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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1965-08-26, Page 10Page 2 ea Winghan Advance -Times, Thursday, Aug. 26, 1065 Gibson Tender for Culvert Accepted West Wawanosh Council ac- cepted the tender of G. A. Gib- son & Sons of Wroxeter for the construction of the culvert at St. Helens, due to the failure of the low tenderer to produce a performance bond or certified 'Cheque in the full amount of the tender at the August meet- ing and Gibson's certified cheque for 10% of the tender was returned to him, By -haw No. 7, a Supple- mentary By-law to over road expenditures in 1965, for $2,000, made necessary by the accep- tance of the second low tender on the St. Helens culvert was read and passed on a motion by Councillor Lyons, seconded by Councillor Errington, Bert Thompson, clerk ofEast Wawanosh Township, attended the meeting with a request that council give approval to the construction of a building for bathing facilities at the East and West Township Park. A motion carried. The application of Grant Chisholm for a loan under the Tile Drainage Act was present- ed to council and approved. The road superintendent was instructed to have a plaque pre- pared for the cemetery at Lot 13 Concession 2, commemorat- ing the township pioneers inter- red therein. ACCOUNTS PAID The Lucknow Sentinel,clerks envelopes, $17,15; Blyth Dist- rict Fire Area, Robertson trac- tor and Delbergue house, $250; Graham Cook, bulldozing dump $30.00; West Wawanosh Mutual Fire Ins., insurance premium on township buildings, $6.25; On- tario Hydro, Township hall power, $6,07; Harvey Culbert, salary, $195.50; Angus Mac- Donald, grader operator,$219.65; D. MacDonald, labor, culverts, $16.00; Robert Jefferson, brush- ing, $26.00; Imperial Oil Ltd. , fuel and tax, $65.45; D.R.M. C.O. Ltd., bulldozer blade, starter and clutch parts,$885.93; B. M. Ross, survey, plans, cul- vert, $470,00; Louis Blake, spraying brush, $132.00; Mur - die & Son, pruning shears,$11.28; Pannabecker's, steel posts and wire, $6.80; Harvey Culbert, cutting grass, paint, plywood, stencils, $42.66; Jack McGee, mowing, $148.50; N. McDon- ald, backfilling culverts,$92,00; N. McDonald, hauling gravel, $64.00; Graham Cook, bull- dozing, $48.00; W. J. Routly, County Road Superintendent's Assoc. , $10.00; George Smyth, safety helmets, chain, $12.'75. LAKELET Mr, and Mrs. Rowland Bal- lagh, daughters Velma and La- vonne, and Mrs, Alex Sangster of Belmore were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fergu- son, Miss Glenna and Master Jos- eph 8olornan, who have been making their home with Mr, and Mrs, Ken Denman since last November, have rejoined their mother in Toronto, Mr, and Mrs. Keith Brauti- gam of Clinton visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gad- ke on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Heinmil- ler and Doreen of Gowanstown visited with Mr. and Mrs. Robt. McComb and daughters on Sun- day evening. Mrs. William Giles of Lam- beth is presently visiting with relatives in the Lakelet district. Master Peter Inglis, eight- year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Inglis returned to hishome on Saturday from Kitchener - Waterloo Hospital where he was treated following an unfortunate accident of one week ago, which necessitated the removal of an eye. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Giles and daughters, Susan and Pat- ricia of London, are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Alex Murray and Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Murray this week. Where Is Drummond? BY MRS, IVAN WICHTMAN RA, 1, BELGRAVE An article in Mrs, John S. Scott's scrapbook states Blyth was laid out as the Village of Drummond by William Drum- mond in 1855, an the site of his father's property, earner lot concession 1, East Wawanosh Township. There was no men, tion of when or why the name was changed to Blyth. M the fourth meeting of the East Wawanosh History Collect- ing Committee held at Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Wightman's, Harry Sturdy (a committee member) brought a book written in 1863 which listed all towns and vill- ages of Huron County. The fol- lowing is what the County of Huron Gazetteer and General Business Directory stated about "Blythe". "A post village in the Town- ship of Wawanosh and Morris, ten miles from Clinton, seven- teen miles from Goderich on the Clinton and Wingham gravel road. It contains a grist and flouring mill, three blacksmith shops, one saddlery, a tailor shop and three hotels. The Blythe Mills have a capacity of manufacturing 300 barrels of flour per week — the machin- ery is driven by a thirty horse No Funds for Rebate, - Ontario Wheat Producers There are no funds left for rebate to Ontario wheat produc- ers for wheat sold during the past crop year (July 1st, 1964 to June 30, 1966) It was announc- ed by the Ontario Wheat Produc- ers' Marketing Board. Board chairman R. T. Bol- ton, R. R, 1, Seaforth, said the auditors' report received at a power engine -- the saw mill manufactures lumber to the amount of a million and a half annually. Mail daily. This village was first settled in 1855 and the post office was estab- lished in the same year, It has one church, Presbyterian, built in 1857, of frame, at a cost of 81500, size 40 x 50, number seated 500. Rev. John Stewart. "Blythe Division Sons of Temperance No, 271, organiz- ed May 24th, 1861, meets every Tuesday evening." Among the 4'7 names ofpeo- ple, professions, trades, etc. was the following: "DRUM - MOND, WILLIAM, post -master, dealer in dry goods, groceries, crockery, hardware, etc." We are still looking for more history of our township so please keep it coming. Tomato King Declares a Feast Cameron Geddes of Chatham, a former resident of Wingham sent us the following article from the Chatham Daily News concerning A. H. Wilford. Mr. Geddes remembers when Mr, Wilford operated a business here. EAT FOR HEALTH By Ron Glen Settlement of the Heinz strike brings no change in plans of Canada's newly -crowned "To- mato King" for a whoop -de -do promotion of Canadian tomatoes in a Canadian Tomato Feast Week, August 23 to 30. A. H. Wilford, 79„ of Lon- don, still wearing the light ha- lo in his tan caused by the crown he wore as "Rutabaga King;' Thursday in Chatham an- nounced his new promotion with its slogan "eat Canadian luscious tomatoes for health". Thursday, he said part of the motive for his new crusade was to help sell the tomatoes lying in the fields due to the Heinz strike. Today, by telephone from London, Mr. Wilford said the Cream, Eggs anal Milk Pickup OR DELIVER TO BLUEVALE CREAMERY Phones: WINGHAM 357-1639; Wroxeter 15J1 D. A. ROBERTSON. J,$•WW rrb but it still takes less time, when our skilled workmen do their best lob on the body of your car because they know exactly what they are doing. Come in. W INGHAM NORTH STREET PHONE 3.57-1102 end of the strike does.not end the need for promoting Cana- dian foods. "I am very, .very happy the strike is over," he said. "That is good, but we must continue to promote Canada and things Canadian." PROMOTION NEEDED He told of the woman who returned from Montreal. She had eaten a tomato. "There was no taste; she told Mr. Wil- ford. "They must have been flown in from Mexico." Mr. Wilford wants to go be- yond the rutabagas and toma- toes." There is a crying need all across Canada for a continuous promotion of our own food pro- duct." He said apples, asparagus and one seasonal food after an- other should be promoted the year round. Mr. Wilford who claims he has helped egg, poultry, onion and fruit producers in the past, disclosed another plan he would like to see adopted for the com- ing campaign, a "truck -train" delivery system from the farm- ers to the distributors. He explained that he would like to see the trucks cart to- matoes from farms in convoys to help publicize the event ra- ther than in the usual periodic pick-ups and deliveries. On his way to Toronto to or- ganize the campaign with de- partment of agriculture offic- ials and distributors, the "to- mato king" warned that a great deal of preparation must take place before they can create a demand for tomatoes. "There is nothing worse than a glutted market;' he said, "but during my 60 years of survey- ing farmers I never have found a surplus of any farm produce: "The weakness in marketing;` he stressed, "is in very poor distribution." "So often you see one mar- ket carrying far too much of a product while farther away they have nothing:' The independent canneries, grading stations and shippers, however, are doing a splendid job, right now, of using up what has been called a surplus." According to the "tomato king", individual farmers in Kent and Essex Counties con- tacted him about two weeks ago to aid thein in their tomato dilemma and he now has the support of close to 1,000 farm- ers for the feast, Mr. Wilford's brainchild. For the feast Mr. Wilford said that he planned to have a tomato display behind every plate glass window in Canada, special displays in prominent stores throughout the country, as well as service club lunch- eons starring tomatoes. "1 will appeal to the 20 mil- lion people in Canada to eat to- matoes, he exploded. "When a good effect has been made in one province, it likely will spread over into another. You cannot put a barbed wire fence around trade." Born in Blyth, Ontario, Mr. Wilford has been connected with the farming industry most of his life. He began operating an appledehydrating plant at Wingham in 1905. The indefatigable Mr. Wil- ford was the "rutabaga king" for Ontario as recently as five years ago. According to the current." tomato king", rutaba- ga farmers were not satisfied with the market conditions for their product and as a result en- listed his services to help pub- licize their product. For the occasion, he wore a metal crown decorated with rutabaga leaves and a silkgown which reached the floor. He toured Ontario and parts of the United States presenting baskets of rutabaga to city and town of- ficials on the way. According to Mr. Wilford, the market value of rutabaga increased threefold as a result of his campaign. board meeting held in Toronto August 19th disclosed that last year's stabilization fund was completely exhausted by costs incurred in disposal of the larg- est volume of surplus wheat ever handled by the board in one year, Mr. Bolton said this is the second consecutive year in which a rebate could not be made.. "The year previous the board handled nearly 3,500,000 bush- els of surplus wheat and found that the 9 cent per bushel sta- bilization fund levy then in ef- fect was inadequate to covet costs. As a result we tried to 'provide a safety treasure by in- creasing the levy to 15 cents per bushel for much needed added collateral for loans and in the event that a still greater volume would have to be taken off the market by the board." "It is now obvious," the board official said, "that our decision was well founded be- cause the board was required to purchase and in turn export more than 5,000,000 bushels out of last year's crop." Estimates place total pro- duction of Ontario winter wheat last year (1964) at 18, 500, 000 bushels, of which nearly 14, 000, 000 bushels were sold by producers. The 5,000,000 bushel sur- plus handled by the board came out of the 14, 000, 000 bushels sold by producers. The stabilization fund is made up by an accumulation of 15 cents per bushel deducted on all wheat sold by producers and it is out of this fund that the costs of purchasing, handling and exporting are paid by the board. A further 1 cent per bushel licence fee is deducted on all wheat sold by producers to cov- er board administrative costs making a total deduction of 16 cents per bushel. Mr. Bolton said "It was un- fortunate that no rebate could be made but in consideration of all the facts, including a 20 cent drop in the world wheat price during the marketing year which had a definite ill -effect on our price for export, we have come through a very try- ing and complicated year." When an optimist gets up in the morning, he says: "Good morning, Lord!" When a pessi- mist gets up in the morning, he says: "Good Lord! Morning ! 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