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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1946-07-25, Page 31,••••••••••••••• romp 0.$ WORLD WIDE NEWS IN CONDENSED FORM 11111111111N111111 PAGE. THREE Cost of Egg Production Statisticians have calculated that fifty-five cents of every dollar that you spend on your poultry flock goes to provide your hens with feed. The rest of the dollar is spotlit on taxes, interest, labour, replacement of stock, etc. That is why you should pay particular atten- tion to your feed selection problem. We are proud to recommend our SHUR-GAIN Laying Mash to you. SHUR-GAIN Laying Mash is properly fortified for really HIGH production. It contains both vegetable and animal proteins, and all the essential minerals and vitamins in the correct proportions. FEED SHUR-GAIN LAYING MASH, MORE EGGS! BIGGER PROFITS! CANADA PACKERS, WINGHAM VICTOR CASEMORE, WHITECEIRCH McKINNEY BROS. BLUEVALE JOHN BUMSTEAD, DELMORE Russia Rebuilds Big Dnieper Dam Dnieper Dam,—Russians working on the largest single construction job in postwar Europe hope, with the help of American equipment, to start product ing electricity from the restored Dnie- per River dam by next December. However, Feodor Loginov, in charge of the giant construction project, said United States firms were charging double prewar prices for some electric, al units and that Russia might have to obtain the equipment elsewhere unless some sort of price agreement were ef- fected. Does Not Affect Trading In Rye Ottawa,—The signing of a four-year wheat contract between Canada and Britain, understood to be a foregone conclusion and expected to be announ- ced shortly, will mean that the Winni- peg grain exchange will not be opened for wheat trading for another four years, The 'Canadian Press was inform- ed. Toronto Women Set For Strike Mrs. Anne Arland, president of the Housewives Consumers Association in Toronto, said the six local branches of the organization will stage a beef-buy- Your P E m-i-rreor service man 44;004.4", CAR PROTECTION Meet the m in go= cars life... • '',;1;NSMORP# 031;' ,.0 ,00:04 • !* iOirWO*Anigit 2ilitVeaa:k :4•;•60i - 014,461: Every Supertest service man is a graduate of the Supertest school. He has been thoroughly trained to know the values of motor fuels and lubricants. He has been impressed with the fact that he is there to serve you . . . that his Chief job is to help you keep your car on the road and free from trouble. And you'll like the products he sells, too—Supertest gasoline, Super Duty motor oils and greases—all DOUBLE-CHECKED for better car performance and greater car protection. *woo o-de-efe. a•aele-WeeerZe. IT'S NEVER FAR FROM WHERE YOU ARE TO THE SIGN OF THE MAPLE LEAF SAVE Regular saving of even a small portion of your income soon becomes a habit that will stand you in good stead when you have the opportunity to make a sound invest- ment, or need funds in an emer- gency. Open an account with us now, and make a practice of depositing amounts regularly. THE CANADIAN BANK OP COMMERCE Winghain Branch ; R. R. Hobden, Manager Regains 0,360 Left On Running I3oard of Car Smith Falls,--George E. Wise, Col- lins Bay merchant, has recovered$1,360 lost over the week-end, The funds were found by William Giff, Smiths Searching for his car keys while leaving Silver Lake, near Perth, after a- holiday, Mr. Wise placed his wallet containing $600.00 in cash and about $700.00 in cheques on the running board of his car. He forgot the wallet as he started off, but Mr. Giff found it on the Perth road some time later and turned it over to the police here. More Cheap Cigars At Higher Prices Country's Pate Montreal,—Canadian cigar-smokers who puffed their way throuugh 20,000, 4000 cigars a year are now Paying more for the privilege or luxury, but manu- facturers look for no decrease in con- sumption. „, Price increases, averaging two cents, have been in effect during the past week as new stocks moved from manu- facturers to dealers. The increases fol- lowed changes in taxation methods announced in Finance Minister Ilsley's Budget address, June 27. Will Raise Price Of Lumber To U. S. Ottawa,—A Prices Board official has confirmed that Canadian manufactur- ers soon will impose a 10 per cent in- crease on lumber products sold to the United States to compensate for price differentials caused by revaluation of the Canadian Brings Payments To $1.35 A 'Bushel Ottawi,—Trade Minister /vfacKin- non announced in the Commons that producers of Ontario winter wheat in the 1946-47 crop year will receive an increase of 14 cents over the current ceiling price of $1.26 a bushel for No. 1 Canada Z. astern winter wheat giving them a price of $1.35 per bushel. CNE Grandstand To Cost Million Toronto,—Plans for a new Canadian National Exhibition grandstand which will seat 25,100 persons and cost pos- sibly $1,000,000, were approved by the Board of Control at a meeting with the C,N,E. Board of Directors. However, the controllers declined to act immed- iately on a C.N.E. request that the contract be let to a Toronto firm with- out calling for tenders:' Mayor Saun- ders said at the conclusion of the meet- ing the Board of Control would meet to discuss the plans again and would present them to a special .meeting of City Council Wednesday. The new stand is to replace one which burned some months ago. French Liner Normandie Is Slated For Scrap Heap Washington,—The French liner, Narmandie is slated to be broken up in the current -drive to relieve the scrap metal shortage, a maritime P9M.r . 'Mission spokesman said.• Sunk At a pier in New York early in the war cause of her condition never was re,^ • fitted for use. Negotiations betweeh France and the 'United States regarding payment for the huge prewar luxury liner still are pending. ing strike July 20-29. The strike will be in support of a similar strike plan- ned by Winnipeg housewives at the same time. Mrs, H. Young, president of the Ward Six branch, said the boycott is a result of the Government decision to permit dealers to raise the price of, beef. "We 'will buy veal and pork and other meats but we' won't buy beef," she said. Goverment Margin Wide In Mexico Vote MeXiect. City,—Official figures for the July 7th presidential elections are :given by the governmental par- ty, as 1,800,829 for Miguel Aleman, P. R. I. candidate, and 4.31,847 for Ezegu., iel Padilla, P, R. I. said only two district re- ports are missing. The figures give Alem.an a heavy majority in each of the 28 states, three territories and the federal district, Padilla's strongest showing 'is in the federal district, which includes Mexico. City, where he had $8,326 against Ale- man's 128,446, Farm Improvements By Government Loan Through the Fanir Improvement Loans Act of the Dominion Govern- ment, a farmer may borrow up to $3,000 for any of the following pur- poses:— (1) Purchase of agricultural imple- inents; (2) purchase of live stock; (3) purchase or installation of a farm elec- tric system; (4) alteration or improve- ment of a farm electric system; (5) fencing or drainage; (6) construction, repair, or alteration of, or addition to, farm buildings; (7) general improve- ment ordevelopment of the farm. Only a farmer may borrow under the Farm Improvement Loans Act, which restricts these loans to a person who is in possession of a farm and whose principal occupation N farming, The term farming includes livestock raising, dairying, fruit growing, and all tillage of the soil. The loans are paid through any of the chartered banks of Canada and the interest rate is 5 per cent simple inter- est. Arrangements for repayment are made to suit each farmer's individual requirements. The repayment periods may be from one to ten years, depend- ing upon the amount borrowed and the purpose for which the loan is obtained, the object of the Act being to provide the fanner "short term" and "inter- mediate credit". "Short term and "in- termediate credit" simply mean that credit is for one or two years up- to ten years, this type of credit be, midway between the short term season- al loans usually made by the banks and long-term mortgage loans which usually run from 10 to 20 years. For further particulars regarding these loans, a farmer may interview the manager of any branch of a chart- ered bank in Canada, or he may write to The Supervisor, Farm Improvement Loans, Department of Finance, Otta- wa. To Kill Poison Ivy Sodium Chlorate, sodium chloride, furnace fuel oil, and a water white kerosene were investigated as herbi- cides for the' eradication of poison ivy by the Division of Botany and Plant Pathology, Science Service, DominiQn Department of Agriculture. Poison ivy' can be eradicated by sodium chlor- ate if treatment-is persistent and thor- ough. Common salt and furnace oil were not considered satisfactory. Water white kerosene when applied as a spray to the foliage proved of no val- ue in eradicating poison ivy. Poultry Meat Demand The estimate of poultry-meat pro- duction for 1945 was 307,436,000 lbs. as compared, with 315,176,000 pounds in 1944, a decrease of 2.5 per cent. It was intended, says the Quarterly Bul- letin of Agricultural Statistics' (Jan.- March, 1946), that large shipments of up to 80 million pounds of poultry meat should be made to the United States in 1945, but actually only 11,162,000 pounds were exported to all countries, because of the urgent de- mand for poultry meat in Canada. While production was lower in 1945 than in 1944, domestic consumption increased from 315,166,514 pounds in 1944 to 322,654,700 pounds in 1946, the difference being accounted for by heav- ier stocks on hand at the beginning of 1946 than were in storage at the end of the year, PREPARE FOR NEXT WINTER There's a shortage of millions of tons of coal' and, due to lack of avail- able materials and strikes in many in- dustries, furnace equipment is still hard to come by, These form the best of reasons, quite apart from those of economy and comfort, why the Canad- ian hottseholder should do everything he can now to prepare for next *win- ter's heating season, points out a bul- leetin of the Canadian Institute of Plumbing and Heating. And'there's plenty that can be done, Virst, there's insulation, Order double windows now, Get the whole house insulated, either 'by "blown in" rock wool or at least by blanketing the at- tic floor with insulating Material, Make sure doors and windows are in good repair and weather strip them where necessary, Go over your furnace and radiation system carefully. Check for snugness everywhere. Clean your flues, Wrap your hot water pipes in asbestos. Clean the chimney and repair the pointing. Then check to see 'what you need in flit way Of furnace or t eating plant re- Thursday, July 25th, 1946 THE WINGT-TAM: ADVANCE-TIMES PLASTER REPAIRING Plaster repairs promptly and neatly done. A. French & Son Plastering Contractors Box 23 'Phone 187 Wingham Ont. ESTIMATES FREE Specialists in Cornice Work and Decorative -.Plastering pairs. Ask your heating contractor to go over the whole system, suggests the Institute, He can handle the -work now and he may be too busy when the fall season gets here. Comfort in the house next winter may well depend_ on what you do about it this summer, PHIL OSIFER OF LAZY MEADOWS By Harry J. Boyle I guess after all there is such a thing as being too comfortable. I pull- ed the car up in the shade of a great old elm tree in the laneway after Sun- day dinner and decided that I would try writing the column this way. It's sort of along the idea of the man who decided one time that he would be able to get out a much better newspaper if his men were all comfortable. He in- stalled all the comfort aids possible and found that his men, accustomed to dirty city rooms for so long, just couldn't get acclimatized at all. Most of them spent their time sleeping or else boasting over the telephone to their friends about the wonderful place they worked in. They missed so many deadlines and scoops on that paper that the muter had to go back to a dirty, badly venti- lated old room with scarred desks and typewriters that required atomic power o make even illegible marks on the copy paper;- Well sir on this fine Sunday after- noon I carefully opened the doors of the car so as to get the breeze, prop- ,......•••••••••••414,411•11111.a. ped the typewriter up on my knee and then lit a cigar. Tim Murphy gave it to me just before the atomic explosion on the first of July at Bikini, I got the paper adjusted and then sat down to a hard afternoon of composition. The words just didn't come. The lethargy produced by a good Sunday dinner, the cigar and a warm. July breeze were really too much for any man to stand. I became .aawre of the anaesthetic.qualities of the smell of the new-mown hay that came wafting by. Then I started dreaming . . . just a bit mind you but enough to be dis- concerting. It's easy to dream on a warm July day if you're comfortable. The sound of the honey bees buzzing through to gather nectar from the white clover tops and the never ending chirruping of the birds in the orchard trees seem- ed to provide the orchestral back- ground forthe dreaming. The breeze increased to the point where it's sigh- ing, swishing sound as it poured through the branches of the elm tree became almost a lullaby. Of course this is all by way of lead- ing up to something. If you've stuck this far in the epistle . . . , you'll be getting suspicious. Your suspicions are perfectly true. I wrote a sentence and then started to drowse . . . wrote a few words . .dozed off . • .came to with a start and completed another sentence and then knew nothing until Patricia Ann came along and said Sup- per was ready. The afternoon was wasted . . . . or well . . I'll leave that to you. I got this column for my efforts. On sec- ond thought it wasn't an effort it was more of an experience.