The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-05-09, Page 16GET COUNTY HONOURS — A total of 11 girls received County Honours at Saturday's Middlesex Achieve-
ment Day, for North Middlesex clubs, Back, left, Jane Stewart, Donna Thomson, Marie Cunningham, Mprcia
Wilcox, Marilyn Luther, Dpnna Shlpway, Joanne Walper, Lisa Mallard, Brenda Scott and Debbie Thump-
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GB seniors make use
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By.ACDRIAN.VIS
Some pepple have an Odd way
of figuring, What is not sp odd is
that the figuring turns mostly so
that they make more money.
Take for instance the .Canadian
Food Processers Association,
Because of the increased cost of
peas the price of a 14-ounce can of
peas will go up by 7 cents.
However, the processor pays the
farmer only one cent more for a
pound of peas. I cannot but
wonder f Mrs. piumtre is aware
of this kind of arithinettP•
I read in "Farm and Country"
magazine that a new type a
rabbit has come from good old
England. It could do the same
thing that earlier rabbits did in
Australia, overrun the country,
but this time in the rabbit barns.
They can raise 190 little ones a
year, The male mentioned was
something else." After mating
with 60 females each day for
seven months, he died one happy
rabbit," the magazine says.
Much has been written in the
press about the ban on American
beef. A little because of potential
cancer through American use of
DES and a lot on the way it .ef,
fects the price of a steak, Not so
Much bas been said about the
position of the pork producer, He
however, is in as much of a jam
as the beef man.
Losses of $15 per head are now
common. If you figure that a total
of five finished hogs weigh as
much as a finished steer, you can
also figure that his losses are
comparable. The beef men
received some help in the form of
a federal subsidy but the pork
man is still just hoping. If the
hope fades we will see heavy
cutbacks in production, followed
by pork shortages and sub-
sequent higher prices, Again, the
producer loses and later on the
consumer loses.
After Ag. Minister Whelan
apparently got assurances from
the fertilizer companies that
sufficient fertilizer would be
available, it comes as kind of a
shock to learn that huge
trailerloads of the stuff go to the
US and our farmers are told that
their needs can't be met. We hope
that stern measures against
these profiteers will be taken. farmers might be getting "a little
bit too much" and a two price
system for feed grain so that
Canadian livestock producers
could buy feed cheaper than the
world price, was worth con-
sidering.
"Maybe they did get a little bit
too much but some of these
people feel they have a lot of
catching up to do and I would be
the last one that would say that
I'm going to put controls on them
when they don't know what the
world price is going to be and
that's what they're still being
governed by, world price," Mr.
Whelan said on CTV's Question
Period.
Secretary named
for Sorority girls
The Alpha Pi Chapter of Beta
Sigma Phi held their meeting
Tuesday night at the home of
their retiring president, Mary
Ellison.
There was a re-election for a
new secretary and Eila Martin
will fill the position. Other new
officers were installed.
The new president, Sharon
O'Toole presided over the
meeting. The roll call was
"Remembering a beautiful
moment." A presentation, "The
Beautiful" was given by Sharon.
Afterwards, the film "Mother
and Child" was shown.
Xi Gamma Nu Chapter „rriet
Tuesday evening at the home of
Rosemary Schaefer, Kirkton.
Rosemary and Donna Jones
conducted the program. Mem-
bers each brought an antique
item and reported on its history.
President Carol Reid presented
the retiring executive with
charms and installed the new
officers.
Roll caliwas answered bygiving
special garden hints. Marilyn
Wilson and Louise Giffin assisted
the hostess for lunch.
Guides entertain
senior citizens
The May meeting of the Exeter
Senior Citizens was held at the
Legion Hall with about 100
present.
After the usual cards a mixed
program was presented by the
Girl Guides with Mrs. Peter Snell
as leader,
Lunch was served by the ACW
of Trivitt Memorial Church.
Mrs. Wm Haigh was pleasantly
surprised on May 1 when her
family of six sisters, one brother
and his wife of Stratford, visited
her. Mrs. Haigh is one of seven
daughters and three sons, all
living and well.
The Senior Citizens held their
May meeting Wednesday .af-
ternoen at the Village Inn Retreat
With 23 in attendanee.
They opened with O Canada,
and the Sr. Citizen song and other
old time songs, using for the first
time the new "Sing Out" books
supplied by the Ministry of
Community & Social Services,
BusinesS included dinner plans
for the closing meeting in June,
The program .consisted of
readings by Mrs. Mary Ravelle,
viz game by Mrs. Ross Love,
and Bill LoVe recited a poem,
"Six feet of earth makes us all the
same size."
Games and more songs con,
cluded the meeting.and lunch was
served by the.staff of The Village
Inn. • •
Honor Newly-weds
Over 40 neighbours and friends
gathered at the home of Mr. &
Mrs, John Bullock, Monday
evening to honor Mr. & Mrs.
Larry Luther who were recently
married.
Winners of Bingo and a parcel
passing game were Mrs. Larry
Taylor, Lloyd Fahner and Carl
Turnbull.
Mark Desjardine read an
address to the young couple and
they were presented with a Swag
lamp and two lawn chairs.
Personals
Sunday visitors with Mr. &
Mrs. Roy Morenz, Glenda and
Tammy were Mr. & Mrs. Ernest
Morenz, Cheri and Michelle of
London, also Mrs. Morenz's
parents, Mr. & Mrs. William
W,Cook and her sister and
family, Mr. & - Mrs. Louis
Mohr and Sandra all of Wellesley
and Mr, & Mrs. Glen Thurman
and Dania of Denfield.
A birthday party was held
Saturday evening at the home of
Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Graham in
honor of Mrs. Arthur Lee. Guests
were Mr. & Mrs. Percy Smith,
Mr. & Mrs. Sydney Graham, Mr.
Sr Mrs. Douglas Padell, Mr. &
Mrs. Jack Allister and Mr. &
Mrs. Ralph Lee.
Rev. H. Dobson, choir mem-
bers Alec Hamilton, Wellwood
Gill and Erwin Holt, pianist
Idella Gabel, conducted the
service in the chapel of Blue
Water Rest Home for the
residents Sunday evening.
Brent Hamilton of London
spent a few days last week with
his grandparents Mr. & Mrs. Alec
Hamilton.
Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Lee of
Lavonia Michigan spent the
weekend with his parents, Mr. St
Mrs. Arthur Lee.
Mr. & Mrs, Wellwood Gill and
Mr. St Mrs. Alec Hamilton, at-
tended a banquet Friday night at
North Street. United Church
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Claiming that many Canadians
get paid more for doing nothing
than some farmers manage to
earn, Agriculture Minister
Eugene Whelan said that a public
subsidy program for pork
producers is needed because they
are going broke.
Statistics Canada reported last
week that farm receipts for pork
were up 11 percent for the first
two months of this year com-
pared to the same period last
year, while the returns to pork
farmers for the whole of 1973
increased 45 percent over 1972 to
a record $334,855,000.
However, Garnet Nix,
president of the Canadian Food
Processors Association, said that
pork producers were being
pressed by the cost of feed
because of the record high prices
for grains,
In Ottawa to attend a con-
vention of the association Mr. Nix
said "Pork prices have been a bit
depressed and the farmer who is
buying his feed is probably losing
money."
Mr. Whelan told a television
audience "There's a big surplus
of pork, We're going to have to
bring in a program to subsidize
pork producers from going broke
because people just aren't eating
pork."
While resolutely calling for
higher returns for farmers, Mr.
Whelan did concede that grain
At another point, he said,
"Maybe we should go for a two-
price system for feed grain but if
you're going to be a grain
producer I'd ask you what you
would do, if you had your choice
of providing for the world market
or providing low priced feed
grain for the domestic market.
This is what we're concerned
about.
"Even right now how are we
going to entice those people to
keep producing feed grain when
they're talking about putting
controls on them of any kind?" he
continued.
The thing that I say that's a
dangerous thing for anybody to
talk about because we need that
feed grain. The biggest market
for our feed grain is in Canada,
and then the world market comes
next."
Mr. Nix said that the un-
precedentedly high world price
for grains was the key to rapidly
rising food costs, and the answer
is a good crop this season.
Forecasts he said, were "pretty
good."
"As long as the world grain
market stays at its present high
level, we've got a problem, said
Mr. Nix, who has predicted that
canned vegetable prices will rise
by about 20 percent in the next
few months. The main reason for
the increase is that farmers can
gain bigger prices for grains than
vegetables.
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