Zurich Citizens News, 1969-09-11, Page 13High Run On Hogs
If the latest Canada
Department of Agriculture hog
forecast proves accurate, then
hog runs late this year should be
higher than a year ago. However,
for the current quarter
(July -September) weekly
marketings are expected to
average 138,800 head, a decline
of 3% from marketings of the
corresponding 1968 quarter.
Eastern marketings are expected
to be down 2% and western
output down .4%. Manitoba runs
are expected to be 6% above a
year ago. In the first six weeks
of the present quarter, weekly
runs averaged 127,580 head.
Marketings during the fourth
quarter this year are expected to
run 4% above the 1968 level
with the increase general in both
East and West. All provinces,
except Alberta and British
Columbia, are expected to show
increased marketings compared
to a year earlier. The largest
percentage increases, about
10-11%, are forecast for
Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1969
ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
The Interna
tional Scene
(by Rayeno
The summer holdiays are now
behind us, and although one
tends to neglect the world news
more during the hot summer days
and this summer has been a hot
one, still, in may places in the
world events plod- on oblivious
to heat and holidays. I have kept
my eye on two of these places,
one being Vietnam and the other
Czechoslovakia. Although I am
sympathetic to the Americans
in their apparently endless battle
in Asia, I am especially in
sympathy with the poor Czechs
and Slovaks who have seen their
bid for a modicum of freedom
fade in the distance until today
the country has returned to the
same place it wqs during the
Novotny days, before Dubcek
gave the country some hope.
Dubcek has been replaced by
husak, also a Slovak, in a
country where the Czechs have
up until now, always seemed to
predominate. Of course Husak
has had to follow a much tough-
er line, for the Russians would
have not let him be chosen in
the first place if they did not
think that he would provide
the toughness they wanted. How-
ever, it cannot be claimed that
Husak is a total puppet of the
Russians. In many people's
opinion he is just trying to
follow the very narrow path that
remains open to him taking into
consideration for the feelings
of the Czech people and the
determination of the Russians
not to let the situation get out
of hand.
One bit of sham that Husak has
to be a party to is a justification
of the Russian invasion of 1968.
Up until now this has not been
forthcoming and it has always
been a source of embarrassment
to Moscow that nobody of any
stature was willing to stand up
and say that there had actually
been an anti -socialist con-
spiracy. Since it has taken so
long even to get a token ad-
mission of such a conspiracy, it
is obvious to all that the whole
thing is a fraud, and yet Husak
is being forced to go through
the motions. It will be very
interesting to see what he comes
up with.
This year on the anniversary of
the Russian invasion theCzech-
oslovaks made it very evident
that their feelings towards the
Russians had not changed one
iota. One paradox of this year's
demonstration was that the
demonstrations were put down not
by Russian troops but by Czech
policemen, since Moscow had
made it clear in talks beforehand
with Husak and Svoboda that
unless the Czechs themselves
handled the demonstrators, the
Russians would move in their
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own troops. This may explain
some of the overzealousness
of the Czech police in putting
down their own countrymen.
The most atonic aspect of the
whole situation is that up until
the invasion. of 1968 the Czechs
had always looked upon the
Russians as their closest friends.
It was the Russians who liberated
the country during the closing
days of World War Two and the
Czechs had been among the
most faithful of the Warsaw
Pact nations. All that is past now
No amount of sweet talk on the
part of the kremlin can convince
the Czechs that there is any real
friendship left, and it is prob-
ably correct to assume that the
feeling of hatred which prevades
the country today is every bit
as profound as the feeling of
friendship of the past twenty-
five years. In one day the Rus-
sians succeeded brilliantly in
undoing the work of twenty-five
years.
ATTEND CONFERENCE
Rev. John Huether, along with
several other ministers and lay-
men of Huron Perth Presbytery
of the United Church attended
the 20th annual Evangelism
conference at Whitby. Speakers
for the conference were Rev.
Willis Elliott of New York, who
gave addresses on "Commitment
and Involvement". The Rev.
Bernard Backman of St. Paul,
Minn. led the roup in a con-
temporary music workshop.
About 100 ministers, laymen
and wives were in attendance.
CROP REPORT
Therain harvest is almost
completed, however, very little
plowing has been done. The
round is very hard due -to the
lack of moisture. A good steady
rain would help this problem as
well as help the growth of the
hay and pasture fields.
The corn is ripening up fast
such that corn harvest is not too
far away.
Bean harvest is in full swing
with good, average and poor
yields reported. Most yields
appear to be average. Due to
the dry weather there has been
some splitting of the beans at
harvest
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