The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-08-01, Page 8TESTING UNDER ACTUAL CONDITIONS — Herb Klopp of Zurich, left, discusses the performance of the
new Cord-X baler twine made by Ferplas Industries, Huron Park, with company president, Peter Catlos.
Frank Voogel of Dashwood listens in.
Develops new baling twine
To move out this month
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Page 8 Times-Advocate, August 1, 1974
Pork Producers'
hostess contest
The Ontario Development
Corporation at Huron Park is
going to lose an industry in
August.
Ferplas Industries Limited,
founded at the Park in 1968 by
Peter Catlos, will be moving to
Strathroy. It now employs 30
people.
Catlos, who is also company
The Huron County Pork
Producers Association has
embarked on an ambitious
promotion programme in the
country. This year will see a
repeat of the pork hostess con-
test. All girls in the age group
from 16 to 25 are eligible to
compete regardless if they come
from farm or town.
The first three finalists will
receive prizes of respectively $75,
$50, and $25 with the winner to go
to the CNE for the All Ontario
Contest where the first prize is
$3000. Len McGregor of OMAF
and the country secretary Lloyd
Stewart of Clinton as well as all
township directors may be
contacted to enter or to give more
particulars.
On August 29 the annual Pork
Barbecue will be held at Seaforth
where the contest winners will be
selected. This years barbecue is
expected to draw over 2000
visitors.
A pork cooking demonstration
will be featured at the Zurich
Bean Festival, while some events
for the Blyth Thresher Reunion is
being developed.
Free pork recipes are
distributed throughout the
country in most stores. Any store
not contacted and who wishes
recipes for their customers can
obtain them from the country
pork association.
CFPA 'president
fishing for trouble
Americans tried to use it as a
lever.to rescind the Canadian ban
on DES contaminated beef,
After this he goes on to describe
his woes in vegetable processing,
where there is no price setting
marketing board and his profits
there are below average. It might
be better for him and his
associates if the vegetable and
fruit growers did set a price.
Then he would be assured of a
steady supply with a known price
based on cost of production. No
Mr. Grysdale, it seems from here
that you are fishing in troubled
waters.
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"Talk about ingratitude—she bought a
chicken roaster with the egg money."
president said they had no room
to expand in Huron Park. "We
tried to buy some land and ex-
pand the building we are in but it
wasn't feasible. We need more
space."
He also said that there are not
enough skilled people in the area
for some of the specialized
processes in his plant,
The factory in Huron Park
makes strapping and a new type
of twine, called Cord-X.
The twine, which was designed
at the factory has been used for
industrial packaging, tobacco
baling and this summer is being
used the first time for baling hay.
Herb Klopp of Zurich has been
using the twine and so far is
pleased with its performance.
The twine is made with an
inner core of plastic for strength
Dear Editor:
The point of last week's
editorial comment concerning a
daily contact with senior citizens
is well taken. And the issue isn't
who is to blame but what can be
done.
The block in setting up a signal
or phone contact is the idea that
we don't live forever.
Once we take seriously the fact
that one morning we won't wake
up, then setting up some kind of
contact is not difficult. (I
remember a few years ago
making a "will". The reluctance
to do that involved the same
feelings.)
The best scheme for a daily
contact that I have heard of is the
woman who has told her neigh-
bour across the street that if her
drapes on the front window aren't
pulled back by 9 o'clock in the
morning that her neighbour
should come in. She has given her
neighbour a house key.
A daily phone call is a little
more demanding but I suspect
that there are people who are
willing to take on such a job if
they knew of a person who would
appreciate such a contact.
Of course families do that in
many instances already.
Increasingly families become
scattered putting more
responsibility on the community.
To live a private and in-
dependent life carries certain
Ministry sponsors
Huron 4-H Clubs
The Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food is againsp-
onsoring 4-H Homemaking Clubs
in Huron County. The project for
the fall is "The Club Girl
Entertains." This club is
designed to help club members
gain confidence in the practice of
simple, gracious entertaining.
Jane Pengilley, home
economist for Huron County, will
be conducting the following
leader's training schools:
Huron East Area - Thursday
and Friday August 8 and 9,
Gorrie United Church, Gorrie.
Huron West Area - Monday and
Tuesday, August 12 and 13,
Salvation Army Corps,
Wingham,
Central Huron - Thil.--tlay and
Friday, August 15 and 16, Blyth
United Church, Blyth.
Seaforth Area - Monday and
Tuesday, August 19 and 20, First
Presbyterian Church, Seaforth,
Clinton Area - Thursday and
Friday, August 22 and 23, Wesley.
Willis United Church, Clinton.
Exeter Area - Monday and
Tuesday, August 26 and 27 Cavan
Presbyterian Church, Exeter,
If yoil have a daughter who will
be 12 by September 1st, 1974, and
you are not familiar with a 4,H
Homemaking Club in your area,
please contact the Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and Food
At 4823428,
risks. Each person as long as he
or she is able, has to decide how
he or she'yi,ants to live and what
the consequences of such a life
style might be.
All we can do is to help point out
risks and offer help knowing that
such help may not be accepted.
If you, as a senior citizen, have
a need for greater daily contact
tell someone - or if there is
someone in your area who you
think does - talk to him, or if you
can't do that call the T-A or your
clergyman or a neighbour.
Help is there - for the asking.
(Rev.) Glen Wright
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By ARIAN VOS
It brought tears to my eyes
when I read the anguished cries
from the president of the
Canadian Food Processors
Association about marketing
boards.
He repeated statements by
other foes of farm marketing
boards that they cause a
decrease in production and so rip
off the consumer. This Mr, J Hy,
Grysdale should know better,
One of the boards he attacked,
the poultry board was for limiting
supplies, But, as I wrote a few
weeks ago, the poultry produc-
tion increased from 175 million
pounds in 1965 when this board
began operations to 275 million
pounds last year. Some limiting.
Mr. J. Hy would like to see the
poultry producers cutting one
another's throats, which would
give his confederates a better
chance to rip off the consumer.
They lost this chance in 1965,
when this board was formed. He
contradicts himself when he says
that these boards do nothing for
the producer and claims ip the
next sentence that the board
keeps inefficient producers in
business.
My heart bleeds for the poor
misunderstood processor. He
echoes the USDA when he claims
that surplus Canadian eggs were
dumped on the American market
and sold for 49 cents in Buffalo.
This is a half truth, which is
always worse than an outright lie
because it contains some facts.
Surplus eggs are sold to the
baking industry. This makes for
lower prices of baked goods.
They are also sold to American
bakers for the same purpose. It
appears that an American baker
bought a surplus of surplus eggs
and resold them on the shelf. This
was an isolated case and the
Plowing March
in West Nissouri
The Middlesex Plowmen's
Association this week announced
plans for their annual plowing
match.
It will be held at the farm of
Edmund Wills, at lot three,
concession three, West Nissouri.
Date for the event is Saturday,
October 19.
Included in this year's program
will be a home plowing com-
petition for juniors. Contestants
will plow an area of between two
to three acres on their own farms,
Cornish Reunion
The 40th Cornish Reunion was
held in Riverview Park, Exeter
on July 28. Supper was served by
Mr. & Mrs. Pete Bowby and
Nancy Cornish. Sports were.
played.
Oldest person present was Mrs.
Jack Elliot. From the farthest
distance was Mrs. Florence
Keller. The picnic will be held
next year at Riverview Park on
the date announced in the coming
events column of the Times-
Advocate.
and then wrapped with a special
high strength stretched paper,
for bulk.
Knots in ordinary baling twine
are only half,as strong as the rest
of the twine resulting in a weak
spot which frequently breaks. A
knot in Cord-X though is
described in their advertising as
having 90 percent of the strength
of the twine.
Catlos said that his company is
able to supply the cord for baling
now at comparable prices
because of the shortages of or-
dinary twine.
As well as the Huron Park
plant. Ferplas has another plant
in Mississauga and an American
subsidiary called Tapex that
manufacturers synthetic
strapping for the American
market.
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