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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1946-06-20, Page 6THE SEAFORTH NEWS THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1946 Annual Meeting Londesboro Boys • Held at Hensall Win at Judging 1 At the annual meeting held at Hensel, Elmer Bell, ofaxeter, was elected piEsident of tbe'Progressive- ConservaWe ,Associaten of Huron and. Huron -Perth. Mr; Bell succeeds 3. W, Morley, of Exeter, who had re- signed.. Other officers elected by the association to act for the two -con- stituency organization, were; 1st vice-president, Carl Draper, Clinton; 2nd vice-president Alvin Sillery, Seaforth; 3rd vice-president, N. W. Trewartha, Clinton; 4th vice-presi- dent, George Armstrong, Hay Twp.; 5th Vice-president, Fred Carbert, Staffa,, Clark Fisher, of Exeter, was re-elected secretary, an office which he has held for 10 years. Harold Blaastone, of Goderich, was elected treasurer, succeeding Richard Welsh of Exeter. Auditors are J. R. Belton, ,of Seaforth, and Peter Eisenbaeh, of Grand Bend. The association -went on record as expressing' "its loyal support and unqualified approval of the work of Premier Drew and his Govern- ment throughout the Dominion -Pro- vincial Conference." The resolution also stated "we take atiride in his stand for provincial rights and his very ' statesmanlike efforts to to -operate with other pro- vinces and to attain Canadian unity." August 21 is a tentative date for a picnic by Conservatives of Huron, Bruce and Perth at Goderich, Wil- liam Graham, St Marys, announced. This outing is one of several planned .by the Western Ontario Progressive - Conservative Association this sum- mer. Charges that Prime Minister Mac- Kenzie Xing is endeavouring to create an election issue with a view to extending his own political car- eer and giving greater 'security to the fortunes of the Liberal Party were made by A. R. Douglas, K.C., of London, in his address to the as- sociation. He said the tax proposals of the Dominion Government taken to the conference with the provinces together with the prime minister's unyielding insistence they be accept- ed in total, could only indicate such a move. Provincial governments were "astounded" by the tax proposal made at Ottawa, Mr. Douglas said. .At any other time the provincial 'renders would have "put on their hats and gone home." He pointed out that only one province accepted all the tax measures suggested by Mr. Xing. and although others made cer- tain concessions, the prime minister did not recede from his position on any point. The speaker said the Federal Government went to the conference when it was in a desperate financial position and was fully prepared to make the meeting an election issue. It was for that reason "Tory Ont- ario" was singled out and pilloried by Ottawa, and it was only the atti- tude of Quebec in support of Prem- ier Drew's views which upset calcu- lations of the Liberal Party, he said. "Mr. King's two great considera- tions in life are his own political career and the fortunes of the Liber- al Party which makes that career possible," the speaker declared. Dr. Hobbs Taylor, provincial member for Huron told the conven- tion that re-election of the Drew Government last year was in public appreciation of the implementation of the 22 -point policy with which his narty went to the polia He said the Progressive -Conservative Party was the only one in Canada which today had any thought of safeguarding the personal liberties of the individual and standing,- firm for the principle of free enterprise. Opposition to the Dominion Gov- ernment's tax revision proposals is a protection for the people against du- plicate taxation. Dr. Taylor said. Acceptance of these proposals would have the effect of tearing down the strength of this province in exchange for an intangible possibility of the future he declared. "The matter of provincial rights or of money was not the real issue of that conference. The real issue is whether or not we shall be under the dictatorship of a central govern- ment which would have no check," Said Dr. Taylor. Mr, Thomas Pryde, of Exeter, who contested the riding of Huron - Perth at the last general election called for relaxation of wartime powers assumed by the Dominion Government and "legislation by par- liament rasher than by order -in - council." He said that orders -in - council had set up autocratic con- irel in Ottawa which was restricting the right of the individual and men- ae•ez the freedom of the Canadian peonle. "Even now the issues in the next Dominion election are being drawn. 1 do not believe the present Government will continue for its Pull legal term of another four years but that another election will be upon us before we know it." said Mr. Pryde. MAKE ELECTRIC CORDS LAST LONGER 1. Always connect the cord at the appliance before plugging in, 2. To disconnect, remove the cord et the outlet by pulling the plug - not the cord itself, 3, Wait until the appliance is cold before winding an attached cord around it. 4. Keep your separate cords coiled loosely in a drawer instead of hang- ing them on a nail, 5. Repair frayed or damaged cords immediately by cutting off the end and re -attaching the plug correctly, Prom Mrs. T. She does not daw- dle over or postpone chores she dreads -gets them out of the way as quickly as possible. Preferring to do stieh things as -washing and ironing on Monday and ' - Two sons of Victor Roy of Londes bore, the latter the well-known sec- retary of the Huron Federation of Agriculture, proved their right to livestock -judging honors when' an- nual junior judging competitions were revived at Clinton. The annual competition had not been held since 1941. At the end of a long day of judging work on horses, swine, sheep and beef and dairy eattle, Bruce Roy of Londesboro was adjudged county judging champion in the senior group, and Murray Roy topped the intermediates. High score in the ' junior competition was made by Gerald Duptow of Port Albert. Competition in 'the event was keen, with 72 boys and three girls entered, representing all corners of Huron County. The girls competed' directly with the boys, and were scored on the same basis. Evelyn Turton of Goderich achieved the • bestscore among the three. The all -day competition was or- ganized and directed by LeRoy G. Brown, recently appointed agricul- tural representative for Huron, with a staff of assistants which included Gerald Nelson of Clinton, in charge of registrations and records; Miss Edna MacDonald, secretary for the competition; Kenneth Lantz, assist- ant agricultural representative for Middlesex county, in charge of dairy cattle juding; George McLaughlin, assistant agricultural representative for Perth, in charge of draught horse judging; Robert 1VIcKercher, R.R. 1 Dublin, an C.A.C. graduate, in charge of beef cattle judging; Keith McRuer, assistant agricultural representative for Bruce county, in charge of swine judging; Carl Oe- streicher, well-known Dashwood far- mer and breeder, in charge of sheep judging. Livestock from some of the best herds and flocks in Western Ontario was paraded Saturday morning for the purposes of the competition. In a cavalcade of cars, competitors and judges made the rounds of seven farms; on each farm one or more classess of stock were lined up, and competitors were required to place the four in order of merit. During an afternoon of question - and -answer testing at the Depart- ment of Agriculture office in Clin- ton, each of the '75 competitors was required to give his reasons for the placings he had made in each of four classes of cattle, and two classes each of horses, sheep and swine. A competitor who lost marks in the morning, by failing to agree with the judge's rating on a class of four animals, could regain part of his losses in the afternoon by stating acceptable reasons for the placings he had made. The schedule of judging began at 0:00 a..m. at the farm of R. G. Thompson, R.R. 2, Clinton, where a class of Hereford heifers was judg- ed. The schedule then took the group in succession to: Ephraim Snell's, R.R. 1, Clinton, for Leicest- er ewes and Leicester rams; Jack Vodden's, R.R. 1, Londesboro, for heavy draught horses; Edwin Wood's R.R. 1, Blyth, for Shorthorn cows and Yorkshire sows; James Van Eg- mond, R.X. 1, Clinton, for Holstein cows (two -year-olds): W. H. Weeks', R.R. 4, Clinton, for bacon hogs; Huron County Home, for Holstein cows (mature) and heavy draught horses. In the inter -township competition first place went to Hullett; the win- ning three-man team consisted of Bruce and Murray Roy, and James Snell of Clinton. At the same time as results were announced at the end of the day, the five judges gave their reasons for the official placing which they had made as the standards against which to assess the competitors' opinions. The Huron County Federation of Agriculture is to be commended for their interest and support in this all- important phase of Junior farmer work. Prize winners: Intermediate -1. Murray, Londesboro, 664; 2. Win. Clutton, Goderich, 656; 3. Ed. Clut- ton, Goderich, 636; 4. .Glen Wise, Clinton, 630; 5. Ross Knight, Brus- sels, 627; 6. Donald Middleton, Clin- ton, 626; 7. Jim Lobb, Clinton, 616; 8, Geo. Turton, Goderich, 613. Senior -1. Bruce Roy, Londes- bore, 656; 2. Elston Speiran, Brus- sels, 627; 3. Harry Feagan, Goder- ich, 616; 4. Winston Shapton, Exet- er, 610; 5. Richard Leggett, Blyth, 606: Alvin Wise, Clinton, 599; 7. Joe Potter, Clinton, 598; Mervyn Falconer, Clinton, 598. junior -Gerald Gustow, Pt. Al- bert, 640; 2. Elmer Hunter, Goder- ich, 636; 8. Harold Pococck, Wing - ham, 626; 4. Victor Campbell, Bel - grave, 624; 5. Jim Snell, Clinton, 622; (3. Fred Haberer, Zurich, 620; 7, Norman Pocock, Wingham, 618; Chas. Turnbull, Brussels, 613. Tuesday makes the job so automatic that she is free to think of other things while doing the laundry. Like many homemakers, she en- joys flowers. Thus she spends one or two hours in the garden, weather permitting, which makes her position as homemaker enviable. If she gets downhearted the radio is moved to the work area to keep her entertained. ,Special cleaning jobs -the silver, paint, windows, etc. are tiresome for many people. Mrs. T. tries the new cleansers and keeps a cleaning box with clean cloths and equipment ready . Housecleaning at her house is a regular routine: the windows, pic- tures and mirrors in one room are done thoroughly one week; in the, next room the next week; and win- dow curtains, metal trim and all orn- aments are cleaned regularly before they begin to look badly. THE PROVINC14: OF PROM SE. ONTARIO'S rich mining country is still a hard -and chanceful--land. Copper Cliff and Sudbury, Porcupine and Kirkland Lake still entice the courageous. Whoever is ,anbody' in Ontario mining has been around here . . . in this northern re- gion of mineral resources beyond calculation. after gold, nickel, copper, the platinum metals and silver. Today, new sub- stances are constantly being discovered. . . camps and towns with mineral -sounding names, are springing up . . . nothing that is of use to man will stay hidden longer than he takes to come for it. Published by THE BREWING INDUSTRY (ONTA RIO) • • e A CORNER IN GOLD In 1945, the province of Ontario recorded 15,225 gold -mining claims. In the pre - limes year $25,000,000 -salaries and wages -went to tbe 30.000 people engaged in the provinces - gold -mining industry and $30,000,000 in nickel -copper. During the war the mines of the Sudbury basin supplied the United Nations with all the nickel and platinum metals required for victory, yield- ing 1,800,000,000younds of nicke1,2,000,000,000pounds of copper, 15,250,000 ounces of silver and 1,750,000 ounces of platinum metals. Goderich Woman To Stand Trial for Death of Baby Mrs. Ella Martha Rose, 41, wife of Albert Rose, Goderich, was committed for trial at the next 'assize court on a charge of murder of her 16 -day-old daughter, Sheila Lily, on May 25. The assize court is scheduled to meet November 3rd. Many spectators, in- cluding a large number of women, were in the court room when the accused was brought into court. Crown Attorney D. B. Holmes was Crown counsel, and F. R. Darrow rep- resented the accused. Dr. John H. Fisher, London, provincial pathologist, stated that in his opinion the cause of death was asphyxia, or smothering. He said it would be a simple matter matter to suffocate a child of that age without leaving any sign of external violence. The child was well nourish- ed and developed and weighed seven pounds. There were no marks or bruises on the body. The lungs were in a state of pulmonary collapse. There was no injury to the neck. No evidence was presented by the de- fence. Magistrate W. I. Morley pre- sided at the hearing, MYSTERY LINKED WITH SOME WEED KILLING It is a mystery to many people why it it is possible to kill one plant with a chemical spray and not kill another beside it. In some cases, the reason is still a mystery even to those who have given the subject careful study. In other eases, the an- swer is simple, says George Knowles, Field Husbanry Division, Central Ex- perimental Farni, Ottawa. The first evidence of selective weed killing was observed when mustard growing' in a grain crop was killed by copper sulphate spray which did not kill the grain. The spray burned the leaves of the grain and the crop looked dead for about one week. Then the grain com- menced to turn green again, but the mustard made 110 further growth. The explanation of the recovery of the grain is that the growing tip of the plants of the grass family (and this ineludes oats, wheat, barley and rye), is enclosed in a sheath of covering and the caustic copper sulphate spray could not touch this covered growing point of the grain. In a few days the uninjured shoots emerged and soon the field was as green as if nothing had, happened. The growing point of the mustard plant, however is open and exposed. Then. too the leaves of this weed are waxy and covered with short hairs which holds ample spray that soon burns the life out of all parts of .the plant. Most annual weeds can be killed in peas and in flax by Sinox. This is the trade name for a recently in- troduced chemical weed killer. It is thought that the reason for this is because leaves of peas and flax are waxy but without hairs and the spray runs off them like water off a cabbage leaf. The weeds that have not a waxy surface are killed by the spray. Another example of selective weed killing'is the spraying of carrots with oil. The oil wets the leaves of the carrots just as it wets the leaves of the weeds, but for some unknown reason the oil kills most of the an- nual weeds and does not kill the carrots. It might be said that carrots are not allergic to oil sprays. The latest and most remarkable of all the chemical weed killers, 2-4-D is more highly selective than any known herbicide. Most selective weed killers discolour, temporarily, the crop in which the weeds are killed. This is not so with 2-4-D, it kills many species of weeds without caus- ing any perceptible injury to plants of the grass family. 5. FIT THE BODY: Scientifically recorded meas- urements of 3,867 persons in seateciposture was the basis of these Sleepy Hollow chairs, best ever devised for comfort, which the Canadian Pacific Railway is installing in 35 new air-conditioned passenger coaches on which delivery is expected early in 1947. Built to "give" with body curves and distribute weight properly the new chair is sometimes referred to as the Hooton chair, because of research clone by pr. Earnest Hooton of Har- vard University whose experts took the measure- ments of the better than three thousand volunteers in railway terminals of two of America's largest citire. For shoe -shedders an adillStahlP provided, (inset), it having been determined women like to ride in stocking feet as they nap. Cost of the new chairs alone will be more than $soct,000, with this figure being part of a four million -dollar appropriation, the first large passen- ger equipment order it has been possible to make since 1989, with double bedroom -roomette cars and express -baggage cars as well as passenger coaches included in the appropriation. The Canadian Pacific is the first railway in the Dominion to approve the new chairs and it will further pioneer in the 35 new coaches with the installation of the first electrically refrigerated wilt... ,,n1Arr nn "