, Goderich, Mrs. John I Berra: Rutledge, Weiland; Mrs. Orville 'i Norma) Fuller. of St. Catherines: Mrs. Eldon iDol- lyi Hulley, Seaforth. The late Mr. Steiss passed away sudden- ly a: his home in London Tues- day scorning, March 12. The body rested at the Ran» funeral home, Brussels. until Friday af- terno.: n. The service was eon - ducted by (Rev. A,. Lane of the bearers were Messrs. Thomas Clarkson, Ernie Kirk, Harry Hall, Peter Gallagher, of Lon- don, Gordon !Murray, Walton, and Alex. Clark, Brussels, Flow erbearers: Edward Miller, Doug- las Douglas .Ennis, Ross McTaggart and Alvin Farquharson, of Niagara Falls. Interment was made in 'Brussels cemetery. DUBLIN I .Mr. Gordon Costello, Kings i ton, with Mr, and Mrs. Dan Cos- tello. i Mr. and •Mrs. Leonard Gaff- ney, Kitchener, with Mr. Carl Stapleton. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Maloney, IMiss :Rose Marie Feeney, Kitch- I ey. ener, with Mrs. Catherine Feen- Mr, and Mrs. Frank Evans and Joan in Merriton with 1'ir. and Mrs. (Bill Evans. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Gasper, Windsor, with Mr. Matt Murray. Miss Phyllis Butters, London, Mr. and '\'Irs. Ronald Butters, ;Sebringville, Mr. Allan Butters, Footes Bay, with Mr. and Mrs, Tom Butters. Neil and Kenny Stapleton, Kenneth Feeney, St. Jerome's College, Kitchener•, at their homes for the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Don McRae and family with Mr. and Mrs. J. D. McRae at Wyoming. A successful hone baking sale was held at the ,home of Mrs. Wm. Stewart on Friday by Zions Woman's Association. The annual meeting of the shareholders of the McKillop, Logan and Hibbert Telephone Ct., Ltd., was held in the parish hall at Dublin. Matt Murray, president, opened the ]fleeting. The auditor& report was given by secretary-treas., James Mc- Quaid, and showed a net profit after income tax as $1811.00. During the year two miles and a half of new cable was erected from the office south of Dublin, also tea lines to the north of Dublin were rewired and new poles put in. Owing to increased cost of operations, the company will ask .the Ontario Telephone Authority for an increase in rates. Officers and directors were all returned: Pres., Matt. Murray; vice pres., Albert Sie- mon; sec.-treas., James _Mc- Quaid: John J. Holland, Lyle Warden. Herbert Mahaffy, Pat- rick Jordan. Around 600 tele- phones are served by the office. John Kenny, formerly of Du- blin and now residing with his sister, Mrs. Jean Fortune. r.r•4, Seaforth, will on Friday, March 22 celebrate his 90th birthday. Born in Logan twp on No. 8 Highway a mile east of Dublin, he was the son of the late Wil- Iiam Kenny ard Bridget Carlin. He farmed successfully there. until eight years ago when he sold his farm to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Healy of Blyth. 'Mr. -Kenny is in excellent health and takes an active interest in all current happenings. He makes his daily trip to the mail box each 'day and also has been able to attend church each Sunday. While in Dublin he was a faithful mem- ber of St. Patrick's parish and the Holy Naine Society. Of a fa- mily of five, Mrs. Thomas Moy- lan, 'Mrs. John Redmond, Joseph Kenny, he and MIs. Fortune are left. We all extend Mr, ,Kenny congratulations on his birthday and wish hint many more years of excellent health. High School News (!C, Moylan) Last Tuesday afternoon we were honoured with the visit of University students from Bres- cia Hall and Christ the .King College. A panel of live spoke to us on different aspects of University life: Harvey Murray explained the financial side, showing that it was really not so difficult, with four months holidays to earn enough to put you well on the way for the next year, while Bill Donohue told us of the academic side, showing how different subjects lead to different courses. Hel- en Storey gave an interesting talk on why we should go to U11- iversity, and Anita de Carli spoke on a popular aspect, the social side, telling of the differ- ent clubs for various interests, the French, .Spanish, Gilbert & Sullivan, Purple patches, Sci- ence, Clubs and numerous oth- ers, Gertrude Kearns acted as chairman, speaking on. various things as they came up. After this we were free to ask ques- tions, and the visit terinlnated with lunch. We enjoyed their visit very much, and are grate- ful that they could conte. We got into the spirit of St. Patrick's Day on Monday* with dancing and singing, Prizes were given for a spot dance and an elimination dance, and taken by Keith and Louise, and Roy and Joan, respectively. This party" given by grade 9, ended with lunch. ' WALTON The ;March meeting of the Mission Band of Duff's United Church was held in the school room of the church. The presi- dent, Bobby .Houston, opened the meeting with hymn 115, ac- companied by Jean Bolger, fol- lowed by the Lord's prayer in unison. Minutes were read by Graeme Craig and Bobby Hou- ston read the 23rd Psalm. ,Toan Hamilton was the first to recite this Psalm successfully. Leader Mrs. Art _McCall described the children of Japan, dwelling par- ticularly on their homes, clothes and food. • Three of the junior girls who took part here on Saturday evening. They are, in the Seaforth Skating Club's carnival from the left, Jacqueline Gibb, Bar- bard Box and Pamela D ale:•= Gi Ottawa Report The following is from a radio address by L. E. Cardiff, M.P. on March 10th: - We had the Canadian Farm Loan Board under review last week. The minister brought in, a resolution as!king,Parliament to raise the capital amount from three -million dollars to four - million. As the minister ex- plained, this was necessary be- cause of the accelerated rate of lending in the past year or so, There was no objection :to this increase from any source, but much complaint was made from nearly all quarters of the House with respect to the very limited way in which the Act was being administered. It was pointed out to the Minister and the Govermnent that farmers were not getting the considera- tion they deserved with respect to loans. The Act reads that a farmer is entitled to receive up to 65% of value, but as I my- self pointed out, farmers were not able to get anywhere near that amount. Some wanted the ceiling raised to 80%, but nay contention is that it doesn't matter so -much the raising of the percentage, if the harmer was able to realize up to 65%. The. trouble is the applicant is up against the judgment of the appraiser. 'He doesn't always agree with bhe applicant, but places .his own valuation on the farm. I suggested to the minis- ter to set up a tribunal to work in some eases. This would give the applicant at least a fair es- timate of the value of his farm. t Farmers find themselves in ra- ther a tough spot with respect to money in the last three or four years, and it is getting worse. As the resolution .prove they need more money. More farmers getting hard up, and because the Government have got themselves in the lending field, farmers are no longer able to borrow money from private lenders. When a farmer goes to a private lender he is told "why don't you go to the Canadian Farm Loan Board?" The result is that if you are turned down by the Board you are stuck, and in some cases this is a real hardship, because if you have a . small mortgage on your farm, borrowed from some person who finds they can no longer live on the interest on the mortgage, regardless of the interest being paid up, they close the mortgage. You are given, in 'most cases, a month to get the money. You go to the Farm Loan 'Board, .and if you are turned down you are sold out, and believe me you don't need to have a mortgage nearly as high as 65% to 'be in this position. '1 talk from ex- perience. Where an applicant was ask- ing for a loan of $2,500 on a hundred acres of land with buildings and stock, in this'. case, not one-third ,the value, and was turned down, the ex- cuse being the farm didn't jus- tify the loan. The real reason the farmer needed the loan was to increase the productivity of his farm., In this case, however, this man 'was only asking for enough money to pay off a $2,- 500 mortgage to ?keep him from being sold out. The Farm Loan Board are mush too careful, and if they intend to stay in the lending field, they will have to be.more generous in some cases. How many of you have read the Gordon report? This was a committee set up by the Gov- ernment to make a study of Canada's future progress. Up till now this committee has spent tallvWe haver receiveion d lthus far is a preliminary report. The final report is to come later. I ani going to relate some of its findings dealing. currently with agriculture and referring to the great changes that have taken place in Canadian agriculture since the end of the last war, which has meant a steady de- cline in the .number of people. engaged in agriculture, along with a steady increase in the physical volume of output per farm and per man hour. The re- port refers to the considerable improvements in real earnings, and the - increase in farm in- come, experienced during poet - war years. 1 But no mention is made of the fact that -a portion of this increase is, in effect, a return, on capital` invested in modern agricultural machinery, and may I add, in the greater use of fer- tilizers, herbicides for weed control so necessary in this day and age. These greater outlays have not beer mentioned in.the Gordon report, nor has it refer- red to ,the fact that the dollar earned by the farmer in recent years 'has declined in value and purchasing power. My contention is, that if -em- phasis is to be placed on the ov- erall increase in farm income, then it should be viewed in its persp'ctive, and take into ac- count all related factors. 'Strange to say, ' the report goes on to say that the growth in Canada's population, coupled' wibh rising costs and incomes, will 'have a 'decided imipact on the (pattern of agricultural pro- duction. But, aside from this in- creased domestic demand, it for sees' little lileelihood that exter- nal demands for (Canadian agri ;cultural production' will increase 'materially in the next 25 years. In other words, .this means Can- ada is going to change from an' exporting country to an import- ing country. As growth develops,- farmers will receive less and less consid- eration. In fact it has already, happened. Eggs, for instance,, Last year we imported 3,500,- 000 cases of eggs in 11 months at a value of $'261,469.00 at a time when our egg producers were not getting •enough for eggs to pay for the feed. Ev- eryone wondered what was wrong with the egg .market. The same thing happens in a great many more things the farmer produces. Farm income has gone down and down in the past four years and no action was taken by the Government to correct the situation. Now, however, just before an election is called we hear hints with res- pect to sagging farm income. Four years late, but neverthe- less it will have the effect with some at any rate, to again vote the Government !back into pow - ed. Farmers have !been the "for- gotten man." In fact they are the only people who have not shared in the buoyant prosper- ity prosperity of the country as a whole, and if it had been any other group except the farmer, some- thing would have :been done about it long ago. Ottawa Now Takes 77% of Tax Dollar. The other day there was an- other very interesting resolu- tion brought before the House. It was brought in .by the Fin- ance minister to introduce a measure to ,pay full tax rates on all •Government properties. This, 1 am sure, will be good news for many municipalities. The catch isthat the Govern- ment reserve the right to set the valuation on the properties. Strange how much considera- tion is °being given to the mun- cipalities at this particular ime by the Government. Just to prove my point, in 1939 the municipalities were getting 39% of the tax dollar, province 26%, federal 85'c. In the year 1949, ten years ater, the municipalities were etting 80% of the tax dollar, rovince 22% and the federal 8%. Last year, 1956, the munici- elities were only getting 11%, province 12% and the federal overnment 77% of every tax oiler. Now we find the gov- rnment bragging about ,being o generous with the 'municipal - ties by giving them bask what eally was their own .money in the first place. I placed those figures on Han - card a little over a week ago when the Finance minister was irecting a resolution through the House to bring in a Bill to 1 g 4 r TFI19 SI9AFORTH NP.IWS—Thursday, 1Vlaeoh 21, 1057 REGENT THEATRE, Seaforth' DOUBLE BILL Tuan. 1111. SAT! .Wild Dakotas Bill 'Williams CeIeon Or•ny A land of Lreachery. A erintiblvo signal. A ravage warning tsr trail Itinaers erossingthe mlchilrted west: ifawhide A.stirninueg, linyw of the wesL'Jyrone Pewee' MON TUES. WJDD. THi7511 WILDI'sR YEARS. Jnntes, Gagner. - Batbaru Stnnwyeli Theteenager, with u woman's heartache finds ululersinnding In Mose who hero known eoon wilder years DOUBLE BILL .. TRUES. PRI. SAT. -- Two-Gu1, Ludy Peggy Dustin •. Win, Tallman Thunderhead, Son of Flieke Roddy Mcl)ewell Preston Foster WHEN IT COMES TO SHOES COME TO US You Pay Less Here WILLIS SHOE . STORE The Little Store with the "Big Values" SEAFORTR i ]crease grants to .municipalities and at the time no one char-, lenged them. Had they not (been. true someone would have spok- en against them. In 'Toronto last week, at a convention of the municipalities, the Finance minister, who was the guest speaker, tried to talk •around the figures I used, but by and. large he didn't change them to any extent, the only difference being that he quoted figures of 53-.54 instead of 56, and stated that bhe Federal Government was only receiving 71%. I stated in the House that if this trend continued for another 10 or 15 years, Ottawa would. have full control of all the fin- ances of Canada, and the mun- icipalities and the provinces would have to come to the Fed- eral Government before they could do anything. In other words, we are drift- ing into a dictatorial state, and that, may I add, has always led, to commtmism in other coun- tries. Northside United Church :1Vlinister,'!Rev. 'Bruce W. Hall, B.A., B.D., ,S.T:M. 10 a.m., 'Church School and Adult. Bible Class. 11 a.nt., Morning Worship: Lenten Series, "Id They were here Today, what would they say]" (8) CAIAPHAS. Toddlers' Group and Jr, Con- gregation. 2 p.m., Minister's Church Membership Class. First Presbyterian Church REV. D. GLENN OAMPBELL MINISTER 10 A.M.—Church School and Bible 'Class 11 a.m. "The Cry of 1.he Forsaken" 4.3D p,nt. Nliss Marie Jack, Deaconuess -in Training Egmondville United Church Dr. J. Semple, Minister. The Third (Sunday. in Lent. 11 a.m., The Voice of Christ: (Wonderful Words of Life.) 7:30 p.m., The Father of the Prodigal Son. •.(Why no re- ference to the Mother?) 10 a.m., The Church' School. 10.15 a.m., The Minister's Bi- ble Class. 11 a.m., Nursery IClass. 11.30 a.m., Junior Church. 8.80 Y. P. IJ. Wednesday at '8 p.m., 'Devo- tional Service. ,Special Speaker: Rev. T. J. Pitt, Varna. Friday, Mar. 22nd, -Boys' CZt at 7 p.m. Good Program, !Finns, Refreshments. Class in Church 'Membership at close of morning service. Always Welcome To Our 'Church and Services. McKillop Charge Joint service at :Cavan Church on Sunday, 'March 24th at 2.30 7 p.m., Evening Worship: P.m. with Rev. W. J. Moores of Film "Love Thy Neighbor". Thames Road in charge. 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