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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1966-05-19, Page 7REPORTING CONDITIONS • BEACHES • WEATHER • TRAFFIC FRIDAYS 5 P.M. to 7 P.M. SATURDAYS 2 P.M. to 4 P.M. SUNDAYS 12 P.M. to 2 P.M. quive a 61DPV day,/ CFPL RADIO 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110M111111111111111111 ROSE CULTURE By E.C. HARVEY Roses, being woody, are not heavy feeders. Newly planted roses do not need fertilizer un- til the growth is around six inches long. For established bushes I give them bone meal the first week in June and again the first week in July. In addition, when I a m spraying weekly with insecticide and fungicide I add liquid fer- tilizer every other week through June and July. If you prefer you can use bone meal three times, say June 1 and 25 and July 20, and no liquid fertilizer. If you apply bone meal at the base of your bushes and do not dig it in, it will cake like lime and will be of no value. If you get a heavy shower most of it will wash away rather than soak in. On the other hand if you dig it in you will destroy the small surface hair roots that grow out all around the base of the bush. To overcome both of these Lisa represents West Ontario The little people, who watch Miss Dorothy's Sunshine School on week day mornings, will have a surprise in store for them Wednesday, May 25 when little Lisa Hyde from Hensall is going to be on the show in person to tell the people there and the television audience and friends some things about the disease cystic fibrosis. Lisa has been chosen by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to be the "Lisa" child comparable with the "Timmy" for the crip- pled children's campaign. There will be other children called "Lisa" in their own areas across Canada and the United States. It just so happens that for Western Ontario "Lisa" really has for her own first name Lisa. This is a happy coincidence. Lisa, four years of age, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hyde of Hensall. UCW hold plant auction the May meeting of Chisel- burst UCW was held last Tuesday afternoon in the church with pre- sident Mrs. R. Taylor presiding. Mrs. Percy Wright led in the worship followed with the mis- sionary prayer Mrs. Taylor announced the Goderich Summer School June 11. Mrs. Carl Stoneman favored with a piano solo. Mrs. Harold Currie presented the study on Brazil. hazards, I mix one part bone meal to three parts sand, the sand prevents the bone meal from caking or washing away and the first shower dissolves the bone meal and it soaks down to the root. In about three weeks the sand also has disappeared and is part of the top soil, which in most gardens is an advantage. For H. T. roses one half trowel of bone meal, which is two full trowels of the mixture, is ade- quate for each application. For Grandiflora or large Floribunda bushes yoti can add a little more. Bone Meal is a slow acting fer- tilizer so it is not advisable to use it after July, This same mixture of bone meal and sand can be used on tulips, daffodils and other bulbs in the fall and on peonies, phlox, columbine, shasta dais i e s, py- rethrum and other hardy peren- nials and rock plants as early in the spring as possible. Fete residents The Evangelical United Breth- ren Church, Zurich, held a fare- well picnic at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Grainger, Zur- ich, Sunday for Mr. and Mrs. Jack McClinchey and family who recently took up residence in Clinton. Gifts of a desk lamp and china cabinet were presented to Mr. and Mrs. McClinchey, with the presentation address read by Mrs. M. Steckle. Banquet for Hensall Peewees The Hensall Pee Wees, WOAA finalists were treated to a ban- quet in Hensall Saturday night to close out a successful season. Fathers of the players attended along with coaches and managers. Manager Harold Caldwell and Coach Wayne Smith presented trophies to goalie Gary Clement, defencemen Doug Mock and Al Corbett and top scorers Brian Campbell, Ricky Parker, Gary Sararas and Murray Glanville. Other individual remembrance awards went to Larry Wright, Bill Cameron, Jim Cooper, Larry Ferguson, Doug McKay, Gordon Pryde, Joey Raeburn, John Tay- lor and Tom Workman. The play- ers in turn presented their men- tors, Caldwell and Smith with a set of cuff links and tie bar. A plant auction was the high- light of the meeting with many beautiful plants in the offering. Mrs. Russell Brock was auc- tioneer. Contract Your Bean Acreage At E.L. MICKLE & SON LTD • QUALITY MICHIGAN AND ONTARIO • SANILAC AND SEAWAY SEED • FERTILIZER SUPPLIED • EPTAM AVAILABLE FERTILIZER We Have Bagged or Bulk Harriston Fertilizer Available at Competitive Prices SPRING SEED REGISTERED, CERTIFIED AND COMMERCIAL SPRING SEED AVAILABLE SPECIAL SEED MIXTURES AVAILABLE SEE or CALL E. L. MICKLE & SON LTD. HENSALL PHONE 262-2714 News from Hensall — Continued from page 5 With this week's improvement in the weather, which we hope will stay for a few months at least, softball and baseball interest on the local scene is increasing. Most of the leagues and teams are well on in organizing and practices are getting under way. The only intermediate baseball league in the area, the Huron-Perth, is holding •a meeting in Hen- sail tonight, Thursday, to form plans for the coming year, Last season's prexy, Bob Sadler of Staffa, indi- cates at least three teams are ready and raring to go. Dashwood, Zurich and Walkerton are definite entries with the possibility of a fourth club from Staffa or Mitchell. According to Sadler, players are scarce in his area and 'a meeting is being held this week to determine whether a club will be entered. There are rumors afloat that several of the experi- enced Mitchell-Staffa players are trying out with the Stratford senior Intercounty club. In minor baseball ranks locally, Alvin Willert reports pee wee and bantam teams from Exeter have been entered in WOAA play. A meeting to draw up the schedules for these two groups is being held in Clinton, tonight, Thursday. Local house leagues for other boys and girls in minor ball ranks will be set up as soon as the diamonds become playable. Willert also asks for volunteers to coach the local pee wee and bantam entries. Minor clubs in various age brackets will again be formed in other area towns such as Hensall, Lu- can, Dashwood and Grand Bend. GREYS PRACTICE The Exeter Greys are holding their first work- out tonight, Thursday at the Exeter Community Park and any girls or ladies in the area are urged to try out as lots of positions are open on the club. Business manager Grace Farquhar reports an entry has been sent to the WOAA and the club will likely again participate in the southern division of the Huron ladies' softball league, in addition to WOAA play-off activity. Also needed to help the Greys' cause is anyone interested in assisting in a coaching or managerial position. The members of last year's Greys team got together at a banquet last week to organize for the coming season. Red Loader is again expected to coach a junior girls' team and will begin practices later on. Gil Burrows, convenor of the Exeter and dis- trict Rec softball loop sends along a message that all of last year's clubs are raring to go again with the possibility of another team or two being added. Crediton, Kinsmen, Legion and Bowling Lanes are definite starters and rumors have the Exeter Teen Town fielding an entry. If any other play-for-fun clubs in the area are interested in joining this league, they are asked to contact Burrows within the next week or so. SOFTBALL CHANGES Recent changes by the rules committee of the Ontario Softball Association are to be in effect for the coming softball season. The pitching plate will be moved back on most diamonds to a point 43 feet from the plate, an increase from the previous dis- tance of 40' 81/2 inches. The batter will have the ad- vantage of having a little longer look at the ball on the way to the plate but will have to run five feet farther in. 'completing the 60 foot distance from one base to 'another. To offset this increase in the •length of •the base paths, the runner will have the oppor- tunity to leave the base when the pitcher releases the ball and not when 'it reaches the plate as in previous regulations. FISH? The opening of the pike and pickerel season locally over the weekend was very quiet due mainly to the efforts of the weatherman. It was the fish and not the fishermen that were lacking in enthusiasm. High and dirty water 'inmost of the area rivers and streams accounted for the scarcity of good catches. While talking of fishing, it might be wise to mention that conservation authorities in Ontario will be crack- ing down on persons wasting food fish. Anyone found throwing suckers, carp, smelt or other food fish out on the shore and leaving them to die will be liable to a fine. BOWLING ENDS The local five-pin bowling leagues have com- pleted all their play-off activities and only two ban- quets remain on the menu. The Unpredictables, led by captain Stan "The Man" Frayne took the Men's "A" title and went on to 'down the Windmills in a close series for the grand championship awards. The Hot Dogs, captained by Shirley Darling, took the ladies' grand title downing the Handicappers, "B" winners. The only Exeter entry, a group of junior boys and girls, failed to bring home any team awards from the Lake Huron Minor Bowling tourney in Walkerton Saturday. All was not lost as one of the local keglers, Glenda Fisher, was awarded a trophy for rolling the high triple in her division. ODDS n ENDS Manager Hank Bauer of the Baltimore Orioles may have inadvertently caused 'the sales of score- cards at his Memorial Stadium to drop off. Through the first 14 games Bauer had started exactly the same batting order, with the exception of the pitch- ers. He had not used the platoon system in any way up to this time. After 12 victories in 14 games and 23 home runs produced by his hitters, why change a winning combination, White Sox pitcher Tommy John had a new nickname after Washington's Frank Howard had slugged a gigantic 480 foot homer off him in D.C. park and John's teammates now refer to him as "LBJ". It stands for "Long Ball John". The hottest hitter in baseball so far this year has 'to be Duane Josephson, catcher for the Indian- apolis Indians of the American Association. In the opener of a doubleheader in Tulsa on April 27, Josephson slammed a long drive to the outfield that struck the clock on the fence, setting it on fire. The Tulsa fire department Wag called and quickly ex- tinguished the blaze. LAUGH DEPARTMENT Who was Homer? He was the fellow Babe Ruth made famous, FOR ALL GOOD SPORTS By Ross Haugh Let's play ball k t - •