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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1963-07-18, Page 9• • • E. • 4 Ci • • • • •. • s • • j • • • • • • • • •. Winter h�nges No ProblemWith Local Windows The thousands of people tired of the dreary chore of putting • up storm windows in the autumn and taking them down in the spring make up a market which a recently established Seaforth firm is competing successfully. Winter -Seal -Windows Ltd., with its self -storing aluminum windows, eliminates an annual operation which usually re- quires many weeks of urging by the distaff side of the fam- ily, and a lot of will power on the other side to tear himself from the football game oii the television and brave the chilly winds of the fall or possibly early winter. Superintendent of the Sea - forth plant, Rudy Charron, says peak production period of the company is in the fall. It is at that time that the householder, fearing facing the chore of put- ting the old storm windows which have been damaged by the annual handlings, shrunken and expanded by the elements, turns to the modern winter -seal window. Winter -Seal was started in 1953 by Mr. Charron and Mor- ley Conn of London. ' The firm began simply with aluminum windows and doors. Since then Winter -Seal has expanded into patio covers, car ports and bath tub enclosures. In ,the last two years aluminum awnings and sidings have been added to the growing list of products. Fu- ture plans call for a new line of products in the fall. The new products have already been designed and are described as very modern. In Extrusion Form The aluminum now used by Winter -Seal comes in extrusion form.l It is sawed, then milled and assembled right in the Main Street plant. The win- dows are sashed, screened and framed on the premises. Winter -Seal does not mass produce any product. Each is custom built to Customer's spe- cifications and the requirements of -a `particular house or build- ing. Windows and doorways are measured, the doors and windows made up back at the plant, and then are installed ,by • one of, a crew specially trained for thwork. The sheet alum- inum for the awnings and the siding comes pre -coated, ready for measuring and cutting. Everything being custom- built, WinterSeal must do all their own designing. Rudy Charron handles that side of production: Mr. Charron asserts a better quality product can be marketed if full control is maintained ov- er the product. Head Office Here Winter -Seal calls Seaforth its head office, where all the manu- facturing of the company 's done, A sales office is main- tained in London. In its expansion program two years ago the firm was looking for a new building. None could be located in London. The former Seaforth Shoes plant on Seaforth Main Street—once the home of the Grip Hotel—suited the production needs, so the firm relocated. The building was purchased from the town. Winter -Seal has as a staff of 10 salesmen operating in Western Ontario, with three in Seaforth and southern Huron County. In Seaforth, 10 men are em- ployed in the manufacturing processes and up to 20 are hir- ed for the peak production per- iod in the autumn. The salesmen were operating in a 50 -mile radius of London until the move to Seaforth. For a number of years Jackson Aluminum Ltd. handled Winter - Seal for this ;area, and now the two companies co-operate on the are market. Mr. area has brought his brother Joe, with him to act Rs production manager here udy already has his wife, Alice, and three children set- tled in Seaforth, and 'Joe ex- pects to move here shortly. A former railroader, Charron is a native of Sudbury. He first got into the aluminum frame business as an installer in To- ronto before starting the pres- ent company in London. KIPPEN Mr. and Mrs. Charles Eyre attended the funeral on Mon- day of his brother, Mr. Harry H. Eyre, of Sarnia, and remain- ed a few days with Mrs. Eyre. Miss May, Somerville of Win- nipeg is visiting several weeks with her friends, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Hood and Joyce. Mrs. Emerson . Kyle was in London on Saturday attending the trousseau tea of Miss Mar- jorie O'Neil, bride -elect of July 20. Mr: and Mrs. Norman Dickert visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E. Wahl and the former's moother, Mrs. Dickert, at Lis- towel. Rev. -Howard K. Plant and family will arrive this week from Aneroid, Sask., to com- mence his ministry ...at Bruce- field-Kippen .pastoral charge on Sunday, July 21, with service at Brucefield at 10 a.m. and at Kippen at 11:30 a.m. Induction service for Rev. Plant._will be held in Brucefield Church on Monday evening, July 22, at 8 p.m. Elders, man- agers and heads of church or- ganizations of Brucefield-Kippen charge 'are asked to meet promptly at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Charles Taylor of Stoney Creek was a Sunday visitor with Mr. and Mrs. N. Long. ZUtate/i Seal 1'4edtwd Your Local Manufacturer Phone 451 Seaforth ALUMINUM SIDING (Never Needs Painting) EASY TERMS — NO DOWN PAYMENT No payments for six months . Up to 5 years to pay Buy Now — Beat the Fall Rush! Phone 451 for Pree Estimates WINTER SEAL WINDOWS LTD. Phone 451 • Seaforth COMPLETE AND MAIL THIS COUPON Weare interested in: Awnings . ( ) Doors ) Porch Enclosures Aluminum Sidings ( ); ,Windows Car Ports ( ) Bath Tub Enclosures Patio Covers ( ) Shower 'Doors ADDRESS Phone ' Change Basis s For Reporting Egg Prices, . �. A further development in the price repgrting Program dor shell eggs in the Toronto mar- ket area has been announcedby the Poultry Division, Canada Department of Agrictilture: Commencing with the prices reported on Monday, July 1, the "weighted average price" for cartoned eggs at the whole- sale to retail level, will tie sui►- stituted for the "range" price presently reported. The "weight- ed average price" is determin- ed from the sales of eggs made by volume at the various prices for each grade reporte This "weighted aver a price," n rices paid to r and thea dui g stations, prices "spot price"; for the three main sizes of Canada Grade A eggs will be made available to the press and radio daily as in the past. This change is a further step in determining the most ade-, quate means of price reporting in order to overcome the in. stability of a rapidly changing market and its resultant effect on producer prices when quota- tions are based only on the "spot price" which represents only a small percentage of the eggs traded. Egg prices will be reported on this dual basis for a period of time so that producers and members of the trade can fa- miliarize themselves with the relationship of these two price reporting levels. It may be de- sirable eventually to limit the quotation to a single basis. • FARM. NEWS OF HURON Weekend rain has been most beneficial to all crops. Some fall wheat may be swathed dur- ing the week. Spring barley is changing color quickly. SEAFOR.TH, ONTARIO, THURS» X, JULY 18, 1963-- - Seeor Woodict Mano By W. E.. ELLIOTT A shift of emphasis from. forestation, to woodlot manage ment is desirable, in the apin- ion-of Larry, Scales of Stratford; zone forester for. Huron, Perth'. and -Oxford, who addressed the Rota Club of Goderich,. re, eently. 'of 125,000 trees each spring is hardy scratching the p g � Y surface,". he said. Them is 25 times as muck natural woodland in Huron as has been forested —"woodland that is not get- ting the attention it should have." "Seventy-five to 80 per cent of my work has to do with plant- ing trees," Mr. Scales said. "I hope we will pay more atten- tion to the less spectacular busi- ness of trying to improve the natural woodlands. We cannot do much about this until there is some change in the public idea of what is important in forestry, and until money can be supplied for the work of improving natural woodlands." The Department of Lands and Forests carries out its work through regions and districts, Mr. Scales explained. The Lake Huron region is one of three, and includes Grey, Bruce, Perth and the Galt -Guelph zones. "Most of- you," he said, "will have seen a Huron County for- est at Sheppardton, owned by the county but under agree- ment with the department to maintain it for at least 20 years. In this time it is the responsi- bility ,of the department to plant upon the land, develop the plantations that result, and prove all the natural wood - and -that m e on the P ertY ; when may b acquired. Theoreti- cally, these forests should be an a paying basis, but we do not know just how they will Ivork out. "At end of the agreement period the owners may sell to the Crown, enter into a fifty- fifty arrangement, buy out the interest of the Crown or con- tinue with an agreement simi- lar to the original one. In this zone there are seven ownersof such forests as I have men- tioned, including Huron and Oxford counties, the Maitland Authority, Upper Thames, Aux Sauble and Otter Creek. We advise people who have waste lands they wish to use, regard- ing planting and development. Co-operative Agreement "One scheme, unique in the province, and possibly the world, is your reforestation team. It is udder a co-opera- tive agreement between the de- partment, county and individual townships and the Ontario De- partment of Agriculture. I am responsible for organizing the scheme. I go out in summer and contact someone interested in reforestation. He can plant trees, for $1 a thousand if plant- ed independently, or $20 in a rough area. All but $1 is ab- sorbed by the department, county and townships. "The trees are planted by a Huron County crew.' C. M. gement Is. =Nee Robertson of Goderich is the. man who does the overseeing for me, and the county sends the crew to various plaees de- signated for planting; then we have a little accounting, usual- ly in the beginning of June,, to find out how *noeh it h as gest, bill township and county for half each, and the coority also supplies the trees. The number in the scheme has usually run to 125,000, so the county pays out about $1,200, but gets $1,000 repaid from the department, so it may be. $300 for trees and half the cost of planting. We have been operating since 1952 and -have planted roughly 125,- 000 trees each spring, so it has got up to a million and a half, which I think is quite a good recorda Despite this, it is not anywhere near what should be done. There is an awful lot of land in Huron crying for re- forestation. Huron's Percentage "We are working on refores- tation mainly, but there are 834,000 acres in Huron, of which 9.3 per cent is wooded, which gives you a productive forest area • of somewhere around 76,000 acres. There are perhaps 3,000 acres planted, and 25 times as much in pro- ductive woodland as we have reforested. "Woodlands in Southern On- tario are a fairly small propor- tion. You have a low propor- tion in Kent and Essex, Perth 3 per cent, Oxford 6 per cent, Huron 9,3, maybe as much as 69 per cent in ra county like Hastings, .,but all this; southerrn area is largely privately owned, and +d4 not ,lrgpro ductiveyou woodlands,have but aalle the - VS vidmale asl piecesmuca£ vial! goin tostproump- h - age for ' hardwoods as .on all Crown lands, You can drive right up to the bush for the logs and do not .have to run them down 2 river or 50 miles of road. "Baechler's here may move logs 100 miles to the mill, but they have,.,the highways and big trucks; transportattgn is easy down here, and $100 per thou- sand board feet of maple is„,not unusual, whereas in the north $15 might be the price en ac- count of accessibility.. Unprofitable "Growing' trees is not a ter- rifically good financial venture. It is a question if you are going to get much of a return. At $15 an acre and $1-a thousand for trees you might make a profit, but taking over a stand of trees and nursing them along for 50 years you are paying a lot in municipal taxes. How- ever, certain elements in our economy have a great stake in it—the millman, furniture in- dustry, anyone who uses wood. "Think of the number of in- dustries in your towns Where wood is the raw material. These industries are going to have to take an interest in it. It would not be good for Ontario or Canada if we had to start im- Scott 'fly H+s.: Reunion Nome rs Members' of the .Scott family gathered: at the hoto. of NO, anft Mrs, Alegi Crage, AR 4, 5t, Mary, for their eleventb union ono S0da7* Folipwi ,'suppee whiclx was arranged by Mr. ;And Mrs. Ro7utly, Mrs. Op §eniera Mfis. Bill Binning. the pre idem, Ani: Scott, •conducted.=type :busi. nos, The' :secretary treasurer's report was- read . by Afargar'et Jean Russell, Mr. ,and Mrs. T. L. Scatt invited the families to, their home for the 1954,,reiublon,• to he held on the second.:' day . Y a of Jul . - ' The officers are; President, Jim Scott; secretary-trea urer, Margaret Jean Russell;. lu ieb. committee, Mr. and Mrs. Reg Finlayson, Mr. and Mrs,: Georg Vivian. A vote of thanks w4 extended to Mr. and MS. a' for their hospitality. Teacher: "With a single stroke of the brush, the great Lainter Joshua Reynolds could , Change a smile into a frown." Pupil: "Aw, that's nothin', so kin my old man." porting. "The recreation value is something that is coming more and more in the future. I do not think we have any concep- tion of what the demands are going to be with more leisure time and higher population, and a let of these forest. areas are going to bg more and. more important for recreation.' Peo- ple appreciate the Pinery and Inverhuron Parks, but it is go- ing to be a big thing in the future." s IN . Square n tr a t emo s ationsDance On open _air stage on Main Street • FREE PRIZES IN SEAFORTH STORES - BAND • SHOPPING MALL MERRY -GO -AROUND • STREET DANCING • MUSIC • FUN • VALUES See Special Announcements Throughout This Issue — FREE PRIZE DRAWS Many Seaforth' Merchants have arranged Free Prize drawings for valuable prizes or merchandise certificates. Winning tickets will be drawn by Mayor Dinsmore, com- mencing at 9:45 Friday evening. Seaforth Merchants have gone all-out to provide worthwhile values at the Buy- ing Festival. Stores are co- operating to bring you money saving oppor- tunities when you shop and dance in Sea - forth. Shop and Dance Values good Thurs- day, Friday and Saturday only. -9. SPONSORED BY SEAFORTH MERCHANTS' COMMITTEE