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SEAFORTH, Friday, March 30th
Salt and Damage
How much salt is required to be
placed on highways each winter to
ensure that ice and skidding is elim-
inated? Ross Wicher, M.L.A., for
Bruce, asked the question in the Leg-
islature recently, and suggested the
Department of Highways was using
excessive amounts.
Mr. Wicher expressed the opinion
that damage amounting to $200 per
vehicle was resulting because sur-
plus salt settled on the trim and un-
dercarriages of vehicles. It was re-
vealed that on the average, 12 tons
of salt were applied to each mile of
highway each winter season.
Certainly there is little doubt but
that salt on the highway does cause
deterioration of metal parts. But in
determining this loss it is necessary
to weigh the additional safety that
is made possible by the elimination
of ice on the highways. There is no
more dangerous condition, nor one
more conducive to serious accidents
than an ice -covered roadway. Per-
haps in its zeal to reduce driving haz-
ards to a minimum, the Department
occasion does appl excessive
amounts of salt, but in the final an-
alysis this probably is preferable to,
excessive amounts of ice ready to
entrap unsuspecting motorists.
Practical Approach
A more realistic approach to the
many problems facing the farming
community than frequently is taken
was that of the recent commodity
conference held in Toronto.
The policy statement in defining
responsibilities o f Federal a n d
and Provincial Governments stated:
"Federal Government: We request
establishment of legislation, if such
is necessary, to assure farmers that
they can carry forward their mar-
keting programs in both the Nation-
al and International fields, and that
their marketing boards can enjoy
full rights to make deductions for
services and for stabilization funds.
The establishment of non -incentive
floor prices based on a known form-
ula as set out by C.F.A. policy for
farm products. •
"Provincial Government: We ask
that assurance be given to Ontario
farmers that there will be an im-
provement in the administration of
the province's agricultural market-
ing legislation. To achieve this im-
provement we request a new Port-
folio—A Marketing and Co-opera-
tion Department be established in the
near future with emphasis not on
production but on `Marketing'."
The meeting recognized the weak-
ness, with respect to the manner in
whici, in the past, producers have
expressed opinions concerning par-
ticular plans when it was resolved:
"In order to make it ° practical and
democratically possible to secure an
expression of opinion from our pro-
ducers in any one commodity, we re-
quest a new forrRula and system for
taking evaluation of producer opin-
ion by a marketing vote."
The meeting recommended among
other things that the Ontario Fed-
eration of Agriculture and the com-
modity groups take action on a sales-
rtanshp program by which Ontario
inmodity groups, through sales -
3t1; *add sell farm products on
Markets; establishment of a
ll g t epar'ti tent in the'O.F.A.
cotopei'a�tion With the Oro-
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oro -
u -olid de` elo" ,;a p '
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gram; that ways and means be
sought of increasing research in the
field of marketing, so that a pool of
information on the subject pf "Com-
modity Marketing" may be made
available to farm leaders, and that
universities, colleges and. Depart-
ments of Education be pressed to re-
cognize needs in respect to trained
men equipped to assist in giving fur-
ther momentum to marketing pro-
grams,
Is This the Answer?
What is wrong with athletics as
we know it today? Why the lack of
interest on the part of the public?
Is there a relationship between this
lack of interest and the demands of
players?
Perhaps some of the answers lie in
remarks by the famous American
coach, Russel (Rusty) Callow, of the
U.S. Naval Academy. "Something is
creeping into our own athletic set-
up which is not good,' said he. "Our
youngsters no longer go to the
schools that their daddies went to,
or to schools that they have a great
admiration for. They mostly go to
those which make the best offers.
"The trend. to professionalism
tends to destroy tip one thing which
made America a great nation; great
discoveries and inventions are made
primarily for service and not for
monetary gain." The speaker said
that somewhere in The Decline and
Fall, Historian Ed. Gibbon listed the
professionalizing of athletics as one
of the five reasons for the fall of the
Roman Empire. "And we are mov-
ing in that direction here. When we
were youngsters, we played games
because we wanted to, and won be-
cause we were the best; not because
we expected to receive any extra re-
wards. Sometimes I wonder . whe-
ther the average young fellow is as
interested in athletics as his father
was, whether he is quite as willing
to make the sacrifices that are nec-
essary to become great."
What Other Papers Say:
Theory and Practice
(West Branch, Iowa, Times)
A good example of academic
achievement is the young wife who
can compute the area of a triangle
—but can't fold or pin one!
Data On Ghosts
(Wall Street Journal)
At its meeting in London the So-
ciety for Psychical Research ex-
pressed some dissatisfaction with the
present manner of tracking down
authentic ghosts.
The trouble is that people who see
spectres fail to give enough informa-
tion when they report having run
across one The reason is that they
fail to get enough information from
the ghost, which really isn't very
surprising. Most people don''t stop
to think about such things •as getting
a ghost's name and address.
Time To Step On the Brake
(St. Marys Journal -Argus)
Retail merchants have always
been considered fair game for
groups and organizations who are
after "free loot" to use as prizes in
their various functions and endeav-
ours. We think it is safe to say that
the majority of merchants enjoy very
much helping in this way, that is if
their help is asked occasionally.
At certain times, however, and this
was noted recently, the demands be-
come too frequent and too great. An
outright donation of goods valued at
over twenty-five dollars was recent-
ly asked of one local retailer. No
doubt the person asking was not
aware of the value of the "free gift"
being sought, but it does illustrate
somewhat the kind of thing that of-
ten goes on.
Many deserving organizations
need have no hesitation in asking for
goods for prizes or donations from
our merchants, but unfortunately
these requests can become too de-
manding and too frequent. It is up
to each and everyy, organization to
give Serionweimsideration to itS poli-
cies Were practices of this type are
et too' far and as a result go
oeiv ,sour,
TO THE EDITOR
R.R. No. 1,
Sebringvlle, Ont.,
March 23, 1956.
Editor, The Huron Expositor:
Dear Sir: Hog producers, at
their meeting in Toronto on March
lst at the King Edward Hotel, ad-
mitted that those membership sig-
natures on the back of your hog
cheques were no good. Forty
lawyers said so. And they are still
operating as a compulsory co-op
up. to March 1. Now they are
starting a new membership cam-
paign all over again. They run a
co-op the way they sell hogs.
Mr. Kohler's salary was stated
at $12,000 per year, but when you
divide it down to each day's work,
it amounts to over $45.00 per day.
I wonder how many farmers make
that kind of money feeding hogs!
When hogs sold by the Hog Pro-
ducers Co-op only yield 71 per cent
of dressed weight (it shows this
when they left the farmer's pen
on Wednesday and were not killed
until Tuesday of the next week), it
all points out to carelessness, neg-
ligence, gross inefficiency and mis-•
management in the affairs of the
hog business.
Mr. 111clnnis, in the papers on
March"'15, says that farmers have
no one to blame but themselves.
There it is, boys! When your hired
man, who is hired to sell your hogs,
and who is paid by you, starts tell-
ing you, you know now where you
stand.
And when you give a man the
power of the law over your busi-
ness, there's just what happens—
the servant becomes the master,
and he's telling you.
Yours truly,
THEODORE PARKER
1i•J:°fir �4�i:i � � 'in -".y;,.
tW
YEARS AGONE
Joined Army
Mr. Douglas Gibbons left Monday
for London, where he has joined
the Royal Canadian Regiment and
will for the present be stationed
at Wolsley Barracks, London.—
Blyth Standard.
Figures In Crash
An accident at Clinton last Fri-
day night involved b former Blyth
man, Freeman Tunney, and his
car, a 1956 Plymouth, is at a local
garage awaiting extensive front-
end repairs as a result. -Freeman,
now manager of a, Co-op at Tees -
water, and a resident of that vil-
lage, was in collision with a car
driven by Claire Francis Baechler
of Goderich. Damage to the two
vehicles" was reportedly'r around
$1,200.—Blyth Standard.
Students Plan Capital visit
Continuing a precedent estab-
lished last Easter with a visit to
New York City, 32 senior students
of South Huron High School ac-
companied by six super -visitors,
will leave by bus at 10 p.m. March
29, for a three-day visit to Wash-
ington, D.C. Since last fall, the
group has raised funds through va-
rious projects. Probably the most
successful financially were the
Earle Terry Recital in December,
the bake sale in January, and the
sale of tickets for -"No Rhyme Nor
Reason" in February. As a result
the cost to the student is $30. This
amount includes transportation,
one night's accommodation at the
"Y" hotels, two extensive sight-
seeing trips and tickets to the
Marian Anderson recital Easter
Monday.—Exeter Times -Advocate.
Carries Out Pupil Instruction
Preparations for the opening of
Clinton's dial telephone exchange
From The Huron Expositor
April 3, 1931
The annual Spring Fair of the
Seaforth Agricultural Society was
held on Main Street on Tuesday.
A record crowd attended.
Mr. Thomas. McKay, of Manley,
has engaged Mr. Charles Longdan
to assist him on his farm for the
season, and Mr. Henry Weiterson
also of Manley, has engaged Mr.
P. Connelly, Jr., to help him.
Last Thursday afternoon about
40 men went to Mrs. H. Forsyth's
in Tuckersmith and cut about 30
cords of wood.
Mr. Jacob Kipfer and family, of
Zurich, have moved into Mr. L.
Foster's house on Edward St.
We understand the Supertest
Gas Company, of London, recently
purchased a Iot in Hensall, on the
corner of Queen St. and the Lon-
don Road, and are starting erec-
tion of a garage and gas station,
which will be operated by, Hudson
Bros., of Hensall.
Mr. J. A. McKenzie has purchas-
ed the residence of the late Mont-
gomery Davis on Market St.,' in
Seaforth.
Messrs. George Love and Percy
Taylor. of Walton, entertained
about 125 guests to a party in the
Workman's Hall on Friday even-
ing.
Mr. Clifford Colclough, Mr. Ben-
jamin Riley, and Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Colclough and sister., of
Constance, motored to Blenheim
on Sunday to visit relatives for a
few days.
Interesting Items picked
from The Huron Expositor of
25, 50 and 75 Years Ago.
in their new store; Mr. Kidd and
Mr. Jamieson are also- talking
about removing the old fronts and
substituting plate glass, and we
are sure Duncan & Duncan will
not be far behind.
Miss Lydia McCallum, of Win-
throp, has just completed a quilt
containing 4,000 pieces. The whole
of this work was done by her in
the short time of two weeks.
Mr, Thomas Gorrell has disposed
of his.60 acres on the Base Line
in the Township of Hullett, to his
brother, John, for $3,700. The land
is first-class. It is the intention
of Mr. Gorrell and his brother,
Frank, to go to the West..
Mr. J. Wynn, of Brussels, has let
the contract for the erection of a
two-storey frame building on Flora
Street, near his wagon shop, for
an axe handle factory. An engine
and boiler will supply the motive
power. George Colvin has the
contract.
—thefirst u Huron County are
becoming more intense this week
as the date for the changeover
draws closer.. At -about 2 a.m. on
Sunday, April 15, the present man-
ual exchange will be cut out of
service and the dial 'system will
be placed in operation. Meanwhile,
an intensive campaign has been
launched to acquaint telephone us-
ers with use of the dial system
so that the changeover can be
carried out smoothly. School chil-
dren are among the first to re-
ceive instruction in the use of the
dial telephone. Bell personnel
started last week to visit all
schools in the exchange area with
a dial demonstration kit ' which
they used to explain the use of
the dial. A similar program will
be carried out in the high school
in April:—Clinton News -Record:
Good News!
Contract for the paving of the
Clinton-Goderich highway calls for
its completion by June 15, Tom
Pryde, M.P.P., informed the Sig-
nal -Star. "I am doing everything
possible to have the contractors
make a start as soon as the wea-
ther will permit," Mr. Pryde add-
ed. Rumors have it that plans for
a "million dollar bridge" over the
Maitland River have been approv-
ed by the Ontario Department of
Highways with work to start on it
"as soon as possible." Comment-
ing on this rumor, Mr. Pryde stat-
ed, "Some light on the subject"
would be given at a later date.
Included in the rumor was the
statement that the bridge would
run off Cambria Road, pass high
above Saltford village and go un-
der the C.P.R. railway at a point
east of Dr. "Tiger" Dunlop's tomb.
—Goderich Signal -Star.
Thiefs Loots Store Safe
Yeggs who pried open the safe
of E. A. May & Son early Mon-
day morning, made off with ap-
proximately $1,500, the owners
disclosed Wednesday. Robbers pick-
ed the right time to do the job,
according to Warren D. May, the
son, who said the firm does not
make a practice of keeping that
much in its safe over week -ends.
On this occasion, however, it was
found necessary to do so. The loot
included cheques and cash. To
assist the police, the owner, are
making an appeal to customers
who issued or cashed cheques there
Saturday to report particulars to
the store immediately. The men
apparently took their time in
cracking the safe. Experts claim-
ed it would take them one to two
hours to hammer open the heavy
metal door with a crow bar. Mr.
May said they took time out to
enjoy several soft drinks from the
refrigerator in the adjoining .gro-
cery store and tried on several
articles of clothing. At least one
jacket was missing. .— Exeter
Times -Advocate.
Miss. 'Marilyn, Statteu, of Grand
Beedd, was a week- end'vest With
Miss Gwen Spencer... .
T;ae Town Hall, jowled to ca
:pacity friday eveiting was the
setting for a reception #nor Mr., and
From The Huron Expositor
March 30. 1956
• Mr. Peter McKay has purchased
the farm on the 7th concession of
Tuckersmith, H.R.S., from the es-
tate of the late Michael O'Keefe.
The farm contains 100 acres and
was purchased for $3,000. There
are about 60 acres cleared, and no
buildings.
A number of rigs in the Lead -
bury area, containing persons re-
turning from a dancing party,
were seen between five and six
o'clock one morning recently. It
seems a shame for the male por-
tion to keep sweet young things
out of their beds until such an
unseemly hour.
Mr. Simon McKenzie has rented
his farm on the 2nd concession,
L.R.S., Tuckersmith, to his neigh-
bor, Mr. James Dallas. Mr. Mc-
Kenzie has not yet decided what
he will do.
Mr. William Archibald, of Eg-
mondville, has purchased the pret-
ty
residence of Mr. H. P. Kennedy
in Egmondville.
Mr. Duncan McCowan, of Stan-
ley, who purchased the Scott farm
in McKillop. has now got comfort-
ably located in his new borne at
Roxboro.
Mr. E. T. Lowery, who has been
ledgerkeeper in the Canadian Bank
of Commerce here, has been trans-
formed to the head office in Tor-
onto.
Mr. Thomas Simpson, Jr., of Mc-
Killop, has purchased the livery
stock and business of Mr. Stephen
Lamb. Mr. Simpson will also have
the mail carrying contract.
James Sutherland and John But-
ton have engaged for the summer
with Mr. John Archibald, of Sea -
forth.
Mr. and Mrs. Warrener, of Clin-
ton, have moved into Hensall and
are occupying the brick block Mr.
Warrener purchased a month or so
ago from Mr. James Beverley for
his bakery and dwelling.
From The Huron Expositor
April I, 1881
Mr. D. Miller, late of Exeter, has
moved into Hensall and intends
practising as a veterinary sur-
geon.
We understand that Mr. Cady in-
tends establishing billiard and
bowling alley rooms in his block
adjoining Hill Bros? stores, the
building for which is how in
course of erection.
Several thoroughbred horses
were sold by public auction at the
Coiftmereial linteln Saturday.
Plate glas3 windows are likely
td, ".,WOO all the. rhge a long ill
Se tenth- _Merchants, A. G e
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deal* .* eo, a'i?e• to We ahem:.
Urs ifou Caldwell (nee Norma
Snell), recent bridal couple, 'when
,they were ;presented with a chrome
table and chairs, Glens►. Koehler
doing the hones. Disjardine orch-
40'a provided music for the dance.
CATTLE BREEDING ASSOCIATION
WATERLOO
"Where Better Bulls Are Used"
We received a news release from the Hol-
stein -Friesian Association of Canada stating that
Loehinvar Bonheur Rocharni made a record' of
33,108 lbs. of `milk containing 1,326 lbs. of fat,
3.98% Argentina.
This is a new South American record. This
cow was exported as a calf, coming from the
herd of Lorne B. Reid, of Ripley, Ont. She is
sired by Keendale Lochinvar and her mother by
College View Governor, making her a three-
quarter sister to Maple Lea L. G. Rosine, Ex and
All -Can., who is the dam pf our young bull, Maple
Lea Skokie, and has five records on 2X that aver-
age over 20,000 'of 3.8% milk.
Then we remembered that another close rel-
ative of the Rosine cow had made a high record
and on checking back found that her 100% sister
had produced as a two-year-old, 22,765 lbs.', of,
milk, test 3.64%, 828 lbs. of fat. This record was
also made in South America.
Wonderful production for any ,country.
This is the type of family from which we
are choosing our young bulls to carry on the high
production established by the bulls that we are
using now and have used previously.
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For service or more information, phone collect to:
Clinton HU 2-3441
Between: 7:30 and 10:00 a.m. weeks days
7:30 and 9:30 a.m. Sundays and Holidays
Cows noticed in heat later should be bred the
following day.
THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH
`50
•YEARS OF PROGRESS'
HE HY0!:R0 FAM
ir meaw/i&L ualKdewaU-bear
"The smith d mighty man is he,
with large and sinewy hands ..."
That's how Longfellow saw him,
and how he was regarded by his
community. Today, he doesn't
have to be a physical giant, for the
smith has a new kind of muscle.
We can't describe it, for it's
invisible. A unit we know as a
"kilowatt-hour", muscle -power
without an equal.
Today, the roar of the bellows
and vibrant ring of the anvil are
replaced by the hum of motors and
the dull thud of the forging ham-
mer. Electricity, acdornplishing
tasks thought impossible 50 years
ago. And who can say what future
applications will be developed?
Would you venture to estimate
how much electricity will be used.
to power machinery in, say, 1975?
Ontario Hydro endeavours to do
that every day ... look into the
future . . . anticipate electric
requirements_
Tomorrow's living as well as
today's will more and more be
measured in kilowatt-hours. It is
the 'aim of Hydro to provide an
adequate supply of electricity . .
so vital to Ontario's farms, home's
and industries.
LY ASSUR;;ES YOUR ELECTR1 AAk ,FUTURE