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Thelast week er so certainly has
-not been exactly auttahle for ming-
ling in large crowds, for attending
large gittheringa, and no, most. am,
phatically no, , not for . making
speeches, Yet every so often a fel-
'low gets caught, up in 'these things
..and..that lmbdw haire:heen PPend:
ing My time. WhYs test week I ev-
--en forgot that I am uSually expect,
.ed to iill thTs space—,went Complete:
but of 'My head; it did: .
YOA?: knOW hinny how differ -
eat these ,.ap,pear .to what
they really arewhen you atop and
take a real close look at theni, last
week,* Torogto a band wap play-
ing outside the Unien Station, and
before I knew what it all about
I was surrounded by 'what . might
have been a grOnp of men and.W0-
men out of picture in "Arabian
lgights." They ail wore bright yelp
loir silk pants and purple satirE
shirts, and I had a .hara time mak-
ing my ev.ay through them out to
the corner. BY. the.tim0 I got there
I was 'sweating (or ebould I be'po-
C-Usi-B-4-u-Duy
II. ow,
SPECIAL REDUCTION OF $40.00 PER TON
OFF THE REGULAR FACTORY LIST
PRICES ON BINDER AND
BALER TWINE
No additions for freight, etc:
And Save $ $ $ At Our STOCK REDUCING
SALE
Of Over 100 New Machines of the latest models
of I.H. Trucks, Tractors, Combines, Refrigerators
and Farm Machines
Plus a Large Stock of Electric Washers, Belts,
Tires and Tubes, Paints and Oils, Etc:
Also a Large Stock of Good Used Tractors and
Machines At Very Low Prices
We cannot afford to carry this large stock, so
don't miss these bargains!
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JOHN BACH
Phone 17 . Seaforth
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Floor Sanding
and Refinishing
Call For Estimates
EVERYTHING FOR
THE FLOOR!
• Inlaid Linoleum
• Congoleum
• Rubber Tile
• Marboleum Tile
• Congowall
• Plastic Tile
,
11t.4,aad ogrperaplring?)„.
NVAPK.14 , ,work,'
Oka'efili#104,
4?arate .'41hen 1 WAS t(t4, 4114lg
14.:4:01.egf47,P.44494 rowd 'at home.
I *ate 00404 in the
kinder-
garten watching Katie Scott go
throng').” or pace.— There were
about MO youngsters there,,:v#13,
the appropriate number of wend
parents packed around the 'edges;
watching them.' ..Some of 'Merin**
ones. were butterflies and Nviiiptleor-
wills and frogs and Urges.; and the.
like of that. They were • taving• a
wonderful time putting on a show
and I can tell you I have never
heard better; whistling in My life
than from that group 'who werh be,
ing robin.
Standing there on .the eorner of
Front and .Bay 'Street% looking
back at those fellows in the.yellow
pants, I realized that there..wasat
tbo much difference between theba
and the kids from the kindeagar-
ten. The truth of the matter is we
all -like' to get dressed up and put
on a show.
Take • another place I found my-
self last week — the High School
graduation exercises- (and very nice
they were too). All the girls were
wearing lovely white dresses., and
they made a splendid lot of beau-
ties. The young fellows were more
restrained, but ,they all wore their
best suits and the assortment of
ties was a rainbow wonder to be-
hold indeed. Yessir, at six, sixteen
, or sixty; all we kids like to dress.
• up.
It even hits the intelligentsia. I
was at the Canadian Authors' Con-
vention in London last week too,
and they are a serious lot of hard-
working writers who meet once a
year to get right down ,to business
and talk shop. But Mil had' an
annual dinner on the plosing eve-
ning and you know what? Right,
they were all togged out in their
best bibs and tuckers just like ev-
erybody else would be.
Now it was ninety-six in the
shade in London that day but the
women were wearing their fanciest
dresses, most o them formals with
ribbons and bows getting in the
way all over the place. The major-
ity of the men—and I was one of
them—were in their boiled shirts,
Stiff collar and dinner jackets., Ev-
en a man who the rest of the time
had gone around wearing a pair of
white shorts, had a regulation suit
on.
I don't know what it is but I
never yet did know an average hu-
man being who could resist the lure
ofAressing np some Way or other.
Take a cowiboy or a lumberjack—
Box Furniture Store
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Orders Delivered Promptly
PHONE' 47
RECEPTION
for
Mr. and' Mrs. Jas. Kelly
Newlyweds
Seaforth
Community Centre
FRIDAY, JULY 4th
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WINTER
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MADE IN ;CANADA
BALL au MACAULA
Lust.. LIME CEMENT - TILE - BRICK
SEAFORTHCLINTON
Phone 87 , Phiihe 97
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aturate
(Christian fielenee
Development pi Canada/e fabu-
lous bituminous sands is being
lauriolled on a major seele this
Summer. And officials in many
countries can be expected to fol-
low the progress elenelY as con-
centrated efforts age made to ex-
tract crude oil.
Located in northeastern. Alberti;
for more than 100 miles along the
Athabasca River and its Winder -
les,, the famous sands long have
been generally regarded as the
world:s largest untapped -petroleum
reserve. In the past they have al -
say been referred to as the MCIVIur-
ray or Athabasca tar sands..
ExceedinglY conservative Cana-
dian Government officials have es-
timated that the petroleunasatnrat-
ed sands could yield more than 100
billion barrels of crude oil; United
States Government and oil indus-
try officials have placed their esti-
mates at between 250 and 300 bil-
ion barrels.
Surveys have disclosed that the
sands, dark brown or black in col-
or, cover about 30,000 square miles
and petroleum engineers agree that
some sections of the vast deposits
contain 200 million barrels of bitu-
men a square mile: The bitumen
content of large areas is placed. at
100 million barrels a square mile.
In a series of outcrops along the
Athabasca River and its tributar-
es, the exposures of the oil -saturat-
ed sands vary from those of a few
feet where small breaks in the
overburden disclose the sands to
the cliffs of over 200 feet that ap-
pear at places along the river
banks. Drilling tests many miles
from the rivers have disclosed the
beds of sands to be more than 100
'eet thick.
While the presence of the fan-
tastic petroleum reserve has been
known for many decades, its de-
velopment had been discouraged by
the extremelysticky nature of the
sands and -their bitumen, the vis-
cosity of the mineral aggregate and
bitumen usually defeating man's at-
tempts to separate them.
-For generations many northern
Indians used the stick sand for re-
pairing their canoes. 'White settlers
moving into the Canadian West and
earning of the "tar sands" enter-
tained hopes of using the deposits
for building asphalt -covered high-
ways, but they were discouraged as
the raw material was so remotely
situated—about 250 miles north-
east of 'Edmonton, Alberta.
The oil industry and the 'Cana-
dian and Alberta governments,
however, steadfastly maintained
that the day would, come when re-
covery of crude oil from the sands
would be 'not only feasible but also
that it would be economically pos-
sible. And to hasten that day
along they invested large sums on
research, most of the money going
nto the operation 'of a pilot pro-
cessing plant established . at Bitu-
mont on the east thank of the Atha-
basca. River by the Canadian Gov-
ernment and then taken over by
the Alberta government.
Largely because of the successful
results produced by research at
the bituminous sands and in pro-
cessing shale deposits in other
countries, the general feeling in
petroleum circles now is that re-
searchers may have found the key
to unlock the tricky problems which
had been defying efforts to extract
bitumen from the sands and then
process this into crude oil.
And the confidence now is being
reflectedln the plans of a Swedish
shale Oil company and several Can-
adian and United States petroleum
firms. By paying fees. and deposit -
ng more than $400,000 for reserva-
tion rights on 400,000 acres of the
oil -soaked sands, they have obtain-
ed authority to undertake the first
major attempt to extract petroleum
from the deposits and now are mov-
'ng equipment into norther reg -
'ons.
The Swedish Shale Oil Company
has arranged .to lease part of the
Alberta government's pilot plant
at Bituniont and this summer plans
to introduce a revolutionary method
of -extracting petroleum from the
sands. Its method involve's extract-
ing oil from .the sands right in the
ground without excavating or min-
ing them. It has used the process
successfully on oil shale deposits
in Sweden.
'Because the bituminous sands dif-
fer greatly from the shale deposits
processed in Sweden, the method
will require considerable modifica-
tion to meet the requirements of
the northeastern Alberta sands.
However, Hans Lundberg and Dr.
Gosta SalOmonsson, who represent-
ed the Swedish company in negoti-
ations with the Alberta government
have expressed confidence that ex-
periments would develop a new oil
extracting process which would be
successful.
Generally speaking, the Swedish
company will attempt to extract oil
from the sands by a heating pro-
cess used on oil shale deposits in
Sweden. It involves included com-
bustion of the oil sands uhder the
ground by means of charges of
electricity through electrodes sunk
into the earth. The resulting com-
bustion is intended to ,distill the
petroleum and remove it from
around the sand particles to which'
it clings.
To • exploit the petroleum possi-
bilities of the sands, reservation
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Lions Park
(continued from Page 1),,
Clark; yOUlg 'Oka, Mona. MA:
YoiMg men, Howard Clark; ladies
104,,the Slipper, Mona Clark; men
kick the slipper, Mervin .fohnston;
ladies .put clothes pin in. mouth,
Irene Glanville; ladies drop clothes
pin\ in bottle, Edna Macklan; men
throwing ball the farthest, Mel.
Glanville; ladies throwing paper
platen,' Helen i3urdge. Prizes were
also given to eldest lady and gen-
tlemen, Mr. and Mrs. ,Joseph Clark,
Fergus, and the youngest present
was little Bertha Denby, BrUssels;
the ceuple coming the farthest, Mr.
and Mrs. Ed. Clark, Fergus; long-
est married couple, Mr. and Mrs.
Armour Dundas, London; most .re-
cent married couple, Mr. and Mrs.
Jack McKay, Seaforth.
Mona •'Clark gave a humorous
reading and a community sing -song
concluded the program, and all
parted to meet again in 1953.
WALTON
Personals: Mrs. Mary Dressel, of
Toronto, with her mother, Mrs. F.
Ennis; Mr. and Mrs. Kennth Rut-
ledge, Toronto, with friends here:.
Murray and Ian Kirkby, Burwash,
spending their summer vacations
with their grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. H. B. Kirkby; Mr. and Mrs.
Everet Purdue and Larrie in Lon-
don; Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Cameron
and Carol, Sarnia, with Mr. and
Mrs. James Coutts; Mr. and Mrs.
C. Hudson and family, Goderich,
with Lorne Steiss.
EGMONDVILLE
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smeathers and
family and Mrs. George Greenwood
of Detroit, spent the week -end with
Mr. and Mrs. A. Houston.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Culp and
Mrs. Robert Culp and family, of
Detroit, visited with Mr. and Mrs.
Elmore Stephenson, -also with Mr.
and Mrs. Bruce MeClinchey, Stan-
ley.
Mr. and Mliq. Perce Johnston and.
family spent a few days with
friends at Wellington.
Mr. William Finlayson, of Lorne
Park, visited- with his mother, Mrs.
James Finlayson, also with Mr. and
Mrs. H. Weiland.
Miss Jessie Finlayson, of Lorne
Park, has returned to spend the
holidays with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. James Finlayson.
Miss Laura McMillan, of Toron-
to, is spending the holidays with
her mother, Mrs. W. F. McMillan.
McKILLOP
'Mr. John and Miss I'ollock
44. La alev,PFtak Manitoba,0.****
tnCwithtbeirceueina,Vtaii(1",
Garnet Taylor, Hibbert TOWM$P,„
also 'with relatives and frIeridn Ttit
Seaforth and kitatIle, Te*14410. It
is thirty-nine years slime Mr. Fet-
lock has'. visited his relatives and
finds many changes. His sister Jgge
made several tripe east since thei-
went to Itlanitoba In OK They
will return to their home later In
the summer by boat from Midland.
Terry DaYnard,,BaYerley TaYlor,
Jack Dearing,„ Donald Dearing, WC,
Norris, Wilfred Elliott and David
_Kemp left for Bimini camp on
July 2 -
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Dearing, of
Windsor, are visiting their mother,
Mrs. JohnAcI)enald,
Mr. George Moore is wearing a
smile these days. Another son has
arrived at their house, a brother
for Wanda and Gregory.
BRUCEFIELD
Mr. and Mrs. H. Thornton, Ham-
ilton, 'spent the week -end with Mr.
and Mrs. A. Paterson,
Miss Janet Watson left Friday 'for
a tour of Europe and the British
Isles.
Mr. and Mrs. Murray are holiday-
ing with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
R. Allan.
Miss Marg. Aikenhead, London,
spent the week -end with her
mother.
Misses Blanche and Margie Zapfe
have, gone to the 'Bend where they
are employed for the summer. Mr.
Hugh Zapfe returned to London af-
ter two weeks' vacation- at his
home.
Miss Ina Anderson, Toronto,
spent the week -end with her cous-
ins, Mr. and Mrs. Al. Hill.
Mrs. -D. Tough has recovered suf-
ficiently from her illness to be tak-
en to the home of her daughter.
• The garden party 'held in Bruce -
field church basement Thursday ev-
ening was very successful. A chick-
en and strawberry supper was
served by the ladies. A variety pro-
gram of local and outside talent
was given in the auditorium.
S.S. No. 3, Tuckersonith, had a
very successful picnic at the Lions
Park, Seaforth, last Friday.
Keith Taylor, who underwent a
serious operation in Children's
Memorial Hospital recently, is im-
proving. His mother, Mrs. Harvey
Taylor, has returned home after be-
ing in London for some time.
About 25 friends met on Tuesday
evening last at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Williamson, to honor
Erma Walters, bride -elect of the
week. The program consisted of
bingo and contests.
The following address was read
by Miss Marjorie Roe: Dear Erma:
We are so glad that you and Dyke
will soon 'be man and wife. 'We
know that you will always try to
make the best of life, so we, your
friends, are gathered here, to wish
you lots of health, not forgetting
happiness, and a goodly share of
wealth. Now, always be sure your
cake is fluffy and light, the taters
and meat cooked just right; and if
the cake should tall, be ready with
a smile, for that is best of all. And
when trouble comes, as they some-
times do, you stick to him. and he
will 'stick to you. 'May you build
your home on faith and love, and
live ire peace like turtle doves. So
please accept these little gifts, for
each of them will do, to symbolize
the friendship we all feel for you.
Signed on behalf of your- Friends.
Shirley Henderson, Mary Ellen
Rintoul, Joyce Armstrong and Ileen
Williamson brought in the gifts in
a prettily decorated basket. Mrs.
George Pethick and Miss Delores
Dale helped to unwrap the gifts,
after which Erma expressed her
thanks.
they wear the most colorful cos-
tumes in Canada and are mighty
proud of them. It's right in us
and no mistake. —
If it's important, we just natural-
ly like to dress the part. Who could
be more important Than those fifty
youngsters in the kindergarten?
Who more important than those
boys and girls stepping out front
the High Scheel into a broader
world? I think our Canadian writ
era are pretty important too.
don't know for sure about the
OW
VARNA
The Varna W.A. of the United
Church was held in the church on
June 23, with 18 ladies present,
with Mrs. Anson Coleman presid-
ing. The meeting opened with the
theme song. Hymn 356 was sung,
"Take ,My Life and Let It Be," and
Psalm 745 was read' 'responsively.
Mrs. Pitt read thoughts on. the les-
son, followed by a prayer. Rachel
Johnston read the minutes of the
last meeting in the abseace of
Mrs. J. Aldington, and Mrs. Bob
Taylor seconded. Roll call for the
next meeting is to be answered with
a suggestion on, "Where will we
go on our next bus trip?" It was
moved and seconded that the bak-
ing sale he held at Bayfield in the
afternoon of July 11, and August 16
in the Town Hall. Mrs. John Mc -
Ash is to look after the making of
posters for the sale. It was decid-
ed to have a W.A. picnic at the
next meeting, July 23, and to ask
the men and children. Supper will
be at seven. Discussion followed
about a sacred concert, and was
left to the entertainment commit-
tee. Mrs. Pitt, Mrs. Ed. Foster and
rights have been obtained on 50,-
000 acres of the sands by each of
eight parties, these being the five
Canadian companies of Calvan Con-
solidated Oil and Gas Corporation,
Asher Oil Company, Pacific Petro-
leum Limited, New Contibental Oil
of Canada,. and Charter Oils; the
Sun Oil Company and Socony' Va-
cuum Oil Company from ,the Unit-
ed States, and Edward 'Gilbert, man-
ager of Sun Oil's land department
in Calgary, Alta.
Leases were granted to each by
the Alberta. government after each
had paid a fee of $250 and deposit-
ed $50,000 with the province. They
may operate in the bituminous
sands area so long as they keep
the Alberta government advised on
their progress.
Rentals for the first year are set
at five cents an acre, at 10 cents
an acre for the second year, and
at 26 cents an acre for the third
year. Work must be carried out
according to a governmera-approv-
ed-plan.
When exploratory work is com-
pleted, the company in each ease
may lease acreage which the prov-
ince agrees is sufficient to keep a
processing plant operating for a
i)eriod of 20 years.' Then the ren-
tal becomes $1 an acre a year, with
the royalty to the province to be
set at up 10 per cent for the first
term of 20 years.
Attempts in the past at process-
ing the sands have been limited
largely to extracting the petroleum
with various hat and cold -water
treatments after mining the raw
material, and this has posed min-
ing loading problems because
,of' the stickiness ofthe sands. HoW-
'titer,the pilot plant at Ilitittnont
he yeildw ,Pante .(COntimied on Page 6)
REAM' -T
Troup frOnkonfa
.,90$ of
'44144' 14? flla
If% off -
they're 119K, :eha
grey, fawn
grey gabardinegi
and pick, woratedn'.a04
glen -checks.
About 40 In tAle
a few 'of them aro tropt
cal weight that aialler-",ti
feet for the hot -
ahead.
All Are Reduced'
By 20% TOtile
Regular 37.50
for 29.50
Regular 45.00
for 36.00
Regular 49.50
for 39.50
• Regular 55.00
for 44.00
SEE THESE SALE
SUITS IN OUR
WINDOWS AT
20%
Men's Sport Shirts
2.98
We've picked out a group of one -
of -a -kind Sport Shirts to clear.
Some of them sold up to 5.95. All
are real value at this sale price
of
STEWART BROS.
Mrs. Wilfred Chuter are to look af-
ter flowers in the church for July.
Hymn 376 was sung, "Bless Be the
Tie That Binds," followed by the
W.A. Prayer.
A bus load, of 23 ladies from
Varna spent a day recently in De-
troit and Greenfield Village. All
reported an enjoyable day, one to
be remembered.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Perce Johnstaii
and Robert spent the weekend be
Wellington. Miss Phyllis Johnston"
returned with them after a week's
holiday.
The Varna Mission Band and
Band picnic was held July 3 at ths
Lions Park, Seaforth.
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