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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1955-07-27, Page 2i Two The Whigham Advance-Times, Wednesday, July 27, 1955 « Proud Owners EDITORIALS COMING TO OUR SENSES Signs that the political climate is .getting warmer are quite evident these days. The Russians are beginning to act like old friends, and Western correspondents have been touring the Soviet Union and returning with stories which aren’t nearly as critical as they have been in the past. It may be a sign that man has to some extent re­ turned to his senses. Perhaps the powers-that-be have finally come to the realization that an atomic war would be a losing proposition for both sides, and that some way must be found of getting along together, whether it’s pleasant or not. Our own guess is that if’ the peace can be kept for another five years, atomic weapons will never be used again, for the simple reason that nations will realize the futility of using them. That realization will be more effective than all the agreements in the world. LITTERBUGS There seem to be a good many people in this vale of tears who were never taught any manners. This fact manifests itself in many ways, but one of. the most notice­ able, these summer days, is the tendency to litter the countryside with papers, tin cans, beer bottles and what have you. Litterbugs, they call them. Without giving a thought to the mess they cause, they throw paper in every con­ ceivable spot, dump whole boxes of tin cans and garbage along the roadside, break bottles in as many places as possible, throw old tires in rivers and leave banana peel­ ings, apple^cores, wax paper and crumbs on picnic benches. We have never been able to understand the. psychol­ ogy of litterbugs, if any. Most children ar.e taught a cer­ tain amount of tidiness around the house, and one would think that his training would bear fruit in later years. Your true litterbug, alas, is worse than any child, in that he knows better but does it anyway. •' i . * * DISCONCERTING A One of the most disconcerting experiences we can imagine is to be bowling down the open highway at 50 miles an hour and have some lunkhead pull out of a farm lane or a sideroad right in your path. IPs the sort of experience to have nightmares about, but it often does happen in actual fact. Sometimes they come to a stop, look you right in the eye—and pull out into your path, figuring they have'done their duty. Other times they don’t stop. They just careen around the corner, either' because they have no brakes, because they might lose a few seconds by giving you the right of way, or because they’re built that way. We know of one fellow who backed out of a laneway and straddled the highway—right in front of an oncoming car. There is little that the law can do to repair the broken bones, restore the lost lives or darken the gray hairs caused by people who do this sort of thing. But it can and has stipulated that henceforth the motorist on the through highway has the legal right-of-way—in case his heirs wish to enter suit. ^4 Mr. and-'Mrs.’ Tom Burke, proud owners of the third . new plant. Built completely with local labor, the largest broiler plant in Canada coriipare notes on the plant was erected in less than three months.—Staff amount of work which went into the building of the Photo. Tom Burke Holds Open House Third Largest Broiler Factory in Canada Starts Business This Week at Wroxeter Huron County’s largest broiler fac­ tory, and one of the three largest in Canada, gets off to a flying start this week when Tom Burke, of Wroxeter, owner of the plant, takes delivery of 12,500 day-old chicks, the first batch to be raised in the new building. Thirteen weeks from now the first group of full-grown broilers will “graduate" from the plant, rated as one of the most modern in Canada. On Friday night, Tom Burke and his wife held open house in the new building, and friends froni the dis­ trict gathered in goodly numbers to wish them well in their new venture. Actually it won’t be a new venture for Mr. and Mrs. Burke. They’ve been in the broiler, business for five years now, and the new two-storey building just completed is really only an ex­ tension of a venture which they have conducted successfully since 1950. Designed for Production One of the most important features of broiler raising is production, and Tom Burke’s new building is designed expressly for that. Three hundred feet long and thirty-seven feet wide, the cement block structure will house 25,- 000 chickens at one time in its four pens. With a new batch of chickens coming in every 13 weeks, the plant will turn out 100,000 full-grown broilers every year. And in addition to that the Burkes have their original chicken houses in* operation, which will ac­ commodate nearly 40,000 birds a year. Designed to reduce manual labor to an absolute minimum, the new factory is almost completely automatic. Thermostats and an air-conditioning system designed by Mr. Burke him­ self keep the pens at an even tempera­ ture. Feed is loaded into a hopper outside the building and transported by conveyor belt to the feed bin. Smaller conveyor belts throughout the building transport .the feed to the troughs at automatically-timed inter­ vals. Water is likewise pumped auto­ matically into the troughs, and there is a special provision for medicating it whenever necessary. SPECIALS I . Summer Beauty-Aids HOME PERMANENTS— Toni - Bobbi - Prom. Quick-Pin Quick, all ........ $1.75 Helene Curtis Spray Net - Shampoo FREE $1.75 Hudnut Spray & Stay Shampoo FREE ................. $1.75 ■a Helene Curtis Lanolin Discovery .............. $1.75 Hudnut, Dubarry, Harriet Hubbert Ayer Cosmetics in complete selections. CAMP NEEDS BATHING CAPS $1.25, 79c, 75c SUN GLASSES $4.95, $2.98, $2.50 $1.50, $1.00, 69o, 49c BEACH SANDALS, assorted colors ....... 59c Suntan Creams ' ALL Lotions and Depilatories TYPES Shimming GOGGLES $1.19, $1.00 EAR PLUGS.......................... 25c NOSE CLIPS ......................... 69c FLASHLIGHTS Special .... 49c THERMOS JUGS, 1 gal.....\$6.75 Quart.......$2.95 Pint........$1.89 NEW BAN-X Insect Repellent Bomb for personal use BEST YET, $1.29 FOOT COMFORTS Absorbine Jr............. $2.39, $L19 Marathon Liniment .... $L79, 89o BFI Antiseptic Powder 85c, 35c Blue Jay Corn Plaster........ 39c Quinsana Foot Powder ........ 65c Desenex Foot Powder and Ointment' Recognized*, as most effective product manufactured for Athlete’s Foot ................. $L00 ZAM BUCK Ointment........50c FLY KILLERS FOR STABLES— Howard Florbait, Diazinon Lindane Wettable Powder D.D.T. 50% Wettable Powder Lindane Barn Spray, gal. $2.35 Green Cross Barn Spray, gal.................................... $2.25 REX STOCKAID— Spray freely on animals Vs gal. ...'.................................$125 ‘Big Stinky1 Fly Traps Special.............................$5.95 NEW VET-X PET^PRAY— Kills fleas, lice, ticks, gnats and odours on both dogs and cats ......................... $L29 For House Aerosol Bombs and Sprays Special—New Bridgeport Bombs for ants ................................. $L59 I.D.A. WEEKLY SPECIALS Golf Balls...............Reg. 3 for $1.25 SPECIAL $1.19 Calamine Lotion...................Reg. 50c SPECIAL 39c Mineral Oil..........Reg. $1.10, 55c SPECIAL 87c, 43c Paper Napkins, white,. Reg. 17c Special 2 for 29c Stomach Powder Reg. $1.95, 75c Special $1.49, 59c Toilet Tissue, extra soft, extra white........2 for 21c Wax Paper, 100 ft............Reg. 29c Special 2 for 49c The Fanning Mill By Bob Carbert ♦ NO BUSINESS OF HIS According to a news story last week, a Peterborough judge levied the minimum fine of $1 on an Ohio fisherman who was caught with 45 bass. The law says that the legal possession limit is six bass, or one day’s catch, and the usual fine is $10 per fish. The judge is reported to have criticized the fisheries regulations in imposing sentence, and to have said that he felt that catches should be allowed to accumulate, instead of being limited to one day’s catch. Whatever the merit of the judge’s argument, it seems to us that this sort of thing is becoming too common in the courts. Instead of enforcing the law as it now reads, judges are taking it upon themselves to make their own pronouncements as to whether laws are good or bad. In some cases they are setting the law aside, in spirit if not in practice. In our humble opinion no judge has any right to criticize any law—his job is to enforce it. If he feels strongly that laws should be changed, he should get him­ self elected to Parliament.* * * # YOU’LL GET USED TO IT A new type of army Is being planned in West Ger­ many, according to the official handbook, “The Future German Soldier.” Punishment by arrest will be admitted only by a dis­ ciplinary court, complaints against minor punishments will be permitted, punishment drills are forbidden, parades will not be allowed to interfere with free time, barracks are to be pleasant places of rest and relaxation, and re­ veille will depend on the time of year and the duties to be performed. Sounds more like a rest cure to tis. ©re Wmghattt Published at Wingham, Ontario Wenger Brothers, Publishers, W. Barry Wenger, Editor Membet Audit Bureau of Circulation » Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Dept. Subscription Pate — On6 Year $3.00, Six Months $1,50 frt advance U. S. A. $4.00 per year Foreign Rate $4.00 per year Advertising Rates on application 4-H Clubbers, Take the City . by Storm w There was an old song in the First World War, “How You Gonna Keep Them Down on the Farm, After They’ve Seen Paree?” It is a problem that some folks still worry about, and one that reams and reams of copy has been written about. How are you going to keep the young people on the farm.* N There are two or three main meth­ ods, I would say, and I had the pleas­ ure of watching a couple of these in action last week. I had the privilege of taking in the annual Huron County 4-H Club tour, which this year visited the City of Toronto. The Huron County 4-H Club program, I hope you have realized, is the largest of it’s kind in all Canada, and this tour, with over 500 members, and club lead­ ers, was the largest ever attempted by such a group. A special train left Goderich shortly after dawn on Tues­ day morning, July 19th, and picked up the members along the way. I ven­ ture to say that it has been a good many years since the C.N.R. or for that matter any other railway in these parts, had as many passengers on one train for that distance. For most of the juniors it was their first train ride, and for quite a few, their first visit to the city. As a matter of fact, they had. a lot of firsts. On arrival in the city, the group was split up, and they visited two of the major packing plants, and were served their, dinner there. I heard several of the young people say, “After this the hay field smells pretty good.” The Toronto Transportation Commis­ sion looked after movement of the group from place to place, the Toronto police provided escorts, and they went to the Parliament Buildings, for their first ride on the subway, and for practically all, their first big league ball game. Actually Toronto is in the International League, but on looking over the player’s roster, and summar­ izing the names, you couldn’t help but call it big league ball. * I don’t think there was a person on the bus who. didn’t enjoy the trip and All called it informative and Educa­ tional, At the same time, I don’t think that one of the Juniors was won by the glamour of the city,’ or the call of the bright lights. By the time they reached home, they had had their fill of the heat, the rush and hustle, and the confusion of the city. They were content to settle back to the quiet life on the farm. These young people, who have been given the opportunity to accept re­ sponsibility, and do things, for them­ selves, see little in the city to improve in their way of life. It is the young people^ who are not given these op­ portunities, who have no interests, no projects, no responsibilities, that seek those far away fields, With the green­ er tinge. The 4-H Club program, and the home-making clubs, are serving a great purpose in rural Ontario, and particularly in Huron County. How­ ever there are hundreds of boys and girls who have not been reached, dozens of people capable of acting as leaders, who have not given of their time. The accomplishments have been great, but the challenge is great, par­ ticularity ‘ in North Huron. Whitewash Spray Burns Man’s Face Delton Reibling, Southwest Wilmot, received a severe eye injury while whitewashing the stable of Oliver Weicker. z Mr. Reibling was repairing a plug­ ged whitewash line when a connect­ ion became loose and the-full pres­ sure force hit him in the face and eyes. The lime solution severely burn­ ed hisr eyes. He is at present at/-the Stratford General Hospital, where his condition is given as “satisfactory.” Between the time the day-old chicks are plated in the factory and the time they are shipped out full-grown, about the only care they normally require is three daily visits to make sure that all is well in the pens. How­ ever, when it’s time to ship the full- grown birds, and 6,000 chickens have 4o be packed in crates between the hours of midnight and six o’clock in the morning, then raising broilers is indeed a back-breaking business. A few figures in connection with the hew building will give you some idea of the scope of operations. The building itself is made of 14,000 cement blocks, 83,000 feet of plywood, 12 tons of steel and 18 tons of roofing. It has four large rooms, each capable of handling over 6,000 chickens, and a- feed bin which will hold about twenty tons of feed. Incidentally they’ll need about 800 tons of feed a year to keep the chickens happy, and it 'will take about 2.8 pounds of feed to make one pound of the White meat everybody likes so well. In spite of the fact that they’ll have as many as 40,Q00 birds on the prop­ erty at one time, Mr. and Mrs. Burke are hoping to be able to cope with most of the work of raising the chick­ ens. They will need extra help at the beginning and end of the 13-week cycle, but .hope to be able to. manage themselves during the rest of the time. . If things go as smoothly as they did while the new building was being put up, they should be able to man­ age. Started on May 6th, with all local help in the building of it, the struc­ ture was finished in time to take the first shipment of chicks almost a week ahead of schedule. And that should be a good omen for the future. VANCE’S I.D.A. 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