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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1965-03-25, Page 10PAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, APRI4. 1, 1965 itaual eatoteseod ON SW A Sincere Welcome! Along with hundreds of other area citizens, this week we extend a sincere welcome to Fox Milling and Luinber Com- pany, who have purchased the former Kalbfleisch Planing Mills in Zurich. We know we speak for the entire community when we issue this salutation. As we are all quite well aware, it takes industry to keep the wheels in any com- munity moving, and the announcement that this new firm will require a substantial number of employees, is most encouraging to all. We hope that everyone will extend the red carpet treatment to the Fox con- cern, and make them feel that we want and need them in our midst, They will greatly assist the economic situation of the community. At the same time we wish to express the gratitude of the community towards YOU the former owners of the Kalbfleisch estab- lishment. For many years the Kalbfleisch Mill was the main source •of employment for this entire area, At peak periods in the past, they have hacl as many as 150 employees on their total payroll. Years ago, after the frist mill burned to the ground, the firm might easily have said, "well, there is no need for us to re- build. The future does not look that bright here." But they slid no such thing. In- stead they rebuilt the fine structure that stands today, and made it possible now for another industry to take over where they left off, The community certainly owes a vote of gratitude to the Kalbfleisch family for carrying on, and making such a new venture possible. With this type of co-operation, we know our community stands to prosper, and we know that it will. Mythical Economics Nobody ever sells an automible for $3,000. The price has to be stated, accord- ing to the unwritten rules of the game, as $2,995 or $2,975. A local store is advertising that it has towels on sale yesterday and today. For all practical purposes the prices are two dollars, one dollar, and a half a dollar, for bath towels, hand towels and face cloths respectively. That's not what the adver- tising says, though. The prices are $1.98, 98 cents, and 49 cents. Few merchants are brave enough to defy conventional belief that one -dollar -and -something sounds like much less than two dollars. The unwritten law confers some bene- fits when we buy an automobile. It is some help to the buyer to have $5, or $25, in change from three thousand -dollar bills. In the case of the bath towel, the sal- vage from a two -dollar bill is of some value. It is enough to soothe the hungry parking meter for two-fifths of an hour. We wonder, though, who is being fooled when the gasoline stations adver- tise, as they regularly do, such prices as 39.9 cents a gallon. In a recent gasoline price war which flared and died in the Toronto area, one chain of service stations dropped its price suddenly to 31.9. The opposition reacted by cutting prices the next day, to 30.9. After a couple of days of this price - fighting, one chain of stations went back up to 40.9, whereupon the opposition went all the way back up to 4L9. The thing that entertains us is that neither of the two oil companies could break loose from the fixed mental habit of quoting prices with a decimal -nine ending. Most people are bright enough to figure out for themselves how much money is saved by buying four gallons at 39.3, as compared with paying 40 •cents a gallon for it. The saving is exactly nothing at all. Four gallons of gasoline cost you $L50. If you buy 10 gallons in one purchase, you can save the grand total of one cent. Only a inan with a very big automobile and a very empty tank would buy enough at a time to save as much as two cents.— (Stratford Beacon -Herald, BRITISH MORTGAGE & TRUST COMPANY NEW EXETER OFFICE OFFICIAL OPENING FRIDAY - APRIL 2 Followed by an Open House until 9:30 p.m. which continues on Saturday from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. EVERYONE IS INVITED SOUVENIRS REFRESHMENTS SILVER ESTIMATING CONTEST Come and see this fine new building now. Open a savings account and earn 4% interest or invest in our Guaranteed Investment Certificates and earn up to 5/2% interest. Since 1877 BRITISH. MORTGAGE & TRIIST Branch Manager: EXETER C. V. BARRETT 235-0530 Letters to the Editor Wingham, Ontario, March 24, 1965 Dear Editor: I would like to reply to a letter written by Mr. Greb, of Dashwood, which appeared in the March 18th issue of your paper. In this letter Mr. Greb states that he is not pleased with the present hog market- ing plan. At the annual meeting of the Huron County Hog Producers en February 2, at Clinton, Mr. Greb was the only person at- tending the meeting who criti- cized and condemned the pres- ent hog marketing plan. It would seem to me that in Hur- on County where we have over 3000 producers of hogs, produc- ing 180,000 hogs a n n u a l l y, worth $8,000,00, that many more of these men would have been present to express their dissat- isfaction of the plan if they had reason to be dissatisfied with it. Mr. Greb seems to feel confi- dent, according to his letter, that he would have been suc- cessful in obtaining a majority over all the 19 pro -marketing candidates. I would like to draw his attention to the fact he was a candidate in 1961, '62 and '63 for committeeman and in all three contests he finished third from the last. Minority should accede to the wishes of the majority and co-operate. I would also like to point out that Mr. Greb attended the an- nual meeting of the hog pro- ducers in Toronto on March 12, 1965, and was nominated as a candidate for director on the OHPMB. He declined to qual- ify as a candidate for a seat on the board and thus passed up an opportunity to move up in the organization. His letter would seem to in- dicated that he was poorly used by the other committee- men. In 1964, one of the pro - marketing candidates resigned his seat to allow Mr. Greb a seat by acclamation as a com- mitteeman for Huron County. Again this year another commit - man resigned his seat to let him take a seat for a three-year term. Surely, Mr. Greb has re- ceived unusual consideration and I.am sure that all producers will agree with me that it was a very gentleman gesture on the part of our candidates to re- sign and let Mr. Greb have his seat. This saved Huron Coun- ty producers the trouble of go- ing out to vote and the expense of an election. At our annual meeting in To- ronto on March 11, the Hon. William Stewart, minister of agriculture, addressed the meet- ing .and he congratulated our organization and our method of selling hogs which was working so well to get the highest price possible for the producers. I would like to draw his at- tentnon to the fact that the present charge for selling hogs is 40 cent per hog and before we had the present marketing plan the charge was 59 cents per hog. I am sure I speak for the other association members of Huron County that we will be glad to advise and help Mr. Greb to understand our present method of selling hogs and the advantages the producers gain as a result .of having our pres- ent selling agency, Sincerely, Elmer Ireland, Secretary, Huron County Hog Producers' Association. PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher J. E. HUNT, Plant Superintendent Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa and for the payment of postage in cash Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Member: Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Member: Canadian Community Newspapers Representatives Subscription Rates: $3,00 per year in advance, in Canada; $4,00 in United States rind and Foreign; single copies 7 cents. ped in the Stratford market when Whyte's quit buying, also there is a good possibility that farmers who consigned cattle will be paid. Bayfield, Ontario Dear Editor, (Re Mr. Greb's Letter): A letter from Mel Greb, who is a marketing board commit- teeman, representing H u r on County, does not suggest he is very well informed or an effec- tive representative and fortun- ately for our county there are 18 other committeemen with more experience. The writer does not appear to understand how hoge are sold that the total supply is equally available to all buyers. The Ontario Hog Producers' office in Toronto has letters on file from small packers who in the days before producer -controlled marketing complained that they often could not get hogs be- cause the big packer had cor- ralled the supply by his bonus habit to truckers and certain big producers. Hog producers are naturally concerned and regret when a packer or any other business- man goes bankrupt, but farmers are businessmen, too, and they want every possible buyer to get a chance to buy their hogs without fear or favor that ex- isted in the old days. In the writer's plaintive con- cern for the packers he perhaps .doesn't know that when the plant at Stratford went into re- ceivership every hog producer got his money. Why?—because the hog board requires credit arrangements for all buyers, a bank guarantee in this case. No doubt Mr. Greb will wel- come the news that the farm- ers' co-operative at Barrie has bought the Whyte plant. Pro- ducers generally can appreciate this news for hog prices drop - The writer says he wants to know where the million dollars a year that the board levies in service charges is going. He was at the annual meeting in Toronto on March 12, when the financial statement and audi- tors' report was presented, but none of Huron County delega- tion observed him asking any questions on the subject—in- telligently ubject—in-telligently or otherwise. The board sold 2,677,209 hogs in the fiscal year ending November 30 for a value of $111,616,782 The income for service charges paid by producers was $1,059,090.47. This figures is substantially under one per cent of the value of the goods sold. We wonder if Mr. Greb knows of any other commodity that is sold as efficiently. The question, to myself, was posed as "What does the hog board pay out in gifts to its friends"? The only expendi- ture that could properly go under that description was the annual Christmas party for em- ployees and their families with gifts for the children, which that year was approximately $300. The Christmas bonus to employees that year was two weeks' pay rather than one week as customary, that total figure being $14,063. Family Medical Protection IS ESSENTIAL TODAY Huron Co-operative Medical Services Offers Complete Dependable Coverage TWO PLANS TO CHOOSE FROM 1. The Comprehensive Plan INCLUDES SURGICAL AND IN HOSPITAL BENE- FITS AS WELL AS HOME AND OFFICE CALLS 2. The Basic Plan INCLUDES SURGICAL, IN HOSPITAL AND MAJOR MEDICAL BENEFITS • No Medical Examination • No Enrolment Fee — No Age Limit MAXIMUM PROTECTION AT MINIMUM COST DISCUSS THE HURON COOP MEDICAL PLAN WITH Huron Co-op Medical Services CLINTON --- ONTARIO oR Your Local Director or CIA Agent BERTRAM KLOPP ZURICH Director and CIA 11,2,3,4,b of February 15, Mr. John Sem- ple renewed his offer to resign, to save the producers the cost of an election, especially when there was only one seat to be contested for, which didn't mean anything one way or an- other, compared to the savings to the producer. Mr. Greb talks about saving money for hte pro- ducer. Well, we saved the de- partment of agriculture about $300 by calling off the election., being expenses entailed in pre- paring ballots, etc, and help in conducting the election and an- other $200 to the county hog producers association in adver- tising, venting polling places, scrutineers, etc., as well as cost to the producers, their time lost in going to the polls to vote, some having to drive con- siderable distances. The actual cost involved is actually un- estimable and as such I feel the sacrifice of the election was justi£iea. Two weeks' bonus was ap- proved by the board that year as the staff had worked short- handed and some promised raises had been defered because of depleted funds earlier. As with any business, board man- agement must compete in the market for workers of different skills with wages and fringe benefits employees could rea- sonably expect. Though county directors' meetings are open to the pub- lic, only association directors can vote as they are empowered by the annual meeting of the association to conduct the ac- tivities of the county through- out the year. The meeting Mr. Greb re- ferred to as attending was the only joint meeting of the asso- ciation and .committeemen held in 1964 and 1965 up to the time of the proposed election for March 2, 1965. All other meet- ings were association meetings and did not pertain to commit- teemen. Mr. Greb was notified of the above meeting and was present. As for the withdrawing of the March 2 election for commitee- men, at the association meeting A good many producers t have talked to feel this was the proper procedure to take and are very thankful to Mr. Semple and the other nominees for the stand they have taken, as an election would not of served any useful purpose at all. Sincerely, Alfred H.. Warner. Optical Service Large Assortment of MODERN FRAMES Broken Lenses Duplicated. 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