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The Seaforth News, 1943-10-21, Page 6.4AHIf SA,:J4°1A.' ORTII NEWS S WALTON Mr. and Mrs: James Pipe of Code - rich visited on Sunday at the home of the former's niece;Mr. anti Mrs. Joe Campbell. Mr. Ivau MOFaddhi of the RCAF, Peace River, Alta., and Mr, Don Clarke of the RCAF, aud Mrs. Clarke and little slaughter of Edmonton, who aro stationed at Galt, visited Mrs. Clerke's uncle, Mr, Joe Campbell. Mr. and Mrs. P. Wilson visited their daughter Mrs. Alex Watson, of, Hani- ilton, over the holiday, Me end Ml's. Taylor Pipe or Hailey, bury and their son Pilot Officer Rob- ert Pipe, RCAF, Debert, N,S,, visited at the home of their Move Mrs. Joe Campbell ;recently. Mr. Horace Rutledge called ou friends In the village over tete week end. Mrs, Allie Allen is spending a few days in London, Weekly Editor Looks At Ottawa By Jim Greenblat Capital chit-chat: There are 1'3,- 125 bicycles licensed in Ottawa and among the handle -bar riders are Air NIarshadl "Billy" Bishop, V.C., and members of the Russian legation. Adding to the Hall of False in the Main central corridor of the Parlia- ment buildings are new bronze busts of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Sir Rob- ert Borden. Some of the refunds to persons who have overpaid income tax are already going out, but some will take time, palpably because each one of the 1,500,000 tax forms has to be assessed and that's some job: * * 5 Among the famous stars who will be heard via the airways during the V -Victory Loan campaign will be Canadian born Walter Pidgeon, Janes Cagney and Norma Shearer, also Barbara Stanwyck, Jessica Dragonette, Oscar Levant and oth- ers. The St. Croix destroyer disaster brings forcibly to mind that all Can- ada has got to take a realistic view of this war; that the end is a long way off, and that while the boys over there are "giving" we are only asked to "lend." Gosh, our kids ov- er there are giving plenty and not calling it sacrifice, either. * 5 5 As wages paid to hire farm help goes up, an interesting recap of the Canadian situation conies to us. When the employer provided board for the hired man the average wage for help by the day was $3.51 in 1943 and $2.50 the year before. "No board" in 1943 brought $4.74 as against $3.15 the year before. Wages for day help were highest in Ontario, but all provinces showed an "up." By the month average with board was 361.26 at August 15, 1943 as against $46.52 same date last year. Current rate of wages for farm help is more than double that paid in 1940. * * 5 When the federal minister of ag- riculture asked farmers to refrain from marketing unfinished cattle during the fall months this year, it was because the expected hog out- put for the next few months would probably overtax slaughtering facil- ities. Besides they claim it an unec- onomic practice when there is feed available in the country. Hog mar- keting will set new records this fall, while it is known that in the first 8 months of 1943, beef carcasses dressed an average of 20 pounds heavier than in 1942. This idea makes sense, doesn't it? * a * A few agricultural notes: eed- ine• tests at Brandon, Manitoba, show that millet mixed with other grain rations is ideal for market hogs feeding. It almost equals bar- ley pound for pound in a mixture. Research brings out some uncom- mon stuff, For instance it is report- ed that there were 68,400 fibres per square inch on the skin of a highly bred Merino sheep, even tho' only 36; per cent of the skin area is oc- cupied by wool fibres. Better breed- ing, proper care and feeding of the animals, mean more fibres. Ottawa. C'ni on, kids. * v a • There's a lot more cackling going on everywhere in the country as meat rationing enhanced the impor- tance of poultry. Latest move by the Prices Board gives producers a bet- ter price, an increase of two cents a Pound on dressed poultry. The mark up of retailer is cut from 9 cents a pound to 20 per cent of selling price, not to exceed seven cents, A producer Selling dressed poultry dir.. eet to consumer can add to the zone ceiling price the markup which al- lowed a retailer, * 5 5 A quiek glance at the order giv- ing priority to empty coal bins re quires eoal supplies dealers to give priority in coal deliveries to con- sumers who have less than one- quarter of their annual fuel require- 'milts on hand. This is limited to the one -charter and applies only to con- sumers who use less than fifty ton' a year. * :N Facts: We know Canada is a great food producing country, but did you know that the gross value of our agricultural production has in- creased from about $1,205,000,000 in 1939 to more than two billion dollars in 1942, Exports of agricul- tural and vegetable food products, tobacco and its products, animal and fish products, from Canada to the United Kingdon last year, exceeded $236,000,000. As a major source of war materials our export trade last year was more than double that of 1939. Imports on the other hand haven't varied much in the last two years. We have a very favorable trade balance right now, nearly as much for the first seven months of 1943 as for all of 1942, * * +N Maybe you don't know how the cost of living bonus is arrived at: 25 cents for each point rise in the cost of living for all adult finale employ ees and for all other employees em- ployed at basic wage rates of $25 or more a week: one per cent of their basic weekly wage rates for male employees under 21 and women workers employed at basic wages rates of less than $25 a week. Every employer, except in a few exempted classes, must pay this. Weed Infected Areas Should Be Cleaned Much good can be accomplished at this time of the year by cleaning up any weeds which did not receive at- tention during the growing season, says J. D. McLeod, Director of the Crops, Weeds and Seeds Branch of the Ontario Department of Agricul- ture. Seeds are retained by many weeds until freeze-up when they are distributed by many agencies in- cluding wind, water and birds, thus infesting new areas. This is true particularly of wild carrot, a weed which is spreading rapidly through- out the Province. The wind carries weed seeds long distances over frozen ground and in snow during the winter months. This was proven in an experiment in which it was found that six ounces of surface soil taken from a spot along a road fence contained the following weed seeds: wild mustard 267; stickweed 330; hare's ear mus- tard 99, stinkweed 2, wild buck- wheat 159, lamb's quarters 15, and pigweed 8. Another experiment con- ducted revealed the presence of the weed seeds in snow, thirty-two seeds of nine different weeds having been found in two square feet of a snow drift. Many weed seeds eaten by birds during late fall and winter months when other food is not plentiful do not lose their vitality and may be carried long distances this way. Seeds of neglected weeds may be carried long distances also by spring floods. By cleaning up and burning neg- lected weeds at this time we improve the appearance of property and help to control weeds, not only on our own property, hut also on that of our neighbors. * ,k * Designed to iron out some of the contentions as between landlord and tenant are some new rental regula- tions recently issued, A change has been made which sets six months instead of a year as the notice which must be given the tenant of the house when the landlord wants the accommodation, providing he Pur- chased the property since last Dec- ember 1.0th. Local rental appraisers are being net up to help deal with applications and knotty points. They're sure stretching this rub- ber research but will surely get re- sults. 'The department wants more and more milkweed for experiment• al purposes and will pay three cents a pound dry weight,. with green and frozen stuff accepted too, It should be sent to H. A. Senn, National Re- search Connell, Sohn St, Laboratory, bouvai'dia, The bride's only .attend- ant was Mrs, McCtucty Lowry, wear- ing a floor -length dress of ieo-blue taffeta with halo headdress of the stone material, carrying a bouquet of Talisman roses and cornflowers.. Charles Davidson was groomsman. At the reception Mrs. Downing re- ceived in a delphinium blue dress of brocaded chiffon with a corsage of roses. The mother of the bridegroom assisted, wearing an ensemble in black with a corsage of roses, For travelling the bride wore a brown gabardine suit with kolinsky furs, the gift of the bridegroom, and brown accessories. Lachhont-Porter— A quiet wedding took pltce at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Lloyd Porter, loth concession of Grey township, when their daughter, Doris Marie, became the bride of James Leslie Lamont. Rev. J. Taylor, Cranbrook, officiated, The bride,' given in mai' riage by her father, entered the liv- ing room which was decorated with autumn flowers and foliage, to the strains of the bridal chorus from Loliengrin played by her sister, Mrs. C. IZernaghan, The bride wore a street length dress of gold crepe and carried a sheaf of yellow mums. The only attendant was little Elaine ICernaghan, niece of the bride, as ring bearer, freaked in blue, Dinner was served to immediate relatives by Mrs. M. Parton, Misses Helen Snhalldon and Rose Armstrong, Rev, Mr. Taylor proposed a toast to the bride, which was responded to by the bride's father. For travelling the bride chose a tweed suit with brown accessories. The couple will reside on the br'idegroom's farm on con- cession 10, Grey township. Lights Out ! A hand reaches for a pencil of steel, writes on a steel plate and, within a hatter of seconds, fifty thousand lights which had clotted Toronto's 575 miles of streets, melt into the darkness of night. The hand is that of the load super- visor in the office of the Toronto Hydro-Blectrie System at 14 Carlton street, The steel pencil and plate are key parts of the electrically -controlled telautograph over which messages are written simultaneously to the operators in ane or all of the five main sub -stations. Operators are on duty in these stations 24 hours a day and manipulate the switches which control Toronto's street lighting sys- tem, Robot or unmanned stations are operated by remote control from the manned stations. But this is only part of the story of Hydro's key role when a blackout test is called in Toronto. As the blackout "zero hour", draws near, a gong clangs four times in the supervisor's office, 9t the same time, this warning, which comes over the fire alarm system, is recorded in the form of perforations on a tape so that the operator can double check the signal. A minute of two later another sig- nal is heard in the hydro load super- visor's office. This time it is three clangs of the gong, meaning "lights out," As this signal comes over sirens located In various sections of the city commence to wail. The super- visor immediately writes the mess- age "Street lighting oo11' on the tel• autograph and the waiting operators is the hydro sub -stations at once pull the switches, plunging the city streets into darkness,. Two clangs of the gong proclaim the "all clear" which is transmitted by telautogrttph and, once again, the lights are switched on. These interesting facts on Hydro operations during a blackout were oatlined by 0, E. Schwenger, distrib- ution engineer of the Toronto Hydro - Electric System, when interviewed by Hydro News recently, A graduate of the 'University of Toronto, he was at one time identified with the testing laboratory of the Westinghouse Com- fany in Hamilton. He returned to To- ronto and served far a time with the city engineer's department before becoming associated with the Tor- onto hydro, At this point, Mr. Schwenger dir- ected attention to a series of 125 cloth -bound key neaps or charts which show, at a glance, the location of every street light, polo, tralnsforin- er, switch, and sub•statiou, In Tor- onto. On the back of these maps is the block plan of the district covered by the map. • In other words, these maps, repre- sent a complete plan of Toronto's electrical layout. Compiled aver a period of 30 years, they are valued at something like $300,000, In the inter- ests of safety, a duplicate set is kept in the vaults. In addition, there are massive volumes containing complete data on the underground conduits in- stalled by all utility services. So far as street lighting is concern- ed, Mr. Schwenger said that there was no guesswork as to the times THURSPAY, OCTOBER 21, 1043 wheit these lights are turned on and oft. This is determined by the rising and setting of the sun, a complete list of these times being prepared n year in advance by the observatory for the use of the Toronto Hydro. All instructions ie connection with Hydro service in Toronto, ere given in writing over the electrieallY•con- lrolled telautograpll. In issuing these instructions; the load super'visor's have before them enormous charts on 'Which are reproduced all power lines, switches and sub -stations in Toronto, As the operator gives an older for a. switch to be opened or closed he Performs the corresponding action ell the board so that he, or the man 'who follows hiss, can tell at a glance wliai is Happening over the entire system. There are only two small sections of Toronto's street lighting system which are not controlled from the sub -stations. One of these is the Tor- onto Islands and the other is a very shall part of the industrial area south of the lift bridge on Cherry Street, Both of these are automatically controlled. On the Island as darkness attains a certain density a relay is operated by an electric eye and that in turn closes a switch and the lights go on, When daylight returns a sim- ilar process takes place and the lights are extinguished, The Cherry Street section is controlled by a time clock. During blackout however, these sections must be operated by hand and a mail must be sent to open the switches and out off the lights. Trouble in the street lighting cir- cuit is detected by the public at large and reports flow into the head office, In'inhediately, Hien Etre dispatch- ed to locate and remedy the trouble. Damaged bulbs and fixtures are detected by the constant patrol main - twined over the entire system by eight men in patrol trucks, These mels tr'avel all night over the city streets and replace burned out or damaged bulbs from supplies carried in the trucks. They cover the entire system twice weekly: Trouble on transmission lines how- ever, is discovered by the sub=station operators, and word is flashed to the load supervisors. They immediately dispatch trouble crews. Want and For Sale Ade., 1 week 25c fe4CAV SEE rr A MAN'S FARM AIN'TJUSTA BIT OF 'ri'9' coUNT1 - iT`S A PART OF HIS COUNTRY/ 1L�B A launching in one of Canada's shipyards Tyerman-Downing— Autumn flowers formed the sett- ing in the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Downing on October 14 for the marriage of their only daughter, Margaret Adeline, to ICenneth Cam- eron Tyerman, son of Mrs. Tyerman and the late R. Tyerman all of Brus' sell. Rev. H. C. Wilson officiated and the wedding music was played by Mrs, Jack Bryans. Jack Bates, soloist, sang "I Love You," The bride, given in marriage by her fa- ther, wore a gown of white sheer styled with fitted waist and lace yolk. The full; skirt ended with a small train, Her finger-tip veil, ar- ranged with a Mary Queen of Scots halo headdress had been worn by her aunt, Mrs, 'Walter Williamson, and on that occasion the bride of this month was flo'wergirl. 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