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The Huron Expositor, 1961-08-24, Page 1• r • • • • v • 102nd Year Whol No. 4879 SEA.FORTH, ONTARM:TPitIRSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1961 ;-- 12 PAGES Fire Brigade In Brussels To Act On Morris Calls Morris Township residents, on the east side of the munici- pality, will have fire protection if negotiations, begun at a meet- ing in the Morris Township Hall Tuesday evening, are suc- cessful. Details of the arrangement which would provide that Brus- sels fire brigade would accept rural calls originating from the eastern portion of Morris, were discussed between Morris Coun- cil and members of the fire committee of Brussels Council. A similar meeting is being planned to take place with members.. of Grey Township >'ouncil. This will be followed ay a meeting of the three groups, set for September 2nd, when it is expected final details can be worked out. Limits in which the Brussels brigade would operate have not been determined, according to William King, Brussels clerk. It is expected if agreement is reached, it will be necessary to provide additional water stor- age and pumper capacity for the Brussels fire truck. Representing Brussels at the meeting with Grey were Reeve George McCutcheon, Councillors Walt Williamson and Leonard Machan, and Clerk Wm. King. Morris has had an agreement with $ryth and Wingham with respeet to fire protection in the west part of the township. ACROSS THE AREA, farmers are busy harvesting grain crops. Badly lodged from continuing rains, grain is hard to harvest and operations are behind schedule. While quality is not as good as in some years,yield is better and prices for top quality wheat are higher than last year. This scene, typical of many on farms throughout the county, is on'the farm of Frank Nolan, east cif Seaforth on No. 8 Highway, where sheaves of grain are being loaded. (Expositor photo by Phillips). MOISTURE IS PROBLEM Area Grain Yields Good but Find Quality is Down While area. farmers are go- ing to work a lot harder than usual in order to harvest their grain crops, returns on the whole will be good. Crops are down across the province, but in Huron are better than in other districts, according to agricultural officials. Lodged grain will prolong harvest operations for some time, although estimates indi- cate 75 per cent of the wheat harvest is completed. "We're pretty lucky in Hur- on, even if there is difficulty in getting grain harvesting done," Doug Miles, Huron Agricultural Representative, told The Ex- positor Wednesday. "There is an average grain crap, but it is lodged badly, and that means a lot of extra work. On the whole though, I don't think many are displeased." Biggest problem in the grain harvest is the fact that so much grain is down as a result of continued heavy rains during recent weeks. Apart from the difficulty of cutting, the con- tinued moisture has resulted in a tough straw; farmers says, and this. too, adds to the difficulties. The weather since the har- vest began has been backward, INTERNATIONAL SEEKS SDHS TRU PLOWING MATCH MPET BAND Possibility that the SDHS Trumpet Band will be featured at the International Plowing Match this year was seen this week. Association officials are anxious to have the band, ac- cording to Bandmaster George Hildebrand, but before a defin- • ite committment can be made it will be necessary to raise about $400 to cover expenses. The International this year is being held in Hastings County, near Belleville. While it is ex- pected the plowing match or- ganization will Iook after mile- • age and meals on the day the band performs, the fact the event is nearly 300 miles dis- tant means the band would have a two-day trip and have to be accommodated overnight. It is funds to cover this latter expense that are required, Mr. • Hildebrand said. The invitation for the -band to take part was contained in a letter from Stanley L. Hall, MPP for Halton, addressed to L. P. Plumsteel, SDHS Princi- pal. In his letter, Mr. Hall said • how much the band had been appreciated in previous appear- ances at the International Plow- ing Match: "As the Interna- tional Plowing Match draws nearer, and as your girls' band from the District High School has always been so welcomed • by the Ontario Plowmen's As- sociation, -and especially myself as Parade Marshal, I am hop- ing that you will see fit to make arrangements for the girls to visit the Plowing Match this year in Hastings County, close to the City of Belleville. "The girls have become so well known by those who at- tend the plowing match and looked forward to so much each year to take part in the parade and program, that 1 know the girls would be missing a lot, also those who attend the Match, and appreciate the girls' presence so much." with few good drying days. Heavy dews each night have prevented early starts. Mr, Miles said he had return- ed recently from a trip through Eastern Ontario counties. He found conditions there to be not nearly as good •as in Huron. Wheat Yield is Good Yield of winter wheat is ranging from 25 to 70 bushels an acre, Mr. Miles said. At least one Seaforth area farmer averaged 67 bushels over 200 acres, with good quality. Estimated average yields across the county as filed Wed- nesday with the Department of Agriculture indicated a fair return. Yields reported were: Winter wheat, 36; oats, 55; bar- ley, 40; mixed grain, 54; flax seed, 13; hay (all cuttings), 2. While the rains have created problems as far as grain har- vesting is concerned, they have resulted in a bumper hay crop. :Pastures are the best they have been in some time and are rat- ed at 105, Mr. Miles said, as compared with an average of 100. Fertilizer is Factor Mr. Miles said his office was watching results of soil sam- pling. and the use of a balance fertilizer program in relation to the ability of grain crops to stand up and resist rain and wind. Careful records were be- ing maintained in co-operation with Jack Murray, soil an- alyst. He said crops on the farm of •Joseph Delaney, in McKillop, which were all standing, were Hogs Will Compete In Brand New Quarters Posts are in and workmen will start within the next 10 days to erect a building at the Sea - forth Fall Fair grounds to house the swine show at this year's fair. The building, 30' x 60', will be of pole type con- struction, with sheet metal roof- ing, similar to the existing cat- tle barns. The barn will be ready in time for the 116th annual fair, being held Thursday and Fri- day, Sept. 21 and 22, President R. E. McMiIlan said this week. At a meeting of the board of directors Tuesday night in the Town Hall, final plans were laid for the event, which will be opened by Gerald W. Mont- gomery, a former Huron agri- cultural representative. Pro- gram details are being worked out. Secretary -treasurer R. James Wallace reports entries are flowing in for the fair, and in- dications point to another suc- cessful event. Early entries are appreciated, he said! and great- ly assist in eliminating long de- lays because of last minute" rushes on fair day. A field of Garry oats, grown on the farm of Harold Pryce, RR 1, Seaforth, was judged best in a 'field of 11 competitors in the annual field crop competi- tion. The competition is staged by the Seaforth Agricultural So- eiety as Bart of the year's ae tivities, and culminates at the annual Fall Fair with a half bushel of oats from the compet- ing fields being exhibited. Mr. Pryce's entry collected nine points out of 10 for free- dom from other varieties; nine points out of 10 for freedom from other kinds of grain; 13 points of a possible 15 for free- dom from smut, rust, blight, in- sects, mildew; eight points out of 10 for competition finish, trim of headlands, fence, lines, crop divisions; 17 out of 20 for freedom from weeds', and 32 of a possible 35 for stand of crop, vigor, uniformity and maturity. Runners-up were Earl Pap- ple, RR 4, Seaforth, 87/, and Ken R. Campbell, RR 1, Dublin. Other entries included: Rob- ert Fotheringham, RR 3, Sea - forth, 86%; Lewis P. Coyne, R R 5, Seaforth, 86; Arthur S. Bolton, RR 1, Dublin, 85%; Rus- sell T. Bolton, RR 1, Seaforth, 85; Stanley Hillen, RR 2, Wal- ton, 84%; Jack Crozier, RR 2, Seaforth, 84; Peter Simpson, R R 2, Seaforth, 84; Guy Dor- ranee, RR 1, Dublin, 83/. Final scores will be based -on 75% of the above score and 25% of the score assessed by the judge at the Fall Fair on Sept. 21 and 22. . Judge Rae Arbogast, RR 3, Stratford, said that many fields were down somewhat from the heavy rains, but none was ruined. an example of the wisdom,,,of following a recommended fer- tilizer program. As far as cash return is con- cerned, the average area farm- er will do about the- same as last year, according to George Mcllwain of Topnotch Feeds Limited. Wheat is poorer quality, with lots of sprout and moisture, but there is a somewhat better yield, and the price is better, Mr. Mc- llwain said. Bert Garrett, manager 'of Seaforth Farmers' Co-operative, founts that while the yield of wheat and mixed grain was good, the quality was down. • "Harvest is at least two weeks behind, because of the wet weather, but on the whole, re- turns should not be too bad," Mr. Garrett said. "There was a moisture problem with wheat, but it is not as bad up as far asmixed grain is concerned, he added. While wheat is bringing $1.50 for top quality, as •compared to $1.45 last year, prices being paid for other grains are about the same. Flax is of uniformly good quality, but the yield is down, Police Check Minor Accidents Police at Mitchell investigat- ed two minor accidents Mon- day. The first accident occur- red about 7:30 p.m., when a car being driven west on Ontario St. by Sidney Edmund Russell, Clinton, swerved off the road out of control to avoid a truck driven by -Charles Ruston, Eg- mondville. Mr. Ruston swerved when Alex Parsons came out of his driveway onto the south side of the road. There was slight damage to the Russell car, and no injuries. At 8:45 p.m., a car driven by Angelo Andreasee, of Seaforth, was in collision with a hydro pole as the car was making the turn from Ontario Road onto Wellington St. There was about $100 damage to the car. Mr. Andreasee was not injured. Award Contract To Wreck Bridge A contract for the demoli- tion of the old Saltford Bridge over the Maitland River on Highway 21, at Goderich, has been awarded to Burke's Mar- ine and Machine Salvage Com- pany, of Goderich. Company officials said demoli- tion of the bridge will start as soon as the new $1,500,000 bridge is opened for traffic, pos- sibly in two weeks. Official opening of the new bridge is expected late next month. The old bridge was construct- ed in 1882. Steel from the struc- ture will be shipped to the Steel Company of Canada at Hamilton. The plaque commemorating the official opening of the old bridge will be placed in the Iluron Cdtirlty Museum. -l. .R.• Moves to Station at Walton $?-Sp a:' feet In Advance Srzrgie .CQpreS, a Ceti having Spree Stores Open On :Eve Qf Sales Tax • Possibility that the Canadian Pacific Railway station at Wal- ton will be closed in the near future was seen this week. -The new Ontario Government sales tax is going to be a bless- ing in disguise for hundreds of area shoppers, who take ad- vantage of- the "Beat the Tax" savings spree which Seaforth merchants have'. arranged for the next week., The savings, spree concludes with a program and prize draw- ing on Thursday evening, Aug. 31. As an indication of how Anxious the merchants are to aid shoppers in getting in un• der the sales tax wire, stores -will remain open until 10 o'clock that evening. Prize drawings will take place 15 min- utes later in front of the Post Office. Special features planned for the evening include a torchlight parade and bands, according to the Merchants' Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, who is sponsoring the savings spree. References to the event are contained in advertisements throughout this issue. Plans for the merchandising event were laid at a meeting of merchants Monday evening. The meeting, representative of Sea - forth Main Street, agreed on the plan in general, and left details to a committee, includ- ing N. Hachborn, Mrs. Jean Hildebrand and J. K. Willis. A feature of the selling occa- sion is the number of stores offering free prizes. Murray Tyndall Wins Awards Murray E. �zn°.1I, Brucefield, continues to win laurels in gladioli shows across the prov- ince with displays of his many varieties, This week was no exception when his display of Goliath gladioli captured the title Grand Champion, in the South Waterloo District Gladi- olus Society annual show. Held at St. Andrew's Presby- terian Church, Kitchener, in Iona Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Tyndall report that it was one of the most beautiful and breathtak- ing displays of glads that they have witnessed at shows. The Tyndalls brought home eight firsts and three seconds, out of a total of 15 entries which they had made. Abandons . Plan To Build Store; Locker Reopens Plans which he had develop- ed to erect a new Red & White Supermarket on the site of the Seaforth Creamery, which he purchased some time ago, have been abandoned, Orville Cooper said this week. Mr. Cooper said it was found there was insufficient space on the lot, and the adjacent area would be too crowded to pro- vide the type of store which had been contemplated. He will con- tinue to operate Red & White at the present location on Main Street. Lockers Open Soon In the meantime, work of in- stalling new equipment in the former creamery lockers is al- most completed. Operating Is Cooper's Locker Service, the modernized storage units are expected to be brought into use in a few days. Mr. Cooper said the new equipment makes provision for fast freezing which, in turn, en- sures maximum quality in foods stored in the lockers. A mother left her young son at church, admonishing him to come home after the services and to be sure to remember what the minister's text was. When he arrived home, she ask- ed: "What text did the minister use?" `The boy replied: "Don't wor- ry, you'll get the quilt." Knowing this was wrong, the mother called the minister and was advised he had preached on: "Fear not, thy comforter Will come'' Morris Township Council has been advised by the railway that the station will be reduced to a caretaker status in 20 days, unless an appeal is entered. Officials say there is little like- lihood of an appeal being filed. First suggestion that the CPR contemplated action to close the station came about six weeks ago in a letter to Morris Tow -i - ship Council. As a result, Mor- ris councillor, Walter Short - reed, was instructed to discuss the matter with area residents in an effort to determine any action that should be taken. Out of these discussions came plans for a meeting of Walton businessmen with representa- tives of the CPR and the Board of Transport Commissioners. At this meeting, spokesmen emphasized the requirement that existed for the station. It was suggested reduction in busi- ness at the station was a tem- porary condition. While the railway officials at- tending the meeting could give no assurance as to the action that might be taken, it was in- dicated full consideration would be given area representations. Business Down Figures presented by the CPR showed business produced at Walton station to have dropped LIFE-LONG WALTON AREA RESIDENT, Thomas John- ston, stands in front of the CPR station at Walton, which has served the community since 1907, when the railway was built. Mr. Johnston carried the mail from the station to Walton Post Office for 15 years, until truck services was in- troduced in 1955, CPR says revenue is falling and wants to close the station. (Expositor photo by Phillips). 8 Games, 8 Wins Winthrop Record Winthrop football squad won the -Huron Football League reg- ular schedule this year with an unblemished record. In eight games, Winthrop chalked up eight wins for 10 points. They score` '29 goals and allowed on- ly three. The winners finished their schedule in Goderich on Mon - Former Reeve To Move To Seaforth The sale of the Charles Mac- Kay farm, Lot E%i 4, Con. 8, Tuckersmith, was announced this week by Amos Corby, of Mclntee Real Estate. The pur- chaser is Hugh Lynch, of Mimi - co, who obtains possession Sept. 1st. Mr. MacKay, former Tucker - smith reeve and township resi- dent for 70 years, is moving to Seaforth, and will occupy the residence on John Street he purchased some time ago. day night when they scored a 1-0 victory to record their eighth straight win. The only goat'of the game was scored by Tom Love midway through the first half. Goderich put on the pressure in the last half, but couldn't break through a strong Win- throp defence. Winthrop will play off against the third-place Clinton team, and Goderich will meet Brus- sels in the semi-finals. Schedule for the playsoffs will be drawn up later this week. WINTHROP-Goal, Glen Mc- Clure; defence, Bill Kerr, Mery Pepper; halves, Bert Dennis, Earl Dolmage, Neil Dolmage; forwards, George Love, Tom Love, Ken McClure, Wayne Dolmage, -Paul McCluskie. Final Standings GP W L T F A Pts. Winthrop 8 8 0 0 29 3 16 Goderich 8 3 2 3 13 10 9 Clinton 8 2 3 3 10 11 7 Brussels 8 1 4 3 10 20 5 Wingham 8 0 5 3 1 19 3 steadily through the years. Where once as many as four cars of cattle and hogs would be shipped from Walton each Saturday, now traffic is reduc- ed to about 30 cars of feeder cattle- a year coming in. There is no outgoing freight. In addi- tion, there are about two . cars of mixed freight,. three cars of coal, and two to four ears of grain brought in a year. - Reduction in the status of the station will not eliminate in- coming freight. A problem that will arise, however, is that it will be necessary to arrange to clear collect shipments at Blyth or Monkton. Mike Dronicks, Walton sta- tion agent, is on holidays, but B. E. Slade, who is relieving, said Wednesday no official word had been received regarding the closing of the station. He had heard rumors, however, along the line. Opened in 1907 The CPR line from Guelph-..toGoderich was finished in 1907, The History of Morris Town- ship, published in 1956 on the 100th anniversary of the town- ship, recalls the history of the line: . "Ninteen hundred and five saw the start of the Guelph- .Goderich branch of the Cana- dian Pacific Railroad. It was finished in June, 1907, and runs through the centre of the 10th concession from Walton to Blyth. This line has probably carried more freight in the grain trade than the former, two combined, but it too is showing signs of inability to keep up to modern transportation trends. From 1907 to 1930, four pas- senger trains ran a regular sche- dule from Hamilton to Gode- rich, but a diesel engine was put on in 1930 and only a round trip a day was made. A regular passenger service was discontinued on Saturday, Apr. 23, 1955. Only •a mixed train operates now. This line did a large business in the transpor- tation of livestock prior to the advent of truck transportation, as many as four cars of •hogs and cattle would be shipped from each of the stations at Blyth and Walton on a Satur- day back in the twenties. At the present time, more cattle are brought into these yards from Northern Ontario and the Western Provinces, as feeder cattle, than are shipped as fat stock." Early files of The Huron Ex- positor reveal that the first freight shipment to arrive at Walton over the then new• CPR railway was consigned to John McDonald, in April, 1907. It consisted of a car of British Columbia red cedar shingles. The first passenger train ar- rived on the evening of Mon- day, .July 8, and four days later, 200 tickets were sold to area residents on their way to at- tend the 12th of July celebra- tion which that year was held in Blyth, Is 88; Repairs Veranda Roof Mr. Henry lloggarth, well- known Seaforth resident. mark- ed .his 88th birthday at his home on John Street on Sun- day.; Mr. Hoggarth is down town every day. While he admits to slowing down a bit, be was able to get up on his veranda roof one day last week to carry out some repairs. Architect Begins Plans For Composite School OWRS Talks Finances Here Members of Seaforth Council met with a representative of the OWRC Friday to discuss plans for an extension to the Seaforth sewer distribution system. The meeting was a further step in the long series of talks that have taken place between the two bodies, extending over sev- eral years. Several suggestions as to ways in which sewer require• ments could be tailored to fall within the financial capacity of the town, were discussed, but no decisions were reached, ac- cording to Councillor J. 0. Turnbull, committee chairman, pending a further submission to the OWRC. • Page & Steele, Toronto archi- tects, will start immediately to prepare sketch plans for an ad- dition to Clinton Collegiate, to house the new Huron composite school. Instructions were given the architects following a meeting Tuesday of representatives of advisory vaational.committee, and of the Clinton Board with Inspector Don Scott and a re- presentative of the department. The group checked the site and reached conclusions as to re- quirements. The architects were Selected from among eight firms alt' a• meeting a week ago. Page & Steele had designed the South Huron School at Exeter. Organized at a meeting earl- ier this month, the advisory vo- cational committee named Peter S. MacEwan, of Goderich, as chairman. Members of the committee are: A. Garnet Ilicks, Enter; James Taylor, Hensall; E. Dear- ing; RR 1, Staffa; Mrs. Thomas , Govenlock, RR 5, Seaforth; Peter S. MacEwan, Goderich; John Durnin, Dungannon; D. R. Philip, Blyth; K. McRae, Clin- ton; William Hearn, Clinton. They represent school boards at Clinton, Seaforth, Exeter and Goderich and County industrial firms. Firemen Answer Call To McKillop Seaforth firemen were called to the farm of John T. Moylan, lot 11, con- 6, McKillop Town- ship, Tuesday about 3:00 p.m.,. when a blaze was discovered in a combine being used inMhar- vesting the Moylan crop, The fire had been extinguish- ed by the men working in the field when the brigade arriVtd,