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Clinton News-Record, 1974-09-05, Page 10The judges had a very tough decision last Thursday night picking a queen at the Huron County Pork Producers Barbecue in Seaforth. Left to right are the contestants: Margaret Van Dyke of Seaforth; Brenda Moore of RR 4, Goderich who eventually won; Yvonne Bean of Auburn; Cheryl Webster of Varna, who was runner-up; and Teresa Ondrejika of Exeter. (photo by Wilma Oke) Large crowd at barbecue BY WILMA OKE The high cost of meat didn't affect the under six-year olds at the Seaforth Com- munity Centre last ThureJay. They got a bargain their parents would envy, Youngsters attending the Huron County Pork Producers barbecue got all they could eat free of charge. The six to 12-year-olds paid $1.50 for their dinner while it cost adults $3, both prices up 50c from last year's barbecue. About 1,450 persons attended and ate more than 1,260 pounds of pork. At a dance that followed Brenda Moore, 20, of RR 4, Goderich, was crowned County Pork Hostess by last year's winner, Debbie Riddell of RR 1, Hay. Miss Moore, who attends George Brown College in Toronto, will represent Huron County in the Pork Hostess contest at the Royal Winter Fair in November. Runner-up was Cheryl Webster, 18, of RR 1 Varna. Other contestants were Yvonne Bean of RR 1, Auburn; Margaret Van Dyke of RR 4, Seaforth; and Teresa Ondrejicka of Exeter, Tuckersmlth . . continued from page 1 the two Egmondville wells. In his report to council Mr. Nicholson said a culvert, six feet in diameter, had been removed from sideroad 5-6 during re- construction of the Big Drain and that it will be offered for sale.. A request for a tile drainage loan of $2,000 was approved but council members expressed annoyance when it was reported the tile are already installed. In the future council will refuse a request for a loan if it is not made prior to any construction work. Passed for payment were accounts totalling $56,815.90 and included in this are: road accounts $4,721.66; general government $1,635.68; fire $670; tile drainage $5,400; municipal drains $15,650.14; Vanastra Recreation $11,260.46; and water, sewage and garbage at Vanastra $17,477.96. reat Holstein cow retires SUN LIFE a progressive company in a progressive industry GORDON T. WESTLAKE • Phone 565-5333 Bayfield SUN LIFE' ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA''` Robert E. Dinsmore FOR CLIMATE CONTROLLED HEATING OIL PLUS FINE FARM FUELS AND LUBRICANTS FOR THE FARMER FOR THE HOME OWNER FOR RELIABLE 24 HOUR SERVICE CALL US 527-1224 Station St., Seaforth ta,,,aorroN NEWS-RW.0M THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1974 TODAY'S HEALTI4 Alert parents keep poisons under key and out of reach Another pottery excavated Industrial archeology is a relatively new field in Canada and David Newlands of the Royal Ontario Museum is happy to be working at his specialty in Egmondville. Since July 15 David and a group of volunteer diggers have been excavating, cataloguing discoveries and mapping the location of everything they find at the site of the Egmondville Pottery, on the south west bank of the Maitland River. The Royal Ontario Museum was interested in finding out all it could about the workings and equipment of the long dor- mant pottery, Mr. Newlands said, "Not only because of the historical documentation that Bill Hart had available, but also because the pottery seemed to have gone on for so long." "There' haven't been many digs in this part of Ontario and we wanted to study the pottery industry as it existed in Huron County." Mr. Newlands helped staff a dig by Wilfred Laurier University archeology students at the David Burns Pottery near Holmesville in the spring. David Newlands says the biggest thrill at the Egmond- ville dig, which probably will be finished up by this week has been locating the remains of the kiln. It was very sophisticated and substantial. 15 feet across and probably 14 feet or 15 feet high, Mr. Newiands says. Only the bot- tom few layers of the brick structure remain but the four fire boxes and the entrance are easy to pick out. It is pretty certain he says that these remains are not of the first kiln on the site, because underneath the careful patterns of brick foundation, is a rubble of broken brick pieces, an indication that the kiln was built on top of an earlier struc- ture. The base of the kiln has been carefully uncovered, square by square, and the location of every brick in its foundation is being drawn to scale and located on a grid. A section of a cellar which was probably underneath the wooden workshop which once was an east side of the site is also being excavated. It is crammed full of pottery fragments, kiln furniture and old bricks. "You could probably expose the foundations of that whole building here," David says. The crew has found several fragments of a dark brown, mottled glazed pottery at the site, which the archeologist theorizes is older than the yellow glazed more massed produced pots that are com- monly thought of as Egmond- ville products. The pottery's located on a lot owned by Mr. and Mrs, William Huggett, directly across the road from Seaforth Reeve John Flannery's home. The clay used at the Egmon- dville Pottery came from this area, At one time it was hauled from John. Modeland's old farm, now owned by Dr, Charles Moyo, northwest of the pottery on the second of Tuckersmith. 'They probably used any good, clean clay with a low lime content," Mr. Newlands says. "At one point they seem to have been having trouble keeping the glaze on the pot. I've seen one Egmondville pot with the glaze flaking off like dandruff." Mr, Newlands said that the pottery site is "definitely worth saving" and said it could tie in very well with the Van Egmond house as a tourist attraction and an important place for school field trips. The archeologist, who is a former elementary and high school teacher, hopes to be back in the county for a week in the winter on the invitation of the Huron County board of education. They have asked him to talk about the two pot- tery digs in Huron and Canadian archeology to classes of senior students in county schools. There have been four or five volunteers on the site all through the dig and more on weekends. "Two people have taken their holidays to be with us here," Mr. Newlands says. They all sleep in tents and Mr. Newlands, sometimes with his wife and two small children, sleep in a small trailer, where meals for the group are cooked. "We can't afford to pay the volunteers," Mr. Newlands says, "but they get all kinds of experience," Work starts at around 9 a.m. every day and continues until dark, with breaks for meals. "Sometimes we quit a little early so that some of the people can go to the Lions Park for a swim. They really enjoy your Walter Miller, vice-president of the National Farmers' Union recently said the Federal Government will have to re vamp its' entire price stabilization program for beef, hogs, and dairy, if Canada is to maintain a viable livestock and dairy industry. Ho-said' that the recently an- nounced stabilization programs for beef and hogs do nothing to overcome the insecurity faced by livestock farmers in the face of rapidly escalating costs. While recent increase of 91 cents per cwt for industrial milk producers is about 30 per- cent of what was required. Mr. Miller said there is a great disappointment among livestock and dairy farmers and a growing belief that cabinet is not prepared to support agriculture minister Whalen's earlier positions. There are J. LR IMES siippLIE park, except for the cold showers," the leader of the ex. oavation says, Bill Hart, who grew up in Egmondville years ago, has done a lot of digging at the site of the old pottery, on the south bank of the Maitland River on land belonging to Mr.,and Mrs, William Huggett. OM is wilting a history of the pottery and the men who owned it. It was Mr, Hart who stirred up interest in business, called the Huron Pottery, interest that has resulted in a crew from the Royal Ontario Museum spen- ding the past month digging at the Egmondville site where the pottery operated for 63 years, The Royal Ontario Museum's Canadiana Depart- ment is sponsoring the dig and has arranged to have Mr, Hart's manuscript published, along with the results of the current excavations,• The museum is also buying a num- ber of Bill Hart's pieces of Egmondville pottery. According to Canadiana Curator Donald Webster, the pots will be called "The William M. Hart Collec- tion" and may in future be on display at the museum. Mr. Hart is happy that ar- ticles from the small Egmond- vine Pottery will be preserved in an internationally known museum and he is excited about the revival of interest in the pottery since the ROM crew started digging. He's spent a lot of time over the years walking around the pottery site, digging up pieces of pottery going all over the coun- tryside to buy good examples of Egmondville craftsmanship. He's looked over many old files of the Seaforth Huron Ex- positor and has corresponded with far away relatives of the families who started and main- tained the Egmondville Pottery to get material for his book, wide spread reports of farmers and feed lot operators shutting down, or planning to shut down their operations because of the poor outlook for the future and the alternative opportunities available without the work and risk associated with livestock production. The livestock industry is • moving from one crisis to another and will continue to do so unless the Federal Govern- ment establishes a national meat authority and exercises control over pricing and marketing of livestock ,and meat in the interests of both consumers and producers, One of the grandest Holstein cows ever to grace the breed, Challenger Sovereign Princess, has "retired," Princess, who is the first cow ever to produce more than 300,000 lbs. of milk in a lifetime in Canadian Holstein history, will enjoy the comforts of life as she grazes in a small pasture paddock on the farm of her owner, Hardy Shore, Glanworth, Ontario. Now grey with years, and easily the oldest animal in the breed at 21 years and seven months, Princess has ended her career with 318,413 pounds milk and 12,177 pounds butterfat. Presently this ranks fourth in lifetime production in the world, as there is one higher in the U.S. and there are two — Mr, Shore, who operates Shore Farms with son Jim, said that Princess will not milk any more, since attempts for her to conceive another time proved futile, She is still a hearty eater although she has lost some weight. It is unfortunate that Prin- cess was never photographed by 1)avld,Woods What's the connection between ASA tablets and floor polish? Well, if you said heusework's a headache, you're probably right. Rut there's another, more serious, link: they're the two commonest Causes of accidental poisonings in the home. In fact, drugs and household chemicals are each responsible for nearly half of all home poisonings — and children are far and away the most susceptible. Latest avail- able statistics show that youngsters are especially vulnerable: nine times as many cases of accidental poisoning occur in the one to four age group than in the second most affected age bracket five to 14, Obviously, the sensible precau- tion is to keep potentially harmful items out of children's reach, and preferably under lock and key. Another precautionary measure is to ensure that the phone number of your local poison control centre is listed with other emergency num- bers somewhere near the phone. If there is no poison control centre in your locality, your family doctor is the best person to ask — in advance where you should call in an emergency. But what do you do if you suspect that a child may have swallowed potentially dangerous amounts of drugs or household products? The immediate thing, according to a Ministry of Health spokesman, is to stay calm: try to determine what's been swallowed and how much. Take the container with you when going for treatment — it will facili- tate quick identification of who the victim swallowed from it. A natural reaction, if you suspect someone's eaten or drunk a harm- ful substance, is to induce vomiting. This should he done in the case of drugs — but never in the case of ingested objects (such as pins and thumb tacks), or household cleaners. The cleaners, especially the corrosive or petroleum-based ones, may do much more harm on the way up than they did on the way down. Legislation on the labelling and packaging of possibly thingerous products is eliminating some of the hazards. But remember that the child-resistant caps on prescription drug bottles are only child-resistant if you put them back on -- and properly, Similarly, you should en- sure that products stay, in their original containers: many poison- ings occur because gasoline, paint or chemicals are transferred to milk or soft drink bottles. The thing to keep in mind is that kids have an insatiable curiosity — especially for tasting things; not only that. but the fact that some- thing tastes revolting doesn't seem to deter them. So keep drugs, chemical cleaners, paint, turpentine and even cosmetics out of the way of tots. And, if you do suspect that any of these sub- stances has been consumed, don't wait — take immediate action. during her attractive years years when she attained a rating of Very Good for body conformation, but she always had tender loving care ad- ministered by several herd- smen, including Alex Wood (15 years), Maurice McDowell, Goff Brand and Garry Runhart. Raymond Piche is the present herdsman. NFU urges changes ATTENTION BOWLERS FOR WINTER FUN JOIN A LEAGUE NOW! Wiferboard °'X 8' X4.45 Cash & Carry Sherwin Williams Exterior Latex White House Paint $7.3 Cash & Carry 9.111111011111.1110111111.111111111.11.1111101101111118111110.11101101111.11110 Ilritost LW. 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