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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1956-01-06, Page 6• • • • RON EXPOPIT9.44 SEAFORIIL • Start. the. YEAR .411. T...t. - • 6 96 THE HURON EXPOSITOR CAN SUPPLY YOUR EVERY PRINTING and OFFICE NEED: LETTERHEADS ENVELOPES FIRE and BURGLAR-PROOF SAFES INVOICES TAGS 0 0 .CASH REGISTERS COUNTER CHECK BOOKS CONTINUOUS FORMS LABELS. ADDING MACHINES STATEMENTS ORDER FORMS RECEIPTS BOOKLETS POSTERS TYPEWRITERS EGG TAGS PERSONALIZED STATIONERY CHEQUES BINDERS <> RULED .FORMS 0 0 PHONE US AT 41 — Let Us Discuss Your Requirements. With You THERE 15 NOOBLIGATION 0 THE HURON EXPOSITOR Phone 41 - Seaforth • • . • ' • OPEN SLOPE SKIING, in Banff National Park, Alberta, - • where powder snow lies soft and deep in winter. (Photo from Canadian Government Travel Bureau). FORMER HENSALL DISTRICT RESIDENT IS CHAMPION GRAIN GROWER The eyes of the wheat -growing world were on the Grande Prairie area of the Peace River District of Northwestern Canada as news was flashed around the globe that the world championship was awarded to one of its grain farni- era. He is Robert Cochrane, pio- neer of 1910, whose 1,440 -acre farm lies 12 miles northeast of Grande Prairie on' Highway No. 34, and a Hensall district native. A telegram, which few , grain growers are privileged to receive as reward. for long years of pains- taking effort. was sent to him from "Your exhibit of wheat has been awarded the World Championship at the Royal Agri- culture Winter Fair. Congratula- tions. (Signed) C. S. McKee, Gen- eral Manager, Royal Winter Fair." "I never was so pleased with anything as the news that Bob Cochrane 'won the 'award," declar- ed his friend and neighbor of 45 years, Perc U. Clubine, Robert- son Associate. "He is one of the most public spirited men I have ever known and one of the best seed growers in the business. It was especially fitting that a pio- neer, who has contributed so much to the Peace River • country's de- velopment for nearly' half a cen- tury. should receive the grain World's highest honor." Deeply appreciative of the hon- or, Mr, Cochrane felt the award was less a personal triumph and more a fine realization of the Peace River country's possibilities that lured him to the unsurveyed and • 'untouched Grande prairie from his carpenter's bench in Win- nipeg. It is the first time Saun- ders wheat has received a world championship," he said simply. The first championship award to come to the north country was back in 1873when a sample of wheat from the Roman Catholic Mission at Chippewayn was sent to .the International Show, then held at Philadelphia. At that time, only Hudson's Bay Company furs and Indians were known of the vast lands lying so remotely to the north. Only the occasional trader or' missionary carried word back to civilization of the lush, fertile park -like prairies waiting.a plow. W. D. Albrght, pioneer goVern- ment experimentalist in the Peace River area, was carefully noting effect of this northern latitude on Ruby wheat received for trials from the Central Experimental Farm at Ottawa in 1918. A few years later. his nod of approval went toward Marquis wheat, and in 1926 Herman Trelle, at Wemb- ley, swept the Peace River coun- try into the cereal • limelight by taking the world championship with it. Mr. Cochrane. w• ho was born at Hillsgreen in Huron County, at- tended school at S.S. 3, Hay, and College at Belleville, Ont., who with his young wife, had arrived in 1910, was one of the moving spirits of the first agricultural so- ciety to be formed at the hamlet of Grande Prairie the following year. His peas took first rrize•in 1913, the year a newspapt:r was estab- lished. and reported the Agricul- tural Society's fair exhibition re- sults. Son of a Scotch farm stock, his 1,440 -acre farm today began with breaking of 100 acres hi 1911, when oxen and ,horses pulled the big gang plows and the walking" plow across rolling stretches of virgin prairie. An ingenious flare for gadgets prompted putting. together pieces of wire, wheels and 'screen which served Settler Cochrane as a seed cleaning outfit when his determin- ation to grow registered grains took bold.. It was at his persistent urging among his neighbors that the first Peace River Grain Club was or- ganized for the purpose of intro- ducing and propagating good -seed in the new country: They made him president of the club until they River Wheat Board was ford in 1926, and theymade him president of that organization. By 1928 the Peace River Co-op- erative Seed Growers ,Limited tame into being with 48 -mem- bers' sitning shares at $25 each, Ineeting in the Grande 'Prairie Herald Hall.. Under Mr. Ceth- rate's presidency, it payed a large ild iinpOrtatit part ni the develi* tient: of the. district. The kat work Of the atteeiatithl ttt was to bring in pure seed to be multiplied on virgin land. This seed was then distributed to other farms and farmers who were making an effort to sow clean seed that would keep their new breaking as free as possible from weeds. ' Some of the first seed brought to the district was then famous "10B Marquis" wheat produced by Dr. Seager Wheeler. The associa- tion bought and divided it among growers, with Mr. Cochrane one of 'the first to plant it. "I grew it for years." Mr. Cochrane stat- ed; "Saunders is new and I have been growing it only rather re- cently." By 1932 he was known as "The Timothy King of the Empire." He was recognized as having supplied seed houses with more timothy seed than any one individual in the British Empire. In one year his shipments of timothy seed reached three carloads. First .to pioneer the seed in the Peace River country, he jook first prize at Chicago in 1932 with timo- thy, and his Boon took first at the World's Exhibit in 1933. This was propagated at the Central Experi- mental Farm at Ottawa, and alter - wards it was re -selected in Que- bec and named "The Improved, he said. That year • he came fourth at Regina with Marquis wheat. A cautious and systematic far- mer, Mr. Cochrane also grew Reg- istered Victory oats from 1932 to 1936, inclusive, along. with- Cana -I dian Thorpe barley. His Premost flax took first Alberta Provincial prize during the years. "Saunders wheat is recommend- ed for the Peace River country,"1 he pointed out. "Only about 14 pounds were selected samples from an acre garden patch that was more weeds than garden and plowed up last year as a field. The balance of :the cleaned sam-1 pies were selected from an 80 -acre field, and these with the 14 pounds ' were mixed up to comprise 18' pounds to Toronto. "The seed will also go to Chicago, where it is likely all Canadian competitors have been eliminated. It will again compete with the United States and all the other wheat - growing countries of the world." E. C. Stacey, superintendent Beav- erlodge Experimental Farm, said the Cethrane award was the first world championship to be given Saunders wheat since its introduc- tion a few years ago. In 1947. A. A. Guitard, cerealist, Beaverlodge Experimental Farm, said that "Saunders is licensed mainly on data originating in the Peace River area. It is the p o - duct of two rust -resistant parents, Thatcher and an high -yielding, early - maturing hybrid. ' It is classed as maturing 'iine day later than Garnet, andhas satisfactory straw qualities. It.. is free -thresh- ing and non -shattering and is equal to Thatcher in field and milling and baking quality. It has a bright attractive kernel and is at least moderately resistant to all impor- tant diseases, including bunt and root -rot. At present a limited quantity of certified seed of the variety is in existence, but registered seed not be available for at least two years. The wires were busy, car- rying messages of congratulations to Mr. Cochrane. Among them was one from their daughter Ruth, Mrs. Walter Atkins, of Uranium City, where her husband is man- ager of the Rix mine: Another wire came from their daughter Jean, Mrs. Gordon Fortes, of Ed- monton, where her husband is a prominent .architect. 'Growing registered seed hasn't been the whole of Mr. Cochrane's interest. For many years he was councillor on the 'municipal dis- trict council. Mr. -Cochrane is not- ed as far as the Smithsonian In- stitution at Washington, D.C., for his tare collection of dinosaur and other Mesozoic reptile fossils found in the nearby area, about which he lectures to school chil- dren and e_xhibits these, and his wood carvings at fairs and on oth- er occasions. The Cochrane's celebrate their golden wedding' next year. "It just does not seem possible we shall be 50 years married," Mrs. Cochrane declared. "Time goes so fast when one is happy." John H. Cochrane. Mrs. Bruce Walker and Mrs. Harry Fuss, of Hensall; Mrs. Hugh Cameron, the Misses Jessie and Agnes Carno- chan, of Clinton. are a brother and sisters of Mr. Cochrane. VW' 06-Year-eaP1104 NO. -13, Kilo°X0w1114 leloWn es kite Riga *boat sx,n4.ted abput two pules lift,4*.qcstRt Seitorth,'*ich hos been closed fp; the past 14 years, was wee again the centre of controversy aa ratepayers' an- nual meeting held Wednesday af- ternoonA 1 ot vote taken on a motion "that ;le board be given permis- sion to expend $5,000 to remodel the school so that it can once again be opened,". saw' 10 vote in favor and 11 vote against the expendi- ture. Now the school board is once again faced with the problem of what fdk An next, and a decision _was_reacbeft to takp the mattpr op_ with the inspector, G. G. Gardiner. At last year's annual meeting a vote en the question, "Do you want No. 13 school to open or not?" saw 24 voting in favor and 11 against opening the school. At a meeting held last June, vot Mg on the same lluestion as last week's ballot: "Are you in favor of expending up to $5,000 for the remodelling of SS. 13," ended in a deadleck-14 for and 14 against. Of the. 26 children in the sec- tion, 16 are attending S.S. 2, McKil- lop, and 10 are at Seaforth public sehooL Transportation, which had bees provided for the pupils going to both schools, was cancelled at Hold Quartette For Car Theft Four young airmen were arrest- ed New Year's night and charged with car theft. The four are in t Huron County jail at Goderich. A 1949 model ear, 'owned by El- mer Trick, R.R 3, Clinton, was stolen about 7' p.m. on Rattenbury St. East, Clinton, from in front of the home of Mr. Trick's mother. The car was -later recovered about 7:50 n near Hensall by Provincial Constable Allan • Hardy, of Goderich Arrested are AC 1 Joseph Clem- ent, 'AC 1 Joseph Santerre, both of Clinton R.C.A.F. Station; AC 1 Joseph Theriault and AC 1 Jos- eph Parent, both of Centralia R. CAF. Station. Clinton police department in- vestigated but later called on pro- vincial police for assistance. A merry party was going on in one of the rooms of a hotel when the festivities were interrupted by an attendant, who said "Gentle- men, I've been sent to ask you to make less noise. The guest in the next room says be can't read." "Can't read?" replied the host. "Wen, tell him he ought to be ashamed of himself. Why, I could read when I was five!' - COCKTAIL PARTIES - (As mirrored in the press) "Make you ill—induce trashy and truncated conversation— are expensive—do not promote peace but foment war."—(The Manchester Guardian). "A social evil; reducing the human personality to a noisy and disagreeable caricature." —(Hruce Hutchison). 'Loosen things up, but often in the way you loosen up a car by running it into a hydrant." —(Robert Thomas Allen). , "Historians ' of the future may well decide that one of the most useful weapons of the Russians in theperiod of the cold war was vodka . . dunking their guests in a sea of vodka. Yalta papers relate that on one occasion 45 toaks were drunk."—(Toronto Satur- day Night).—(Advt.). •.:7•7"' " "F: -"•-•'•:',""?s".••• 77A% 10 4,4 610 '.;" , v14'.%4A '74; 4..• Moppets can punch the pillows, oirraMble the sheets and bunch the blankets, but when the war is over Tex -made b the winner. Long wearing beautiful Tex -made sheets are the choice of homemakers 5 to 1. Plain:fitted, coloured or striped, in qualities to *rig budget. Every bedroom in your bo a sbowroom, with Tex -made sheets—yours for years: Sok, at better, stores. everyWhop0 11:04)1V1114110N TEXTILE COSAPA EV.‘;:te'Aik :MP rr' the 'e44 of the sehg4 ,year last Stine fOr financial reasons, Doing the' course of the meeting it was .brought out that if the school were re -opened the section would be re -assessed, when those owning property within a one,mile radius of the school would be as- sessed higher, with a decrease for every half mite' after that. ' The tax rate for school purposes in the .section is 10.6 mills, second highest in the towuship. One mill brings in a little less than $200, it was stated.' James M. Scott was named trus- tee for .a three-year term, replac- ing Peter McCowan. Other trus- tees are Thomas Goven1ockan J. SttTeral been board's .secretary -treasurer for., a number of years. Francis Cole- man was appointed auditor. Gor- don Scott was chairman at the meeting, and Mrs. F. Coleman was secretary. vitmoraitor ;er.4.1n1;; sPemartC s..iiire4miattna.e pSotWierths9:iisit 8000 in!frena5leaytts, 4114 r, e , Spodden, Victoria C011ege;Toron o, spent New Year's With his parents, Mr.' and Mrs. W- McSpaddeu. AIKK:AC MaybeWarning Backache is.ofteis camedby bey lanes action. When kidneys get oat of order, excess acids and wastes reniiin iit the *Mem-Then -backache4-4Exhirbed-rest may soon follow. That's the time ta fake Dodd's Kidney Pills. Dodd's stimulate the kidneys to normsf acfion. 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