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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1987-09-30, Page 5Bell collecting strikes chord, with man The sound of bells. What for most of us is nothing more than a bit of noise is music to the ears of Harold Price of, Seaforth. Mr. Price collectsharness bells, and has been at it for 20 years, Bell collecting is a bit of a unique past - time and Mr. Price says collectors of bells • are few and tar between. He became in- terested in "collecting bells when he saw what a friend had done with his collection. "I was in Walton at Russell Marks' place," explains Mr. Price, "and he had a geranium tree up, but instead of flower pots on the branches he had bells, and that's HAROLD PRICE of Seaforth. poses beside some of the bells in his collection that he • has been gathering over the past twenty years. Corbett photo. what started it." 'Mr. Price must have really liked what he saw at his friend's place, because twenty years and hundreds of bells later he has 'quite a display of bells himself. He has bells of all sizes and types including sleigh bells, - harness bells and some unusual ones such as the `friend bells' which were used in past days to reward people who helped out their neighbors. Then there are the more pas- sionate 'kissing assionate'kissing bells' which all have a small set of lips. "They're a darn cheap sounding bell," says Mr. Price of the'kissing bells. "But I'd like to get ahold of some more of them:" While Mr, Price doesn't reality have any one -of -a -kind' bells, he does own one bell he is glad to have, as it is a distinctly Canadian bell and has a beaver on it. Mr. Price for the most part finds his bells at various sales, 'and people who know he collects them give him a lot. - "Every time 'someone I know goes away on vacation they bring me back abell," says Mr. Price, adding he has received bells from Texas, Panama, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and England. Of the bells Mr. Price has found at various sales that go 'on in the community, .most were on old rotten harness straps. He re- mounts the bells on new straps. Some bells. he has professionally shined and others he. shines himself. • "I can get the green stuff off, but the bells are worth as much either way, and shining bells changes their sound, 'especially on a small bell." Truly 'a collector of unique objects, Mr. Price also collects toilet sets. At one time he had six complete sets with jugs, soap dishes, wash basins, and different sized chamber pots. He has since given five -of these sets to his children and only retains one. Mr. Price is "very much retired" as he puts it, and has all the time in the 'world to improve his collection. ' • Reader wants proportional representation '1•o the Editor: • With a popular vote of only 47.5 per cent I T L r3�! EE � C TO ,T1 TJ 1 ? �' '� T �& 1' e Liberals won 95 of the 130 seats. A com- mon 1 iJ 1J 1 ll gYi �.g.i' illt'a, sense calculation, using the o ular ..-..-.e.......... th vote, would give the Liberals 7.5 per cent or 62 seats, ;the. NDP 25.6 per cent or 33 seats and the Conservatives 24.5 per cent or 32 seats. The Liberal party automatically became strong because the NDP or Conser- vatives were a few votes short in some ridings. The time has come to study the results of the election more closely and • dare to challenge the current system and consider proportional representation. Using the popular •vote we would see a more democratic representation of the people of Ontario. Lots of voters and non -voters. would 1 feel more comfortable with this more just system. - Often a large percentage of the people don't go out to vote because they feel depressed. They stay home because they don't like to get involved with politics. They don't feel motivated and shy, away from politics. Let us work together to dare to use the true vote of the people in the future. We have to ask our leaders to sincerely. study and act upon the possibilities of starting a new system of proportional representation Consultant says bean crop i'he topic of harvesting beans does not fallboth cases we are ending up with "mud tag - under the control of either the Bean Dealers ged". These beans are not really pickers or the Bean Producers' Marketing Board. because the mud might come off. As such I volunteered to write some thoughts on behalf of the dealers. This year's bean crop is very deceptive. Some fields look ready but are not. Other fields do not look ready but are. As a result growers are bringing beans to the elevators that in some cases are "a tad too dry". These beans will tend to damage in our handling system. wino rower travelling in the opposite direr - On the other hand some growers are 'lion to the puller. These two operations rushing the harvesting. Beans are pulled should be far enough apart to allow the plant and combined the same day. Also, some to dry and allow the dirt to fall off. Second, if growers are direct harvesting fields that the beans you are harvesting are mudding, have a high percentage of green plants. In reconsider harvesting immediately. If the Also, as you know, there is not one hun- dred percent agreement between elevators as to what is or is not "pick" in relation to "mud tagged". There are a couple of things I ask you to consider. Pulling and wind rowing should be considered as separate operations with the Grossman guaranteed collapse Dear Sir/Madam, • The Ontario PCs should learn an impor- tant lesson from the recent Liberal land- slide. Last January we wrote to more than 15,000 voters in Ontario and predicted the lesson they would be taught: "Why vote for a Red Tory," we asked rhetorically, "when you can get the real thing with the liberal - socialist alliance"? Tory leader Larry Grossman virtually guaranteed the collapse of his party when he opted to mimic many of the Liberal and NDP's interventionist policies. This is his record: *Grossman strongly supported the statist concept of so-called"pay equity". He oppos- ed the draconian Liberal "pay equity" legislation only because he said it did not go far enough, *lie opposed plans by the Liberals to privatize some government run companies. *He resisted efforts by the government to relax rent controls. Indeed Grossman became so firmly iden- tified with such intervention policies that his last ditch, half-hearted conversion to con- servative ideas during the election cam- paign fooled no one. Tile departure of Mr. Grossman ho- avet-, provides the Ontario Progressive Conner- vatiVe party with a golden opportunity to transform their party into a clear alter- native. They can once again become a party Seaforth Community Hospital Palliative Care And Support Service. presents PALLIATIVE CARE . 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We spendbillions of dollars on education and if there is no spcial progress, education has failed. So let us think and work together to make a better Canada. . Elisabeth Wiliems RR 2 Mitchell• is deceptive beans are pulled leaving' them in the wind 'row, a second wind rowing should get rid of some of this dirt. Third, delay harvesting areas of green plants or weedy areas. These small areas introduce enough plant juice in- to the combine to mud a lot of beans. Final- ly, -and I don't want to offend anyone with childish advice, if you are at all in doubt about harvesting the field take a Small sam- ple to the elevator before you continue harvesting. Ontario growers have prided themselves by growing quality beans. Let's harvest these beans to maintain that quality, The above article is written on behalf of the Bean Dealers. Patrick J. Lynch, Consulting Agronomist, Cyanamid THE HURON EXPOSITOR,. SEPTEMBER 30, 1987 — 5A BERG.. 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