The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-03-07, Page 14OVER
2,000
ISMS
IN HURON COUNTY
HURON MEMBERSHIP REACHES 2,000 — A Hay township fanner Clayton Steckle became the 2,000th
member of the Huron Federation of Agriculture. Mr. Steckle is shown in the centre of the above picture with
Ted Steinbach, RR 3 Zurich, and Vince Auston, RR 1 Dungannon, who sold the membership,
Blyth Standard photo.
Laymen conduct service
Nol€;n's choir sings
strumental in molding a good
character,
The third speaker, Harvey
Smith, ably dealt with his topic,
Poverty, He ended his talk with
the challenge - What doth the
Lord require of thee?
Receiving the offering were
Jack Hepburn and Stephen
Molnar. The offering prayer and
announcements were given by
Robert Blair., John Thompson
was the usher. The men's choir
under the direction of Mrs. Ray
Mills sang two • anthems, The
Benediction was pronounced by
Cecil Skinner.
CGIT
The regular meeting of the
CGIT was held on Tuesday
evening of last week with Ann
Beaton and Brenda Wilson in
charge of the worship service.
Games were conducted by
Marylou Tindall and Chris
Beaton. The sing song was led by
Leah Preece and Pearl Buswell.
The girls were entertained by
the Lucan CGIT Tuesday evening
of this week.
MRS. JOHN CLARKE
Mrs. John Clarke beloved wife
of the Rev. John Clarke, a former
minister of Centralia United
Church, pasbed away suddenly at
her home in Beamsville on Match
2, 1974.
The funeral service was held on
Monday at the Tallman Funeral
Home in Beamsville. Sympa thy
is extended to Rev. Clarke and
family in their bereavement.
Euchre pa rty .1;4 Mr. & Mrs. Chas Rollings,1V1m,
& Mrs. Earl Dixon were in charge
of the euchre party in the com-
munity centre on Monday night
with eleven tables in play.
Prive winners; ladies high
score, Mrs. Larry Cronyn; lone
hands, Mrs. Wilbert Lewis, low
score, Mary Shoebottom; men's
high, Maurice MacDonald; lone
hands, Robert Blair; low, Tom
Kooy.
Personals
Senior citizens met on Monday
for an afternoon of crokinole and
cards followed by refreshments.
Mrs. Lawrence Hirtzel ac-
companied by Mrs. Murray
McLeod of Chatham visited last
week with Mrs. George Gordon in
Corunna. The three ladies
motored to Port Huron where
they spent a few days at the home
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they will be on the forefront,
when the price becomes high, to
blame the producer. Because we
are fortunate enough to have
progressive farmers in this
country doesn't mean that we will
always have a surplus of food,
It will be a sad day indeed when
the day comes that we will have
to limit the export of food to
hungry peoples because we
squandered our land resources.
Every consumer should write a
letter to the Prime Minister and
to Ontario's premier protesting
about highways and pipelines and
powerlines going through prime
farm land.
It would make them look so
much harder for alternatives.
The International Federation of
Agricultural Producers says: u
"Hundreds of millions of people
in the developing world are not
adequately nourished even in
years when crops are good;
among them are tens of millions
of pregnant women, nursing
mothers and small children
whose under-nutrition dooms
them, as well as the unborn
babies to live lives shorter and
less productive than they might
be,"
By MISS ELLA MORLOCK
Relatives and friends gathered
at the home of Mr. & Mrs. Wm,
Smith to celebrate the birthday of
the latter. Among those who
' attended were sisters, Mrs. Della
Sims, Mrs. Gordon Morlock, Mrs.
Irvin Finkbeiner and Mrs.
Beulah Sparling of Walkerton;
brother Eldon and son) Gerald. ,
4-H
The Crediton 4-H Club, IV, Tidy
Teens, had their third and fourth '
meeting last Wednesday evening
at Elaine Pfaff's.
Two new members were
welcomed into the club, Denise
Bell and Debbie Finkbeiner.
Information on storage was
given and ideas on good storage
for bedrooms were discussed,
The girls are to bring their
material to'the next meeting at
Debbie Finkbeiner's.
Cbrrection
In last weeks column two
mistakes appeared. It was
Sandra Shapton who received her
provincial honours instead of
Susan Davey, and Maxine Hyde
completed 24 clubs instead of 23,
By ADRIAN VOS
It•appears that I. am not alone
in my concern in the retaining of
land for food production. From,
what I heard today of the throne
speech the government of
Canada proposes to do something
about the covering of food-
producing land with asphalt and
concrete.
,The thing I am curious about is,
if this will be just lipservice or if
they will really meet head-on
with the real estate speculators.
We'll have just to wait and see.
Farmers in the way of the lx-
ransmission lines from the Bruce
nuclear power station are
fighting desperately at the
inquiry in Wingham, to have the
lines go over less productive
land.
Farmers in Arnprior are taking
legal action against a dam for a
power station that will take away
or spoil their drainage systems
for ridiculous high cost elec-
tricity. What gets me is that not
more consumers are helping the
farmers in their fight. In the end
it is their food cost that will go up.
Where is the Consumer
Association of Canada now? You
can bet your bottom dollar that
By MRS. FRED BOWDEN
CENTRALIA
The Laymen's service in the
United Church Sunday morning
was well attended. Ray
Shoebottom was the leader;
scripture readings were given by
Ray Mills; prayer was offerep. by
Elmer Powe.
The speakers were Alvin Lobb
who discussed Religious
Education in schools; different
forms of religion and faith in
religion. He stressed the im-
portance of good opposed to evil
and reminded. his listeners that
life is not all sweetness.
Earl Dixon in addressing the
youth of the congregation dealt
with topics Who are we? Where
are we going? and What comes
after?
How we set sail is a deciding
factor in the life of a young
person. Meeting our problems
with honesty and being aware of
the needs of others will be in-
Winter wheat
sold to U.S.
The Ontario Wheat Producers'
Marketing Board has announced
sales of approximately 550,000
bushels of white winter wheat for
export to the United States.
While it is not unusual for the
United States to purchase wheat
and wheat flour from Canada, it.
is unusual that Ontario white
winter wheat is being purchased
for milling purposes.
The Ontario wheat., board says
it is understood the wheat will be
milled in the proximity of Lake
Erie where similar wheat is
produced and which is ap-
parently in current short supply.
The marketing board did not
reveal the selling price of the
wheat which involves about 4
different contracts to be filled
within the next few weeks.
However, board officials said
that the sales were made in line
with present world export prices.
It is not known whether or not
further sales may be made to the
United States, but the marketing
board has additional stock on
hand for export at the present
time.
of Mrs, Terry Foster.
Mr. & Mrs. Cliff Hicks, who
were returning from Florida to
their home in Toronto were
overnight guests Wednesday with
Mrs. Lorne Hicks.
The regular meeting of United
Church Women has been can-
celled in favour of a tour of the
Women's Mission Rehabilitation
and Residence in London. Ladies
wishing to go are asked to meet at
the church on the evening of
March 13 at 7 p.m,
Mr. & Mrs. Karl Keller and
family of London were Sunday
visitors with Mr. & Mrs.
Lawrence Hirtzel.
Mr. & Mrs. George Snell en-
tertained the Snell family at their
home on Friday evening in
honour of the 54th wedding an-
niversary of their parents, Mr. &
Mrs. William Snell of Exeter.
By MRS. HEBER DAVIS
Cottage Service was held at the
home of Mr. & Mrs. Heber Davis.
Rev. R. Savary was in charge.
Mr. & Mrs. Bob Barnes Sarnia
were dinner guests with Mr. &
Mrs. pob Tindall, Thursday,
Mr. & Mrs, Heber. Davis were
recent guests with Mr. & Mrs.
Albert Dickins Lambeth, and '
they entertained their daughter,
Mr. & Mrs. Earl Greenlee and
Gate
W
innerstrom for dinner
Sunday.
Input prices
cill,time high
"Farm input prices are at an
all-time high and are increasing
rapidly. At the same, time it
would appear that we have passed
the peak of the beef price cycle
and could continue on. a down-
ward trend for the next year and
beyond."
This *as the warning given to
more than 300 beef producers
attending the Annual Meeting of
the Ontario Beef Improvement
Association in Toronto, by
Graeme Hedley, Secretary-
Manager of the Association.
Mr. Hedley explained that the
beef cycle had reached the point
where there will be a steadily
increasing supply of fed cattle
coupled with cow herd con-
solidation, It • is this increased
slaughter that will have a
downward pressure on prices
paid to beef producers,
"The increasing cost of inputs
and decreasing beef price,
coming at a time when producers
are already in a negative position
feeding cattle, could encourage
many to swing away from beef
production to an alternate en-
terprise," said Hedley.
He also warned producers of
the effects of government in-
tervention into the beef industry,
"The industry has been free of
government intervention except
for a short period in 1973. This
intervention had disastrous
results. Now that we are facing
poor returns to beef producers,
some people are placing all the
blame on the government and are
demanding that they do
something to rectify the
situation, We cannot boast that
we are free from government
involvement in the market place
one minute and then run to the
government for help every time
things take a downward turn."
The Secretary-Manager also
called upon the Association to
make some changes in its con-
stitution. He asked them to
seriously consider;paying a
recognition amount to the
President and Executive of the
Association as these elected
representatives are spending an
increasing amount of time
negotiating with the government
and consumer groups.
He also stated that numbers of
cattle, not area, should be the
main factor in determining how
many directors are elected from
each area. Cattle production, not
marketings or membership
should also be the criteria for
allotting the number of voting
delegates from each area, he
said.
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