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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1957-11-14, Page 3Pigs Complicate Highway Problem There are two sides to every injustice, and,I rather like the situation at West Unity, Ohio, where a farmer named McKarns keeps a few pigs. Mr. McKarns, like so many. loyal American, was quietly minding . his own business and - suddenly was informed by a bolt from the blue that he was play- ing left drawback on the great team of Eminent Domain. The Public had - struck again. The Ohio Turnpike Commission, vested with everything it need- ed, had decided to build a won- derful highway where none had existed before, andif found that the hitherto unpublidized pro- perty of Farmer McKarns was in the way. Immediately one of thegreat- est injustices in American affairs blossomed and ripened full and complete, and where Mr. Mc - Karns had one farm on which he could . exercise his inherent and inalienable rights, he now had two farms with a road down the middle -57 acres here and 49 acres there. Mr. McKarns likewise found, as millions of Americans already had, that there is nothinghe.can do about it. Every intended safeguard has been circumvented, and every inalienable right has been nul- lified. Oh, to be sure, he can go to court. Every schoolboy knows, from the books he has read, that the courts are to protect a man from the majority. It is in the Constitution. Only those who have tried to get into court to correct some present-day situ- ' aliens know how difficult and expensive it can be to obtain effective and timely relief. Under modern politics, with a highway to be built, the interests involved •greatly outweigh the PENNIES TO HEAVEN -Literally a penny pillar, this sky-high stack of coins is a source of amazement to all who view it at Great Yarmouth, England. Standing more than 51Ih feet high, the pillar contains more than 24,000 pennies plus a few miscellaneous coins, and repre- sents over $280. The money was raised by "Holidaymakers" from the London area and is to be used for holidays for handi- capped persons. influence of anybody named Mc - Karns, or namedanybody else, for that matter. The contractors' associations, the insurance writ- ers, the trucking firms, the union spokesmen, the cement people, the automobile leagues, the machinery makers, the mili- tary planners, the patronage boys, and numerous other organ- ized pressures have been hard at work for some time pushing the project, and Mr. McKarns has merely been sitting back like a good citizen minding his own business -paying his taxes and looking at "Gunsmoke" and meeting the grocer's demands. When public use was first for- bidden to tread an private pro- • perty toes, the contemporary political situation gave us :a good .yardstick to explain just what was meant, The provision was obviously intended to prevent exactly what is happening acrgss the land. While the wording has been retained intact, law and usage- have gone around it. In too many places land is being taken for public use without just compensation, and all over the land are institutions designed to defend us -against such en- croachment, You get a registered letter in the mail informing you that your property has been con- demned, and that's that. Before you recover, the machinery has moved on; the road is built; and the traffic is terrific. Your trees have been cut down, your mail-' box pushed back, and cement pipes piled on your lawn. Stand- . ing timber is bulldozed into gul- lies and buried, outcroppings of feldspar are blasted and used for. fill, and if you had a well it is gone. And nobody, usually, has come near you to make an offer, see how you feel about it, or ask forgiveness. The fine stories about the Gov- ernor snipping a ribbon and opening the new throughway injustices per mile as private land was taken for public use without compensation. That, comes later, and sometimes only if you sue. And if you don't sue, the value and condition of your constitutional rights will be set by engineers employed by the agency that has used you. Of course, none of this can really be done, because the Constitu- tion forbids it. Now, what 1 like about the situation in West Unity, 01110, the home of Mr. McKarns, is the happy news that Mr. McKarns is a pig farmer. Mr, McKarns kept pigs before the road was built, and Mr. McKarns con- tinues to ply his accustomed trade afterward. Somehow the Turnpike Commission neglected to take full notice of this inter- esting fact, and provided for a luncheon nook, also known as a refreshment plaza, just where Mr. McKarns leaves of and Eminent Domain begins. Here sits the tired wayfarer to rest and refresh himself, and there stand Mr. McKarns' pork- ers. The people seem not to bo- ther the pigs the least little bit, but it is reliably reported that the pigs offend the people Re- marks have been made to this effect, particularly when the wind sits right and Mr. Me - Karns has been generous. You'd think that these tra- velers, observing the situation, would see that Mr. McKarns has been put upon, with his two farms where one effiuviated be- fore. They are quite naturally, the "public" who has done the putting. They could sit there and discourse on how far practical usage has transgressed the basic intent. After all, Mr. McKarens is also a citizen and a taxpayer, and what has happened to him could happen and is happening to others. But of course they don't do that. They smell the pigs and declare they are a ' nuisance, which is the same word Mr. Mc - Karns used for the Turnpike Commission. But whereas it is CROSSW PUZZLE RD 0. Negligent 7. Sun disk 8. Signifies 9. Hawaiian greeting 10. Flowed gaof Acgoss 97 Allow 1119..°8131 1. 18. 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He has a habit of adopting ev- ery . innovation which might conceivably increase the revenue from his 75 -acre apple orchard. As a result, about half of his crop will be housed this year in what is probably the first con- trolled -atmosphere storage to be lined with, plastic film. * * * It's more than coincidence that the first storage of this na- ture should bebuilt in the heart of eine of Canada's best-known apple districts the Annapolis Valley. Each year this apple paradise produces in the neigh- borhood of 2,000,000 bushels. Approximately half the crop ends up in processing plants. The remainder is divided fairly evenly between the local and.. overseas markets. ' * 5 * A few' years ago it looked as though King Apple might be de- throned in the Valley. With overseas markets dwindling and uncertain, production began to exceed demand. Encouraged by the provincial government, many owners tore out their trees and turned to other branches of farming. Those who remained in the apple business found one of the answers to their marketing problems in cold storage plants. Refrigerated storages sprang up all over the Valley and experi- ments with controlled -atmos- phere storage units . got under way. Results of those experi- ments are today setting a pat- tern for apple growers every- where. Mr. Welch was one . grower who didn't give up. He kept his faith in the apple business and over the years sought various -ideas for storing his crop until it could be sold advantageously. * .5 * McIntosh apples were a par- ticular problem. Although the most popular of all Canadian ap- ples, the McIntosh develops core browning after three months in refrigerated storage at 32 de- grees Fahrenheit. Also, it loses its flavor after four months. Last year for the first time Mr Welch rented space in a gas storage unit for . some of his crop. Not only was there a delay in the onset of core flush, but the fruit retained its flavor for a month or two longer. These simple, today, to take a man's land and confuse his rights, it is still a little difficult to prove that raising pigs on a farm is a nuisance. Even lawyers, whose compromising of logic is notable, would have to admit that. Mr. McKarns has them • surrounded, and it's their own doing. No doubt it's a losing battle. ' Mr. McKarns and •I are wrong, and will soon be proved so. It' is only a momentary fact that legal papers are one thing and 1,000 pigs, Mr, McKarns' present esti- mate, are another. But for a momentary illusion of glory, I would rather have 1,000 pigs and Mr. McKarns on my side than the Ohio Turnpike Commission. Our fun will be brief, and we are nuisances, but perhaps we shall be remembered: -by John Gould in The Chistian Science Mont tor. results were sufficient to en- courage him to construct a simi- lar storage at Welch -Lo Farms. * $ * Technical assistance for his building project was provided by C. A. Eaves, senior horticul- turist at the nearby Kentville experimental farm. It was at Mr. Eaves' suggestion that plastic film was used instead of metal sheeting to line the walls and ceiling of the storage. His suggestion was based on the results of experiments con- ducted last year with polyester film, both at the experimental farm and in the storage of A. R. Stirling, a prominent apple grower from Grand Pre. During the five-month testing period at the experimental farm a temporary gas storage unit made ofthe film proved it was able to hold the concentration of oxygen ,and carbon dioxide required for gas storage as well as a metal -lined storage. When removed, apples stored in the film unit showed less' than one per cent of fungal 'rotting and only a slight development of core browning. The flavor was good and the fruit reasonably firm. * * * From a grower's point of view the use of the film means a re- duced storage cost per bushel Of apples. Not only is the plastic film less expensive than tradi- tional materials, it also much 'more easily and swiftly installed. The new storage is 96 feet long, 24 feet wide and 12 feet high. It has four separate rooms, each with a capacity of 2,500 bushels, Each room is construc- ted as an independent unit to permit the removal of apples from any one room without dis- turbing the temperature or at- mospheric control in the others. * * • Wall - blower refrigeration equipment was installed by Mr. Welch to maintain a constant temperature of from 38 to 39 degrees - the temperature re- commended for controlled -at- mosphere storage. Because this is several degrees warmer than the temperature at which apples are normally stored, it ' was necessary to regulate the con- tent of oxygen and carbon di- oxide in the storage to check the rate Of ripening and eliminate break -down of fruit texture. This will be done at Welch -Lo Farms by a controlled -ventila- tion system. As rapidly as a staff of 30 pickers can remove. the apples from the trees, they will be placed in boxes and transferred without grading to the storage. Mr. Welch plans 20 have each room sealed within five to seven days after the first box of apples reaches the stor- age. * * 0 After the room is sealed, the fruit will be allowed to absorb oxygen until the normal 21 per cent in the surrounding air is reduced to 14 per cent. Since the apple breathes out carbon dioxide during this process, the carbon dioxide content increases to seven per cent. At this point outside air will be admitted through ventilation ports - one to each room - in sufficient quantity to maintain those con- centrations. Since the rate of respiration of the fruit is largely dependent upon the temperature, maintenance at the desired level without excessive fluctuations will be necessary at all times. * * 4 With this new storage Mr. Welch expects to be able to keep apples McIntosh app s six weeks to two months longer than he could with ordinary refrigeration. They will be removed from storage around the middle of March or the first of April, a time when demand far exceeds supply. 0 * * Most of the apples will be sold locally. They will be carefully graded after removal from stor- age and packed in cartons or bags made of polyethylene film, Mr. Welch is not concerned about the length of time his gas - stored apples will keep'at ordi- nary temperatures. Tests have already shown that gas -storage apples can bekept in better condition than those taken from regular cold storage plants. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 000 010.1.€]0': 100 0D© Door]© NOW W00 UO®O®' E9©0 ©®U®OD® ®®0 ODDQ`' UEOWEI 00F0`00000 ®® 000 0©©13® 320 ©O ' EJ©©01 0006 00000 c ©liIII©© 0000Dill 000 00010 00121 U010.000W0 000 JIJ J 00®00 nrJh UNDAYSCt1001 LESSON By Rev R. Barclay Warren B.A., B.D. Concerning Spiritul Gifts 1 Corinthians, chapters 12-14 Memory Selection: So we, be- ing many, are one body 1E Christ, and every one members one of another. Romans 12:5. We need to distinguish be- tween the gift of the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the Holy Spirit, The Holy Spirit as given to this one hundred and twenty be- lievers on the day of Pentecost (See Acts 2:38) and later ti those Gentiles assembled in the home of the devout Roman cen- turion, Cornelius, was a Gift (10:45). The Spirit is the gift o1" God (8:20) as promised by Jesus before His ascension (John 10; '7). He distributes a diversity of gifts among the members of the body of Christ according to His own will. Let no member despise another for Godhas a work for each of His children to do. We are all members of Christ's body. Let each of us exercise the gittl which God has given us for the building up of the body of Christ. The love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost important than any is more m pifi g of wisdom, faith, healing or pro- phecy. Paul makes this unmis- takeably clear in chapter 13. To is God and our neighbour love the fulfilling of the law. The author of Arnold's Com- mentary suggests that there aro other gifts not enumerated hero which today are likewise impor- tant in the contribution they may make. One is the gift of song, Another is the gift of writ- ing literature for publication which will convict sinners and edify the saints. The interpreta- tion of tongues may be broaden- ed today to include the transla- tion of Scripture and othea spiritual literature into the lan- guages of men, And a very literal and practical application of this gift is the ability of an interpreter to instantly tran- slate and preach with power the messages of another, such as those of Billy Graham, over e public address system to throngs of the people. Let us live humbly before God. If we will give ourselves to bs the temple of the Holy Ghost then he, in His own sovereign, will end o w us with surds • gifts as we can best use for the glory of God and the advance' ment of His kingdom. But Got is more concerned about out love for Him than any service we can render. , "DOG TIRED" -If a pony can get "dog tired", this one is. The Shetland, owned by Carl McBride, prefers to take his rest on this camp cot. McBride says "Charley" also has a liikng for shoe polish. ' He'll lick shoes to get it. ALL -IRELAND DONKEY DERBY -These donkeys mightn't be the most glamorous mounts in the history of racing but their riders do their best toward getting to the finish line first. It's the All -Ireland Donkey Derby at Clubby in Northern Ireland. Victory in the event was worth $280 to the winner.