The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1956-09-13, Page 3Let Contract
For Stephen
Contract for construction of
the Adams drain in Stephen was
let to Chas. P. Dietrich, of Mt.
Carmel, by the township‘'council
at a recent meeting.
Mr. Dietrich’s tender was
$3,850.
Court of revision on the drain
was declared closed and the
clerk was authorized to apply
for a subsidy on the cost.
■The petition of Thos. Carroll
others for a municipal drain
yBFas accepted for survey and
/■fp’an. Jas. A. Howes, O.L.S., of
Listowel, was appointed engin-
At a meeting held in Mitchell
District High School Tuesday
night, a new athletic league was
formed for six schools including
SHDHS.
The new setup will, be known
as Perthex Conference and will
include schools from Listowel,
St. Marys, Mitchell, Palmerston
and Stratford.
Heading the new organization
will be F. J, Ladouceur, Strat
ford, who was elected president
for the 1956-57 school term.
Vice-president is D. J. Flet
cher, of St. Marys, while Mrs.
N. Bell, of Stratford, accepted*
the secretary-treasurer’s post.
The first competition for the
Six schools will take place in
Stratford on October 3, when a
track and field meet will be
held.
The South Huron District High
School football team, under.
coach G. M. Mickle, will open!
its senior schedule on October
5. The team'will play two games i„, . .at home and three on the road ; Western Ontario,
this year while next season it! ,U?e,P. ,cr
COMMAND BAND AT CENTRALIA-—The Training Command Band from RCAF Sta-
tion Trenton paid its annual visit to Centralia on Tuesday,i September 11. A con
cert, lasting for one and a half hours, was held in the Station Recreation Centre,
during which many selections from current Broadway musicals were played to. a
large audience. After the concert, the Band played for a dance held on the Station.
Nerve centre for the supply
of electricity to six counties sur
rounding London, including Mid
dlesex and South Huron, has
been inspected by the public
during the past month.
At Pond Mills, south of Lon
don, thousands of district people
are inspecting the $12,000,000
mass of electric equipment at the E. V. Buchanan Frequence
Changer and Transformer Sta
tion which allows two people to
(control the electrical energy of
public inspection was part
will be exactly opposite^” i of Ontario Hydro’s golden jubilee
The new Perthex Conference ! celebration. Besides touring the
shall sponsor basketball, foot- ■ station, visitors were shown a
ball, volleyball and track and i unique hydro exhibit which corn
field for boys and basketball,‘pares yesterday’s dream kitchen
volleyball and track and field with the modern kitchen of to-
for girls. , I morrow.morrow.
Health Insurance Plan
To Affect Next Budget
The federal government plans
to introduce national hospital in
surance legislation at the next
session of Parliament and this
may have Wide implications for
the 1957-58 budget, it was learned
on high authority this week.
. The plan dims hopes for any
large tax cuts. It may also tend
to place some provinces—parti
cularly Ontario—on the policital
spot.
- Those close to the cabinet say
it will help the Liberals. argue
during the next general election
^campaign—expected next year— *^that the Government has done all
get the scheme into
$11,300,000,000.
Prospects are that the treas
ury will show a budgetary sur
plus this year of $300,000,000 or
more. Normally this would give
Finance Minister Harris a lot of
elbow room for reducing taxes
next year, especially when a
general election is amost cer
tain to be called.
However, Mr. Harris and other
cabinet ministers are concerned
over the pr’obems of inflation and
fear that too many tax cuts will
lead to greater demands for
goods.
Thus the health insurance
legislation may be used as an
anti-inflationary screen.
From a parking area at the
gate, visitors were formed into
parties and led to the control
buildings to inspect an illumina
ted map and diagram of the
function of the station. The map
shows how the Pond Mills sta
tion receives its power from the
Ottawa valley, Niagara Fails and
Windsor generating plants ■ and
distributes it to a million people
in Western Ontario.
From here, visitors moved to
the large control room where
they watched two operators con
trol all the equipment in the sta
tion and all of the transmission
lines in Southwestern Ontario.
Next stop was the frequency
changer building where the pub
lic was shown how electrical fre
quency is changed from 25 to 60
cycles. Other items of interest
were huge transformers and cir
cuit breakers. >
Visitors saw and hegrd the
spectacular “crack” when a cir
cuit is opended to loosen a
powerful 230,000 volt of electri
city, The station receives electri
city at 230,000 volts and converts
it to 115,000 volts for local trans
mission.
Soon Become Obsolete
But while visitors marvel at
the modern equipment in this
relatively-new station, hydro of
ficials are already predicting
that most of it will soon become
obsolete as hydro’s terrific ex
pansion causes a revolution, with
in its organization.
At a recent ceremony marking
the opening of the public inspec
tion, hydro officals predicted that
today’s hydro system will hard
ly be recognizable in 25 years.
In 10 to 25 years, they esti
mated. half'of the equipment at
Pond Mills will be obsolete and
«.....-^^it can to „
operation. It had obtained the
funds and the legislation. Only
provinces that refused to join
hampered operations.
The legislation would ' make
last January's federal offer a
take-it-or-leave-it one for the
provinces. Under the offer, the
Federal Government would pay
half the cost of a national health
insurance scheme starting with
hospital care and diagnostic
services.
But it would go into operation
only if a majority of provinces,
representing a majority of the
Canadian population, accepted
the scheme. So far only British
Columbia, Alberta and Saskat
chewan have done so Ontario
has advocated hospital insurance
but so far has not agreed to the
federal offer.
The plan is estimated to cost
$365,000,000 in the first year of
operation. The federal share
would be half, about $182,500,000,
if aft provinces joined.
However, it is understood the
Government may reserve more
than $182,500,000 — perhaps as
much as $200,000,000 — in its
1957- 58 budget to cover all possi
ble federal costs should al prov
inces join.
If there is an'insufficient num
ber of signatories—and some
authorities feel the full machin
ery of the scheme could not be
brought into operation before
1958- 59 — then the $200,000,000
would be used to reduce the na
tional debt, which now stands at
that refused to join
DESTRUCTION OF ELM TREES—OfficialsTHREATENS
of the Niagara Falls parks system report a European tree
disease now spreading through the park is threatening to
wipe out elm trees in southern Ontario. The Dutch elm
disease, borne by elm bark beetles, like the one seen
above, has spread through 24 Ontario counties since it
was first discovered in the Ottawa, valley in 1946. The
disease wiped out two-thirds of Holland’s’.trees at the end
of World War I, was transmitted to U.S. in 1930 through
elm logs used for furniture veneer, and travelled to
Canada in 1944 in packing crates sent from Europe to a
Quebec aircraft plant. Central Press Canadian
TO PINPOINT MINERALS IN ONTARIO, QUEBEC—Survey of
I ! .A
AERIAL SURVEY ‘ .
most of the mineral-bearing pre-Cambrian Shield in Ontario and Quebec is being
undertaken by the Photographic Survey Corporation, Toronto. It is the biggest survey
of its kind ever undertaken anywhere at any time and when it is finished two or
three years from now it will provide a knowledge of the mineral deposits and pos*
siliblities of 357,000 square miles to a degree of accuracy that would have been
impossible before. The survey is being financed by co-operation between several large
mining .companies and consists of photographing from the air of every inch of the
territory, then co-Telating topographical photos with geo-physical surveys, Though
the "most publicized Work of the survey is always the actual photographing done in
color as well as black and white film from a converted air force bombing plane, it is
only when the photos are assembled into a mosaic and studied by geologists, soil
engineers, foresters and other exports that the photos have Jany meaning, Working on
the assembly of the map are & Brown, B. Manistre, J. & -Scott* Marion Condy and .Jim■tr'ir-n-
relatively useless.
By 1980 Ontario will produce
as much jipwer energy as it does
now with its entire hydraulic and
steam system.
In just five years a new steam
or atomic energy plant will be
required at Sarnia to feed, jthe
booming chemical valley.
The recently standardized 60-
cycle frequency may have to be
changed again, perhaps well be
fore the end of the century and
perhaps 'as high as 400 cycles. •
Power may be brought into
Ontario from northern rivers
1,000 miles away.
The Buchanan station is so
vital that its system is duplicated
to avoid the dangers of internal
failure. But, said E. V. Buchanan,
past manager of the London
PUC for whom the station was
named, 60 cycle power is be
coming so prevalent in Ontario
that it will soon be feasible to
change the generators at Nia
gara Falls to 60 cycle and end
need for conversion here.
Sixty Cycl« Not Ideal
In any event 60 cycle is not the
ideal frequency, he said. Higher
frequencies make possible smal
ler electric motors with the same
output. Already some industries
are equipped with converters to
boost 60. cycle for certain small
power tools. G. M. McHenry,
consumer- engineer for Ontario
Hydro pointed, out some‘aircraft
system use 400 cycles.
“We may see converters. so
simple and inexpensive that any
home owner can choose his own
power frequency.” Mr. Buchan
an said. Higherfrequencics with
in. limits mean more efficient
operation, cheaper power costs..
Need Power. . .
Charles: Phelps, manager*./oft
the 'Sarnia Hydro Electric Sys<
tem, said two industries alone in'
his city will require nearly 50,-
000 kilowatts more within the
next five years. One of these
may double’its present require
ments of over 40,000 kilowatts
within the next 10 years. Either
of these developments will justi
fy a steam generation plant in
Sarnia, he said.
The' location would be natural
one since there are abundant
supplies,, of...water and cheap
water transport for coal. Mr. Mc
Henry said it’, is likely that ato
mic power plants .will be located
where there Js an abundant sup
ply of cooling water. Sarnia, he
agreed, has such a supply.
. The electric power require
ments in Ontario is now doubling
each 10 to 12’years, Mr, McHen
ry said.
Even the big St. Lawrence pro
ject will not equal the increases
anticipated in 25 years. Ontario
now gets almost all its power
from water. The steam plants at
Windsor and Toronto are little
more than reserves.
r* • c fFair Sec y
Wins Prize
Clark Fisher, secretary of Exe
ter Agricultural Society, was
awarded first prize in the field
crop competition in grain corn
by Judge M, E. Hooper, of St.
Marys, on Wednesday.
The competition, held in con
nection with Exeter Fair, attrac
ted 13 Entries.
Judge Hooper , said there were
many good stands' Of corn but a
nilmber of farmers sowed rows
too close together; This handi
caps ripening* he said.
The, judge awarded the fair
board' secretary top marks of
88. Second was Clarence Down
with 87 and third prize went to
Lloyd* Reynolds with 86 and one-
half.
Other winders were: Harvey
Hyde 86, Ross Keyes 85t4, Toni
Hern, 85, Gordon Strang 84t4,
John Pym 84, Harry Jeffrey
8'314, Arthur Rundle 83, Bob Jef
fery 8114, Hugh Love 80, Alvin
JPym 77,
FACTOR X
Dr. Frederick Lenlere, promi
nent ' psychiatrist of Seattle,
Washington, declares “Factor X”
to be the cause of alcoholism.
Ill Ah address to the American
Medical Association in Atlantic
City last year, he made clear the
nature of his findings after long
experience with alcoholics. Fac*(
tor X is loss of control over
drinking, resulting largely from
permanent destruction of brain
cells that affect will bower. This
is the one common denominator
characteristic of all alcoholics.
It is significant that meh who
know most about this scourge,
e.g, the doctors of the A.M.A.,
banned all liquor advertisements
from their periodicals as of Jan
uary 1, 1954.
Canada’s army of alcoholics*
conservatively estimated at iso,*
odd—is increasing annually by
4,000. We rank 6th among the
■lutlons ot-thcTwarld, la
Who Will Be|5un„S>od Agent
Next PM?
The hottest question in. Ot
tawa today is who will be the
next Prime Minister of Canada*
reports Blah* Fraser in the cur
rent issue of Maclean’s Maga
zine.
He says there are serious
doubts in the Liberal Party over
who is best suited to succeed
ageing Louis St. Laurent, now
75.
“The Prime Minister’s politi
cal strength,” reports Fraser,
“which is certainly not growing
and which may be waning some
what, is a strength that is his
alone; he cannot bequeath it.
“But he can bequeath the ele
ments of weakness that the
Liberal Government has dis
played during the past 18 months
—the recurrent ’confusions and
indecisions, the palsied touch in
parliament, the tensions within
the cabinet and resultant
awkwardness in public.”
It is believed, says Fraser,
that the Prime Minister favors
Minister of Finance Watler E.
Harris as his successor.
But among voters, Liberal and
independent, the likely favorite
is not Harris but Lester Bowles
Pearson, Minister of External
Affairs. But the Liberals have
doubts as to whether Pearson
will be a candidate when the
time for decision arrives.
He may become the new
secretary-general of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
when Lord Ismay retires, per
haps as early .as .next, spring.
“Pearson’s friends say that in
spite of popular assumptions to
the contrary, Pearson would be
quite willing to servo under
Walter Harris," reports the Mac
lean’s article.
But tills would do nothing to
help Harris’ chance of winning
an • election.
Says the Maclean’s report:
“Pearson, well known Already,
can be made even better known,
with ease—he goes over well not
only in personal contacts but on
television. Harris, in spite of
two years of build-up by the
party, is still a relatively cold
and remote personality to the
public.”
Other possible contenders for
Liberal leadership) says Fraser,
are Robert. H. Winters, .Minister
of Public Works, Jack Pick er s-
gill, Minister of Citizenship and
Immigration, and Paul Martin,
Minister of Nationals Health and
Welfare. . But all have dis
advantages for the Liberals.
“If the cabinet and the Parlia
mentary £roup decide it’s an
impossible task' to build up Wal
ter Harris into a, commanding
National figure in time for the
election campaign he would
have to lead," says .Maclean’s
article, “they will no doubt re
sign themselves to Pearson.
"He gives them the same
sense of uneasiness Eisenhower
gave the Republican profession
als who would have, preferred
the late Senator Taft, a man
Whom they understood, and who
.understood them; but for. some-
What .similar, reason, the Liberal
'professionals too’ May choose -a
gifted ’ amateur/*
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on the sun, it is also true that!
too much sun with insufficient J
moisture can cause the death of!
man and plants, says the Field ’
Crops Branch of the Ontario De-!
partment of Agriculture.
The farmer must use every
means available to keep his
farm free fro. i weeds, and one
of his most potent allies, when
properly handled, and by far the cheapest, is the sun, No matter
how persistent the weed, it can
not exist for long if its root sys
tem. is exposed to the sun. There
fore, a good slogan is ‘'Plow
when it is hot anchdry’L
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