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The Brussels Post, 1974-10-16, Page 9w John Tooth )ry of Toront with Mr. and n . weeker, guest Cad )f Blyth, while rotor home to cc...morrow is A. idly weekenA le of 1\4 r -raw ther and ,J* . Dave =c; Mr. aniii Bart, Brussels: Roger Tipple' lave !Judd' ipbell teachers. [ate. Et. vrtAert, anything_ .the Hate ap?" CARE 1USLY 10TEL ONT, IS" Bowling Scores Ladies' High Singles Pat Keffer 258 Sharon Taylor 240 Susan Jacklin 213 Ladies' High Triple Sharon Taylor 603 Winnie Bell 603 Men's High Singles Gord Smith . 265 Gord Jacklin 251 Lawrence Machon 250 Men's High Triple Gord Jacklin 650 You have to walk before you can run. The Canadian movement for personal Illness, Fitness. In your heart you know it's right. by Frances Kilbourne in the Legion Magazine Mr, Farmer, do you you need help from me, a atrist?" ell, its like this Doc, I've got eling that everybody is out me." go on . . ." ake yesterday, for example. el dealer brought 'me 500 s of fuel, enough fora few during harvest. The p`rice ten cents a gallon from the before. And that's just one The price of everything need from nails to a ton of zer is going up faster than can keep track of it." "Yes, go on . .1" "I'm caught in the worst financial squeeze in the history of agriculture. I'm losing money right and left. So the government slaps on more subsidies just to keep me in business, and then the market place really falls apart." "Yes, go on . . ." "The consumer reads the headline FARMERS GET MORE SUBSIDIES and he starts hollering that we are on the government payroll. What he doesnt realize .is that it's his food bill that is being subsidized." "Yes, go on 1 7 Hi/ Pm CASPER ME AliiENDLYOltaff AMA pN 1'M11.0weetv, I'LL se KNockIN4 ON VCjIt DOOR WITH TH UNICE0 80)te ro COL4a1 COINS cHiaxeRAI IN Tiy-E iceseRER CouNrreICS --',0 4EASE Vt/- muoi M You CAIN Colour Caspe r pt&t Nret on' Air orCt darsej Hallatgeen -3121 •ff.0,00 s free )O p.m. r 1\dg*S- CHAPEL SUNDAY QC ?OBER 2 0 -8 P You haVe never seen a film quite like this One fetUring Red Harper as he becoMes a rancher. To the beat, of horses hoOVes, the high tension of a posse in pursuit of an alleged bank robber YOU .... will be thrilled at this new film juSt released ... "THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MOST PEOPLE"-This Sunday hig'ht at Huron Men's Chapel, Auburn Evil prevails 'When good men do' nothing. BIBLE CLUB FRIDAY EVENINGS LIBRARY BASEMENT 7:00 p.m. --• 8:00 p.m.' so•oNt4G Oct 18th KINDERGARTEN- Gr. 8 THE BRUSSELS POST, OCTOBER 16, 1974 —9 Walton Junior Girls captured the Tri County ampionship this year playing in a league of six earns. Shown he're 'are (left) (standing) Coach Mrs.Don Achilles; Effie Hulzebos; Fran Blake; Pat cDonald; Jane Leeming; -..Donna Reid; Joyce McCallum; Mary Ellen Knight; Coach,Don Achilles. (Front) - Peggy Dennis, Diane Dennis, Mary Searle, June Williamson, Anne Watson, Kim Humphries, Margaret Sh.ortreed. (Staff Photo) ere have all the farmers gone ? "So I try to get away from the political mess farming has become, and clean the manure out of my barnyard. Then my new neighbours, from the city start hollering about the smell. And six months ago they paid an arm and a leg for the 'rural atmosphere' they couldn't -get in the city." "Yes,. go on . .'" "So I go into the house for supper, and my wife starts growling at 'me. "What's- the matter with farmers in Canada?". she says. "The only butter and canned peaches in the store today came from Aust mild and New Zealand." "Yes, go on . . ." "So I turn on the TV news, and what's on? The grand opening of yet another giant subdivision and its giant shopping mall with parking for thousands of cars. I was by that area two years ago and the dairy farms and orchards there were the finest you'd see anywhere.". "Yes, go on . . ." "Doc, even the government i:> out to get me. A few years ago one of the bright young boys from the government 'office came out and told me the answer to all my problems was expansion and modernization. So I went to the bank, took out a whopping big loan, and followed his advice." Yes, go on . . ." "Well, the cement was hardly dry on my new buildings when, the government planners start arriving: 'Move over, Jake,' they say, 'We're putting a four 'lane expressway through your house and barn, an interntional airport in your pasture, a darn and a generating station on your creek, transmission lines for the resulting electricity through your hayfields, a sanitary landfill site in your lane, and we're making' a provincial park out of what's left.' Can't you see Doc, they're all out to get me?" "Well, Mr. Farmer, you have a typical ease of Agronomist's Syndrome, 1074,, precipitated by the fact that everybody IS out to get you. The outbreak has reached epidemic proportions with farmers now being number One on Canada's endangered species ttut in five years the problem will have Solveditself." How's that Doc? You farinert Will be extinct: that's 05 please,"