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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-11-08, Page 7Violence Hurts Southern Business In .floe fall of 1957, just after aegregatioeisks wrecked the Hat- tie Cotton school in Nashville, Tenn,, George L. Benedict Jr, was trying to persuade a .Detroit industrialist to build a plant in Tennessee. Benedict, traveling representative for the state's In- dlustrial and Agricultural Devel- opment Commission, eloquently signed the state's advantages - but the prospect retorted with an indignant question: "What kind of a state have you got down there that they're blowing up schools?" Benedict's counterparts in Mis- sissippi were facing equally pointed questions last month. For 26 years, Mississippi has been luring industries into the state in an effort to boost its underdeveloped economy, But immediately after the recent riots at the University of Missis- sippi, one state industrial sales- man heard from eight Northern industrialists who had been con- sidering moving in -and four of them said they were bowing out. The reason given by a Midwest furniture manufacturer: "It looks like you people are being led by the wrong element," Among Mississippi's industrial recruiters, zone has been more energetic than Gov. Ross Barnett. Barnett has telephoned Northern businessmen, invited them to tour the state, and frequently called at their offices. He boasts that he has added 27,331 jobs to Mississippi's payroll since he took office in 1960, But after the Oxford violence, the Mississippi Agricultural and Industrial Board canceled a long - planned luncheon, scheduled in Chicago, at which the governor was to have addressed several hundred industrialists. One rea- son: Several manufacturers wrote that they wouldn't be interested. Perhaps more important, said one official: "We can't let Bar- nett go out of the state" (because of his role in the Ole Miss crisis, he might get a very cold recep- tion). In any case, most North- ern businessmen are acutely .aware of the Congress of Racial Equality's threat to boycott the products of firms which move into Mississippi. In two terse words, William B. Selah Jr, director of the South- west Mississippi Area Develop- ment Commission, expressed the reaction of a good many of the state's businessmen. "Violence hurts." A Jackson banker pre- dicted gloomily: "I don't think we're going to have much indus- try running our way for a while." And a national manufacturer of hard goods told its Mississippi plant in bitter jest: "From now on, put 'Made in North Carolina' on our products." More people might live to a ripe old age If they weren't working so hard to provide for it. Upsidedown, to Prevent Peeking 3 0 Sv 1 1 2i 3 1 S a V 1143 Ba t3 3 Yi a18 1 1 n 0 d 0 9 S- SHL 3DV aVd acs HIGH POSITION - Atop his Belgian draft horse, Steven West, gets a pretty good view of the 77th Annual State Fair of Texas. It was his second birthday. Canada's production of sur- plus milk is becoming so heavy that drastic and positive action may be taken to reduce it, Agri- eulbure Minister Alvin Hamilton skid recently. Seventy per cent cif the na- tional milk output comes from Ontario and Quebec whose milk and creams shippees had asked for a year in which to imple- ment a voluntary program ex- peoted to bring about better bal- ance between production and consumptiion, With half the market year al- ready gone, Mr. Hamilton saw nothing to indicate that such a programa would be ready before May. Meanwthile, milk and but- ter production continued to in- crease and the year-end butter surplus stocks wound likely be heavier than last year's, The Minister said no govern- ment wanted to compel pro- ducers to reduce production but the federal government may quite properly tell producers that the time has coupe when they must agree to voluntarily restrict production or accept re- duced price supports. Furthermore, since a moderate reduction in p r i c e supports would not likely reduce output significantly, a drastic reduction might be necessary. * 4 e The Minister said, in ' part: "Canada's dairy industry today is at the crossroads. The present situation, bad as it is, will short- ly become absolutely chaotic and ruinous to all concerned un- less we -the dairy industry and government -embark on a new cc urse." The government early last spring was all set to adopt a program aimed et reducing GROUNDED - Britain's Lord Slim, now a resident of'Kenya, displays flamingo chick which is unable to walk or fly because gado from the water of Lake Mogadi has collected and dried an its legs. A massive operation was begun towash the feet Of some 300,000 chicks. with piped water, Certain .death awaited those which could not be freed production and increasing con- sumption. The plan called for buying and reselling butter at 52 cents a pound and giving cream and manufacturing pro- ducers the 'difference between the 52 cents and the present 64 cent butter support price in the form of a cash payment. No such payments were to be made to bite fluid milk producers. 5 * This plan would have enabled consumers to buy butter 12 cents a pound cheaper; it also meant that butter made from surplus fluid milk would bring 52 cents instead of the present 64 cents a pound when sold to the gov- ernment --thus providing a sign - Meant deterrent to produotion of surplus fluid milk. Representatives of milk and cream shippers of Ontario and Quebec claimed that this would completely eliminate all hope of developing integrated provincial programs of the type then being conlsdered in Ontario. * a o "They asked us to postpone the plan for a year in order to give them time to implement their own provincial programs . , . We agreed, after strongly advising the representatives of the two provinces that it would have to be reconsidered at the end of the year of grace if they failed to put their houses in order. "We then adopted a 1962-63 federal program which reduced the -price of butter to the con- sumer by 12 cents a pound while keeping the producer's support price at 64 cents, "Thus our present program contains a really worthwhile consumer incentive but is com- pletely lacking in anything which might tend to discourage prod- uction" One very important reason far our serious surplus condition is that the per capita consumption of several dairy products has been going down. The per capita consumption of butter is now hardly half what it was before the advent of margarine. .Even though the retail price remained the same from May 1, 1958, until May 1, of this year, per capita consu,nption of butter kept falling by over a pound a year during 1959, 1960 and 1961. s e e Obviously tactors other than. price have accounted for the decline in consumption, These have included: A changing attitude toward animal fat consumption on the part of a diet and health -con- scious public; A reduction in consumer in - collie due to increased unemploy- Ment; A growing willingness to use margarine as the result of actual experience; The fact that margarine has been improving In quality and ' Palling in price; 44 - And the fact that people have been taking more of their fat re- quirements in the form of cheese and ice cream. e e * But, the decline has been primarily due to the fact that margarine and other substitutes have been available at prices far below those at which butter can ever be produced and sold in this country. Our dairy farmers must realize that Canadian butter production cannot possibly stand on its own economic feet in competition with either margarine or import- ed butter. o * e People have also been consum- ing less butterfat in other dairy products. Just as margarine has been substituted for butter, so 2 per cent milk, liquid skim milk and skim milk powder have been substituted for 3.5 per cent and special high -testing milk' More- over, there has been a steady decline in the per capita con- sumption of sweet cream, "The surplus is also partly the result of expanded production, The production increase cam pe accouhted for in different ways and I would be the first to admit that price supports have played an important part." 6 e e "On the other hand, I am quite sure that higher buying prices -- rather than nigher selling prices -have been responsible for in- oreased production in many cases." The growing severity of the cost -price squeeze situation in recent years has practically forced a good many products to expand production in an effort to reduce unit costs and maintain net income. Finally, we must recognize that a large part of the produc- tion increase has been the na- tural accompaniment of the steady and rapid technological developments in dairy farming. These developments were bound to result in extra production even though the prices paid for milk and milk products remain- ed unchanged. This is because any improvement in methods of production makes it possible to get more product for each dollar spent, Producers who took ad- vantage of the new techniques were able to reduce their costs per unit but only because they produced more units, Obey the traffic signs - they are placed there for Y 0 U R SAFETY LESSON By Rtev. R. tlarcllty Warren, 19.A„ (1.1) What Am I For? 1'sehn 8; Hebrews 2t 6.18: Matthew 6: 34-34. Memory Scripture: What is man. that thou art mindful of kiln? And the son of man, that thou vleitest hint? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned hint with glory and honour. Psalm 8: 4, 5, Of all God's earthly creatures man alone was made to stand erect with sufficient intelligence to lift his eyes to the starry heavens and say, "God:" In the image of God, he was created a creature of intellect; endowed with the powers of thought, im- agination, reason and memory. Man has conquered the sea, the earth, and the air. Now he is reaching for space, All his ex- ploits are an eloquent testimony of this created greatness. The writer to the, Hebrews takes up the question of our me- mory scripture. He affirms that we see not yet all things put under man, "but we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man," In the perfect plan of God man is of such importance that God himself did not hesitate to partake of human nature. Christ has become the Son of Man that we might become the sons of God. He partook of our human- ity that we might partake of His divinity. For which cause He is not ashamed to call us brethren. Since God has such an interest in us, we ought to put our trust in Him. We are more important to Him than the flowers or the birds which He has created, We hurt ourselves physically, men- tally and spiritually when we fail to commit ourselves comple- tely to Him. One of the great commands of our Saviour is, "But seek ye first the kingdom of Goch and, M31e. righteousness; Ail all these things shall be add- ed unto you." When we ignore our Oreator, life is out of joint. Augustine truly said, "0 God, thou hast made us for thyself e and our hearts are restless 'till they fled their rest in thee." Man is clever. but he lan't clever enough to find peace until he ac- knowledges his sin, and finds pardon thl•cugh faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. MONSTER FLAGS What is believed to be the big- gest Union Jack in the world, a giant of 1,000 square feet, came out of store for renovation turd was flown in Belfast at celebra- tions marking the fiftieth antni- '^at'sary of the signi. ,g ^f tba Ul- ster Covenant. It was unfurled from a 60ft. flagpole. This great flag was first unfurled from a 90ft flagpole at a big rally in Belfast on April 9, 1912. It is so large that human figures are dwarfed by it. The biggest American flag ever flown was hoisted some years ago above the New Jersey Tower of George Washington ridge over the Hudson River. It weighs 500 lbs. and measures 90ft. by 60ft It took nineteen men using four machine winches to haul up this monster flag on guy ropes weigh- ing a total of 5,000Ib, When Vice Adm Hyman G. Rickover met the Soviet Prime Minister, Khrushchev asked, "Are you the admiral who's al- ways talking about preparing for war with Russia?" To which the admiral replied, "Are you the Mr. .Khrushchev who's always talking about attacking the Unit- ed States?" FALL FUN-Colarflu1 auturmro leaves are for playing with and Honor Mary O'Sullivan, 1, is doing just that near her home. Incubate 35g. widow genual CROSSWORD . Be the matter 37. speed contest with B . Snow runner 10, Mischievous 4y ..Summit PUZZLE Stili 4.Badger•1lke V dobe pyy, Shelter animal 1 Trees 4b. Footta8 1 inulinFemiins 7. Variety of DOWN nickname cabbage 1. Small quarrel 23 All (Lat.) 40. Midianite 8. livery one of 25 Iridescent king several gem 0. Spring flower 5. Maple genus 26. Harvest 1. Plato's Idea" 4. Carousal 87 Remnants 2. Fish line cork 6. Bearden 28.Malay dagger 63. Gypsy 6. Swan genus 89 Orgy pocketbook 7. Apple -like 30. God of fire 64. Rubber tree fruit 32. Click beetle 68. white van, ) 2 3 ;gg 4 5 i 7;� • a 9 10 n ACROSS 1. Overwhelming amount 4. Arrest 8. Security 12. Moccasin a Horseback game 14. Congealed dew 15 Particle 16. Space 17. Gr. wine pitcher 18. Number 20. Ital. river 22. Lease 24. Venerate 28. Crowd 31. Ve's brother 34 write 35 Fits out 30 Youngster 37 notal, assembly 38 Electric particle 38 Inflamed 40 I.ofty mountains 41 Twig 43 Curve 46 Hazard 48 alagle'o nest F2 Unhappy 55 Tight 37 Silkworm 58 Greases 59 River Into North Sea 511 offer to boy 61 Prnit decay 62 Pare 03. Peer Gynt. mother 12 Is 19 13 14 17 19 50 2 52 23 24 4'ri:•i0`j'i: 25 16 27 28 29 35 30 31 32 33 34 36 37 38 41 40 42 43 44 45 52 53 58 61 54 46 55 47 48 MSN 49 60 51 50 59 62 Boa 57 60 63 �ml el e arwhe'ir ,n this oat GHOST TOWN - rhiv is one example of h,w the strife following Independence has of, fected some oreus it thr- Congo The once prosperous town of Bukum',, on the Luolabo River in Katongo,'is now engulfed by tail jungle gr,lsses -as abandoned buildings fall to pieces. The Europeans who built the town fled en masse when violence burst in 1960,