The Huron Expositor, 1960-12-15, Page 7NOTICE
Having acquired PCV Licenses to
haul Livestock to the Ontario Stock
Yards, Toronto, we will be ship-
ping cattle to the auction there on
Wednesday of each week from
within a 5 -mile radius of Dublin. -
Give us a call for Prompt,
Efficient Service !
LOU ROWLAND
Phone 80 - Dublin
GREY TOWNSHIP COUNCIL
NAMES BOARD REPRESENTATIVES
Appointments were made to area
high school boards by Grey Town-
ship council Monday. James Arm-
strong was appointed to Wingham
high school board; Kenneth Mc-
Farlane appointed to Seaforth high
school board, and Andrew Brem-
ner appointed to ' Listowel high
school board.
Court of revision on the Burke
Municipal Drain closed. Clerk
Edythe M. Cardiff was instructed
to charge cost of repair of Branch
Sixth Concession Drain pro rata
with report of John Roger, dated
16th June, 1915.
Bylaw No. 20, 1957, was rescind-
ed, being a bylaw to provide for
the participation of the Township
of Grey Fire Department in Coun-
ty Mutual Aid.
BELL
LINES
by W. W. Haysom
your telephone
manager
You ate looking at a new column for residents of this
area. As you know, there are Bell people living in your
community. Perhaps you know some of them personally.
They may live next door or sit in church beside you. They
are typical of the many people who work together as a team
to bring you the best possible telephone service. We figure
that the things that concern us at the Bell often concern you,
or are of interest ,to you. • So I'm going to do my best to
• bring you news items of general interest about your tele-
phone service and about the people who make that service
possible.
Back in the days of the old yule log, folks said "Merry
Christmas" to friends and relatives in person. Then, around
1870, Christmas cards made their- appearance starting the
great avalanche of cards that occurs every year at this time.
It is only within the past
35 years or .so that folks
began picking up the tele-
phone and sending personal
Christmas greetings „ to
their friends and relatives
across the miles. But the
number of such calls is
rising steadily year by year,
and the Christmas rush is
now one of the biggest jobs
telephone people are called
upon to handle. This means
that operators and many
others responsible for your
telephone service will be
on duty throughout Christ-
mas day to maintain our services and make sure your
Cbristmas calls go through. We feel that Emma McCowan,
one. of our operators who willbe on the job;' somehow sym-
olizes the "Spirit of Service" at Christmas. "I enjoy work-
ing on Christmas day;" says Emma, "everybody is sb relax-
ed and considerate. I also enjoy the part I play in uniting
families and friends by telephone on this very special day."
On behalf of Emma and all of us here at the Bell, I would
like to wish you the merriest of Christmases and all the best
in health and happiness for the coming year.
No*/ here's a special Christmas present to our customers
which I think you'll all enjoy. We are offering you a full hour
of delightful Christmas songs and carols and a ballet of the
winter season over CBC -TV December 24 from 5 to 6 p.m.
The show,' entitled "'Twas the Night Before," will feature
stars like Maureen O'Hara, Rise Stevens, and John Raitt,
and the Columbus Boychoir and the American Ballet Theatre.
Be our guests in front of your TV set on Christmas Eve. It's
an entertainment treat the whole family will enjoy. _
Have you seen our new "Prin,cess' set? Look in our
Exchange Office window on Main Street, See it. You'll want
one for sure. It's little -it's lovely -it lights. Call the Busi-
ness Office in Seaforth 200. Ask'your Service Representative
about them. And you know they do make an excellent
Christmas gift.
Approved accounts. were paid as
follows: Reeve and Councilors,
salaries, $1,200; Norman Hoover,
school attendance officer, salary,
$25; W. E. Turnbull, collector,
part salary, $275; The Brussels
Post, printing contract, $275; Mrs.
Hilda Sellers, rent dump, $50; W.
J. Perrie, fill in dump, $8; Town-
ship of Arthkir, relief, $18.50; re-
lief, $72.43; insulin, $2.00; Orval
Harrison, hydro mast, office,
$61.45; W. E. Turnbull, ank wal-
let, $5; Bishop Drain repair,
$64.75; Turnbull Drain repair,
$75; Cox Drain repair, $42; Branch
6th Concession Drain repair, $124;
Armstrong Agreement D r a i n,
$177.45; County of Huron, leafy
spurge account, $139.34;' George
Wesenberg, equalize Union Schools,
$15; Tile Drainage Loan, $700; E.
M. Cardiff, prepare financial state-
ment, $15; supplies and mainten-
ance fire depart„ $31.31; firemen
at Barlow's and Larry Smith's,.
$37.50; Bennett Mitchell, rebate
taxes, $40.80; roads and bridges,
$4,154.48.
FIRESIDE GROUP
The item in last week's report
of the Fireside Group of First
Presbyterian Church regarding the
girl from India whom the group
is sponsoring to an education in
that country was Edith Blanchard,
of the Dr. Graham Missionary
School in India.
HERO OF THE AZORES
The famous naval commander,
Sir Richard Grenville, whose gal-
lant fight in the Revenge against
15 Spanish gallions is one of the
great sea stories of all time, had
a long and distinguished career
before that event. The Book ,bf
Knowledge says that" he was a
cousin of Sir Walter Raleigh.
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found that European help, willing
enough, liad little feeling for ma-
chinery. Farm motors were burn-
ed out for lack of oil, gears were
stripped on elevator motors by try-
ing to run them when they were
jammed, the block on a new trac-
tor engine was cracked for want
of anti -freeze, a plow was smash-
ed on a boulder and 20,000 young
tomato plants were burned off one
spring when they were covered
with an inch of chemical fertiliz-
er. While he was away on a West
Indies holiday, a temporary water
shortage was solved by draining
off the water in his house heating
system and burning out the fur-
nace. A new one had been install-
ed by the time he got back, and
he might never have known about
it if he hadn't received a bill for
$2,500. Another time one of the
men turned off the lights abruptly
in a chicken house and 400 skit-
tery birds smothered to death in
a corner when the flock panicked,
City help provided equally disas-
trous if sometimes more humor-
ous results. Patrick found that
generally they regarded their so-
journ in the country as a paid va-
cation. One couple seemed to be
working out pretty well when the
man came to Patrick one da!' and
confessed:
"My girl friend is homesick for
the city, but my wife likes the
country, so would you mind if I
sent the ,girl friend back and got
my wife instead?" After his
initial shock, Patrick philosophic-
ally agreed to the substitution.
"ft was a mistake-," he admitted
later. "The girl friend made a bet-
ter farmer's wife." The reunited
couple soon departed,
Another couple left after a dom-
estic quarrel in which the wife
wrecked the contents of the well -
furnished cottage which Patrick
had provided. The husband thought-
fully took along .a pad of blank
Cedarcrest farm cheques with him
and for monthsafterwards the
forged cheques kept turning up in
odd places across the province as
the warring couple shifted their
scene of battle.
Finally Patrick came to the.con-
clusion that the best kind of help
for his purposes was rural French-
Canadian.
"They have the right kind of
philosophy for working on a farm
in this country," he reasons. "They
know' their land and the climate,
they know the role of machinery
and they are sensitive to the needs
of animals. They are used to get-
ting up early and they can' cope
with emergencies. They are good
family men and they make reli-
able employees." But it cost him
quite a bit of money to find that.
out,
Ken 'Patrick at 45 'is of medium
height and slight but wiry build,
a dark, intense man, articulate
and eloquent, at times even ve-
hement, with snapping brown eyes
and a jet black moustache. He is
a man of strong and unorthodox
views which he expresses in sharp
but precise language. He points
out that eggs, despite their almost
unrivalled value as a balanced
food, rich in most of the essential
nutrients and low in relative cost',
have steadily dropped in public
favor both here and• in the United
States, (Dominion bureau of sta-
tistics figures show that egg con-
sumption in Canada has dropped
from a peak of 25.4 dozen per capi-
taconsumption in 1957 to 24 dozen
in 1959, the lowest in six years.)
The reason? "Heavy advertising
by the cereal companies combined
with the laziness of many house-
wives who would rather reach for
that handy box of cereal than boil
a couple of eggs for their chil-
dren," he says flatly. "That is why
egg consumption is dropping in the
face of all common sense." •.
And he has an answer to the
problem: "The government should
take the money it is wasting in
deficiency payments to uneconomic
egg producers -subsidizing ineffici-
ent " and backward methods -and
spend it on a public -education pro-
gram, People need to be told that
eggs should be. on the -table more
often, They're cheaper as food va-
lue than anything else you can buy
and one egg has five times the
nourishment of a bowl of carbohy-
drates and starch, no matter how
it is sugared and spiked with syn-
thetic vitamins."
Ile thinks there is a better way
to help the farmer: "The farmer.
needs help, but not a crutch. What
he needs desperately 'is adequate
financing so he can modernize his
operation. He just can't borrow
enough money from the govern-
ment to do him any real good.
They dole out a few thousand at
most when the egg farmer, for in-
stance, needs a loan of perhaps
$25,000 to $50.000 to put him in
business on a comparative basis.
Only the western wheat farmer is
in a position to borrow this kind
of money. Meanwhile. other farm-
ers work 18 to 20 hours a day at
a scale of return that works out
to about 30 cents an hour, simply
because they haven't got the capi-
tal to take advantage of modern
technology. The farmer is the vic-
tim of natural laws which give
him his production peaks when the
market is glutted, and he is help-
less to solve that dilemma unless
he can bring in outside capital.
This is a legitimate role for the
government, but neither federal
nor provincial governments will
recognize the real problem or do
anything effective to solve it." His
personal solution was his offer to
help other serious producers who
wanted to duplicate his set-up.
Ken Patrick's adventure in eggs
is another episode in the colorful
career of an electronics wizard who
made and marketed his own radio
sets at the age of 10 (he built 40
crystal, sets at a cost of $1.50 each
and sold them, complete with an-
tenna, for $10 each), entered the
RCAF at 24 to come out a group
captain with an OBE for his work
in radar and the Legion of Merit
from the U.S., government for his
services in the research and de-
velopment of guided missiles. In
the RCAF he was commanding of-
ficer at the Clinton, Ont., base con-
taining the joint Canadian-U.S.-
British
anadian-U,S:British Radar and Communications
school, which be headed. In 194;;,
when word came down that Clin-
ton was fo be closed, Patrick con-
ducted a one -Man campaign across
the country among air force and
army brass and government offi-
cials, to such effect that the order
was rescinded, and Clinton remains
today as the country's largest air
station and a valuable asset for
the country's defen4es in the world
of potential electronic warfare that
Patrick had foreseen.
Patrick came out of the air force
with $9,000 and used it to back an
idea he had for the formation of
a Canadian electronics company to
tackle projects then considered be-
yond the scope of Canadian talent
and resources, The result of this
idea and a lot of fast talking need-
ed to borrow the balance of the
capital was Canadian Avation El-
ectronics, which speedily attained
considerable reputation for its
handling of the difficult servicing
of electronics equipment along the
DEW line and Mid -Canada line -a
project from which big U.S. com-
panies had hastily backed away.
Then they went on to build the
highly complicated flight simula-
tor
imulafor for the CF -100.
Three years ago, though, when
Patrick felt that his outspoken
comments on Canadian military
policy were embarrassing to the
company -he opposed the CF -105
program as out -dated and beyond
Canadian resources and called for
the Canadian control of ground en-
vironment on all defence projects
based on Canadian soil as a pre-
requisite of Canadian sovereignty
-he resigned as president and sold
most of his substantial interest to
North American Management Cor-
poration, an all -Canadian group.
The sale of his stock put him in
the millionaire bracket at 42. This
was his return on an investment
of $9,000, a bright idea and a lot
of energy.
Then last year the Rockefellers
approached him to head up the
Canadian subsidiary of Vertol Air-
craft, world's largest helicopter
manufacturers, Patrick took the
job only when the company prom-
ised a radical change in its pol-
icy, opening stock participation to
Canadians, assuring that a major-
ity of the board would be Cana-
dian, and agreeing to substantial
production in Canada as well as
the offering of sub -contracts for
both U.S. and Canadian contracts
to Canadian firms.
"This is a policy I strongly be-
lieve in for U.S. firms with Cana-
dian subsidiaries." Patrick told
me. "When I made my position
clear to the Rockefellers. they
agreed that it made sense, Re-
cently, Boeing bought out Vertol
and I made the same policy a'con-
dition of my staying on as head
of the Boeing operation in Canada.
This is quite a new departure for
U.S. firms with Canadian subsidi-
ar,ies; and I hope- the trend con-
tinues. Otherwise our sovereignty
is rapidly becoming a myth,"
Kenneth Roland Patrick was
born in Saint John, N.B., on June
12, 1915, the fifth of seven sons
born to Hugh and Lillian Patrick,
Aviation runs in the family. Five
of the seven boys served in the
RCAF during World War II, all
but Ken started in the ranks and
all ended up with wings and com-
missions. The other two boys, Ron-
ny and Raymond,' both now at
Cedarcrest farni, were rejected on
medical grounds. Ronny is in
charge of the baby -chick program
and Raymond, a tnanagerial ex-
pert, supervises the entire, pro-
gram,
Twice married. Ken Patrick has
three children from his first mar-
riage to Alice Leduc -Ken, Jr.. 23,
with American Optical Co. in Pea-
body, Mass.; Robert. 22, a radar
technician with the RCAF at North
Bay; Eleanor, 21, a dental assist-
ant in Montreal. He was divorced
after the war and later married
Jeanne Mary Lee. They have three
children -David, six; Jeanne,four;
Barbara, two. They divide their
time between Bedford and holi-
days,aboard a yacht in the West
Indies. where Patrick already has
plans for the extension of his
chicken operations, centred at St.
Lucia.
Ken Patrick has mixed views on
the subject of chickens. He enjoys
poultry products on the table and 1
proudly points out that David is a
five -egg boy -his record for one
meal. He defines the hen as "a
small but efficient factory for
turning out. eggs• If you give it
the same care that you should
give any piece of factory equip-
ment, it works well. I appreciate
the effort the hen makes in cov-
ering a highly nutritious product
with a thin but effective white
shell. but I must confess that I
have a low opinion of her intelli-
gence." -
He has some sound advice to oth-
er would-be poultry tycoons. They
should first pay a visit to any
known currently successful opera-
tor -"he'd be hard to find right
now with present prices." Then
they should study the whole prob-
lem of poultry production for at
least a year before making any
firm commitments -"I lost a lot
of money at the start by mechan-
izing some operations before I
knew the right answers. Broilers,
for instance, don't lend themselves
to mechanization or elaborate
buildings,"
As an investment, Patrick says
flatly that it is almost impossible
to make money out of poultry ex-
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PANTIES 1.00 to 2.25
GLOVES 1.00 to 4.50
PURSES 2.95 to 4.95
SCARFS 1.00 to 2.95
SHOE BAGS 1.95 to 2.95
LUNCH SETS 2.95 to 4.95
PLACE MATS 2.95 to 3.95
S.S. PULLOVERS 4.95
APRONS 1.00 to 1.95
TOWELS 1.00 to 2.95
TEA TOWELS 49c to 79c
BOXED TOWEL SETS 1.95 to 4.95
TABLE CLOTHS 2.95 to 4.95
PILLOW CASES 1.50, to 3.05 pr.
COLORED SHEETS 4.95 ea.
FANCY GARMENT BAGS.. 2.39 to 3.98
QUILTED HOSIERY BAGS 89c
NYLON HOSE 98c to 1.65
PUSSY -PAW SLIPPERS :2.95 to 3.95
FLANNELETTE PAJAMAS 2.98 to 4.95
FLANNELETTE GOWNS2.98 - 3.98
TAILORED SHIRTS
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BLOUSES 2,98 - 4,98
BATHROOM SETS 3.98
UMBRELLAS 4.95
GIRLS' LEOTARDS 2.25 - 2.95
LADIES' LEOTARDS 3.50
CORDUROY SLIMS 3.98
DUSTER COATS 3.98 to 4.95
VISCOSE MATS 2.98 to 4.95
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'cept on a huge scale. "If you plan
to go into poultry on the basis of
working yourself along with other
help. you still need between $50.-
000
50:000 and $75.000 to invest, and that
should yield a modest return for a
full-time job• Remember that eggs
must be collected seven days a
week. The birds don't take Sunday
off."
On any other basis, Patrick con-
tends, you are just fooling around,
and you'll take a beating -particu-
larly with present egg prices which
yield a small profit only to the
most efficient operators.
If you're still interested. then I
guess you'd better go on down to
Bedford and see for yourself.
Nitrogen is essential for life and
the Book of knowledge explains
that three per cent of the human
body is made up of this chemical
element.
THE HANDY FAMH.Y
IS THAT LOG NOT THIS ONE,
FOR THE FIREPLACE JUNIOR -COME
DAD? ALONG AND Ii!.
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IM USING IT IN A
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Town of
SEAFORTH
PROCLAMATION
' By resolution of the Council, I hereby proclaim
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27th
Boxing Day
A Public Holiday
and respectfully request the Citizens and
Businessmen to observe the same.
EDMUND DALY,
Mayor
"GOD SAVE '1Hr5 QUEEN"
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