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The Rural Voice, 1982-11, Page 20BRINDLEY AUCTION '/4 mile east of Dungannon Tractors FOR SALE TRACTORS MF 1105 w/cab FORD 5200 FORD 5000 FORD 5600 MF 175 McKEE 1370 LUCK NOW SNOWBLOWERS GOOD Til. NOVEMBER 15, 1982 'SPECIAL PRICE 5 - $ 750.00 6' - $ 800.00 61/2' - $ 900.00 7' - $ 975.00 71/2' - $1,050.00 7D -$1,175.00 71 D-$1,300.00 (light) 81/2D-$1,650.00 71/2 -$1,475.00 (heavy duty) Regular Sale on third Saturday every month at 10 a.m. SHARP Lunch Counter Auctioneer Gordon H. Brindley For further Information, call 519.529-7625 519-529-7970 PG. 20 THE RURAL VOICE / FARM NEWS Gaunt: back to broadcasting by Gregor Campbell The new farm editor for CKNX radio and television at Wingham has been there before. Murray Gaunt of Wingham, 47, as- sumes the position from the retiring Cliff Robb on November 1. It is a homecoming of sorts, for Gaunt left CKNX and broadcasting to pursue provincial politics exactly 20 years ago. He pursued it with a vengeance, winning all six elections he contested for the Liberal party from 1962 until March 1981, when he retired. Despite the success, Gaunt says he never saw politics as a career. When it became a burden as much as a pleasure, and he no longer enjoyed it, he decided to move on. His family, Stephanie 15 and Stephen 16, and wife Pat also had much to do with his decision. He wanted to get to know his children better as they entered their teens and grew up. "You can't retrace your steps," he says. Politics didn't allow for this. So now it's back to broadcasting. Gaunt was born and raised in Wingham and after graduating from what was then known as the Ontario Agricultural Col- lege at Guelph in 1956, worked on his father's turkey broiler farm for three years. His agriculturai background in the area stood him in good stead when, with no previous broadcasting experience, he became assistant to CKNX farm editor Vaughan Douglas in 1959. He began working in both radio and television right off the bat, and that was the hardest part he says, switching from one to the other. "The approach is quite different," he says. "Radio is a cold medium and TV is a hot medium...but after the first three months or so 1 got over it." He remained at the station for three years, until taking off on his political tangent. Some broadcast techniques and ap- proaches have changed in the intervening 20 years, but Gaunt says he's happy to be returning to CKNX, it will be a challenge and not a completely new learning experience. He will work AM and FM radio with shows at 7:05 a.m., 7:35 a.m. and 12 noon, and freelance for the television station. Broadcasting isn't the only business to have changed. So has farming. A farmer might have been able to make three bad management decisions in a year but still NOVEMBER 1982 keep his or her head above water two decades ago, Gaunt says, but today one bad management decision in a year can be far more costly and could mean big trouble. This is where broadcasting can mean more than just a pretty voice. Gaunt feels farm programming has to be both informative and educational. It must provide the latest news, markets and projections. But it also must keep the farmer in touch with the latest from accountants and lawyers, and such things as the commodity futures market. "Far- mers need to know these things today," he says. Gaunt is, and plans to stay, close to farming. He knows the ins and outs of the current economic crunch on Ontario farms, having been a member of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture Task Force which presented its report a year ago. He's also been doing a little farming himself again, since he got out of politics. "I plan to keep my hand in farming," he says, "keep the farm (cattle) as a backup to keep in touch with what's happening in the business." It's nice to know what you're talking about. AUTUMN IDEAS Some pamphlets which are available from the Bruce County O.M.A.F. office which are valuable at this time of year and some of the especially good recipes in each: "Ontario Cole Crops" - try Stir -Fry Fall Vegetables or Creamy Baked Cabbage "Ontario Potatoes Please" - Dilled Potatoes add a flavourful new version to potatoes "Ontario Concord Grapes" - Concord Grape Pie Filling is delicious "Really A Rutabaga" - the Rutabaga -- Carrot Pie uses this yummy vegetable as a dessert "Count on Carrots" - a marinated Carrot Salad "Ontario Apples" - a good recipe for Apple-Cheesey Crumble Pie Barbara De Visscher, Home Economist. OMAF Office 10 Jackson St., Walkerton, Ont.